Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are back, with a new song: You can also download the demo from their website, for free!

‘Good use of Lylyness’, was what my friend Joel said when I suggested that he get a Chinese and watch TV. Truth is, Lily Allen’s new record is unbelievable. Every track is just so listenable, and every song is different. Some of the songs are in standard Lily style, while others are more jazzy, dancy, and sometimes even country sounding. [...]

Last weekend I bought this CD from the Rough Trade East record store. It’s a very special charity compilation, which was curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. The National, being a band at the epicentre of the indie community, have been able to collect 31 exclusive tracks, from likeminded musicians like Bright Eyes, Stuart Murdoch [...]

http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-video-metric-unplugged-nyc Help, I’m obsessed.

If it be your will If there is a choice Let the rivers fill Let the hills rejoice If someone offered you a chance to have any musician, cover any song that you wanted - what would it be? For me, I would probably ask Antony Hegarty to cover a Leonard Cohen song. It would be [...]