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Check out the latest video by Florence + The Machine for their song “Lover To Lover”. There’s a dude rocking a harp.

Watch entire performances from Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes as they visit Austin City Limits

With a pop hook and lilting crescendo lurking around every corner, Sparkadia offers a mixed bag of surprises in the guise of gorgeously executed, dreamy power pop.

Florence + The Machine cover Amy Winehouse’s signature track “Back To Black”.

Watch Florence + The Machine perform “Shake It Out” and “No Light, No Light” on Saturday Night Live.

TweetShareWatch the new video for Florence + The Machine‘s song “No Light, No Light” below, taken from the album “Ceremonials”.

TweetShare Once upon time there was a little girl.  Little girls, especially ones that aren’t princesses, are often underestimated for their abilities to become commanding adults.  Despite such a setback, this particular little girl grew into a woman with flaming red hair who became the front woman of a band.  She sang about things haunting [...]

TweetShareWatch Florence + The Machine on Later With Jools Holland performing “What The Water Gave Me” and “No Light, No Light” below, taken from the album “Ceremonials”.

TweetShare “I Found You” from Alabama Shakes is more than just some 60′s soul/50′s blues throwback, it’s more like Ruth Brown meets James Brown with a slight hint of The Starlighters mixed in and there’s a difference between the two. It’s one thing to be able to throw bands like that in as references, it’s [...]

TweetShare Listen to “Ceremonials” below, the new album by Florence + The Machine. You know how when you heard Florence + The Machine‘s debut album “Lungs” for the first time and you went back and back and back and listened to it multiple times in the space of 48 hours?  Yeah, well you’re about to [...]

TweetShare Watch Florence + The Machine perform “Never Let Me Go”, “Heartlines”, and “Spectrum”, three new songs from their new album “Ceremonials”. All of these videos were taken over the weekend in New York as part of The Creators Project’s Monster Arts & Cultural Festival, underneath the Manhattan bridge. Mad props to CoS for the heads [...]

TweetShare Just a day after announcing the name and tracklist of their new album, Florence + The Machine dropped another song from the album called “Shake It Out”. The album “Ceremonials” will be out on October 31st in the U.K. with a date in the U.S. still to come, but in the age of the [...]

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TweetShare Arguably one of music’s greatest eras, the 50′s and 60′s changed the face of music forever.  Without people ranging from Elvis Presley to Little Richard, Bob Dylan to The Beatles, we probably wouldn’t be listening to some of the bands and music we take for granted today.  One man who grew up obsessed by [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare So, cover songs? It’s almost a taboo term in the music blogosphere. It almost goes without saying that everyone who makes a post about them has to start with ‘I’m not usually a fan of covers but…”.  I don’t see the big problem; I’m a massive fan of remixes and covers. I know the [...]