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Our friends over at the MOKB continue to surprise us with their Laundromatinee video sessions. This week continues to impress with some live videos of Scotish band We Were Promised Jetpacks . The session comes as a solo acoustic one as performed by leading man Adam Thompson. Check it out now or check out MP3 from the live songs "An Almighty Thud". Download: We Were Promised Jetpacks - An Almighty Thud (LaundroMatine) [MP3]

• We Were Promised Jetpacks - An Almighty Thud (LaundroMatinee.com session)

The Fat Cat Records label is a Brighton, England institution; they have signed highly divergent, up and coming acts from across the globe, from Sigur Rós to Vetiver , from Frightened Rabbit to Vashti Bunyan . So I took much delight in hearing that the label was sending several of their signings over to North America for a tour. For the Washington date, the three acts being featured at the Black Cat were the Scottish bands We Were Promised Jetpacks and [...]

Wait a second...is that...sun? Yes, the second day of Monolith saw some sun. Though I must stress "some." Granted "some" was a significant improvement to the cold, icy rain that drizzled on concertgoers the entire day before. Feeling encouraged by the slight appearance of sun, Monolith's second day promised to be good. We Were Promised Jetpacks // Woxy.com Stage @ 1:40-2:20 p.m. I started off with Scottish group We Were Promised Jetpacks. I couldn't decide what [...]

Kill Rock Stars is pleased to announce that Thao with The Get Down Stay Down will be releasing their second full-length album, Know Better Learn Faster , on October 13, 2009. "The album is named Know Better Learn Faster because you can't. By the time you realize you should, it's too late. And I enjoy the predicament and the totally devastating, unfunny humor of that." - Thao Nguyen , front woman Thao and the ever-versatile Get Down Stay Down ( Adam Thompson on bass, [...]

Thao Nguyen, the frontwoman of Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, is a new and innovative voice in the indie music scene. We got a chance to chat on the phone a few weeks ago as she and the band traveled across Texas to play a show in Lubbock. We encountered quite a [...]