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    “BUST” is a musical ménage à trois of seductive soulfulness, Jai Paul-style synth rumble, and visceral vocal melodies that will get your hips moving to the laidback snap of the snare faster than you can say "parental advisory."  Warning: listen in a private location. You may bust on sight.

Lyrics by Robby Hunter
Music by Robby Hunter Band
Produced by Pat Howard

BUST

The Fly On The Window

‘You’re Lonely’ out on Young & Lost Club on Monday 9th September 2013

Die Mason Die are the brand new group based around enigmatic 21-year-old Samuel Mason; Welsh-born, raised in Australia and now residing in London. The band will be releasing their latest single ‘You’re Lonely’ on 9th September through Young & Lost Club.

Mason began work on the band’s early material in 2011, during a six month odyssey back to Australia.  He joined 11 others on a journey from London to Sydney - aboard a customized 1958 double-decker bus - as part of a cult travel documentary, which is due for release later this year.

This early material formed the basis of the ‘Tongues in the Clamp’ EP, released last November. It features ‘Lost’, which appeared on the film soundtrack for Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Host’. The band also appeared as a guest artist on Daniel Johnston’s recent ‘Space Ducks’ record with ‘My Favourite Cave’ alongside Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

On ‘You’re Lonely’, Mason’s unmistakable vocals move effortlessly between sparse , claustrophobic instrumentation and lush orchestration, developing the band’s blend of traditional British folk melody, 50s surf guitars and haunting atmospherics – a genre he calls ‘Ghost Folk’.

'You're Lonely' by Die Mason Die

Let Me In

Vocal and Lyric by Sofia Sekar Arum
Ukelele and Bass by Harsa WR

Guest:
Guitar by Bagas Perdana Putra
Percussions by Yulius Samiaji
Whistle by Junior Ori

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I woke up in the morning and mother said that she got something for me, she put it on my desk
it's pinky and it looked like a letter
with a red ribbon and the floral smell, well do you know what is it?

it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..

My heart beat when i start to open it
it's from a guy but i think he has no name but i don't care
He said so many stupid words inside
but whatever, it's no matter, cause that's the cute thing from a love letter

it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..
it's a love letter..

But ohhh, oh my god!
i know that it was not for me!
but i'm... i'm just sick of being a single you know!

Afternoon Talk

Love Letter

From Lior's third studio album "Tumbling Into The Dawn". Out now.

Tumbling into the Dawn

Sivu - Something On High (The Debut Album) - Out 13 Oct

Buy Here:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Sivu-SomethingonHigh
Amazon CD: http://smarturl.it/SomethingonHighCD
Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/SomethingonHighvinyl

Listen on Spotify: spoti.fi/1kvKJPr
Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfWEF­3CUXA

Free 2 track download here: sivusivu.co.uk/freedownload

More on Sivu:
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Better Man Than He

The debut album "TAKE ME WHEN YOU GO" out October 7th! Pre-order now: 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TakeMeWhenYouGo?IQid=sc
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/TakeMeWhenYouGoAM?IQid=sc
Fan Edition (Get your named in the album booklet): http://smarturl.it/TakeMeWhenYouGoFE?IQid=sc
Betty Who on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TakeMeWhenYouGoSP?IQid=sc

Executive Producer: Peter Thomas
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Mix Engineer: Mike Roberts
Management: Ethan@NewTorchEntertainment.com

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LYRICS:

Who's around when the days feel long
Who's around when you can't be strong
Who's around when you're losing your mind
Who cares that you get home safe
Who knows you can't be replaced
Who thinks that you're one of a kind

Somebody misses you when you're away
They wanna wake up with you everyday
Somebody wants to hear you say
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you

I'm around when your head is heavy
I'm around when your hands aren't steady
I'm around when your day's gone all wrong
I care that you feel at home
Cause I know that you feel alone
I think you're going to miss me when I'm gone

Somebody misses you when you're away
They wanna wake up with you everyday
Somebody wants to hear you say
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you

Why don't you come on over
Why don't you lay me down
Does the pain feel better
When I'm around
If I am good to you
Won't you be good to me
That's how easy this should be

Somebody misses you when you're away (Somebody misses you baby)
They wanna wake up with you everyday (They wanna wake up with you)
Somebody wants to hear you say (Oh they want you to say)
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you
Ooh somebody loves you

The Movement

Somebody Loves You

DOWNLOAD NOW!

