New Music Monday: January 11

I haven’t published a New Music Monday feature for almost two months now, but this week’s a good a time as any to revive it. First up is Vampire Weekend’s highly anticipated sophomore release “Contra,” which also got featured on our 15 Most Anticipated Releases of 2010 list. It has already gathered unanimous stellar reviews and sells like hot donuts down at iTunes, but your opinion shouldn’t be influenced by hype or whatnot, so head…

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Download: Final Fantasy – ‘Lewis Takes Action’

We’ve been waiting for new material from behalf of orchestral experimentalist Owen Pallett, more know by his Final Fantasy moniker, for a very long time, and now, a mere one month away from it’s highly anticipated release, “Heartland” is almost upon us. If you’ve joined him at one of his live gigs from this past summer, you might have been graced enough to listen some of the new tracks off “Heartland”, like this epic performance…

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New Final Fantasy video – ‘Lewis Takes Off His Shirt’

Epic weather went hand in hand with Owen Pallet’s (Final Fantasy) epic performance at the recent Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario, where the multi-versed talented musician delivered one hell of a show. Interestingly enough, Owen played quite a lot of songs off his new and upcoming album “Heartland,” including “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt” part of the pack of new material. In the video bellow, you can see Owen defying nature, whilst playing Lewis Takes…

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