La especialidad de estas hermanas suecas es hacer "covers" a canciones de bandas que a ellas les gustan. Fleet Foxes, Patti Smith y Fever Ray son algunas de ellas, pero uno de los que les gustó más hacer y tuvieron oportunidad de tocarlo durante su gira en 2012, fue "America" de Simon and Garfunkel, el [...]

Every week we will be featuring The Sweet Five! What's The Sweet Five you may ask? Well I'll drop you five sweet songs that you should listen to once a week, that will help you get over your mid-week slump and set sail towards the ever-nearing weekend! Ready? Okay! Well the first edition for 2013 of The Sweet Five is here. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year break with some quality time spent with your loved ones! A$AP Rocky feat. Florence Welch - I Come [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Lana Del Rey, Wye Oak, Peter Bjorn and John, First Aid Kit Song: Sibille Attar - Come Night [download here ] [...]

11 | Lorn | Ask The Dust 12 | Chromatics | Kill For Love | recenze 13 | Regina Spektor | What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | recenze 14 | Blaudzun | Heavy Flowers [...]

Brace yourself - we're going down... From tenacious ten past sensational six and all the way down to the incredible number one, The G-Man's Top 50 albums of the year for 2012 is now complete. Again these are my own personal favourite releases from the past twelve months so no harm intended if your own choices happen to be omitted from the list. For a recap on #50 through #11 see here . Note reason for itty bitty videos is to improve page loading times. [...]
Maj The New Spring - Secret Armor (Tambourhinoceros) Er det omsonst, hvis jeg endnu en gang prøver at beskrive The New Springs musik? I ved jo godt, hvor fortryllende et fingerspil og hvor fortællende en lyrik, Bastian Kallesøe væver fint sammen med sin vokal. Og at den kombination er god, det ved I selvfølgelig også. Secret Armor har året igennem åbnet mine øjne og kastet lys på selv den mest grå morgen. Ikke fordi Bastian lyder særligt frisk, men fordi lyden er så ren. Selvom der, modsat forrige [...]

Still in Melbourne for a lil longer, back home for dinner now post a lovely long walk in the sun, listening to the FIRST AID KIT who've got nice and shiny conditioned weaves on the cover of GAFFA magazine.

Artwork by Francesca Bonifacio Yesterday, we unveiled your picks for our 2012 Reader's Poll , and today we're continuing our year-end coverage by revealing our Honorable Mentions. 2012 was a great year for music, and it was tough to only choose 31 albums, so we made sure to include some picks that we enjoyed but didn't quite make it on our list . Be sure to come back to the site everyday for the rest of the week to see our Best EPs and Best Songs of 2012, along with our personal picks [...]
First Aid Kit started very young and were only 19 and 17 when they released their first LP. The Swedish siblings have evolved over time and teaming up with producer and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogus has seemingly brought increased focus to 'The Lion's Roar' making it a timeless record. Olivia added 'The Lion's Roar' [...]
First Aid Kit started very young and were only 19 and 17 when they released their first LP. The Swedish siblings have evolved over time and teaming up with producer and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogus has seemingly brought increased focus to 'The Lion's Roar' making it a timeless record. Olivia added 'The Lion's Roar' [...]

It seems I followed Baauer after this track was out. So when I look back, this is a great song to add in my collection. First Aid Kit blows my mind, something about charming Swedish vocals, that keep me constantly wanting more from the multi-talented sisters. I hope this does exactly for you, what it’s done for me. It’s so chilled out. It's been a while and I just got to listen [...]
[author-name] I know we're about to start the second week of 2013, but there's nothing wrong with a little extra reflection on the best of 2012. Love seeing a few local artists on here! Check out KCRW DJ Gary Calamar's favorite tracks of the year: 1. Best Coast - "The Only Place" 2. David Byrne & St. Vincent - "Who" 3. Palmyra Delran - "You're My Brian Jones" [...]
Disc 1 1. Be There In Bells- The Pines 2. Untitled (Love Song)- Counting Crows 3. We Are On Fire- CocoRosie 4. Jolene- The Little Willies 5. How It Went Down- Dark Dark Dark 6. Love Me Like You Do- Justin Bieber 7. Give Out- Sharon Van Etten 8. Tell Me A Tale- Michael Kiwanuka [...]
T he art of the cover song is one all musicians have practiced at some point in their lives, some just stick with us more than others. 2012 was filled with fantastic covers, but after a very *ahem* scientific study, the ones below were last year's stand outs. In our minds and hearts anyway... 1. Heart of Mine (Bob Dylan) Blake Mills, Danielle Haim and Taylor Goldsmith | Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Click here to view the embedded [...]
Favorite Songs of 2012: Part 1 (100-51) You will have to take these list rankings with a grain of salt, because although I tried my best to accurately arrange the tracks, I change it every time I listen to one of the songs. I also only included my favorite song from each artist, so there are no doubles (except for I think one person, but they were part of two different groups). A few songs are also technically from before 2012, but they all appear on albums or [...]
A year has come and gone as music has helped get us through the toughest of times and keep us happy during the best of times. Although this year didn't end up being one to remember for music lovers, at least it didn't end last week right? I've covered 7 albums a week since January and now it finally time to unveil my choices for the top 50 albums of 2012. I want to thank all of the readers for sticking with me this year and wish everyone a happy holidays and a very merry Christmas. I can't wait to [...]
Here I am, left to go last once again with my favorite songs of the year. I feel as though I listened to more in 2012 than in any other year, and my musical experience was all the better for it. More music means more candidates, which admittedly makes lists like this one tougher. But [...]

50. Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts 49. Ceremony - Zoo 48. Jeremih - Late Nights 47. Rah Rah - The Poet's Dead 46. Yeasayer - Fragrant World [...]

I have loafed about this Christmas - reading, drinking, watching films and generally living the life, which has been great, but now I find myself with just a few hours in which to throw this together… To be honest, it feels like I’ve already done this once already having been asked to nominate five 2012 records for the January Lpgrp session. I managed it with some difficulty (particularly as my Lpgrp line manager made me nominate one to be the best of them all – wild stab…), so seven should be a piece of (Christmas) pudding, eh? [...]