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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

You lovely people are in for a treat, this is the beautiful and wonderful sound of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, with their track "Home". I noticed this track when watching the trailer for the film "Big Easy Express" a film documenting the band along with Mumford and Sons, and Old Crow Medicine Show's tour across america, on a one of a kind steam train. This songs lovable feel and love tangled lyrics portray a relationship in the early stages of a bosoming romance. It outlines the importance of having friends and family close by to help out when things get tough and support you in all that you do.

The Band themselves consist of twelve full members and eight people who help out form time to time. This generates a powerful as well as unique sound consisting of folk music with choir like vocals making you feel warm and welcome. Started in California in 2005 the band have moved fast and have quickly gathered a diverse and dedicated fan base all over the US. The UK is now starting to have their boarders breached and with the success of bands like Mumford and Sons and Fleet Foxes they will surely soon been appearing in venues very soon. 

The track "Home" is taken from their début album "Up From Below" which is available now.

To find out more check them out here: http://edwardsharpeandthemagneticzeros.com/ Enjoy.

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Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine

KAPOWWWWWWWWWWW! ARCTIC MONKEYS ARE BACK!!!!!!! "Are You Mine" is the latest release form the Sheffield foursome and GOOD GOD IT IS GOOD. This hard hitting offering shows a definite progression form the band drawing styles right back to the early days of "Who the Fuck are the Arctic Monkeys", their début EP.

But more importantly the band have brought humour and childishness back into their style. This is an element that had been lacking in recent work as they opted for a more serious style, when all we wanted was songs about growing up and having a good time. If you like your music punchy, and packed fully of clever lyrics The Arctic Monkeys will be like a shot of pure alcohol to your system, waking you up to the reality that music is back on track.  

Back to their best the video for "Are You Mine" also portrays a band just looking to bust out quality, fun songs to jump around to (and talk about how much of a douch-bag La Roux is).

Lets all hope that "Are You Mine" follows up from "Suck and See" and paves the way for another brilliant album. Currently Touring with the pragmatic Black Keys in America they are set to return to the UK over the summer. If your lucky enough to see them im sure it will be a night to remember.

If you want to find out more about The Arctic Monkeys go to bust some moves here. Enjoy

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The Head and The Heart- Lost In My Mind

From the first few seconds of this song, you know it's going to be a good one.  With scratchy yet pure vocals, The Head and the Heart definitely carve a space out for themselves in the indie folk-pop world of music.

This sextet got their start in Seattle after meeting at several open mic nights at Conor Byrne's pub.  It was in this city that they self-released their debut eponymous album in June 2009, selling over 10,000 copies.  More recently they signed to Sub Pop records and remastered and re-released that debut album in April 2011.

This band delivers in flawless vocal harmonies, violin melodies, fun percussion, and original lyrics.  They are also a superb band to see live- pulsating with energy that is easily conveyed to the audience.  They're on tour now, so get your tickets while you still can at:

http://www.theheadandtheheart.com/

Listen on, my good people!  Much love,

Chelsea

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Grimes - Oblivion

As a proud Montrealer, I enjoy sharing many of the things that I believe make my city so great: the food, the coffee, the people, the stories, and, most notably, the impressive amount of terrific musical acts to come out of here in the last decade or so. I could probably go on and rant for days about the contributing factors and players, as well as why and how this all happened; but instead I like to remain focused on what’s happening now and what there is to come. Scenes evolve, and the moment we fall victim to glory-day type ‘remember when’ talk, whatever we have starts to slowly flee. Moving forward is a challenge I hope our city keeps embracing. And despite what can sometimes come across as a cold and jaded façade, our ears are open, provided that as an artist you have something honest to say and that it contains at least a little bit of substance.

 One of the latest artists to charm our town is actually from the other side of the country: Claire Boucher moved to Montreal from Vancouver a few years ago, at which point she started performing under her stage name, Grimes. In the next few years, her dreamy-electro-pop sound had not only become the talk of the town, but also earned her a spot at last year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas. As a direct result of her performance, she landed a deal with Arbutus Records.

