Field Mouse - Glass

Field Mouse - "Glass" from stereogum on Vimeo.

The Brooklyn dreampop band Field Mouse, who shimmer like Velocity Girl used to do back in the early ’90s, have a new video for their song “Glass,” and it consists entirely of a long close-up on singer Rachel Browne’s face as leaves and bubbles blow around her. Fortunately, Browne has what I’d have to call a very nice face. StereoGum

Parakeet – “Tomorrow”

A couple of months ago, we heard a cut called “Tomorrow” from Yuck bassist Mariko Doi who dwells under the name Parakeet in this particular solo jaunt. Today, that track has a video, which utilizes two always-effective music video motifs: a nicely-shot performance clip and smoke machines. StereoGum

PURO INSTINCT, "Silky Eyes"

sisters Piper and Skylar Kaplan joining forces with pal Ariel Pink. He’d probably upped and joined the circus by the time they recorded the woozy album track “Silky Eyes.” StereoGum

Porcelain Raft – Unless You Speak From Your Heart

Unless You Speak From Your Heart from Porcelain Raft on Vimeo.

Mauro Remiddi aka Porcelain Raft serves up another amazing, low budget, highly creative video off the new album Strange Weekend.

Grace Woodroofe - I've Handled Myself Wrong

Hometown: Perth, Australia Album: Always Want For Fans Of: Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Cat Power Grace Woodroofe’s voice calls to mind Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and Etta James—maybe even the weighty, raspiness of Tom Waits. Certainly not a 22-year-old singer/songwriter from Perth, Australia. And if she sounds like someone who’s lived through decades of crucial life experiences, it’s no accident. Woodroofe has already toured with Ben Harper, Cat Power, WIM and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. She first tried her hand at songwriting at age 16, recording demos of the first two songs she wrote. She submitted those songs in a radio competition and sheepishly asked her friends if they would listen. One of those friends was the sister of actor Heath Ledger, and her soulful singing caught his ear. Ledger flew her out to Los Angeles for a recording session. Quickly Woodroofe’s age became nothing but a number. “I think it proves that you don’t need to be a particular age, race or be from a particular place to be able to feel these certain emotions,” Woodroofe says. “It just proves that you can never really know what people are going through, no matter who they are. Hopefully my music gets that point across and people can embrace their emotions listening to [it].” "Llana Kaplan"

The Coathangers - "Trailerpark Boneyard": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist

The Atlanta quartet started out as an excuse to hang out and play parties. Their jokey attitude ran deep, right down to their name--a self-admittedly crude abortion reference for an all-girl group. The whole knowing-how-to-play-an-instrument thing was just a minor hurdle in their musical mission. And to their credit, The Coathangers stormed onto the scene, regardless of the handicap, as a completely unaffected, unpretentious, deliciously sloppy, and totally infectious rock band. What they lacked in formal training they made up for in an innate understanding of how to craft a hook and propel a song forward on sheer charisma. It was impossible not to like them... "Official bio"

Daughter - "Youth" (Live from St Giles in the Fields Church)

Stripped-down folk gets gloomy with Daughter, the North London band comprised of singer Elena Tonra and her boyfriend Igor Haefeli on guitar. They might be young- both are in their early twenties- but the lyrics in their newest single reveal years of raw life experience. ("And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones/'cause most of our feelings, they're dead and gone."). With her pillowy soft vocals, Tonra reminds us of a broody mix between Cat Power, Feist, and Lucy Rose, and clearly we're not the only ones obsessed. The song has been drifting about online for a few months now, but a recent appearance on U.K.'s Skins has upped the audience and now it's a bonafide hit. "Stereogum"

Nelson Can - Apple Pie

First single "Apple Pie" by the Danish indie-rock band Nelson Can.
Wow, you know the now cliché "more cowbell" , let me say right now someday in the future "more whistling" will become a cliché.
Let's run down the whistling songs I love, in no particular order:
"Young Folks by Peter Bjorn & John
Lets see now.....
David Bowie - "Golden Years"
John Lennon - "Jealous Guy"
The Bangles - "Walk Like an Egyptian"
Lovin' Spoonful - "Daydream"
I'm looking at my list and just realized maybe one or two whistle songs a decade is all we can handle.
There's a remix of Nelson Can's "Apple Pie" here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHi-chu_mE&feature=youtu.be
unfortunately most of the whistling has been left out, the phrase "in my mouth" is not the kernel of the song, pervert, dumb fuck remixer
Liz Abyss

Nightlife - On the Run (Music Video)

