Free download from The Rapture

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Free download from The Rapture with "How Deep is Your Love" (Not a Bee Gees cover) which is a great piece of Indie Dance, inclusive big chorus, plenty of hand claps and a sax solo.........what's not to like :)


 New album "In the Grace of Your Love" is released early September.

The Woodenbirds

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Free seven song sampler available from The Wooden Birds taken from their new album "Two Matchsticks."  Some really great melodic electric folk with gorgeous male / female harmonies.

Andrew Kenny, the driving force behind American Analog Set and Broken Social Scene collaborator fronts the band.  


The album also features Leslie Sisson and Matt Pond (Matt Pond PA) as well as special guests, Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie and members of Ola Podrida. 


www.thewoodenbirds.com

Dinosaur Pile- Up - Brudenell Social Club

dpulive - MUDKISS FANZINE

More good stuff as Callum gets all up close and personal with Dinosaur Pile-Up on their home territory.

The Jayhawks

These guys have been around for a long time now, but based on "She Walks in So Many Ways" available as a free download from their website, they are still producing top quality melodic, harmonious country rock.

Think along the lines of The Byrds, Big Star and Teenage Fanclub, you're there.

Go and grab it people.

http://www.jayhawksofficial.com/

‪New Machine Head material

‪Machine Head - Locust‬‏ - YouTube

New Machine Head track "Locust" on YouTube now.  Is it just me, or is that chorus just slightly too........poppy?

www.machinehead1.com

Mercury Music Prize 2011

Ok, the nominations are in for this years Mercury Music Prize as follows:

Metronomy - The English Riviera
Adele - 21
Everything Everything - Man Alive

Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Katy B - On a Mission
King Creosote & John Hopkins - Diamond Mine

For me, I'd be hoping for an Everything Everything, PJ Harvey or James Blake win, although great to see Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) included in there, a massively underrated talent.

Thoughts anyone?

Free download from Fruit Bats

http://soundcloud.com/subpop/fruit-bats-tangie-and-ray-1

Another free download from a Sub Pop artist, this time Fruit Bats.  "Tangie and Ray" taken from their album "Tripper" is as infectious a piece of jangly indie pop as you'll come across.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/fruit_bats