Video: Los Campesinos LIVE 'You! Me! Dancing!' in NYC

Each day this week, in anticipation of the deadline for voting on the Festive Fifty 2012 Shortlist , I'll be listening to the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifties of yore (2012's will be the 6th!) and trying to track down the videos of the Top 5! My snapshot impression of this inaugural edition of the Festive Fifty was that I hadn't paid ANY attention to what had come out in 2007 and I was also very unfamiliar with a lot of the nominees on the shortlist, so I just voted for names I knew! Oh, how times have [...]

photo credit: _Dries Willems_ Diesen Freitag spielen in Z�rich Yeasayer ihr langersehntes Konzert im Exil . Leider (aber wenig �berraschend) ist es ausverkauft. Wir h�tten da aber 2 M�glichkeiten dieses Problem zu l�sen. Zum einen h�tten wir da noch 1x2 G�stelistenpl�tze f�r das Yeasayer Konzert zu verlosen. Dazu einfach schnell auf http://blog.klangschau.com/gae steliste gesurft. Andererseits h�tten wir da nat�rlich noch eine schicke Alternative . In St.Gallen spielen am selben Abend [...]

Star Tullycrafters Corianton Hale and Jenny Mears will be opening up the show under the moniker The Special Places. read more

Los Campesinos! will soon be making Americans dancing. (Clever pun?) The seven-piece U.K. band, who physically release their debut album Hold on Now, Youngster... April 1, have announced dates for their upcoming U.S. tour. (Dates after the jump...) The tour includes a stop at this year's SXSW. The CD is currently available digitally via galleryAC.com. As one [...]