I love new music, especially when they come as a recommendation from one of our readers. It's like the circle of sharing is complete. Nightlife is a fine example of that. They are an electro-pop duo from Ann Arbor, MI who were brought to our attention and I am digging the sounds. Minimal electro-pop with pretty female vocals is kinda my weakness (although I have a few). Check out their video/track for "On the Run", plus the EP title track "Radio". She sure is pretty. The kicker is their EP Radio is available as a name your own option on their bandcamp?!?! Yep, might wanna get that. "Off The Radar"

Rhye - Open

Los Angeles-based European duo Rhye. For the visual translation of their latest tune "Open"

Julia Holter - In The Same Room [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

"The most remarkably sophisticated derangement of the senses I've heard in 2011 and although I can't generally stand to say such things, to consider this as anything less than one of the very best albums of the year would be demeaning." "Fact Magazine"

Memoryhouse : Heirloom

Memoryhouse didn’t actually set out to be a band. It took form as a collaborative project meant to serve as an artistic outlet for composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion. Evan, a dedicated student of classical music and a pop-music encyclopedist, intended Memoryhouse to be a multimedia art project, pairing his instrumental compositions with Denise’s photographs and short films. Combining their musical and visual artwork seemed the most promising, and least unhealthy, strategy for battling archetypal adolescent angst worsened by the paralyzing effects of Canadian winter. What they wanted was to test ways to blur the boundaries between genres, to weave a synthesis of music and photography. As Denise explains their collaborative cross-media process, “we start with photos that we want to write around, to give us some kind of aesthetic grounding.” "Sub Pop"

Bad Girlfriend - Tricky

Christian Owens, Brianna Lance, Savannah King, & Lyla Vander!, NYC based sweet

Astrud Gilberto - AGUA DE BEBER - 1965 Stereo!

Astrud was first introduced to the World at large in 1964 through "The Girl From Ipanema", the Grammy-winning recording with Stan Getz and her then-husband João Gilberto (the father of Bossa Nova). The fact that Astrud seldom grants interviews made it possible for many untruthful versions on how her guest appearance in the Getz & Gilberto album came about to be printed here and there, such as that she was "discovered" by Creed Taylor, or by Stan Getz, or yet, by Jobim, when the only truth is that she was invited to participate in the album by João Gilberto, who has great admiration for her singing talents. "http://www.astrudgilberto.com/biography.htm"

You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Leap Of Desire (I) OFFICIAL VIDEO

You Love Her Coz She's Dead are a British electronic music duo formed in 2007 whose music has been compared to acts such as Digitalism, Crystal Castles,[1][2] The Prodigy,[1] and occasionally Daft Punk. The band signed to French record label Kitsuné in 2008, releasing "Wizards" on the Gildas & Masaya – Paris compilation May 2008 & "Superheroes" on Kitsuné Maison Compilation 6 in October 2008 as singles before the release one month later of their Inner City Angst EP, as well as various remixes through that label.[3]
You Love Her Coz She's Dead then appeared playing the single "Superheroes" on the third series of award-winning British cult teen drama television series Skins in "JJ" (ep7) during a drug-fueled fight scene in a nightclub, following in the footsteps of previous featured artist appearances from Crystal Castles & Foals.[ "Wikipedia"

RAIDERS - Owl Eyes [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Melbourne’s Owl Eyes is probably best known for her appearance on Illy’s track It Can Wait but she’s fast carving out her own niche in Australia’s singer-songwriter scene. Somewhere between Megan Washington, Kate Nash and the female-fronted Alpine, Owl Eyes (real name Brooke Addamo) serves up a hefty slice of quirky, catchy, keys-driven pop. Addamo, a former Australian Idol finalist, follows in the path of fellow Idol alumni Matt Corby and Lisa Mitchell by forgoing the big management companies and cookie-cutter radio fodder songs for a more honest, independent path. She’s toured with Darwin Deez, Andy Bull and Lissie on the back of her 2010 EP Faces, and has just completed a tour around the country in support of her new single Raiders. Definitely one to keep your (Owl) eye on. "Digital Pages"

Cat Power - I Don't Blame You (Jools Holland 23/05/2003)

This is one powerful song by CP, she is amazing wow, This is from 2003, seems very fresh to me.

Gin Wigmore - Too Late For Lovers

Virginia Claire Wigmore, more commonly known as Gin Wigmore, was born in Auckland, New Zealand to Peter and Adrienne Wigmore. Wigmore has two siblings.Lucy Wigmore, who is a professional actress who is well known for starring as Justine Jones in the long running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and a role in "Underbelly: Razor" Wigmore also has an older brother Olly.
While she was in Argentina at age 16, her father died of cancer. Upon her return to New Zealand, she articulated in song the pain of losing her father. One of those early songs, "Hallelujah", won the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004,[4] when she beat 11,000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the ISC. "Hallelujah" was also featured in the season 6 finale of One Tree Hill. "Wikipedia"

New Look - The Ballad

“We’ve felt a little jaded for the last few years; it’s a hard business doing art,” Ruba says. “But as far as coming through in my vocals, that’s not intentional. I’m not sitting at the mic with a mad look on my face thinking, I hate life. It’s more a stylistic thing.”

