Brooklynites lo-fi rockers the Vivian Girls will release their latest 7″ titled “My Love Will Follow Me” next month, and as a token of appreciation shown to the band’s fans, the flip side “He’s Gone”, a beautifully well delivered cover of The Chantels’ 1957 classic, has been released for free on their website. The single will be out next month on Wild World Records. [via MBV] [MP3] Vivian Girls – ‘He’s Gone’ (The Chantels cover)
Last year the legendary former Genesis lead-vocalist, Peter Gabriel, released a very interesting cover album titled “Scratch My Back”, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during the same year, consisting of Gabriel covering twelve songs by various artists, using orchestra and voice rather than normal rock instruments. The album will get released on February 15 via Virgin and will feature Peter Gabriel sing his version of songs by artists like Arcade Fire, Radiohead,…
Today I’d like to introduce you a lovely brother/sister power pop act I just recently stumbled upon, namely the very talented siblings Sarah Parthemore Snavely and Jacob Donald Snavely who together form Dag för Dag. Originally from Missoula, Montana the two have been on their move all their lives, moving between Wisconsin, Honolulu, London, San Franscisco, before ultimately settling for the dream pop capitol of the world, Stockholm. The band first debuted last year when…
For the second week in a row, the number one album in America is a bit of a shocker: Hope for Haiti, the MTV compilation from January 22’s broadcast, sold 171,000 copies. Oh, and they were all sold in two days (Saturday and Sunday). And they were all sold digitally. This means that independently-distributed albums were No. 1 in consecutive weeks. It’s also the first time in five years that the first three “tracking weeks”…
I first opened a facebook page for the blog maybe a year ago, but I didn’t promote it at all, nor did I update it with anything, let along something of interest – it was just a blank page. A few moments ago I came to realize this, and seeing how most of our readers are active facebook users, I see no reasons why we shouldn’t connect on the world’s greatest social network as well….
ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and director Danny Perez, is slated to premier tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, but while critics will have the chance to experience the full length of the acid trip, the rest of us will have to settle for the recently released 30 seconds trailer. As expected, it’s dark, eery and terribly confusing.
It first went up a few weeks ago, but what was first another random,albeit interesting, teaser video, has now become a whole veritable cryptic series. I refused to write about it at the time, because it was way too obscure and… well, there was really little to write about. I don’t know why, though, but for the last couple of hours, deeply bored, I tried to unravel this whole mystery. Oh, and what a mind…
Phoenix, who delivered one of the best albums of 2009 once once with “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”, recently played an acoustic set for the German magazine Musikexpress, where, among other gems, they also played a really faithful cover of Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” off his 1966 classic “Blond on Blond”. Great performance! [MP3] Phoenix – ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ (Bob Dylan cover)
Coma Cinema is a very eery South Carolina collective project led by local scene figure, the talented Mat Cothran. The band just recently released their debut album, a free demo compilation of 14 songs recorded from 2005 to 2009, titled “Baby Prayers”, on their web site where it’s available for free download. There’s a certain vibe of nostalgia and dreamy atmosphere that revolves around their music, something I can’t really put into words. Heck, must…
This may actually be my favorite week of a month, that comes as a great closer to a dazzling cascade of new releases which kicked off the year. Those of you who’ve been reading my ramblings for the past weeks, and months even, will definitely know that my #1 of the week is Beach House’s soothing third record “Teen Dream.” Also out this week, “Realism”, The Magnetic Fields’ latest indie pop extravaganza of the scene…
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