A-side of our 7" EP, published on january 25th 2013

Landscapes

B-side of our 7" EP, published on january 25th 2013

Hold Me Tight

          
After half a decade spinning wheels on the Great American Highway, through the brutal heartbreaks and dire sacrifices that come with chasing the mythical rock & roll dragon, Great Peacock’s Andrew Nelson and Blount Floyd have finally eased up on the throttle. Like rock & roll as it transitioned from the erratic abandon of the late ’60s to the country-tinged storytelling of the early ’70s—donning cowboy boots and dipping its bucket in the well of American folk music—they’ve put their electric guitars back in the case, rolled their stacks back from 11, and let a serene hush wash over them. Their sound now? Beautiful, unadorned, moving—the bountiful harvest of a deep friendship and an unbreakable musical bond.

“The hangover is definitely starting to wear off,” Nelson says. “The amps had gotten a little too loud.”

“With our old band, we’d been playing all this angsty downer rock,” Floyd explains. “So with Great Peacock, we wanted the songs to be simple, poppy—infectious.”

For the first time, Nelson and Floyd weren’t writing songs for themselves, but rather songs they hoped would connect with fans. With Great Peacock they would embrace an unselfish, unpretentious aesthetic. “I don’t want to alienate people any more,” Nelson says, laughing a bit as he recalls the darker, more confessional songs he used to write. “I’m at a point where I want as many people to like our music as possible.”

Floyd and Nelson met in their early 20s in Nashville, the former having come to MusicCity to break into recording and the latter to play rock & roll. When they first ran into each other, neither had any close friends in town yet, and their connection was instant. “From the moment we said ‘hello,’ we realized we were gonna be best friends,” Nelson says. “It’s the only time it’s ever happened in my life. Blount’s brother introduced us, and I was like, ‘This guy is cool!’”

About an hour later, they were shotgunning beers together. “And it’s not like there was a party going on, either,” Nelson explains. “We were talking about music and I said, ‘Let’s get some beer.’ So we went to the gas station and bought a 12 pack of Busch. At every moment in the night, we became better friends—I was like, ‘Dude, we should get the camouflage cans,’ and Blount was like, ‘Hell yes, let’s do it!’”

“And there was this guy in front of us buying a single gas-station rose,” Floyd recalls, “and he says, ‘Yo, can I get some cigarillos and a box of magnums?’”

“We were both like, ‘That’s real love, man. Real love,’” Nelson says. “‘This guy has his life figured out—we need to figure out ours!’ I don’t think we drank a single beer normal that night—we shotgunned the whole 12-pack.”

The new friends soon found that their musical chemistry was just as intense, and that their strengths and weaknesses were the perfect complement. “The big thing about us,” Nelson says, “is that I can’t sing harmony—I’m terrible at it. And Blount doesn’t have a strong lead voice. When we’re riding around listening to music, he never sings the melody; he naturally sings the harmony. So we’re a perfect fit—I need him to sound good, and he needs me.”

Since the pair started playing together, they’ve seen two bands—and about a dozen bandmates—come and go. Through it all, their musical partnership has been a constant. “We always seemed to get what each other was doing more than anyone else,” Nelson says. “He keeps me artistic, and I keep him grounded.”

As far as Great Peacock has already come—recording a stunning debut EP of harmony-driven acoustic pop, performing as part of stylish, socially conscious eyewear company Warby-Parker’s Class Trip, and landing a coveted spot at one of Paste magazine’s 2013 SXSW showcases—the group began, almost literally, as a lark. “We kept noticing this hilarious trend of bands with names like Fleet Foxes, Deer Tick, Vulture Whale—they all had two names,” Nelson says, “one of which was always an animal.”

