:: “… sha-la-la-la”
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Artist: Sing Fang
Title Of EP: Half Dreams
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Label: morr music
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:: Great new Indie-Rock from the Mystery Jets!
The fourth album of Mystery Jets is released today (April 30, 2012) via Rough Trade Co. UK. The record entitled ‘Radlands’ was produced by Dan Carey. Stream the complete album exclusively over at NME.
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Tracklist:
01. Radlands
02. You Had Me At Hello
03. Someone Purer
04. The Ballad of Emmerson Lonestar
05. Greatest Hits
06. The Hale Bop
07. The Nothing
08. Take Me Where The Roses Grow
09. Sister Everett
10. Lost in Austin
11. Luminescence
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2012, Mar 15 − Someone Purer / New Album Announced
:: Damon, Simon, Paul and Tony at Abbey Road.
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Artist: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Title Of Album: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Release Date: Jan 22, 2007
Label: Parlophone
Tracklist:
1. History Song
2. 80s Life
3. Northern Whale
4. Kingdom Of Doom
5. Herculean
6. Behind The Sun
7. The Bunting Song
8. Nature Springs
9. A Soldier’s Tale
10. Three Changes
11. Green Fields
12. The Good, The Bad And The Queen
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Official Homepage: www.thegoodthebadandthequeen.com/
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:: Mmmh, I’m enjoying this record a lot!
This is the first track taken from Mercury Music Prize nominated Sweet Billy Pilgrim’s second album. The record entitled ‘Crown And Treaty’ is released tomorrow (April 30, 2012) via Luxor Purchase and has already been reviewed several times with nine or ten out of ten. Read one of these reviews below. The record can be streamed exclusively over at Mojo Music Magazine.
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Tracklist:
01. Joyful Reunion
02. Archaeology
03. Blakefield Gold
04. Arrived At Upside Down
05. Blood Is Big Expense
06. Brugada
07. Kracklite
08. Shadow Captain
09. Blue Sky Falls
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Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/sweetbillypilgrim
Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/sweetbillyp
Soundcloud at: http://soundcloud.com/sweetbillypilgrimofficial
Read more:
music OMH − Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown And Treaty
:: Excellent remix!
Lianne La Havas
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Shlohmo
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Myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/shlomoshun
More of ‘Shlohmo’ on Music Pickings:
2011, Dec 08 – Shlohmo – Couch (Soosh Remix) [Official Video]
2011, Oct 17 – Shlohmo – Places / – Ghost
:: I am absolutely in love with this album!
This incredibly beautiful album of Rue Royale (it is their second full-length) was first self-released on Bandcamp on March 03, 2011. Rue Royale are the wedded couple Brookln Dekker from the US und Ruth Dekker from the UK. In their Nottingham home, under the name Very Fine Records, they completely self-produced 7.500 copies of their releases and brought them to the local post-office from where they where shipped into the world. Production included printing and sewing the booklets.
By the beginning of 2012, they signed to the Berlin-based Indie label Sinnbus Records. On March 16, ‘Guide to an Escape’ was officially released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Tracklist:
01. Guide to an Escape
02. Halfway Blind
03. Flightline
04. Get Me Standing
05. Blame
06. Knocked Back To The Start
07. Crater
08. Ment to Roam
09. We’ll Go On Alright
10. Foreign Night
11. The Search and Little Else
This is the official video for the title-track of ‘Guide to an Escape’, directed by Duncan Guymer.
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Official homepage at: http://rueroyalemusic.com/
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Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/RueRoyale
Soundcloud at: http://soundcloud.com/rueroyale
:: So glad I stumbled across her!
Watch the official video for ‘Lost & Found’ by Lianne La Havas, directed by Colin Solal Cardo.
Cover Art: EP
Title Of EP: Lost & Found
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Label: Labour of Love
Tracklist:
1 No Room For Doubt
2 Lost & Found
3 Age
4 Night School
5 Final Form
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Title of Album: Is Your Love Big Enough?
Release Date: July 09, 2012
Label: Warner Music
Upcoming Tourdates:
May 14, Roter Salon – Berlin, Germany
May 15, Gruenspan – Hamburg, Germany
> more
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Official Homepage: www.liannelahavas.com/
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:: I seem to cannot get enough of this voice…
This is the second single from Angus Stone’s upcoming solo debut ‘Broken Brights’, set for release later this year on Desert Harvest Records. The video is directed by Jessie Hill. Download this beautiful song for free on Angus’ Soundcloud.
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Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/angusstoneofficial
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2012, Mar 09 − Broken Brights [Official Video]
:: Perfect spring album.
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Artist: Vacationer
Title Of Debut EP: Gone
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Label: Downtown Records
Tracklist:
1 Everyone Knows
2 Good As New
3 Trip
4 Dreamlike
5 No Rules
6 Gone
7 Having It All
8 Summer End
9 Great Love
10 Farther
11 Be With You
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Official Homepage: http://vacationermusic.com/
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/vacationermusic
Twitter at: https://twitter.com/#!/nuhula
:: Best new music indeed…
Lotus Plaza is another project of Deerhunter’s guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Lockett Pundt. Their second album ‘Spooky at a Distance’ was released April 02, 2012 via Kranky. Pitchfork names the record best new music.
