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Suburbs

Everybody Here Wants You (Jeff Buckley)

The libertines Don't look back into the sun

The Libertines -Time For Heroes

Matthew Perryman Jones - Until The Last Falling Star

Anchor - Mindy Gledhill

New album ‘Story Of An Immigrant’ available now!
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Civil Twilight - 'Fire Escape' from their album 'Holy Weather'.
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Story Of An Immigrant

Fire Escape

Download 'SOAI'

Runaway (single)

New album ‘Story Of An Immigrant’ available now!
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STREAM - http://bit.ly/1EcIwF3
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Civil Twilight - 'River' from their album 'Holy Weather'.
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Visit Civil Twilight's website: http://civiltwilightband.com/

Get the CD and vinyl at your local Indie Record Store http://www.recordstoreday.com

River

Pre-order the brand new Best Coast album 'The Only Place' directly from Wichita Recordings here: http://shop.wichita-recordings.com/Bundle.aspx. 

On May 14, 2012, Best Coast will release their highly anticipated new album The Only Place. This follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed Crazy For You finds the proudly Southern Californian duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both their sound and perspective. While Crazy For You was a nostalgic tribute to teenage feelings, The Only Place finds front woman Cosentino starting a transition into adulthood. “I’m trying really hard to grow up,” she says. “I’m trying to let go of my bad habits and the immature things I still drag around with me.” Of course this adjusting comes with uncertainty and self-doubt, two feelings at the emotional center of an album that also features a love song to her home state of California in the title track. All encompassed in the memorable album cover, derived from a 1913 sheet music illustration paying homage to the golden state.
As with all of Best Coast’s previous recordings, on The Only Place Cosentino handles all songwriting, lyrics, vocals and rhythm guitar, while multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno plays lead guitar, bass and drums. What’s new this time is their decision to work with producer and composer Jon Brion. A revered figure in the music world, Brion has collaborated with artists including Fiona Apple and Kanye West and created the scores for such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  and Punch-Drunk Love. Recorded at Capitol Records’ famed Studio B, The Only Place features a cleaner and richer sound than other Best Coast releases. Many of the songs’ arrangements are detailed with subtle percussion and unexpected instrumentation. Intricate but never overworked, the biggest change from previous releases is how it showcases Cosentino’s voice, this time letting it ring clear, unhidden by distortion and reverb.

The Only Place track listing
1.The Only Place
2. Why I Cry
3. Last Year
4. My Life
5. No One Like You
6. How They Want Me To Be
7. Better Girl
8. Do You Love Me Like You Used To
9. Dreaming My Life Away
10. Let's Go Home
11. Up All Night

Best Coast will be touring extensively this summer, including UK shows in June.  

Best Coast UK Tour 
6/16 Glasgow @ Garage
6/17 Manchester @ HMV Ritz
6/18 Birmingham @ Academy
6/20 London @ SBE
6/21 Brighton @ Coalition
6/22 Isle of Wight Festival

Best Coast: The Only Place

Miike Snow, the Downtown Records trio hailing from Sweden and New York are releasing their self-titled debut album today May 12th exclusively on iTunes.  Miike Snow was chosen as one of 40 titles to be featured on Next Big Thing, iTunes’ selection of new artists that they think will have the most impact on music in the years to come.  Their forthcoming release promises to win over fans of pop, electronic, and many genres in between with masterful songwriting and innovative production.  Miike Snow will be available for a mere $6.99 exclusively on iTunes from May 12th through June 8th, with other digital retailers and the physical CD release to follow June 9th

“Animal” is one of those songs that will invade every waking thought.” – WIRED.COM

Animal

Mike Snow - Animal

06 Waking Up the Dead

05 Sleeping With a Stranger

04 O Theo

03 Won't Let You Down Again

02 Poisoning the Well

01 Stones On The Riverbed

Best Coast - Do You Love Me Like You Used To

Matthew Perryman Jones - Only You

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Shelter Song b/w Prisms
7” and download.</b>

The debut single from Temples is released by Heavenly Recordings on Monday 12th November 2012.

Both tracks were recorded in early September and produced by Temples in Pyramid Studios, their home studio in Kettering.

Temples have been confirmed as main support on the forthcoming Mystery Jets tour alongside London shows with Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs and Tribes. They will also be playing the London Calling festival in Amsterdam.

The dates are as follows:

<b>NOVEMBER</b>

2nd Amsterdam London Calling
3rd Lincoln Engine Shed*
4th Oxford Academy*
5th Cambridge Junction*
7th Brighton Concorde 2*
8th Bournemouth Old Fire Station*
9th Norwich Waterfront*
10th Leicester 02 Academy 2*
12th London Old Blue Last
13th Leeds, Brudenell Social Club w/ Moon Duo
15th London Barfly
29th London Royal Festival Hall* 
 
* with Mystery Jets

Temples are: James Bagshaw (vocals & guitar), Thomas Warmsley (bass & backing vocals), Sam Toms (drums) & Adam Smith (keys).

https://www.facebook.com/templesofficial
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Shelter Song

Temples - Shelter Song

Bonobo - Kiara

Coldplay - Trouble

From the album, Moon Tides, available August 19 (UK) / August 20 (US).

