New Track "Sonar" from Jen Bloom

A new track from Jen Bloom is now available. Perfect for your Sunday brunch or an after-hours event. Free download here.
   Sonar (free download @ http://bit.ly/IOhYwb) by Jen Bloom

John Peel virtual museum to open

 
From Tuesday, music fans will be able to sift through the late DJ's vast archive (over 65,000 items) as part of an expanding virtual museum. Read more here.
Visit the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts here.

4AD Announces Purity Ring Album: Shrines

4AD says "Released on July 24th, 2012, Shrines is the debut album by Purity Ring, a Halifax/Montreal-based duo comprised of Corin Roddick and Megan James.
Megan's remarkable voice is at once ecstatic and ethereal, soaring joyfully through Corin's carefully chopped beats, trembling synths, and skewed vocal samples.
Despite the band's young age (Corin is 21, Megan 24) and short gestation (they formed in late 2010), Purity Ring have delivered one of 2012's most assured - and anticipated - debuts with Shrines.
    Ungirthed by PURITY RING

Fell in love with this one on first listen. Must find more! RCRD LBL says: "The A-side is super New Yorky with a Velvets-meets-jangle dream ethos and guitars dripping in trebly melody. It's like My Bloody Valentine discovered New Zealand summers."
   Ex Cops - You Are a Lion, I Am a Lamb (Original Dram Session) by Other Music Recording Co

Cover Me on Friday: The Horrors cover Beyonce

Let's hope for some Coachella footage.

4AD Signs Daughter

4AD announced: "The London-based trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella, collectively known as Daughter, has signed to 4AD worldwide, outside of North America.
On the strength of just two EPs, His Young Heart and The Wild Youth, Daughter have built for themselves a dedicated following, illustrated by their sold-out show at the 700-capacity Assembly Hall in North London. No mean feat for a band whose current incarnation has been performing together for a mere eighteen months."

New Video from This Vision: Ashes

I am happy to share a new video from the wonderful This Vision. If modern synthpop is your thing, you can't go wrong with This Vision. The song is called "Ashes" and it is the opening track on the new album which will be released on May 11. Be sure to check out Devotion Records on YouTube

Pulp live at Coachella 2012

The Big Pink at Coachella today and to celebrate, the new (excellent) album "Future This" is $4.99, today only, at Amazon MP3
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006CTKSBY/?tag=begrus-20

Cover Me on Friday: The Hanging Garden

It's Friday the 13th, if you haven't noticed. I chose a dark track for my weekly cover song. It's The Cure's "The Hanging Garden" as covered by Sweden's Masquer.
Masquer - The Hanging Garden (The Cure Cover) by bidcov02

Dive - How Long Have You Known?

Found this nice little dreamy piece in my inbox today. There used to be a (Belgian?) industrial act called Dive. Wonder why bands don't do a little research before deciding on a name. At some point, we can ask "How long have you known?"

"Arts & Leisure" : fourth release by Baby Grand

Baby Grand - Arts & Leisure by Test Pattern Records

I am listening to this Sacramento act while I do paperwork, and I paused to share this. It's very pleasant. RIYL: Acid House Kings, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Sambassadeur, and Lush.

The Tender Trap New Album Due Out July

The Tender Trap (@tendertrapband) are busy finishing off a new album (“Ten Songs About Girls”) with fantastic producer Brian O’Shaughnessy.
The album will be out in July, on Fortuna Pop! but you can hear a ‘taster’ track called “Love Is Hard Enough”:
Love Is Hard Enough by Fortuna POP!

Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning

Dear God, I love this! Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning has just released his 1st solo EP, “Lover Motion,” on the band’s own Cutters Records. The talents of Gus Franklin and Haima Marriott (Architecture in Helsinki) were enlisted to add production and shimmer to the finished product.
I Can't Stay by Cutters Records

The Big Pink Premiere New Video and Tour US

The Big Pink Premiere New Video and Tour US. I don't post V e v o videos anymore, so please watch "Give It Up" here.

4AD To Release 4CD Colourbox Best Of Compilation: "To celebrate their 30th anniversary, 4AD is to release the ultimate Colourbox compilation. Entitled simply Colourbox (in keeping with the band's albums), it is a 4 CD box set of all their released studio recordings and mixes which has been sequenced by Martyn Young.

CD1 is the 1985 album, Colourbox, and includes all the tracks from the free album that was included with the original 10,000 LPs. The second disc is the 7" singles and the third is the 12" mixes. The final disc has the 4 track mini-album, Colourbox, an unreleased early mix of Arena and eight tracks recorded in session for the BBC."

Cover: Computer Magic

It's Friday and that means it's time for another cover. This one comes from Brooklyn's Computer Magic. Be sure to head over to soundcloud where four more tracks have been added!
(Just Like) Starting Over by Computer Magic

Ideals - "Altar"

I fell in love with one on the first play, so I had to share it with you!
Ideals Altar by Ideals