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Tracklist:
01. Untitled
02. Strangers
03. Out of Touch
04. Dusty Rhodes
05. White Galactic One
06. Monoliths
07. Jet Out of the Tundra
08. Eveningness
09. Remember Our Days
10. Black Buzz
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Blogspot at: http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.de/
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/lotusplazaa
Read more:
Pitchfork − Lotus Plaza: Spooky Action at a Distance
:: Beautiful song.
Directed/Filmed by Josh Feder + Saul Abraham
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Artist: Szjerdene
Title Of EP: Patchwork The EP
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Label: Wonderful Ear Records
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Myspace at: http://www.myspace.com/szjerdene
:: Keep it up Thundercat! Great Album… one of my Best Of 2011.
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Artist: Thundercat
Title Of Album: The Golden Age of Apocalypse
Release Date: August 29th, 2011
Label: Brainfeeder
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2011, Aug 17 – Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse
:: Great sound, fabulous record!
This is the official video for ‘Sixteen Saltines’, the second single taken from ‘Blunderbuss’. The video is directed by AG Rojas.
Former White Stripe Jack White is releasing his solo debut album ‘Blunderbuss’ today (April 24, 2012) via his own label Third Man Records.The record is produced by Jack White and recorded at his own Third Man Studio in Nashville where he lives since 2005.
‘Love Interruption’ was the first single taken from Blunderbuss, released on January 31 (digital) and February 07, 2012 (vinyl 7″). The video is directed by …
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Tracklist:
01. Missing Pieces
02. Sixteen Saltines
03. Freedom At 21
04. Love Interruption
05. Blunderbuss
06. HypocriticalKiss
07. Weep Themselves To Sleep
08. I’m Shakin’
09. Trash Tongue Walker
10. Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
11. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep
12. On and On and On
13. Take Me With You When You Go
Upcoming European Tourdates (selection):
June 21, 2012 // London, United Kingdom // O2 Academy Brixton
June 22, 2012 // London, United Kingdom // Hammersmith Apollo
June 25, 2012 // Amsterdam, The Netherlands // Heineken Music Hall
June 26, 2012 // Berlin, Germany // Tempodrom
June 27, 2012 // Cologne, Germany // E-Werk
July 02, 2012 // Paris, France // L’Olympia
July 03, 2012 // Paris, France // L’Olympia
July 05, 2012 // Hamburg, Germany // Docks
>> more
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Official homepage at: http://jackwhiteIII.com/
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/jackwhite
Twitter at: https://twitter.com/#!/thirdmanrecords
Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/jackwhite
Read more:
The Guardian − Jack White: Blunderbuss – review
:: Early morning soul!
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Artist: Lee Fields
Title Of Album: Faithful Man
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Label: Truth & Soul
Tracklist:
1. Faithful Man
2. I Still Got It
3. You re The Kind Of Girl
4. I m Still Hanging On
5. Intermission
6. Wish You Were Here
7. Who Do You Love
8. Moonlight Mile
9. It s All Over (But The Crying)
10. Walk On Through That Door
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Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/leefieldsandtheexpressions
Myspace: www.myspace.com/leefields
:: I am very excited about this album!
Once And For All (2012 Album Version)
Lesson No. 7
Clock Opera’s long awaited full-length debut “Ways To Forget” is finally out today in the UK via Moshi Moshi Records / Island Records. The Deluxe Version comes with eight additional tracks and 3 videos.
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Man Made
Belongings
Tracklist:
01. Once And For All
02. Lesson No. 7
03. 11th Hour
04. Man Made
05. Belongings
06. White Noise
07. A Piece of String
08. The Lost Buoys
09. Move To The Mountains
10. Fail Better
11. Ways To Forget [Deluxe Version]
12. Alouette [Deluxe Version]
13. New Arrivals [Deluxe Version]
14. Let Go The Lifeboats [Deluxe Version]
15. Glass Eye [Deluxe Version]
16. Seven Hours [Deluxe Version]
17. Outro [Deluxe Version]
18. Once And For All (Under The Floorboards) [Deluxe Version]
19. Belongings (Video) [Deluxe Version]
20. Lesson No. 7 (Video) [Deluxe Version]
21 Once And For All (Video) [Deluxe Version]
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Official homepage at: http://www.clockopera.com/
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/clockopera
Twitter: http://twitter.com/clockopera
Soundcloud at: http://soundcloud.com/clockopera
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More ‘Clock Opera’ on Music Pickings:
2012, Mar 16 − Man Made [Official Video]
2012, Jan 21 − Once And For All (2012 Album Version) [Official Video]
2011, Oct 13 − Architecture in Helsinki – Contact High (Clock Opera Remix)
