My obsession with St. Vincent is possibly unhealthy. I am absolutely infatuated and this new video, premiered today by Google Music and Youtube, is no exception. The feelings it provokes in such a hyperbolic and artistic way are magical...in a sad, disturbing, and desperate way. It brings the song forward in, not a new light, but in a brighter more tangible way. Sensational.

Today's feature is one my favorite discoveries of the last few weeks. Brooke Annibale is an acoustic singer/songwriter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She took up the guitar at the age of 15 and began taking lessons, improving her skill and establishing her own style of playing. She eventually began writing her own songs. As a junior in high school, she released her first EP, "Go Unnoticed" to be sold at her shows and at the venues she'd played. At 17, she recorded her second album, the full-length "Memories in Melody" . Vocally, she has a smoky quality [...]

For today's feature I have to give credit to the amazing iPad app BandADay, readers with an iPad should really give it a try! Last week I stumbled upon the folkpop duo Destry. Destry consists of Michelle DaRosa and Tyler Odom, who have known each other for the better part of ten years but it's only been in the last two years that they have gone from friends to band mates. Both of them experienced success in previous musical acts, Straylight Run and Northstar/Cassino respectively, but their time together in Destry has brought them in a different direction. Old fans [...]

Download link is in the original post Sounds like: Class Actress, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Song: Blouse - Into Black [download here ] What's so [...]
Download link is in the original post Sounds like: Portishead, Bjork Song: Elephant & Castle Ft. tUnE-yArDs - En Memoria [download here ] What's so good? [...]

It's not the first time a young woman has covered Neil Young's "Old Man" (hello, Wilson-Phillips??) but I'd definitely say it's the most beautiful. Becky's giving this track away on her Souncloud page now: Old Man (Neil Young Cover) by Saint Saviour Her debut album is now completed, thanks in part to a record-breaking Pledge campaign (target reached in less than 24 hours), and she's doing rather well in the MTV Brand New Unsigned competition, so if you like this, give her a [...]

Jenny and her husband Tyler met at the University of Delaware. They met in a bus on their way to church. They started leading worship together and from there began writing songs and eating omelets on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. They spent the first year singing together in the stairwells of the student center. The acoustics were incredible. Sometime that fall they started dating and well, as they say, the rest is history. They are really different, but those differences are part of what make us a great team. Tyler pushes me Jenny to try new things and Jenny keeps [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] Shoegazing started out as a guitar-based genre, seeming to require layer atop opaque layer of gauzy guitar feedback in order to achieve its swoon-inducing combination of pop hooks and sonic disorientation. Then M83 came along early in the last decade and showed that the same vertiginous effect could be achieved with glistening sheets of keyboards as with shrieking guitars, and the shoegazing/dream-pop genre got a fresh second wind as a result. Stockholm's Maria Lindén definitely attended the M83 school of dream-pop, and her band I [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] It was 82 degrees where I live on the day I wrote this, but the forecast is for highs in the 40s by the end of this week. Summer of 2011 is definitely a thing of the past in the northern hemisphere – the trees are shedding their leaves and the temperatures are preparing to embark on their inevitable march downwards. Snow flurries are just around the corner, at a distance now measured in weeks rather than months. So perhaps we come to "Summer Jam" by New [...]
[ download ] [tweetmeme] Goth and synth-pop weren't always so different as they might seem these days. Both genres started out in the early 1980s as fairly glum offshoots of English post-punk but eventually progressed into their own more cartoonish personas – Goth became the musical equivalent of Tim Burton movies, all cinematic darkness angd black nail polish and teenage girls pining for Edward Cullen, while synth-pop became the soundtrack for day-futurism and shiny happy mall culture. But in the beginning, there was not a world of difference between The Cure and OMD. [...]

Those awesome folks over there at Some Kind of Awesome premiered this track about a week ago. While playing local gigs at the University of Minnesota, Breanne met Adam Young of Owl City and was recruited to sing backup on tracks like "The Saltwater Room" and "Honey and the Bee." Before you pass any judgement, check out some of her originals from her debut EP Sparks , which was released in March of this year. Then check out this great Tokyo Police Club remix of "No One Else."

The last few weeks I discovered that my internship is, with its long days, quite time consuming. That's why you haven't seen updates on here for quite a while. But I still am discovering lots of new interesting music, so I'll try to share those as much as possible with you from now on. Today's feature is Rebekka Karijord. Rebekka was born in 1976, in Northern Norway (Lofoten). She lived with her mother her whole growth. Both her parents are artists. Rebekka went to several musical/performance educations such as the Norwegian Musical Theatre, Academy of ballet and she [...]
[ download ] Listening to "Hologram" by the band Founds is to hear the sound of young Scandinavia crossed with the English countryside. The track sounds like a mix between Sigur Ros and The Sundays and Shelleyan Orphan, all moody Icelandic art-rock leavened with a dash of pastoral British alterna-folk. It's a sound that seems to embody the upper latitudes of the northern hemisphere. So it's a bit jarring to discover the band actually hails from Brisbane, Australia – a city with a sub-tropical climate [...]

I do love it when music goes through stages when there's a wealth of talented strong-voiced women; luckily we seem to be encountering one of those right now. Lana Del Rey is already attracting huge amounts of love for her old school vocals and if you're a fan of hers but haven't yet heard Kyla La Grange then she's someone you should be paying attention to! Her latest single Heavy Stone is a prime example of why, with her sultry, smoky vocals coupled with image-laden lyrics ('I wanna see myself painted an invisible grey'), she is [...]
Wow, I've been posting a lot of music videos recently! I'm a little late on this Summer Camp video (an late in blog terms is just about a week) but I snagged this from GorillavsBear.net . It's a really lovely video for this track and band that I already love .

I love that Saint Saviour never listened to Kate Bush until people kept telling her she sounded like Kate Bush. So she listened to loads of Kate Bush, and then covered her. Musically I'd say she has more in common with Goldfrapp or Zola Jesus, but what do I know? This is from the wonderful Suukei EP, out on October 3rd from the usual outlets, or get a lovely handmade one from her directly at www.saintsaviour.co.uk . Saint Saviour - Army Dreamers (Kate Bush cover) by [...]

You gotta love a good featuring artist. From chopped up vocals to samples, I think without them many songs just wouldn't be the same. I've been searching my library finding some tracks which I remember having amazing vocals (focusing on drum and bass). I know I couldn't find all the best tracks, if you know any and think they should be in this post send me the artist and track and I'll add it to the list. BCee & Lomax - One Year On (Vocal VIP) [...]

My first impression of Summer Camp left something to be desired. It was on The Rumble Tour in LA and amidst a whole host of technical problems the hipsters' still managed to gawk and awh at this buzz-drenched Brit band. Upon reconsidering my opinion and then falling in love with the track "I Want You," I am now completely excited for their debut full-length Welcome To Condale . It'll be out on November 8th via Summer Camp's Apricot Records (an imprint of Moshi Moshi). The track below "Better Off Without You" will be officially out on September [...]
Одна из самых милых русских инди-поп команд InWhite в преддверии нового релиза выпустила клип на песню «Море». Большой загадкой остаётся как сюжет видео, так и текст песни, но, всё же, очень сложно не испытывать чувств к этой mp3 – красивая мелодия, голос, который заставляет запомнить название группы, и финальная эмоциональная часть - из тех, что делает нормальные, на первый взгляд, песни крутыми боевиками. К тому же, русские песни у группы получаются намного лучше англоязычных. <3 ли вы Юлю? Находите ли вы Море приятной песней? Смогут ли InWhite стать новыми Город 312, если попадут [...]