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Pendulum

This is the 3rd full length album from singer-songwriter Brooke Annibale. Produced by Paul Moak at the Smoakstack (Third Day, Jennifer Knapp, Matthew Mayfield, Griffin House). All songs written by Brooke Annibale. These tracks are hi-resolution .wav files. 

Other Credits include: 
Produced and Mixed by Paul Moak at the Smoakstack 
Engineered by Paul Moak and Justin March 
Assisted by Dewey Boyd

Mastered by Jim Demain at Yesmaster

Brooke Annibale - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, BGV's 
Will Sayles - Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone 
Matt Pierson - Bass, Upright Bass, B3, Wurlitzer 
Tyler Burkum - Electric guitar, Slide Guitar, Banjo, Upright Piano, 12 String Acoustic, BGV's, Guest Vocal on "Yours and Mine" 
Cason Cooley - Grand Piano, Upright Piano, Tack Piano, B3, Wurlitzer, Omnichord, Pads, Tubular Bells 
Paul Moak - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Baritone Guitar, Mandotar, Vibraphone, Piano, B3, BGV's, 
Cara Slaybaugh - Cello 
Eleonore Denig - Violin

Brooke Annibale (C) 2011

Yours And Mine

Joy Wellboy Lay Down Your Blade DC Salas Secret Weapon Remix (snippet)

Land of the Living Official Release- May 29th. 

There comes a time in every man’s life when he must question the principles of his culture, his community, and his ancestors. Some may ignore the questions, while others, particularly artists, wrestle with them until something new and lasting is formed from the struggle. Shortly written after the death of his father, Matthew Perryman Jones’ latest record, Land of the Living is a courageous personal Odyessey through life’s most troubled waters of love and loss, and communicates the process by which we grieve, and the fight to find restored hope.The writing process of Land of the Living was an intense wringing of words, emotions, and melody from the rags of Jones’ solitude, but are an account of his truth found in the pain.

His first full length album since 2008, Land of the Living was produced by Cason Cooley (Katie Herzig) and is set to be released on May 29th. The record could not have found a better birthplace than the elusive bohemian studio in Round Top, Texas, where it was recorded. The studio itself was made from a 1700’s Amish farmhouse, is surrounded by vast land and skies, and haunted by a woman the band came to call Sarah.  Matthew slept in a teepee outside the studio for the week the band recorded.  The short time span forced them to “trust our gut and bring our very best to the table.” 

For this record, Matthew decided to entrust the fate of his musings to the ones most likely to connect with it: his fans. In just thirty days Matthew’s “tribe” contributed $26,000 to fund the creation of the album. “Going into making this record supported by fans inspired me in a whole new way. It really awakened the sense of why I went into music in the first place-creating a meaningful connection with people through music.”

Inspiration also came in the form of the writings of Rumi, the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo (from which the title Land of the Living was taken), and Federico Garcia Lorca, who wrote about the idea of Duende—loosely translated as a heightened sense of emotion, expression, and authenticity in art, and particularly, in music.

In each song there is a sense of wandering in the desert and wrestling with the angels.  “Waking up the Dead” conveys the transition from mourning to once again feeling passionate about life. “I want to dance on fire and be born again” is Jones’ earnest mantra. Matthew mirrors the poetry of Leonard Cohen when he sings, “You stand in the water with your arms crossed, groaning hallelujah.”  In “Oh Theo,” he grasps Van Gogh’s artistic and spiritual struggle saying, “My heart was still unknown, I was drunk and full of sorrows. I was longing for a home with nowhere to go.” 

Perhaps the crux of the record’s struggle can be heard on “Cancion de la Noche”, or “Song of the Night.”  Echoes of Daniel Lanois’ mysticism float in the mournful guitars and full, round drums. He sings, “I was alone in the water, deep in the water, where did you go? Oh the light is in disguise, breaking slowly, pull me close and I will push you away.”

A response to “Cancion de la Noche”, is the song “The Angels Were Singing”, which delves into Jones’ grief over the recent loss of his father.  As if in a Flannery O’ Connor short story, he says, “I started running to feel more alive, to wake up my senses that slowly had died . . . each tear was a chorus, a sacred reprise, and I finally was grieving that long goodbye.”  

Is the pain we encounter in loss worth living and loving to the fullest?  In no way a trite answer to the question, the title and last track on Matthew Perryman Jones’ philosophical record gives us a resounding yes.  “You cannot love in moderation, you’re dancing with a dead man’s bones.  Lay your soul on the threshing floor. . . I am coming home.”  And as Rumi said, and Jones has shown us to be true through the journey of Land of the Living, “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”



03 Won't Let You Down Again

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