some favorite indie/pop sounds of 2012 from more "well-known" artists. 

Cool.2012.

Lord Huron

November Mix

7 (DIC2012)

Jimmy's 2012 Playlist

Chill

Onward

NORTH - december 2012

New Stuff

Loudon Wainwright III - Homeless

<p>From the self-titled album. Out January 31st, 2012 on Mexican Summer (MS106). 
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Lilacs

Watch the Trouble Town video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTM9rV8uKpI

http://www.jakebugg.com
http://www.twitter.com/jakebugg

Trouble Town

THEESatisfaction on Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/theesatisfaction

awE naturalE

QueenS

THEESatisfaction - QueenS

08 I Need A Fast Car (We Didn't Invent The Remix mixtape)

Little Noise Sessions, Hackney Nov 2011
Example, David Stewart, Andy Sheldrake & Eddie Jenkins

10 Won't Go Quietly @ Little Noise Sessions 2011 (Acoustic)

Divine Fits are Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, and Sam Brown.

http://divinefits.com/

My Love Is Real

Buy from Merge

Divine Fits "My Love Is Real"

01 Blue Haze

From the forthcoming album, Lonesome Dreams, out Oct. 9 on IAMSOUND

Time To Run

Time to Run

Buy @ iTunes: http://bit.ly/1kORGMO
Buy @ Cascine: http://bit.ly/1vJkI4P
Stream @ Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1GDoE1w
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Born from Oxford’s famously close-knit and innovative artistic community, Chad Valley’s musical ambition has always stretched far beyond the context of its creation. Early EPs Chad Valley and Equatorial Ultravox were produced in the now-26-year old Hugo Manuel’s bedroom, but conveyed the exotic flair fit for the early hours at a paradisiacal island nightspot, with a whopping soundsystem-appropriate dynamic to boot. The thoroughly modern pop producer is now about to release his debut solo album as Chad Valley, and it’s considerably more consummate than most first outings. Knock-out production, a unique set of influences, unbelievable guest singers: Young Hunger is about having the fire and strength to realise your intentions.
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Chad Valley @ FB: http://on.fb.me/1fCFOYZ
Cascine @ FB: http://on.fb.me/1dUlX81

Chad Valley - Fall 4 U (Feat. Glasser)

Menahan Street Band - The Crossing

Lonesome Dreams

Ends of the Earth

Brother

Sunlight - Single

Sunlight

Stream and Download Summer's Gone: http://odesza.co/summers-gone

Download our official app: http://odesza.co/app

ODESZA - Intro

Ava Luna | Clips

Beauty Feast | Things To Do

Akudama | I Will Be Glad

Richard Vagnino | Mockingbird, Mockingbird

Beauty Feast | I'll Run

“Gut-level, emotive songwriting that hits directly and honestly.”—Pitchfork
“What sets the project apart is the level of their craft and the feeling of travel and discovery in the lyrics and sound.”—LA Weekly



Time To Run is the new debut EP from rising LA pop experimentalists Lord Huron, to be released 8 October through Play It Again Sam. A joyous collision of Appalachian percussion, calypso guitars and infectious Western melodies, it's the sound of a band with the world in their music and at their feet.

With their full length debut, Lonesome Dreams, set to follow in early 2013, Time To Run is a fiercely compelling glimpse into the mind of Michigan-born Ben Schneider, who began the group as a solo endeavour in 2010, engineering everything on his first EP, Into The Sun – the music, the release, the artwork – alone. He took his stage name from the Lake Huron near his childhood home where his affinity for music began at an early age, nursed into bloom across long summer nights around the campfire.

The considerable cult acclaim that met Into The Sun inspired Schneider to seek out collaborators to turn Lord Huron into a powerful live experience, enlisting the talents of Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseno (bass, percussion), Brett Farkas (guitar, vocals) and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals). But even now, on the cusp of their first release as a full group, Lord Huron resemble more a sprawling arts collective than a band – the sharp ingenuity of their music matched by the careful attention paid to their accompanying visuals.

Case in point? The mesmerising new music video for Time To Run, conceived by Schneider in collaboration with filmmaker and close friend Evan Weinerman (Arms Race), a wickedly skewered riff on Sergio Leone's revered Spaghetti Western films, with twists that include Indonesian subtitles. “The goal was to make a video that, like the song, uses some familiar Western tropes while throwing in unique details from other genres and cultures,” says Weinerman. 

Challenging though the short film's creation was, shot in 22 hours in scorching Mojave desert temperatures of over 102 degrees, its offbeat, eclectic beauty captures perfectly the brilliance of a band with big things to come. Watch now via NPR: 

Time To Run tracklisting:

1.	Time To Run
2.	The Man Who Lives Forever
3.	The Stranger
4.	We Went Wild

Lord Huron - The Stranger

My Friends Will Always Say

Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP

Black Radio (feat. Yasiin Bey)

Available for FREE DOWNLOAD in exchange for a "Like": http://www.smarturl.it/knksfree

Click the heart on Hype Machine! http://hypem.com/track/1q42n/Haim+-+Forever+(The+Knocks+Remix)

https://www.facebook.com/theknocksnyc 
https://twitter.com/theknocks

https://www.facebook.com/haimtheband
https://twitter.com/HAIMtheband

FREE DOWNLOAD

Haim - Forever (The Knocks Remix)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/snakehipsuk

