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Dean & Britta – Making Me Smile (mp3) * I don’t know if “indie-lullaby” was an official sub-genre before, but it certainly is now. This sweet song is from the upcoming charity compilation Sing Me To Sleep , which benefits the children’s charity The Valerie Fund. The album features lullabies and covers by Stars, Laura…read more

Originally published by Muruch on 2010-01-19 04:00:42

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The good folks at Magnet Magazine dropped an A/B 7″ of some holiday music from Dean & Britta . From D&B’s website: “’He’s Coming Home’ was written as “She’s Coming Home” by the Wailers (from the Pacific Northwest, not Jamaica). “Old Toy Trains” was written by Roger Miller (”King of the Road,” not Mission of Burma) and our version is a collaboration with Sonic Boom.” Ho ho ho. Old Toy Trains – Dean & …read more

Originally published by Some Velvet Blog on 2009-12-22 18:16:00

The good folks at Magnet Magazine dropped an A/B 7″ of some holiday music from Dean & Britta . From D&B’s website: “’He’s Coming Home’ was written as “She’s Coming Home” by the Wailers (from the Pacific Northwest, not Jamaica). “Old Toy Trains” was written by Roger Miller (”King of the Road,” not Mission of Burma) and our version …read more

Originally published by Some Velvet Blog on 2009-12-22 18:16:00

Peter Gabriel is getting set to release Scratch My Back , his orchestral indie rock cover album. It is Peter’s first album in 7 years. Bob Ezrin produced the album that features covers from the likes of Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Bower, Elbow, and Radiohead. I stumbled across two of the covers and want to share them with you. They are…read more

Originally published by We All Want Someone on 2010-02-01 15:30:53

Canada’s noise rock duo Japandroids have announced that they will be releasing anew compilation on May 11. The band will be releasing the compilation “No Singles” which will be made up of the band’s first two EPs titled “All Lies” and “Lullaby Death Jams”. Both EPs are made… Click the link to read more read more

Originally published by JP’s Blog on 2010-03-11 22:56:00

Portastatic’s new digital EP of Merge covers, Make It Sound In Tune , is available now exclusively in the Merge store ! All of the proceeds for this release will benefit the charities chosen by the SCORE! curators. Here are a few words from Mac on the EP: The idea for a whole EP of Merge covers stemmed from both listening to the SCORE! Merge covers compilation and from doing bookstore events to promote the Our…read more

Originally published by Raised On Indie on 2009-12-23 12:21:15

Review: 4 stars (out of 5) Summary: Richly textured melodies juxtaposed with Veirs’ mild-manner vocals and unassuming song-craft make this album a must-listen of 2010. Sounds like: Emily Haines, Sufjan Stevens, Graham Coxon – Laura Veirs’ new album, July Flame, is a strange monster. It is, if anything, completely unassuming. Upon first glance, one is inclined to see it read more

Originally published by Rubbish on 2010-01-12 14:08:31

All I Want for Christmas is a Hoverboard by Machu Picchu . It’s a song from this year’s The Eggnog Experience compilation album featuring indie bands from the local Vancouver scene. If you’ve been following the internet series Mental Beast , you might already be familiar with this neat 29 song compilation. What’s great about this album is that it’s the perfect solution…read more

Originally published by The Indie Music Database on 2009-12-24 09:14:08

We Are The World 2010 The UK’s charity song had a fairly impressive list of singers , but the Americans just dialed it up a few notches with their Haiti earthquake relief charity single ‘ We Are The World ‘. The new version of the song features 75(ish) people! And to top it all off, the original was released 25 years ago…read more

Originally published by We Are Pop Slags on 2010-02-02 11:52:56

Sub City is pleased to announce that the highly anticipated Take Action Volume 9 charity compilation is available via pre-sale today at www.takeactiontour.com. For $6 fans can pre-order the 2CD set and for $12 they will also receive, in addition to the two disc set, a special Take Action shirt. … read more

Originally published by The Audio Perv on 2010-01-12 17:41:52

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