December 2011
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ouvidoafinado:
Song of the day: “So is the Sea” by 1977
1977 is singer-songwriter Julie Kendall. She is a pretty talented artist and is able to sing sad songs in a very happy and catchy way.
More about 1977 here.
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cactus-mouth:
Mirror Lady // “Roman Candles”
It might be a bit premature to say that the new Mirror Lady jam “Roman Candles” is one of my favorite tracks of 2011, seeing as I just listened to it for the first time. But in all honesty the song is really that good. The last time we heard from this California band was on their hugely blog popular track “Shapes (Spiderwoman)”. And while I dug the...
November 2011
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Austra - Crying
So I see the original here on Tumblr & then this crazy magical version pops up on FB. And I just had to share.
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Agreed. There is some great songwriting on this album in altogether. But yes, I...
– She is crazy talented. And ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ is pretty nifty, too.
Overplay is totally a word… whether anyone else knows of it or not. ;)
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All of this is grand.
yvynyl:
PREMIERE: House of Wolves - There She Goes
Los Angeles based songwriter Rey Villalobos writes quiet, weird tunes. Accordingly, this piece directed by Łukasz Pytlik is a strange trip - vibrating at a frequency that seems to glow eerily red. It features everything from laser-eyed horses nuzzling each other to masked girls making out in a wheat field. Oddly, it...
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Vivian Girls - Trying To Pretend
This band has been making a living out of lo-fi goodness that has a nice bit of grit to it - and their 2011 album, Share The Joy, is happily more of the same.
To me, this song encapsulates all I love about this band - soft one minute, hard the next; driving drums coupled with voices in a rough kind of harmony.
They sound like a tribe on the attack, musically and...
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attackofthekillerderk:
Electric Six do “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” for A.V. Club Undercover.
Groovy.
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