Most Tuesdays are 'List' days at NH7. In the past we've put out lists like Top Metal Concept Albums , and 12 Must-Watch Music Documentaries , and Kvlt Watch at 5: 'Zombie' Cover Version s , and more. Today, while looking to create a radio-related list keeping in theme with our last Big Issue on Radio , and the recent launch of NH72s new UE Radio in partnership with Ultimate Ears, I looked to the Billboard Hot 100 for some inspiration (because the mainstream is basically indie v2.0. Deal with it). I [...]

So I let her play in the snow. #snow #cat

If only the weather were sunnier in Minnesota, then the latest She & Him track would be perfect for the season. Although, despite it's sunny disposition, it isn't all flowers and smiles. It's a bittersweet song that many people will suspect has something to do with Death Cab For Cutie frontman, Ben Gibbard... also known as Zooey Deschanel's ex-hubby. ...not that this is news to most people. To all the people in warmer climates, enjoy this with your wonderful weather. For the Minnesotans, close your eyes and imagine a world without snow on April [...]
Hackney trio Eaux specialise in live electronic music: generally dark, dense, slow-throbbing, graceful songs that you merely admire at first, and then fall somersaults in love with three listens later. It might not even take that long for new song Snow (video below) to seduce hearts: I'm hearing it for the second time and already I'm enchanted, and marvelling at the subtle, serene beauty of it all. After the track plays out, I just sit and listen to the dull whir of my laptop, locked in some sort of euphoric slumber. [...]
Scandi popstrels such as Gothenburg's Frida Sundemo don't belong in places such as these – they're about as far removed as is feasible from their natural habitat. And sure, all pop queens in waiting gelid as this protracted winter must undergo a sometimes wearying gestation period during which they load up their canon with irresistible missives plotted away in some proverbial, and most probably sterile waiting room before taking aim at the charts. Though again, the Sebright Arms is no such establishment. Upstairs, the squeals conventionally penned into a cattle market abound which, as has [...]
This morning the alarm woke me at 4:30. That's right, 4:30, the most ungodly of hours, which is a bit of a play on the day as I got that early so I could leave at 5 to go to the 20th anniversary mass for my father. It is nearly beyond belief to realize he has been gone that long. I think of him often, and we still miss him every day. The mass was in a church about an hour and a half from here, close to where he and my mother used to live. My sister from Colorado [...]

This track by Magical Mistakes is the most perfect representation of how I feel right now - with the snow piling high outside my window, there really isn't much else to do except hibernate. If you don't feel like doing anything today either, download this and thank me later:
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, on the grass and on the deck, the snow is glistening. It started snowing around 10 last night, and we probably have about 5 inches of spring snow which sounds like an oxymoron to me. A dusting is spring snow. 5 inches is winter. The snow is heavy. I swept the walk to get my papers, and when I got to the street, I found slush under the snow. I left wet footprints. The branches of the pine trees are covered with a layer of the heavy snow and the bushes [...]
Wowsers, it has been a month since the last proper GIGANTIC blog update, but we're back in action now baby, awww yeahhh. Yesterday, I heard this song for the first time in aaaaages, and I just thought 'BAM! That mutha is straight in my set for the weekend'. I'm probably going to play it on Friday and Saturday because it is just that good. It's also over 20 years old, which is a bit scary. Do people even still know this song? If not, they need educated. Epic indeed. Faith No More [...]
The snow started last night and left about an inch before it stopped. The rain started early, before I woke up, so now we are a slushy place. I left watery footprints from the house to the driveway and back again when I went to get the newspapers. The birds aren't even around. They don't like this weather any more than I do and the filled feeders aren't at all tempting. I have three quick errands today and have mapped out the shortest route so I can hurry home to warmth and coziness. My sister got around 103 [...]