 Her third record Visions was released on January 31st of this year and the first single, Oblivion, is a definite highlight. Grimes’ vocals give her a pixie-like status for the electronic generation. Once you’ve listened to the song, be sure to also check out the fantastic video. The Emily Kai Bock-directed clip features a whole lot of dancing from Grimes in some very uncommon settings, including sports stadiums, motocross events, and concession stands. Brilliant stuff!

Video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

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Rihanna - We Found Love

The video of the song opens with a monologue that says: " I saw you screaming when no-one can hear, you feel ashamed that someone could be that important that without them, you feel like nothing. No one will ever understand how much it hurts. You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you. Then when it's over, it's gone, you almost wish you could have all that bad stuff back, so that you can have the good". It seems like Rihanna wants, with this song, this video, to dig out her turbulent relationship with the former artist Chris Brown. Anyway the super sexy voice together with the disco-house beat create an unstoppable hit.  The song has been more than 5 months  on the most important music charts of the world and it's still getting awards, selling more than 8 million singles worldwide.

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Stranded Horse - Le Blue et l'Ether

"Stranted Horse" is the solo project of the french musician Yann Tambour. Before that, he was the lead singer and musician of "Encre" where we could appreciate how his folk roots mixed with electronic-experimental sounds.

Now, Stranted Horse has made him forgetting a bit the loops and samples of his electronic period and he has focused on pure folk. He plays the Kora, an african stringed folk instrument whose sound is a symbiosis of a guitar and a harp. Of course he plays the guitar as well. His voice is warm, sensible, calm.

I recommend you to lay down on your bed, turn up the volume and simply listen to this theme without thinking of anything else.Then please, get up and watch the video. It is worthwhile to see the incredible coordination of his fingers touching this kind of harp. And at the same time he is not only singing, but interpreting.

We will see our faces again Blogotheque. You are terrific.

Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.

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The Burning Hotels - Beard

Burning Hotels are a new wave synth-pop duo from Forth Worth, Texas who are beginning to make waves with their eponymous album.  With a sound reminiscent of The Killers and Cut Copy, their first single "Beard" is funky, upbeat and quite catchy.  Best friends Chance Morgan and Matt Mooty played the last two editions of SXSW Music Festival, and their rise is sure to be meteoric. Keep an eye out for them - if they can keep producing music of such quality, surely they will become household names very soon.

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Chilllllls - The Dissociative Mix (click to download)

Tracklist

Kid A - BB Bleu

Hodgy Beats - Cookie Coma

Boldy James - Jackie Brown

Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics remix)

Teyana Taylor - Bad Boy feat. Honey Cocaine

Kid Yoji - Call A Romance (Cosmonaut Grechko version)

Western Tink - Throwed Off

Jonquil - It's My Part (Co La - Rave On Your Breath

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Hearts in the Night - Bedouin Soundclash 

  ‘Sounds like it was recorded in a massive underwater cathedral’ was the snide yet giggle-inducing review of Lana Del Rey’s album by the Los Angeles Times. Although Bedouin Soundclash’s ‘Hearts in the Night’ vinyl-esque and kilometers-away sound doesn’t exactly fully surface into complete clarity either – there is one striking but dramatic difference. While the little mermaid of gospel that is Miss Del Ray pushes me further to the bounds of atheism as she waddles in ankle-deep lyrical shallows, the latter is both charming and animated, the depth reaching heart level. Reminiscent of the Byrds on account of both sound and lyrics, it’s definitely worth holding your breath for 3:04 minutes and letting your ears do the breathing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jMQ7IchQI 

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Deflay - Takes Time 

  With the hipster milieu try to (often unsuccessfully) imitate and or emulate whimsical and faint hearted apostasies of yesteryear's forgotten heroes, music emitting and thus, evoking, a certain harder energy has oddly enough been quieted. Deflay, a European alternative metal band clearly has ambitions to turn up the volume, both literally and in terms of quality.

