Howie Day

How shall I put it? Noob is an evil influence, but I'm still grateful that he supplies me with excellent music and graphic novel recommendations. Latest music in the player - Howie Day, a twenty-something song-writer, singer, and guitar-player from Maine. He's very good with the writing and singing, and remarkably adept at looping and mixing in live shows. With two sets of complicated dials, pedals, buttons and what-not, he creates percussions and layers guitar and vocal parts all on his own.

You'll have to watch the splendid DVD and see for yourself the ease and style with which he loops phrases, echoes, guitar strumming etc. And the songs are very, very good. "Ghost" and "Madrigals" are my favorites, and of course, the very addictive "Collide" that got me started on Howie Day's music, which is a little more haunting, a little more rock than John Mayer's own stylings but still terribly listenable.