Nick Cave-A: “Have you heard of Shilpa Ray?”

So now you will:

Beating St. Louis

All-female Brooklyn quintet Victoire release their much-anticipated debut Cathedral City today through New Amsterdam Records. The album is streaming now via NPR’s “Exclusive First Listen” and AOL Spinner, and features the eclectic group performing Victoire founder/composer/keyboardist Missy Mazzoli’s absorbing, critically acclaimed blend of strings, winds, keyboards and lo-fi electronics.

Download a free MP3 of Victoire’s “A Song for Mick Kelly,” featuring Bryce Dessner of The National on guitar and vocalist Mellissa Hughes.

Check out a ragged LCD soundsystem live video, ‘Losing my edge’, I`ll let you decide if he is losing it or not. Video by our one and only Orly Kottick.

We have promised you to bring you sights of Mr f…the world but I live in L.A and I am very comfortable and doing butter commercials thank you Johnny Lydon himself, so we got you a segment, sorry about the distorted sound, but hey, it fits the overall idea, and we love the song and the beautiful sights by the one and only, our Orly Kottick.

Rewards (Aaron Pfenning of Chairlift) Announces Tour with Brandon Flowers, We Are Scientists

Cloudland Canyon Premieres “No One Else Around” On Altered Zones / The Weekly Tape Deck / Announce US Dates With Bear In Heaven / Fin Eaves Out Now On Holy Mountain Records

Victoire‘s   “Cathedral City” Out Today, Free MP3 ft. Bryce Dessner of The National

Active Child and School of Seven Bells Release Limited Edition 7″ on Lefse Records

Les Savy Fav Announce East Coast Shows, Play Pop Montreal / “Root For Ruin” Out Now To Rave Reviews On Frenchkiss Records

Violens premieres new video, announces CMJ shows & US Tour dates

Gang of Four: Free mp3 download

Fujiya & Miyagi To Release “Ventriloquizzing“, Premiere New Track On Pitchfork, Fourth LP Out January 25th On Yep Roc Records

The Ting Tings: Exciting new collaboration to be announced, brand new teaser of unheard track - ‘We’re Not The Same’ exclusive

Brian Wilson “Songwriter 1962 – 1969″ on DVD 11/23

The Octopus Project new album, tour dates

Gayngs will be kicking off their U.S. Tour in two weeks! Ten of the twenty-plus contributors on the Relayted album will be there, including Justin Vernon and Mike Noyce of Bon Iver, ringleader Ryan Olson, Zak Coulter and Adam Hurlburt of Solid Gold. Jake Luck of Leisure Birds, Ivan Rosebud of The Rosebuds, Brad Cook and Joe Westerlund of Megafaun, and Mike Lewis of Andrew Bird and Happy Apple will all be there too! Watch them do a cover of Alan Parson`s Eye in the sky (with Ivan Rosebud, Brad Cook of Megafaun, Mike Noyce of Bon Iver, and Michael Lewis of Happy Apple/Dosh/Andrew Bird).

The track is from the Mark Mothersbaugh ( Devo) score of the film ‘Catfish‘, a movie by Henry Joost. Catfish is a documentary about Nēv Schulman, a photographer in NYC who has a friendship with 8-year-old Abby, a painter in Michigan. (Special thanx to ‘Said the gramophone’).

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‘Freedom or death’, a war cry taken from the Greek War of independence in the 1820`s, and it is a band`s name. For this duo, the meaning is: …”Give me the freedom to make a life I choose – or hand me my death. Kinda extreme, and trust me on this one, easier said than done, but I smell youth, and it sounds good. The reason I write about these guys is that they are a part of a Paper garden records project called ‘Lovely hearts club’, and this is the first act included in this wonderful project I`ll write about soon. I cant stop playing this song of theirs, I guess these guys are too popish for me, but I really dig this one, it`s a heavy duty single.

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Spencer Stephenson is a Texan sound sculptor, stitching samples together to creates dreamy soundscapes, recycling vintage sounds and make them sound so fresh. The result is a mix of psychedelia, hip hop and dreamy lush pop tracks, like the one you could listen to here. Feeling Today is Spencer Stephenson’s debut release under the Botany moniker, released by Western vinyl, the label that brought us all those great artists: J Tillman, Balmorhea, Goldmund, Slow six, Callers, Sleep whale, Bexar Bexar…

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Pascal Pinon are the twins Jófríður and Ásthildur, two girls from Reykjavík, Iceland. They were nominated for The Icelandic Music Awards as ‘Newcomer Of The Year 2009.’  Morr Music will release their first album early 2011.

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