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Video: Grand Pocket Orchestra – Ballet Shoes

(via Analogue) Directed by Luke Franklin and Deirdre O’Toole. Grand Pocket Orchestra.

Fight Like Apes – Tie Me Up With Jackets

Lovely noise. Expertly directed by Eoghan Kidney. From Muuuzuuu.

Passion Pit in the studio with a kids choir

Working on their debut in the studio with Staten Island’s PS 22 Children’s Choir. Sounds…

Video: Alela Diane – ‘White As Diamonds’

I’ve enthused about this song before. Now there’s a video. It’s from her forthcoming album…

Video: Beirut – ‘La Llorona’

Zach Condon and friends have a two-disc EP package forthcoming. This tune is taken from…

Video: M.Ward – Hold Time

Video for the title track of M.Ward’s upcoming album of the same name which is…

Day and Night Digital… go visit!

It’s updated every Friday. Not read enough Ones to Watch for 2009 articles? I’ve written…

Video: Fever Ray – “If I Had a Heart” (Karin Dreijer of The Knife)

Beautiful video for the solo project of The Knife frontwoman. The Knife – Kino In…

Marina and the Diamonds

Neon Gold Records had already got my attention by releasing my number two tune of…

Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Live on Letterman)

A nice way to showcase one of my songs of the year is in its…

Video: Why? – A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under

The song was my ringtone for months. http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon

Dusk and Blackdown – Margins Music

If you were looking for a middleground between The Bug’s London Zoo and Dj Rupture’s…

Video: Little Joy – ‘No One’s Better Sake’

The Strokes’ drummer and band’s eponymous LP is one of my recent highlights. It’s brilliant.…

Armenian gangsta rap is…not so good.

Well Armenia’s KRO at least. Break it down: Sub-par West Coast 90s gangsta instrumental. Sounds…

Video: Roots Manuva live in Paris

That’s a full concert right there from November 17th at Théâtre de l’Alhambra, Paris, France.

Vampire Punk

I wouldn’t have had Ezra from Vampire Weekend down for a punk but he proves…

Video: Sarsparilla – ‘The Count’

You’ve probably seen this on a few other blogs but the song and video are…

Why the internet can be amazing..

Cos it throws up gems like this.. (via the Grizzly Bear Blog, also read by…

Buzz Band: The Temper Trap

Ladies and Gentlemen – One of your buzz bands of next year. The Temper Trap…