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While checking out some recent additions to the NPR Second Stage RSS feed, I spotted  Absentee and their song “Shared“. Now on paper, if there was ever a band that I shouldn’t like, these guys would be right up there near the top. Why? Well let’s see..

They’re a countryish band
As a rule I prefer female [...]

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra are a duo from Oslo, keyboard player Morten Qvenild and singer Susanna Karolina Wallumrød.
Susanna And The Magical Orchestra can be found at the place where popmusic, electronica and jazz all intersect. Have a listen to “Believer” over at http://www.myspace.com/susannamagical. Its a wonderful languid piece that just unfolds at it’s on [...]

Bloody TV ads. First it was Sony and Jose Gonzalez, next up it was Apple with Feist, then it was Vodafone with  Charlie Parr and now it’s Vodafone again, this time with Pearl and the Puppets and “Because I Do”. (For those of you from overseas here is a link to the ad in question. [...]

To quote from Wikipedia…
Efterklang (the Danish word for remembrance and reverberation) is a post-pop group formed on January 2001 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The group consists of five core members (Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer, Rune Mølgaard & Rasmus Stolberg).
OK, I still haven’t figured out “postrock” and now I have to deal with [...]

Another contender for the “anthem of summer”, even if the The Maybes? might be consdered as cheating by calling their song “Summertime”. It’s all guitars, vocals and drums that rush headlong at the exuberant chorus. I have to confess that Pete Townsend would be impressed with the guitars, fabulous slash and ring and then when [...]

The Mummers from Brighton in England are an interesting concoction of heavily orchestrated arrangements pitted against the whimsical voice of Raissa Khan-Panni. The musicianship is over the top with theatricality and the vocals add a dimension that takes her music from the mundane to become flights of fancy.
The Mummers musicians are: Jote Osahn - violin, [...]

How can you go past a band that has song titles like “Home as a Romanticized Concept Where Everyone Loves You Always and Forever” or “A Sad Country Ballad for a Tired Superhero” and “In the Battle of Sun Vs. Curtains Sun Wins and We Sleep Until Noon” (and no I am not making this [...]