Facebook: https://facebook.com/Snakehipsuk

YouTube: https://youtube.com/snakehipsuk

Website: http://snakehips.biz/

Wild Belle - It's Too Late (Snakehips Remix)

Facebook: https://facebook.com/haertsmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/haertsmusic
Official site: http://haertsmusic.com

Wings

Solange - Losing You (Cyril Hahn Remix)

Cassettes now available off Rok Lok Records. Limited to an edition of 100 pro dubbed white clam shell cassettes packaged in white/clear norelco cases with full color card stock covers.

http://bit.ly/1cM52ET


Track List:

1. Neptune
2. Mysterieux
3. Jolene
4. Mirror
5. Juice Of My Heart

Jolene

Pre-order Tiga - 'No Fantasy Required': http://po.st/nfritunes

Tiga - DJ, singer, producer, radio maverick, man of eight talents -- unleashes his brand new single 'Plush' December 17th via Different Recordings / PIAS.
Taken from his non-stoppable new mix CD Tiga Non Stop, the single was co-produced by Matthew Dear, starting as a freeform jam session and ending as something that works equally well as an underground club anthem and literally everybody's track of the year. It also features what Tiga is privately calling his greatest vocal performance to date.
"'Plush' was inspired by 80s dance TV shows like Pelvic Gold and The Bandana Patrol, as well as my undying love and respect for the city of Detroit," says the Montreal musician from his home in Montreal. "It's the first of what I know will be many collaborations with Matthew Dear, a sort of musical friendship bracelet that will bind us unto eternity."
As is the custom in contemporary dance music, Tiga handpicked and handpaid UK legend Jacques Lu Cont and German duo Ame (Kristian Beyer & Frank Widermann) to create two remixes of the new track. Drawing on his alleged stint as Madonna's choreographer, Lu Cont pumps up the tempo for the biggest rooms you could possibly imagine. Meanwhile Ame aims for a more minimal, hypnotic approach, sure to enthrall the geniuses who frequent Germany's hottest underground dance holes.
One of the most inexhaustibly creative and exhaustingly revered musicians in electronic music, Tiga has consistently garnered as much critical acclaim as anyone could reasonably hope to garner. Two decades deep into his career and going for it like each decade could be his last, he remains a pioneer of the electronic underground.
"This song comes 100% from a universe 1000% my own. I don't mind being thought of as 'The Different Guy,' so long as all the right people love me. And they do, because it's their right to be right all night, a'ight?"

Follow Tiga on Facebook - http://on.fb.me/V9ENUB
Follow Tiga on Twitter - http://bit.ly/TSoDKD

Plush

Buy on iTunes

Tiga - Plush

"If You Love Me" (Benzel and Jessie Ware)
Written by Gordon Chambers, Nichole Gilbert, Dave Hall, Kevin Madison and Erick Sermon
WB Music Corp (ASCAP), Stone Jam Music (ASCAP) and Orisha Music Publishing (ASCAP).  All rights administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP).  All rights reserved;  Slow Flow Productions Inc./EMI April Music Inc. (ASCAP); and Brown Girl Music/The Night Rainbow Music/HoriPro (ASCAP). 
"If You Love Me" as performed by Brownstone under license from Sony Music Entertainment
Jessie Ware appears courtesy of PMR/Island Records

Benzel & Jessie Ware - If You Love Me

Buy Hypnotic Regression on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/hypnotic-regression-single/id583187872

Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released on 18th February, their second album The New Life is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, The New Life is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality.

The band’s performance at Primavera festival 2012 provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise The New Life. The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they’ve managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. And the record was born of a weighty concept too, as Cully explains:

“The New Life is not an over night change for Girls Names - just over two years in fact. Dead to Me literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax. But it's a learning curve. We started moving on as artists the moment we finished that recording session, maybe even before. Not to dwell on the past, The New Life is what happens when you reset everything back to zero and start again, but try to perfect. It starts back at zero the minute the needle hits the groove but we're also starting back from zero once the needle lifts at the end of the record. Ad infinitum. The New Life is what follows now.”

The album’s title track, and the first single to be taken from the album, is an ideal entry point. Just shy of 8 minutes long, it rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully’s evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. New single ‘Hypnotic Regression’ - available to stream here - reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, The New Life, stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown.

The New Life will be released on February 18th on Tough Love (UK) and Slumberland (US).

Girls Names - Hypnotic Regression

Fill Me In (Ryan Hemsworth Bootleg)

Crystal Fighters's third album 'Everything Is My Family' is out NOW.

Listen to the entire album on Spotify ▶ http://found.ee/EIMFspotify
Get 'Everything Is My Family' on iTunes now ▶ http://found.ee/eimfdigital
European Tour on sale now ▶ http://smarturl.it/CrystalFightersTour

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Star Of Love

Champion Sound

From <b>Spectral Park's</b> self-titled debut album. 

Available January 29th, 2013 from Mexican Summer. 

www.mexicansummer.com