Kidding around one night, Nelson and Floyd decided to start a new band called Great Peacock. “I thought it was gonna be this cockamamie joke,” Nelson says. “We’ve talked a million times about starting random bands—including a Southern-rock band called Swamp Ass—and didn’t follow through. But even for a while there, when we didn’t really have anything going, I never stopped writing songs because I have to write to maintain my sanity. It’s my version of therapy. And Blount hadn’t stopped, either. Writing gave us an excuse to hang out.

“But I still didn’t think we were actually gonna do it,” Nelson confesses about the new band. “Really, the only reason it happened is because we wrote ‘Desert Lark.’”

Without giving it much thought, Nelson and Floyd posted an acoustic demo of the song on Bandcamp. Friends, family and fans went crazy over it, begging them to follow through on the new project. “We didn’t expect that,” Nelson says. “I wasn’t planning on being in a band again. I really wasn’t.” The chiming, triumphant acoustic anthem would become the centerpiece of the Nashville duo’s new self-titled EP.

Great Peacock’s harmony-driven sound appeals to fans of indie-folk, but the group is different from contemporaries like Fleet Foxes and The Head and the Heart in that their music is inextricalbly linked with the South. It’s who they are—Floyd hailing from a family of Alabama peanut farmers, and Nelson a long line of Mississippi preachers and sharecroppers. “If I had my way in life,” Nelson admits, “I’d be a country singer. My dream is to be George Jones.”

“But those country singers don’t exist any more,” Floyd says.

So instead of trying to live in a long-gone past, Great Peacock draws from the same inspirations that once fueled their now-extinct forebears (geography, aging, love/hate family relationships, blood, death, birds), channeling them into an unmistakably modern sound. For Nelson and Floyd, it’s natural, inutitive. “We know that even though there’s a history we’re connected to, we’re of our time,” Nelson says. “We know most records aren’t made on tape any more, but we’re also very much aware that—no matter the year or the production style—the right melody can be timeless.”

Take Me to the Mountain

Sivu - Family Tree. Available here...https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/better-man-than-he-single/id598595529

The b-side to Better Man Than He

Sivu - Family Tree

Written by Birds and Arrows
Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five on bass
Kyra Moore on Fiddle and Banjo

www.birdsandarrows.com

Coyotes

Written by Birds and Arrows
Dave Hadley of June Star on pedal Steel

www.birdsandarrows.com

Safety

Untied

You know, not every band born on the sunny shores of the west coast winds up sounding like the Beach Boys. Take for instance the indie-pop surf-inspired Soft Swells. Named after the smaller, smoother waves Tim Williams (the singer/songwriter behind the LA based band) looks for when he is surfing, Soft Swells is an upbeat, poppier take on indie music. You could attribute Tim “falling in love and finding true happiness” as the reason for the hopeful slant on his newest release, an EP entitled Lifeboats. Perhaps you are already familiar with the song and EP, as they have been featured in a recent nationwide ad campaign for Best Buy (if you skip fast-forwarding commercials on the TiVO once in a while, you’d be amazed what you can learn). Mostly recorded in Tim’s Los Feliz apartment and producer Dave Lynch’s studio in Lewes, England (as well as some pick-up sessions in Hollywood and Ann Arbor, MI) Soft Swells recordings are achieved by Tim and Dave “sending parts back and forth.” Sure Tim does all of the writing, but this puddle jumping collaboration works amazingly well for the band. Tim creates the songs, then off to Dave for some sound rounding-out and polish. The new EP features a remix of the original “Lifeboats” track by Jon Visger (Absofacto, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.), a few more original tunes and even a cover of T-Rex’s “Children of a Revolution.”

Having released three solo albums with NYC based Dovecote Records, Tim wasn’t sure what he would do next with his music when circumstances moved him from NY to Nashville to his current place in LA. Without a band in mind, he started writing songs again, and after playing them for Chip and Erin Adams at Modern Outsider, was convinced that he should head into the recording studio. In February of 2012 Soft Swells released their first album to the acclaim of everyone from MTV to TIME magazine and USA Today to Consequence of Sound. Influenced by the Brit-pop he loved growing up (Definitely Maybe was the first album that hit him in the chest) his obvious love of melodies, hooks and sentiment shine through with each track. Soft Swells plays to consistently packed houses in LA with an incredible live band featuring Kyle Frederickson, Matt Mayhall and Christopher Pappas that brings to life the meticulous studio sound perfected by Tim and Dave. And keep an eye out (or two if you can spare ‘em) for the video for “Lifeboats,” directed by Anthony Garth and featuring O’Neill surf team member Bree Kleintop.

