Russian Red

Russian Red (Lourdes Hernández) is a singer-songwriter based in Madrid, Spain. The moniker for Lourdes comes from a lipstick color she frequently uses. Her beautifully crafted, minimal songs beam delicate folk harmonies and lustrous vocals. The band was originally formed in 2007, by Lourdes and Brian Hunt, with whom she had previously recorded some songs, and who helped her record her first album. However, before it was released, they split up. On April 1st 2008 she released her debut album, I Love Your Glasses, on eureka Discos. It’s formed by 12 tracks, including “Another mind” (included in the OST from the film El rey de la montaña), “Cigarettes” (included in the OST from the film Camino) and “Nice Thick Feathers” (included in a Häagen Dazs commercial).

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The Low Anthem are a folk quintet from Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They formed in 2006 and consist of multi-instrumentalists Ben Miller, Jeff Prystowsky, Jocie Adams, Mike Irwin and Tyler Osbourne. The band has released four albums: “The Low Anthem” (2006), “What the Crow Brings” (2007), “Oh My God, Charlie Darwin” (2009) and “Smart Flesh” (2011).

Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky met while DJing an overnight jazz show on a Brown University radio station, WBRU. They became friends and teammates for a local wood-bat baseball team called the Providence Grays. Miller and Prystowsky played in various ensembles together ranging from classical and jazz to electronica, and the Low Anthem was formed in 2006. In the fall of 2006, Dan Lefkowitz, a bluesman from Strasburg, Virginia, joined the band and contributed to its evolving brand of songwriting with his song “This God Damn House.”

Early in 2007, Lefkowitz left the band to pursue simple living in a yurt in Arkansas. The band became a trio again in late 2007 with the addition of classical composer and clarinetist Jocie Adams, a fellow student and former NASA employee, who joined the band after a late-night recording session for the band’s album What The Crow Brings. She appears on vocals and clarinet on the album’s closing track, “Coal Mountain Lullaby.”

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Meet Lucy Rose...

Lucy Rose Parton (Born 1989) is an English singer/songwriter from Warwickshire. She contributed vocals on the Bombay Bicycle Club albums Flaws and A Different Kind of Fix. Her debut single, “Middle of the Bed” came out August 8th 2011, and has since released two more singles, “Scar” and “Red Face”.

In 2012, she started recording her debut album with producer Charlie Hugall at her parents’ house in Warwickshire.

Lucy Rose began touring the UK, Canada and the United States with Bombay Bicycle Club, and Noah And The Whale in February and March 2012.

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BOY are a band consisting of Valeska Steiner and Sonja Milena Glass. They are based in Zurich and Hamburg. Their début album was “Mutual Friends” (2 Sep 2011, Grönland), which includes the tracks: “Drive Darling”, “Skin”, “July”, “Little Numbers”, “Army” and “This Is The Beginning”.

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Colin Meloy has a voice from another time. So it’s not surprising that he finds inspiration in topics that have a mythical, long ago feeling to them. The singer and primary songwriter of Portland, Ore.-based band The Decemberists often tackles lonesome, literary folk-rock fables about everything from Chinese trapeze artists to mariners stuck in the belly of a whale. That old-fashioned feel is partly due to their accordion- and fiddle-laden arrangements and partly due to Meloy’s preference for dated words like “shanty” and “palanquin.” But it’s mostly the result of Meloy’s nasal, thin and remote voice that always sound as if he’s singing to us from deep in the past.

Earlier this year, the Decemberists released their sixth studio album The King Is Dead. And they’re already back with a follow-up EP aptly titled Long Live The King. Though it’s composed of six songs that didn’t make it onto The King Is Dead, that doesn’t mean they’re throwaways; the 10-song album was so compact that its trimmed fat could have easily been left on it.



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01. Only If For A Night (4:58)

02. Shake It Out (4:38)

03. What The Water Gave Me (5:33)

04. Never Let Me Go (4:31)

05. Breaking Down (3:49)

06. Lover To Lover (4:03)

07. No Light, No Light (4:35)

08. Seven Devils (5:03)

09. Heartlines (5:01)

10. Spectrum (5:12)

11. All This And Heaven Too (4:06)

12. Leave My Body (4:35)

13. Remain Nameless (4:01)

14. Strangeness And Charm (5:17)

15. Bedroom Hymns (3:03)

16. What The Water Gave Me (Demo) (3:54)

17. Landscape (Demo) (4:02)

18. Heartlines (Acoustic) (5:32)

19. Shake It Out (Acoustic) (4:13)

20. Breaking Down (Acoustic) (3:31)

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Esben and the Witch are a three piece indie rock band from Brighton, England. The band members are Rachel Davies, Daniel Copeman and Thomas Fisher. According to Songfacts, the trio named themselves after a Danish fairytale.

Since forming in Brighton in 2008, Esben and the Witch have had just a few releases behind them including “Lucia, at the Precipice” from February 2010 - and have had positive press support from NME, Pitchfork Media and The Guardian, plus experience of concerts alongside Warpaint, The xx, Wild Beasts, Foals, and The Big Pink.

They released their debut album earlier this year. Available on iTunes.

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So I got an email,all the way from California, from a band, I've never heard of, but do you know what, they've got a GREAT sound! This is how it went:

"Hello GillyGilly, At the end of last winter, we thought we were a few weeks away from completing our latest album, SEESAW, until a hard drive “glitch” deleted every last piece of it.

After a few months of false starts and false hopes, SEESAW eventually found its way to the same company responsible for airplane black box recovery. Almost five months after the process began, we miraculously had our album back. I actually laughed hysterically for about ten minutes after getting the news, finally realizing how close we were to losing the album which we had spent nearly a year and a half assembling.

SEESAW will (we promise this time!) see the light of day in early 2012, but we've launched a double A-side ALWAYS ON MY MIND | THE LAST DAY (includes artwork of my grandfather in the 1940s) to tide everyone over. We’re also making it available for free at bandcamp until Halloween.
If you want to know any more information about the recording of SEESAW, photos, etc.... " check them out here

Soothing Sunday - Lanterns on the Lake

Lantern On The Lake, hailing from Newcastle, England, has existed since 2008 and has released a series of EP's. Now they have come aboard the big record label Bella Union , where their debut album Gracious Tide, Take Me Home is released on 19 September.

Think Sigur Rós with some folk thrown in.

'Keep On Trying' is now available to download from the likes of ITUNES and.... AMAZON.

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Willie Nelson covers Coldplay

So, Willie Nelson covers Coldplays 'The Scientist' for an American ad for Chiptole...

Some Cavan talent!

The Strypes hailing from Cavan are a four piece band, consisting of Ross Farrelly, Josh McClorey, Peter O’Hanlon, Evan Walsh.
They may be young but they've got taste (and style!), with inspirations such as The Kinks, The Beatles, The Who and Billy Boy Arnold among others. Their debut single is a cover of The Beatles 'You Can't Do That' - complete with a wonderfully authentic video - and you can grab it now from iTunes.

They play the Retro Revival Club (Sweeneys Bar, Dame Street) in Dublin on Saturday October 1st.

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