 The songs present themselves as a tug of war between the lead singer's voice and lead guitarist's epic riffs, with the other band members also serving a role beyond simple spectators.  With the aforementioned majority of today's artists (representatives of naïvism, no doubt) frantically deviating from every justifiably established musical precedent with the intention of being as different as possible, albums and songs have boiled down to most often being mere snippets of inarticulate nonsense, dyslexia personified. Jejune. A rarity, Deflay’s songs have a beginning and an end, but are so melodic yet energy infused that we await the latter displeased.

 While many of today's self proclaimed metal bands clamber to revive this somewhat forgotten genre, they succeed only in providing an auditory transcription of what I assume a day at the junk yard would sound like – a genre I have affectionately as such dubbed “scrap metal“. Innumerable decibels of inarticulate screaming waging war against unfortunately well-armed instrumentals paradoxically leave most listeners completely unmoved. Although the era of Pantera, Nirvana, Alice in Chains and other artists that unified both the brains of technique and the brawn of voice appears to be left in the mercy of us few remaining nostalgics, Deflay is a breath of fresh air that just may breathe life back into this fatigued genre.

  Check out Takes Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Fbp3_DjH8 

as well as the other gems from their (as of yet) unreleased album Learn the Flames: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5UCRbRA6kNo  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9VWr4Af9VYQ  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=F7ojX6gBDi0 

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The great Charlie Parker. The musical icon for an entire generation: the beat one. American young people that, during the 50's rejected the classical american values and looked for their own vision of live, basing it on the oriental philosophy, and freedom in all its forms.

Imagine people like Jack Kerouac or Allen Gingsberg between others, shaking their hips and all their body in some New York dirty holes, where the music never stopped playing and the sweat and the alcohol were mixed in a lively ambience.

Charlie Parker was born in New York in 1920. He played the saxophone and with others jazz musicians of that time as Dizzie Gillespie revolutionized the most classical Jazz giving it another vision:the improvisation was the main character.

This is a song that is one of the jazz and bepop standars: "Ornithology". In live, Massachusetts, 1952.

Judge yourself and "beat" that tune.

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Miike Snow - Paddling Out

Have you ever had a song that is so addictive you just cant get it out your head? Well if you haven't you will very soon. Miike Snow is a Swedish dace pop group formed in 2007. Surprisingly not one person in the band is called Mike or has the surname Snow but this doesn't matter. Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, and Andrew Wyatt have just produce the sound for the summer with their track "Paddling Out".Whether you want cheering up, a good dance or just simply want to listen to some good music this track makes you smile and tap your feet (and in these depressing times we need a bit of happiness).

If you love bands like Delphic, Django Django or early Calvin Harris this track is for you. I was singing the chorus so loud in the car today i think anyone looking on might have thought I was a bit "special" but you just have to with this song. It will make people who haven't walked stand up and jiggle themselves all over the place lets hope the album out later this year will be also good as this.

To find out more about Miike Snow go here and enjoy 

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Dry the River - Lion's Den

After waiting and waiting and waiting Its finally arrived, yesterday on the 5th of March 2012, Dry The River officially released their début album "Shallow Bed". The London five piece have gone from strength to strength and being signed onto Sony records last year has only fast-forwarded the laying of their path to stardom. 

Being the lucky chap I am I got to see DTR twice in one day on the first of March. Before their incredible official gig at The Hippodrome I was treated to a very very special performance at Banquet Records. Myself and around thirty others were in awe as Dry The River played a complete acoustic set with no amps or microphones. Just about as good as live music gets (You can see videos from both gigs below)

- Bible Belt at Banquet Records, Kingston

 - No Rest at The Hipordrome, Kingston

But not only this, I had the pleasure of meeting the band and getting an advanced signed copy of their album four days before official release. It has not left my car since that moment, being played constantly on every drive. As you can tell from the picture below I was chuffed and for a twenty three year old I still think this is a little bit cool. 

With stunning soft vocals, harmonies and anthemic sounds this bands bleak and beautiful songs show that hope can be found anywhere. With tracks such as "Chambers and the Valves" showing the importance of friends and just having a good time, contrasted with "Demons" and " Lions Den" showcasing their darker side the band offers something for everyone.

