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TweetShareAs the Frightened Rabbit extravaganza week continues I posted a review of The Midnight Organ Fight yesterday, Frightened Rabbit’s second and absolutely stunning album.  Today I’m sharing videos and songs from some of the songs on that album. The first single from TMOF was “Head Rolls Off”, one of the many standout tracks on the [...]

TweetShare Many a band and artist have been through the LaBlogatheque doors and now it’s the turn of Local Natives, giving us an excellent version of “Wide Eyes” played on a revolving carousel, “Airplanes” on the beach at sunset, and “Stranger Things” in a pub.  B-E-A-Utiful. Local Natives’ debut album “Gorilla Manor” is out now [...]

TweetShare Efterklang have been around for a while (almost 10 years actually) and have released three albums, two on The Leaf Label (as well as their own label) and their just-released third album “Magic Chairs” on 4AD.  4AD have an ongoing series of live sessions by bands currently signed to them, the first being Deerhoof [...]

TweetShareToday’s Letter Of Note (a site that posts interesting letters sent from one person to another, usually famous) is from a 14 year old kid named Saul to his ex-girlfriend Michelle who had just recently split up with him due to his apparently constant talk of his guitar. As Letters Of Note points out: “The [...]

TweetShareAlbum number two.  Many artists have flushed their entire career down the shitter with album number two. Many artists have found a new lease of life, many reinvent themselves, many drop off the radar and many are put on the radar.  With Frightened Rabbit’s album number two “The Midnight Organ Fight”, they firmly put themselves [...]

TweetShareYesterday I posted a review of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album “Sing The Greys” with a stream for you to listen to it for free. Today I’m going to show some videos of songs from “Sing The Greys”. They only released one single from that album, a double A-side of “Be Less Rude” and “The Greys”. [...]

TweetShare On the back of winning the BBC Sound Of 2010 award, Ellie Goulding has rose to fame, been touring, recorded videos, has readied her debut album and most importantly, held Lady Gaga’s hand (although I hope she disinfected it afterwards). Today she paid a visit to the BBC’s Live Lounge and played two songs, [...]

TweetShareInitially released in the summer of 2006 on their own record label (Hit The Fan Records), Sing The Greys was given a limited run of 1,000 copies by Frightened Rabbit.  Those first thousand were enough to put them on the radar of many a journalist, magazine, newspaper, blog, and year-end “best of” lists. Hailing from [...]

TweetShare In anticipation for the release (March 1st in the UK, March 9th the rest of the world) of “The Winter Of Mixed Drinks”, the third album by one of Scotland’s finest bands Frightened Rabbit, I’ll have a week’s worth of goodness (including reviews, videos, interviews and full album streams) leading up to the release [...]

TweetShare With four albums under their belt, The new Pornographers are ready to unleash their unmatchable catchy indie pop behemoth on us once more, with their fifth album “Together” due out on May 4th.  Their record label Matador have just uploaded “Your Hands (Together)”, from that forthcoming album and you can either listen to it below, download [...]

TweetShareIf you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted by [...]

TweetShare Frightened Rabbit (site favourites here) are about to release their third album “The Winter Of Mixed Drinks” and they’ve just released the entire album as a free stream on their MySpace page.  It’s released in the U.K. on March 1st and March 9th in the U.S (rest of the world), so until you can [...]

TweetShareVampire Weekend have released the new (and much talked about) video for “Giving Up The Gun”. It features the band with RZA, a Jonas Brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lil’ Jon. The end of the video has RZA grabbing his ghetto blaster and playing (faintly) “Holiday”, the third track on “Contra”.  Maybe that’s a hint that “Holiday” will [...]

TweetShareI found out about Tegan and Sara far too late into the game, but I loved their last album “The Con” and loved their album before that “So Jealous” even more and thought it’d be tough for them to top either of them. However, I think they might have done just that with their latest [...]

TweetShareThe Futureheads have released the video to their forthcoming single “Heartbeat Song”, out April 14th, taken from their upcoming fourth album “The Chaos”, due out on April 26th. It’s a nice change from their previous efforts, getting back to their “roots” and the fun and energetic music they made back when their first album came [...]

TweetShareLast week Operator Please released their new single “Logic” as a free download from their site, and this week they’ve released the video for “Logic”, directed by Price James who’s directed videos for Friendly Fires, Florence + The Machine, Peaches, and more. Operator Please are set to release their second album “Gloves” towards the end [...]