In fact, Ruba goes on to reveal, she got her start singing in front of big-band jazz outfits while still in high school (“It was the only game in town at the time,” she explains), and it’s probably this experience, the polar opposite of withdrawn experimental pop, that gives the album its odd moments of sultriness and sometimes soulful frisson. "Vogue"

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down "Body" directed by Dianna Agron

Thao with GLEE actors

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers

Thao with The Get Down Stay Down is a San Francisco, California-based (formerly Falls Church, Virginia) alternative folk rock music group. It consists of Thao Nguyen (vocals, guitar), Adam Thompson (bass guitar), and Lisa Schonberg (drums). Frank Stewart (lead guitar, production) and Willis Thompson (drums) are former members of the band. "Wikipedia"

Little Dragon - Little Man [NEW SONG - ALBUM VERSION HQ]

Tashaki Miyaki / Somethin is better than nothin

We first crushed on Tashaki Miyaki last month when the California boy-girl twosome slid across our radar for their foggy brand of dream pop. Now they're gearing up to release a new 7" of covers, including their amazing take on "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers- which is actually the song that introduced us to the band in the first place.

They also work their beachy dark magic on Bob Dylan's strummy 1970 hit "If Not For You," and we have your first listen here. So if you haven't already, fall under the Tashaki Miyaki spell and download it below.
-- LIZA DARWIN

Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth (Gotye - Cover)

Walk off the Earth and Sarah Blackwood perform a cover of Gotye's "Somebody that I used to know" using five people on one guitar.

Moullinex & Peaches - Maniac

Here’s the video for Moullinex & Peaches’ cover of Michael Sembello’s ‘Maniac’ (yes, that ‘Manic’, from Flashdance!).

Rebecca & Fiona - Luminary Ones

A common interest in great music brought these two electric souls together. Rebecca Scheja and Fiona FitzPatrick. They are devout musicians who spend more time carving out loops in basement recording studios than sloshing about champagne in fashionable nightclubs. 'Luminary Ones' is the title to both their first single and EP. ":. MusiqTrend .:"

Girls' Generation 소녀시대_THE BOYS_Music Video (KOR ver.)

How could 30 million views be wrong? Oh, they hail from Korea, did I mention I'm half Korean, sweet

M A U S I - sol.

Mausi is a 4-piece band coming out of Newcastle, UK but they're described as "Anglo-Italian". Siblings Daisy and Thomas are the Italian half while former classmates at Ben and Benji provide the English heritage. 'Sol' speaks to this mixed heritage as Mausi plays with the precision we've come to expect from British bands as well as the sexual energy Italian music and culture exudes. I began listening to this song without headphones through the somewhat decent speakers of my 4-year-old MacBook. That was a mistake. The devil is in the details. "ALTSounds"

'I FINK U FREEKY' by DIE ANTWOORD (Official)

If Die Antwoord videos have taught me anything, it’s this: People in South Africa have some severely fucked-up faces. This group gets bagged-on a lot now that everyone knows they’re a conceptual art-school stunt rather than some true expression of a mysteriously zonked-out culture, but that art-school pedigree sure does serve them well when they’re making videos. And this video, one that renders mud-caked squalor as pure attraction, is yet another example of a demented but fully-developed visual sensibility. "Stereogum"

Die Antwoord - Rich Bitch

Yolandi is so sweet, yeah baby

The Dø - Too Insistent (Official Video)

The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is Olivia Merilahti (singer and musician) and Dan Levy (multi-instrumentalist).

Wildflowers by Evokateur

Evokateur are a London based ElectroPop duo who are gearing up for the release of their début single ‘Wolf Girl’. Set for release in March the single sees this Mexican/English twosome walk the thin line between a strong 80’s European SynthPop influence and contemporary production techniques. Too rich sounding and Poppy to be ColdWave, yet too dark and brooding lumped in with any kind of Electro-House or Dreamwave styles of ElectroPop, this is what I imagine the true inheritance of the original SynthPop Futurists’ sounds like (ignoring the 90’s Modern SynthPop scene). Full, thick, electronic production that maintains a slightly cold edge, tempered by Sarah Villaraus’ smokey vocals, make the single instantly accessible, but with a hint of danger.

Carina Round - The Last Time Directed by Scott Rhea

Carina Round is a British singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. Comparisons are frequently drawn to PJ Harvey[citation needed], though Round would contend that she is more directly influenced by Patti Smith.