Icy Demons from Chicago has their 3rd album out on the Japanese Easel label. Man Man’s Christopher Powell & Bablicon’s Griffin Rodriguez seem to be the main men of this band, assisted by other Chicago musicians with such silly names as Ali Hawkbar and Ta-Freek-Ya!.

Icy Demons - Desert Toll
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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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Been listening to Mill Pond’s Luke Temple with his second full length called “Snowbeast” for some time and Brooklyn based guitar/banjoist & songwriter straight away charmed me with his frail falsetto voice and exceptionally versatile songwriting I should say. Temple’s indie pop/folk has many elements of psychedelia and prog which moves “Snowbeast” apart from all [...]

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Goodbye the Band - The Goo of Childhood

Goodbye the Band is an electronics-infused epic pop-rock band in the vein of Fiery Furnaces, Stereolab, Magnetic Fields and Of Montreal. The band is the brainchild of John Acquadro, you can download the free EP from Archive.org. Highly recommended.

Those goofballs at Afuche

Afuche - Gaspar Noe

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Misha, the New York duo consisting of Ashley Yao and John Chao which has previously released a limited 12″ on the German Tomlab has released their debut “Teardrop Sweetheart” and it’s a sweet home listening electronic pop album. Nothing groundbreaking or new here but there’s a 11 short & catchy pop songs which mix together [...]

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Feist @ Varsity Theater by Eric Price
Alright there’s no single person that hasn’t listened to Leslie Feist’s latest album “The Reminder” since it’s been very popular on mp3blogs (yet received mixed reviews). I’m generally reluctant to listen to hyped stuff but listening to “The Reminder” has been a good choice. Feist’s sophisticated pop borrows from [...]

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When I saw the title “Diwrnod Efo’r Anifeiliad” I thought “hey, here’s a group from Luxembourg speaking their weird Luxembourgian language, a proud heritage from medieval times!” It didn’t take too long to see that they’re from Wales and that language is Welsh. Radio Luxembourg’s “A Day with Animals” has 4 short but irresistably cute [...]

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by Caedwa
After a two year silence Australian singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd has issued a new album called “White Moth” on Salt-X Records, his 4th. 1978 born multi-instrumentalist is known for his easy going beach/surf sound that’d be very suitable for the hipster and eco-concious multiculturalists from say Canada & Australia and Roots folk festivals. No [...]

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What kind of feelings does “The Hopelessly Sad Story of the Hideous end of the World“, title of the new Gangpol und Mit album create? If you’re a sharp observer you’ll notice something wrong at the title, suffice to say it’s simply not serious enough to tell of the sad story of the end of [...]

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Kingfisherg from Carte Postale’s flickr
Do you remember those dark periods of your life when you didn’t have last.fm? I sure don’t! A comparatively new and overlooked service by last.fm is the labels pages, where participating labels put their wares online for the global market. It’s of such a huge benefit to small labels I [...]

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