Slow Warm Death // SLOW WARM DEATH If you had told me that one of the projects to rise out of the ashes of famed emo revivalist band Snowing would be a sometimes-bluesy garage rock band I’d have been a tad skeptical (Then again this is 2013 and weirder things have happened). And yet that is exactly what has happened with Slow Warm Death . Former Snowing frontman John Galm has packed up his songwriting chops and set off in a completely different direction. A [...]
Earliest I sloshed my way to the mailbox and then to the driveway to get the papers. My road is slush covered. Tire marks show the route of my paper delivery, and when I got inside, I could see my footprints. It is lightly snowing, slanted and from the northeast, but I can also hear drips on the deck from the roof. The weather for today is rainy and cold with temperatures in the 302s. I just hope it stays above freezing. The wind was with us all night but has since pretty much disappeared. On the early news was [...]

Snowy flyer #brooklyn #snow #really

Over the past few months Scandi-pop pixie Frida Sundemo has released two devestatingly good singles in the form of 'Indigo' and 'Snow'. The former was one of the best singles of 2012. Yup, that good. Her fantastic new EP dropped on Monday and to celebrate it she's given away new track 'Home' as a free download. Like her two previous singles this has a widescreen feel, yet remains faithful to the dancefloor at the heart of the track. It finds Frida a little more thoughtful, a little less eager to please, yet carries a yell-it-from-the-mountain-tops chorus. Fitting then [...]
The wind is howling and twisting and turning the pine branches which seem to bend enough to touch the ground. The rain began falling last night, and when I woke up, I could hear it on the roof and windows. As I'm writing, wet snow, slanted by the wind from the north, is beginning to fall, but it hasn't the look of permanence. The rain will be back, and the wind will howl all day into tomorrow. The wind is the sort which is the backbone of every tale told by the fire, tales of creatures who roam the [...]
![Eaux - 'Snow' (Simeon Cox remix) [Listen]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4805061_lg.jpg)
Late last year, little-known London trio Eaux dropped its slippery post-punk i EP in the wake of fellow London band Sian Alice Group calling it quits. Band members Sian Ahern and Ben Cook teamed up with Stephen Warrington for the minimalist outfit, which released the aforementioned EP on startup label Morning Ritual Records. The EP, which is still available to stream via the group’s Soundcloud page, features ‘Snow', which was recently reworked by the lone surviving member of Silver Apples , Simeon Cox. The remix, which is [...]
This morning I went out to breakfast then did a couple of errands. Each week I keep track of the number of miles I travel just for the heck of it. When I turned on the car this morning, I saw I'd gone 8 miles since Sunday. I must be hibernating. There is no other explanation. I know I don't get dressed in real clothes (by this I mean outside clothes) most days, but, instead, I wear comfy flannel pants, slippers and a sweatshirt. I shower for the sake of cleanliness and brush my teeth every day. I spent one [...]
Yesterday I leaned against the bookcase in the living room and my sweatshirt came away blackened. All that smoke from last week's fires has left the tops of tables, the cabinet shelves and the bookcase filthy with ash. I couldn't stand the mess so I polished everything. Someone should have been there for pictures. I'd have grinned broadly while holding the filthy cleaning cloths. I finished the living room, but, as with any contagion, I wasn't done. I moved on to the dining room then to the den. When each cloth got too filthy, I'd throw it on the floor [...]
Today is a pretty day as long as you're looking out from inside the house because it's cold, and that dilutes the pretty. No drips from the roof and no melting of the weekend's snow despite the bright sun is a sign of how cold it is. I had to walk through fairly deep snow to get my newspaper, but my plowman just arrived and shoveled the walk, freed my car and made the mailbox accessible for the mail truck tomorrow. I may go out later, but then again I'm liking the warm house. When I was a [...]
As we begin to emerge from the gelid clutches of winter, you may feel that dwindling need for affecting Scandipop slipping through your fingers all the time. Though that patently shouldn't be the case, and the latest in an unending line of Swedish ice queens, Göteborg's Frida Sundemo , shouldn't go duly unnoticed until December once again rears its brutish head right on a post-autumnal cue. We speak with Sundemo the wrong side of what transpired to be a weekend in which the today sniffly popstrel "didn't actually do anything special", though sounds to have been inflicted by that [...]