Walkabouts - "Feel like going home"

Satisfied Mind is the 6th album by The Walkabouts released in 1993 on Sub Pop Records. It consists entirely of acoustic covers of roots music and compositions by modern singers-songwriters.
Satisfied Mind is a definitive artistic statement masquerading as a loose-knit collection of acoustic covers. Sometimes a group's selection of cover material, combined with their ability to make the songs their own, winds up revealing as much about their craft as their original music, and such is the case here; mining the work of diverse artists like the Carter Family, Gene Clark, Mary Margaret O'Hara, John Cale, and Nick Cave.
Satisfied Mind represents the purest evocation to date of the Walkabouts' aesthetic and its standing at the crossroads of country, rock, folk, and punk. By casting well-known songs in an entirely new light -- Patti Smith's "Free Money" becomes an ominous waltz, while Charlie Rich's "Feel Like Going Home" is renewed as an epic dirge -- the album makes explicit all of the implicit connections in the Walkabouts' work. By extension, it underlines the connections binding the spectrum of roots music as well; Satisfied Mind doesn't simply suggest that diverse sounds can coexist together -- it proves that they always have.

Walkabouts bring the Americana sound in Europe in to 90s and the Europe listeners love them.

Listen here Charlie Rich's "Feel Like Going Home"

Sugar Factory-Surfing Seagull

Sugar Factory were created in 2009 by Stelreverb (guitars, samples) and Sophie K. (accordion, bass guitar). In 2013, Stavros P. replaced Sophie K.
Inspired by the ad-lib contemporary music and the melodic lines of Greek and foreign artists, they blend 'sweet' melodies while winking at industrialized sounds!

Laurel - "Fire Breather"

Laurel s "Fire Breather" is the perfect song to see what is the meanning of Dark Pop. Tinged with a cloud of darkness, her music inspires intrigue all the while highlighting her feather-light voice.

Enjoy

The Physics - Days

First single off their 2012 album, Tomorrow People.

Dënver-Los adolescentes

Dënver is an electro-pop band from San Felipe, Chile. Mariana Montenegro and Milton Mahan create beautiful melodies and harmonies atop layered uplifting electronic soundscapes accompanied by accordion, piano, turntables and guitar.

Evripidis and his tragedies feat. Laura Antolín - Just a kleenex

Evripidis and his Tragedies began as a personal musical project of Evripidis Sabatis , a classically trained pianist and illustrator, while playing his piano and singing back in Athens. His heart led him to Barcelona where he started doing concerts alone, mostly in seedy bars. Very soon he discovered that some of his friends, already members of other groups of the vibrant Barcelonan indie scene, were really talented and fun to play with. Whether it was destiny that they gravitated to the project or that he invited them to join, the resulting symphony of groundbreaking ideas began making the perfect soundtrack to life in the city.

Video for Evripidis and his tragedies' 'Just a Kleenex' from the EP '...and it was while it lasted baby'

Hotel Cinema - Elegy

Los Angeles based group Hotel Cinema was formed in 2012 by Mark Hadley & Keeley Bumford. With intricate orchestration of... electronic and organic elements beneath alluring melodies, Hotel Cinema has crafted a unique cinematic sound that weaves in and out of reality.

Enjoy Hotel Cinema -Elegy

FM Belfast - We Are Faster Than You

FM Belfast is an electro-pop band from Reykjavík.

FM Belfast formed in late 2005 as a duo . The band was a studio project for some time until the Iceland Airwaves festival 2006 when the band expanded into a full-on live act. The members now vary from 3 to 8 depending on member availability.

As they writing at their site "Because FM Belfast are not Vikings. They do not pillage and plunder. Instead, they give, and they care. With simple, delicately crafted melodies, unpredictable beats and humorous lyrics, FM Belfast bring smiles to their audience’s faces, and life to their every extremity—whether it be in the car, in the kitchen or on the dancefloor."
Beautifull pop fro Iceland

 

Cotton wine -Bloody Mary

 

 

 

With a sound that combines the rich roots of Folk & Americana with the classic sentiments of pop, the voices of Brandon James and Femke create a hauntingly irresistible combination.

 

Originally hailing from Toronto, Canada & Groningen, Holland respectively, the duo first met in Los Angeles before beginning on a cross-country road trip when Brandon and Femke decided to move to Nashville. After writing their first song Going East while on the road, they recorded a video using Brandon's iPhone and posted it on YouTube.  After thousands of views, Cotton Wine’s “Song A Week” series premiered on YouTube in 2012, which has resulted in over 200,000 views and an ever-growing fan base.

 

From their first EP explores the dark side of New Orleans and old time Vaudeville through a temptress name "Bloody Mary".

