Think I've been quite disciplined recently and done my best deleting mails from the inbox. Still the number has now reached and rapidly surpassed 10,000! Ten-thousand (or 10,103 to be exact)! Suck on that for a moment. If I spent one minute on each, it would take me a little more than 168 hours or exactly a week checking them all. So if you're still awaiting a reply; forget about it and move on… As always one of the big challenges, when your mailbox is cluttered like this, is to spot the important ones from the [...]
Stream this rough mix of new track Different City by Architecture . Cannot wait to hear the final mix. different city (rough mix ) by architecture! Stream/download new track Modern Mess by Digits . [...]

UNPLUGGED IN MONTI: CONCERTI ACUSTICI E PRIVATE-SHOW NEL RIONE PIU' ANTICO E SUGGESTIVO DI ROMA. IndieForBunnies organizza una serie di private-show acustici, artisti affermati e giovani band dell'attuale scena indie-alternative si alterneranno sul palco del Black Market per una serie imperdibile di live rigorosamente unplugged. E' possibile assistere ai concerti di UNPLUGGED IN MONTI solo prenotando via mail. Per Info scrivete a eventi@indieforbunnies.com. Se invece vuoi essere sempre aggiornato sui concerti di UNPLUGGED IN MONTI e sulle modalità di prenotazione manda una [...]
Every once in a while I spend a little time roaming around SoundCloud with the naïve hope that I will have the great fortune to stumble upon something even remotely interesting. After a slow start I've begun to like SoundCloud more and more, as it's probably the closest we'll ever (?) come to anything resembling what Myspace used to be; offering some of the same services (especially deep linking and songs tagged by genre), as well as giving you a small chance [...]
Tomorrow it's hello Italy! And just like that… boxstr is suddenly working again. Obviously no explanation has been given for why the site was down for so long. Not that I really expected it. Back when David of UK/Swedish trio Tender Objects was in a band called Candy Twins , he (or [...]

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars When I first got a press release of Champagne Riot , I expected that one of the participating members of Northern Portrait would bring me more hooks of the angular sort. Not surprisingly, the Moonstruck EP definitely has plenty of hooks on it, but with a more delicate electronic bend, as opposed to my preconceived power-pop sort. "Moonstruck" begins the affair with a nice little intro, but then this pounding rhythmic groove jumps in, [...]

If you know me, you probably know that I think Matinee Recordings is one of the top 2 indie labels (the other being Captured Tracks ), and they've got me excited all over again. They've just put out the newest work from Champagne Riot , which features the bassists of neat-pop group Northern Portrait. The four song collection is titled the Moonstruck EP . The lead track "Moonstruck" definitely has more of an electric feel than a great deal of the work on [...]
ariel pink"s haunted graffiti "before today" : bright lit blue skies flying lotus " cosmogramma" : zodiac shit john grant " the queen of denmark" : marz these new puritans "hidden" we want war twin shadow " forget" : slow beach house "teen dream" : norway owen pallett "heartland" : [...]
ariel pink"s haunted graffiti "before today" : bright lit blue skies flying lotus " cosmogramma" : zodiac shit john grant " the queen of denmark" : marz these new puritans "hidden" we want war twin shadow " forget" : slow beach house "teen dream" : norway owen pallett "heartland" : [...]

Matinée Recordings From: Santa Barbara, California Matinée Recordings, from the very seasonally named Santa Barbara, have got an early Christmas present for all you indie kids out their counting down the days until the big man comes down your chimney. It's a very special Christmas EP featuring exclusive new seasonal songs from five of their most beloved current artists. Seattle's Math and Physics Club arrive with sleighbells on, as [...]
40. Tallest Man On Earth - "Burden of Tomorrow" In 2010 Kristian Matsson as Tallest Man On Earth, an unlikely Swede, so successfully tapped the American folk tree, the most common critical comparison was Bob Dylan. Perhaps a better precedent - and entirely more reasonable - would be Bon Iver, as shared makers of small, acoustic records that chart the depths of human sorrow with mournful vocals
The glorious new Christmas track by Northern Portrait . Taken from the equally brilliant The Matinée Holiday Soirée EP . Leave the Trees Alone

Eardrums Music has a nice post about the new Northern Portrait release. There is even a free mp3 of the lead track "Life Returns to Normal". Read it here . I watched four episodes of "Downton Abbey" today. I love period dramas. Some friends find them to be "soaps", but I can't deny that I enjoy this genre almost as much as murder mysteries. As I mentioned, Wallander was excellent and I watched Sky1's "Thorne" this past week. I love the actor David Morrissey. He caught my eye in the 90's version of Dicken's "Our Mutual Friend". [...]

...that has been quite a long break! Although it seemed to me that I have been listening to music constantly, I couldn't really concentrate on what I was listening to. Shame, really, as there's been quite a few good things around, like the arrival of Northern Portrait 's clear-vinyl 73-single Life Returns To Normal (aahh... the good, old vinyl-collector's days... ), or the announcement of Champagne Riot 's new EP, to be released [...]

Nuevo single en Matinee Recordings de los daneses Northern Portrait . Mp3: Northern Portrait. Life Returns To Normal

Polaroids From the Web Some Swedish revival Negli ultimi giorni ci sono state finalmente un po' di novità interessanti per l'indiepop scandinavo. Ve le riassumo in breve: - Su Tram7, il nuovo singolo degli Acid House Kings Are we lovers or are we friends? - Dal sito della Labrador, torna anche l'altra band di Johan Angergård, i Club 8 con Closer Now [...]
Anyone remember the three fine live recordings by The Boombox Hearts at The Copenhagen X Sessions I posted last month ? If you do and enjoyed them, you'll probably be thrilled to learn that the recordings are now available as free downloads . Plenty of other stuff to download there as well including recording by Giana Factory , Kissaway Trail , Sleep Party People , just to mention a few. + The [...]
Thanks to Neil Hannon for a great performance last night at Lille Vega !
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Asteroid No. 4 : "Ignition Slated for Eight" [mp3] from Hail To The Clear Figurines (out February 8th) search for more Horns posts at Largehearted Boy Elizabeth & the Catapult : "You [...]

Tweet Northern Portrait is back with a new single on Matinée Recordings , "Life Returns To Normal" with a cover of Cliff Richard 's "Some People" on the b-side. The lead track is one of my favourites from their debut album, with those lovely, bubbling guitars underneath Stefan's rich and powerful vocals. The lyrics are also outstanding, as usual, and the chorus gives me the wonderful warm feeling inside that only GREAT songs can. Their cover of "Some [...]