Blog: Dailypop

Local Natives have a familiar sound- rustic vocals, harmonies, clattering percussion- but songwriting skill and youthful energy mark their striking debut. Advance singles "Airplanes" and "Sun Hands" recalled elements of Dodos or the Fleet Foxes, but the best comparison perhaps is that they're sort of a West Coast Grizzly Bear- right down to naming an [...]

Am Montag dem 8.2.2010 hatte ich das Vergnügen in meiner Heimatstadt Aachen Friska Viljor live zu erleben! Und "erleben" trifft es dabei ganz gut! Es war ein sehr schöner Abend und die 5 Jungs aus Stockholm hatten gute Laune und tolle Songs mitgebracht. 2 Zugaben gab's für das begeisterte Publikum im vollen Musikbunker! Größtenteils Lieder [...]

Odd Box Records teams up with Indie-MP3 for a free afternoon of indiepop at RoTa in Notting Hill. Playing the afternoon are: The Trudy The Wednesday Club The Sequins The Gresham Flyers It starts at 4pm. Finishes by 8pm. And it's free to get in. Guest DJ - Rocker from Dandelion Radio. ______________________________ _____________________ More info on the bands: The Trudy - http://www.myspace.com/thetrud y London based indiepop band [...]

Ever since Hot Chip started as indie kids seemingly dabbling in classic soul and modern R&B, they've been underestimated. Delivering lines about "20-inch rims" and "Yo La Tengo" in a proper English accent, as they did on their 2005 debut, can have that effect. Yet on their two subsequent records- 2006's The Warning and 2008's [...]

After a 2006 album created in collaboration with Air and Jarvis Cocker, Charlotte Gainsbourg returns with a surprisingly great LP written and produced by Beck. The nods to psych rock, junkyard blues, half-rap cadences, and ghostly ballads won't shock anyone generally familiar with Beck's oeuvre, but Gainsbourg's versatile and vulnerable vocals add a depth missing [...]

New frozen weirdisco master, Combo, made a stunning entrance in trainspotters' dj bags, with an amazing re-edit from Robert Hood's Minus, quickly pointed out by Ivan Smagghe. By going through his re-edits and his compositions (more or less... (in post Combo, la Suède bleep en mode disco from My Life Is Acid. )

Questlove van The Roots maakte samen met Miguel Atwood Ferguson een niet te missen tribute voor de te vroeg overleden producer J Dilla getiteld Antiquity (via Moovmnt). (in post Antiquity from Crazy Birds. More by this artist at )

Questlove van The Roots maakte samen met Miguel Atwood Ferguson een niet te missen tribute voor de te vroeg overleden producer J Dilla getiteld Antiquity (via Moovmnt). (in post Antiquity from Crazy Birds. Download this at iTunes)

Our pals at Family Time have put together an amazing new 123 compilation, featuring some of our favourite weirdos: Deep Sht, Blessure Grave, Trudgers, Ancient Crux and many more. From it, here is Twin Lion's sinewy tribute to... (in post Roar And Storm : Twin Lion from Pinglewood. )

A lot of people are complaining that the new album from Hot Chip isn't "AWESOME", or one that doesn't match up to prior works. "One Life Stand" is a grower. It's not an album that's going to sucker... (in post Hot Chip on Fallon from Cause=Time. )

One drink, home early, not staying out, want to take it easy tonight… it's just never going to bloody happen, is it. Pure fantasy. Last night's escapades mean that I had far too little sleep last night, and... (in post Friday is Going to Fucking Punch Someone in a Minute from Song, by Toad. Download this at [...]

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. Download this at eMusic Amie [...]

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. Download this at eMusic iTunes)

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. Download this at eMusic iTunes)

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. )

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. Download this at eMusic iTunes)

There remain less than 48 hours until the season six premiere of LOST . This evening my little crew reached the end of our series re-watch. That is, we've spent the last three months working our way back... (in post LOST: A Very Special Sunday Mix Tape from Swan Fungus. )

ah the sheer bloody giddy glee, the joyous joy of this tonight. three guitars. one drummer. one sampler. two voices. two saxomaphones. one trumpet. one trombone. one cowbell. and christ knows what else. kinda hard to describe how... (in post the ex + brass unbound / zun zun eguia / tattie toes: cca: glasgow from cows are [...]

ah the sheer bloody giddy glee, the joyous joy of this tonight. three guitars. one drummer. one sampler. two voices. two saxomaphones. one trumpet. one trombone. one cowbell. and christ knows what else. kinda hard to describe how... (in post the ex + brass unbound / zun zun eguia / tattie toes: cca: glasgow from cows are [...]

Yes please! I was in NYC two years ago on Valentines night when we went to hear the romantic sounds of The Gutter Twins in the Bowery Ballroom. Lovely memories. I'd love to be heading over to NYC... (in post Medium Rare Sunday - Valentines in NYC? from 2 U I Bestow. Download this at [...]