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth has said “once the music leaves your head it’s already compromised.” That’s fine if you feel like music is an entirely personal endeavor for the artist. Tim certainly doesn’t feel that way. “I don’t think a song or recording is completed until it hits someone’s ears… The experience is only complete when a listener gives their input – a smile, a head nodding or whatever reaction a person has.”



Lifeboats

Warp 7 Weft

Laura Veirs - Sun Song

The Royal Concept from Stockholm
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On Our Way
I'll believe when the walls stop turning
I'll believe when the storm is through 
I believe I heard them say
David won't you stop writing songs
I never wanna shake their hands and stay
I never wanna shake their hands and stay
Oh no lets go

We are young 
We are one
Let us shine for what it's worth

To your place, place, place, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our way somehow
Hold me close, close, close, we're losing
Time, time, time, we're losing 
Time, time, time, I'm falling to the ground

I'll believe when the sky is burning
I'll believe when I see the view
I believe that I heard them say
David won't you stop dreaming now
And everybody clap your hands and shout
And everybody clap your hands and shout
Oh no they shout

We are young
We are one
Let us shine for what it's worth 

To your place, place, place, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our way somehow
Hold me close, close, close, we're losing
Time, time, time, we're losing 
Time, time, time, I'm falling to the ground
We are young
We are one
Let us shine for what it's worth 
To your place, place, place, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our way

Hold me close we're losing time
Hold me close we're falling to the ground

Taxi driver
Sun is rising
Damn the sirens 
Keep on driving
Flashing light
Oh what a night
I miss her bed
I lost my head
And it's sunning
We're still running
For her rooftop
Our last stop 
Barefoot, naked, don't you let me go

To your place, place, place, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our way somehow
Hold me close, close, close, we're losing
Time, time, time, we're losing 
Time, time, time, I'm falling to the ground
We are young
We are one
Let us shine for what it's worth 
To your place, place, place, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our 
Way, way, way, we're on our way

This night will never end

Hold me close we're losing time
Hold me close we're falling to the ground



Royal

On Our Way

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RY X (AUS) released his Berlin EP on Dumont Dumont August 28 2013 as 12" vinyl and full digital release.

Berlin EP on 
iTunes http://www.smarturl.it/rbilib
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/2d90pcby1VFHjXUGYJNBJc

Tickets: http://www.songkick.com/artists/6888059-ry-x

RY X: http://ry-x.com

TRACKLIST
1. Berlin
2. Shortline
3. Vampires
4. Wanderlust

"an absolute masterpiece of a track from start to finish. It’s honestly one of the most cleanly gorgeous songs I’ve heard in a very long time"
- I Guess I'm Floating (US)

"intelligent and intuitive beyond anything we’ve heard done in acoustic circles for a long while" 
- The Line of Best Fit (UK)

"his upcoming release is stunning"
- Pigeons and Planes (US)

"We at Rough Trade shops predict a big future for this special talent" 
- Rough Trade (UK)

“Want to listen to something quite beautiful?  Well you should get a load of RY X and the track
‘Berlin’ which will ripple across you like a hybrid Bon Iver & Matt Corby track.  It’s not just good.
It’s exquisite audio silk. Get it into your ears now.”
-Your Music Radar (Australia)

“Velvety smooth, velvet arpeggio, RY X reinvents itself in intimate folk pop harmonies.”
-Pause Musicale (France)

“something really special.”
-Not Many Experts (UK)

Official video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXN20bpWtY

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/ryxmusic
https://www.facebook.com/RYXmusic
https://twitter.com/RYX_RYX
http://www.facebook.com/dumontdumontmusic

The Berlin EP on 12" vinyl is sold out

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This release is now fully licensed to Loma Vista Recordings for North America and Infectious/BMG for the rest of the world.

Thank you for all the love and support!

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