A pop folk Americana version of murder ballads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miss Li - "Transformer"

Miss Li is the stage name for Linda Carlsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

 

Linda is the favorite of advertising companies and soundtrack creator’s television series and several tracks have been used. Her single "Don't Try to Fool Me" has been featured on the Showtime original series Weeds, as well as Grey's Anatomy. Her song "Bourgeois Shangri-La" from the album Dancing the Whole Way Home was used by Apple in the iPod Nano 5G television commercial, and her song "Oh Boy" was used in a 2010 Volvo C70 commercial. Her track "True Love Stalker" was used in the television promo of an episode of Desperate Housewives. The track "Forever Drunk" was featured in the opening scene of Grey's Anatomy. Her song "My Heart Goes Boom" was featured on multiple adverts for the popular UK furniture store DFS in late 2012. In 2013 "Boom" was used in American television advertisements of women's clothes by White House Black Market.

 

Here enjoy “transformer”, second single taken from Miss Li album Wolves

 

Blank Tapes - Coast To Coast

Blank Tapes - Coast To Coast


1st single from the Blank Tapes - Vacation LP , coming 5/14/13!

 

Beatles Yellow submarine

13/11/1968 Beatles release the animated movie yellow submarine.

The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.

John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios writes "As a fan of animation and as a filmmaker, I tip my hat to the artists of Yellow Submarine, whose revolutionary work helped pave the way for the fantastically diverse world of animation that we all enjoy today."

Yellow Submarine is the tenth studio album by the Beatles in the United Kingdom, released on Apple Records. It was issued as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which premiered in the United Kingdom seven months prior to the album's release.


 

Patti Smith writes how she informed the death of her friend Lou Reed

Patti Smith writes how she informed the death of her friend Lou Reed
with her own diferent way of writing

From  newyorker.com

"On Sunday morning, I rose early. I had decided the night before to go to the ocean, so I slipped a book and a bottle of water into a sack and caught a ride to Rockaway Beach. It felt like a significant date, but I failed to conjure anything specific. The beach was empty, and, with the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy looming, the quiet sea seemed to embody the contradictory truth of nature. I stood there for a while, tracing the path of a low-flying plane, when I received a text message from my daughter, Jesse. Lou Reed was dead. I flinched and took a deep breath. I had seen him with his wife, Laurie, in the city recently, and I’d sensed that he was ill. A weariness shadowed her customary brightness. When Lou said goodbye, his dark eyes seemed to contain an infinite and benevolent sadness.
I met Lou at Max’s Kansas City in 1970. The Velvet Underground played two sets a night for several weeks that summer. The critic and scholar Donald Lyons was shocked that I had never seen them, and he escorted me upstairs for the second set of their first night. I loved to dance, and you could dance for hours to the music of the Velvet Underground. A dissonant surf doo-wop drone allowing you to move very fast or very slow. It was my late and revelatory introduction to “Sister Ray.”
Within a few years, in that same room upstairs at Max’s, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, and I presented our own land of a thousand dances. Lou would often stop by to see what we were up to. A complicated man, he encouraged our efforts, then turned and provoked me like a Machiavellian schoolboy. I would try to steer clear of him, but, catlike, he would suddenly reappear, and disarm me with some Delmore Schwartz line about love or courage. I didn’t understand his erratic behavior or the intensity of his moods, which shifted, like his speech patterns, from speedy to laconic. But I understood his devotion to poetry and the transporting quality of his performances. He had black eyes, black T-shirt, pale skin. He was curious, sometimes suspicious, a voracious reader, and a sonic explorer. An obscure guitar pedal was for him another kind of poem. He was our connection to the infamous air of the Factory. He had made Edie Sedgwick dance. Andy Warhol whispered in his ear. Lou brought the sensibilities of art and literature into his music. He was our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.
As my band evolved and covered his songs, Lou bestowed his blessings. Toward the end of the seventies, I was preparing to leave the city for Detroit when I bumped into him by the elevator in the old Gramercy Park Hotel. I was carrying a book of poems by Rupert Brooke. He took the book out of my hand and we looked at the poet’s photograph together. So beautiful, he said, so sad. It was a moment of complete peace.
As news of Lou’s death spread, a rippling sensation mounted, then burst, filling the atmosphere with hyperkinetic energy. Scores of messages found their way to me. A call from Sam Shepard, driving a truck through Kentucky. A modest Japanese photographer sending a text from Tokyo—“I am crying.”
As I mourned by the sea, two images came to mind, watermarking the paper- colored sky. The first was the face of his wife, Laurie. She was his mirror; in her eyes you can see his kindness, sincerity, and empathy. The second was the “great big clipper ship” that he longed to board, from the lyrics of his masterpiece, “Heroin.” I envisioned it waiting for him beneath the constellation formed by the souls of the poets he so wished to join. Before I slept, I searched for the significance of the date—October 27th—and found it to be the birthday of both Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath. Lou had chosen the perfect day to set sail—the day of poets, on Sunday morning, the world behind him. "

The original article here

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Chairlift - Bruises

Chairlift is an American synthpop duo. Based in Brooklyn, New York.
Their song "Bruises" was featured in the 2008 commercial that launched the fourth-generation iPod Nano



 

THE GOOD CHINA - No More Maps, No More Roads

The Good China are eight people who make music together from Melbourne, Australia.

You can download the song from here Download