I cant stress enough how much I love this band, they are everything and more of what every band should be like. Their album is perfect and I can't wait to see them again soon. Find out more on their website here and buy their album from Banquet Records here. 

The snippet of a track above is called "Lions Den." Enjoy :D

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Davy Jones 1945 - 2012 RIP

Davy Jones was one of the fantastic foursome that was "The Monkeys", one of the most iconic bands of the 60s and 70s. The flamboyant frontman sadly died of a heart attack earlier today at only 66 years of age. Always smiling and living life to its fullest and talk of a Monkeys reunion later this year, his life was a very busy one. Although his career choice was someone uncertain in early life as he tried his hand at a variety of occupations. Most notably at being a Jockey and an Actor, even appearing in a few select episodes Coronation Street. He did however eventually settle on being a music star, which I am so pleased he did. He truly was one of the greats and will be missed by all.

The below track holds particular significance to me as it was the first song that I ever loved and learnt all the words to. My Dad had it on cassette and it was played in our blue volvo 240 prity much on repeat for about three years, from the age of four to seven I was obsessed. Thank you Davy Jones for being so brilliant and bringing alot of joy and pleasure to so many.

Here is The Monkeys with "The Monkeys" RIP Davy Jones.

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The Spills - Summer Vibes

Before I start I cannot take any credit for this post. I was struggling to find something new this week so I asked the good people on Facebook to tell me what to write. I have to thank Ms Daisy Shayler-web for introducing me to this group, they are quite special. She's an excellent, exciting fashion designer and you should check her out here.  

If you feel its time for some Indie Rock and/or roll in your life may I introduce "The Spills". A band if I am honest they seem to have been around forever with too little recognition for their work. Im prity sure I have seen them before but cant quite place where and when, but  undoubtedly they were good. Originating from Wakefield, UK, and tipped by none other than the BBCs very own  "4, 6, 5, 9 The little white line" Tom Robinson (who was a fantastic substitute for The Coral at Glasto last year fyi) they are set to have a big year.

If you like your music with punchy guitars and soft deep vocals The spills are the band for you, If you like Tribes there definitely your vintage and without a doubt you will be purchasing a CD within seconds (If you haven't  already). 

The Track above is called "Summer Vibes" and it is just a brilliant fun track to get you dancing and jumping around like a Duracell bunny, its off their album "Occams Razor" which is out later this year. Get listening to the rest of their back catalogue here and be sure to tell everyone to "bum The Spills" from now on. Enjoy

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Release - Pearl Jam

Grunge panorama wouldn’t be what it is without the presence of Pearl Jam. Imagine Seattle, twenty years ago. The city was a nest of musicians of this genre: Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone (which after would turn into Pearl Jam), Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, etc… Pearl Jam’s talent emerged as Eddie Vedder’s voice does in this track.

“Release” talks about the loss of Eddie’s father and contains a big deal of melancholy, rage and impotence … Not only because of his death, but for the lack of a relationship, because Eddie never met him. Being more precise, Eddie met him a couple of times, but without knowing he was his father. Maybe this hurts even more.

Once you have clicked the “play”, prepare yourself to be teleported to Eddie’s head and feelings. Because only a band like Pearl Jam can do that. They are not just good, they are simply the best.

Judge yourself and enjoy the tune.

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Grand Resort - Microscopic

I'm going to be honest.  I've known Andres Pichardo, a.k.a. Grand Resort for most of my life.  We grew up together in a small, sleepy beach town on the Southern coast of the Dominican Republic, a place more famous for its sugar cane and baseball players than musicians (and much less the scourge of the earth, music bloggers).  Even though I was several years older than he was, his excellent musical taste, technical chops and infectious sense of humour always impressed me.  These qualities translate into his music, whether as part of a band, or this, his first solo project.  But don't let my obvious bias get in the way of your enjoyment of Microscopic, the lead single from Grand Resort's debut album Vanguard Dreams.  

With whispers of Neon Indian, Astro Coast, and dare I say it - Joy Division, Grand Resort has a bright future ahead of him.  Enjoy the track, and you can download it from here