I’ll admit I’m a new convert to Katherine Elizabeth (Kaki) King’s intricate music. I haven’t listened to her previous body of work which has higher critical acclaim. I’m not really knowledgeable in this acoustic alt. country/folk/indie stuff, frankly I haven’t even listened to Cat Power. I’m not an American you know!
That’s why I’m not [...]

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Today I found some time to check a good portion of them. Here are some that garnered my attention. Most are indie & folk. Wow, there must be thousands of indie bands right now. Hard to make a name for you in the indie scene nowadays, eh?

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Lovely work by Mary Allen Mark of The Art Dept.
Slow start with The Tree People’s self titled folk effort on Tiliqua and then a great song by Helsinki natives Korpi Ensemble which effortlessly fuse jazz and folk into pop sensibilities. We continue with a song with a taster of Feist’s new album The oReminder, followed [...]

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The Konki Duet, (worlds only three piece duo?) are three talented & geeky indie girls from Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Paris. I have written about them here last year on a myspace roundup. They’ve got their debut album as a trio, called “Moutain Mouton”, out last november on Active Suspension. A little bit fragile and [...]

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During the time I was away in Frankfurt I didn’t have the time to check out the songs sent by bands & labels. Today I checked through them and most of them are quite cool. Thanks to some attentive PRs we never get sent the mainstream r&b or stuff like that. Most of the stuff [...]

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* Read about our fave songwriter Mr. Sam ‘Iron and Wine’ Beam here and here.
* Read a review of the illest girl in town. Kevin Blechdom’s latest album ‘Eat my heart out’.
* And while you’re at it, why not read reviews of CocoRosie’s and Devandra’s latest albums on Stylus Mag . Both worth the hype!
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