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Post War Years return with pulsating, percussive, & diverse pop tune “Brazil”
London indie/experimental pop band Post War Years return on July 23 with a new EP called Glass House, and we’ve got one of the songs for your streaming pleasure below. ”Brazil” is pulsating, diverse
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Peggy Sue add guitars to a lo-fi version of The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back”
British group Peggy Sue are releasing a covers album on July 23 entitled Peggy Sue Play the Songs of Scorpio Rising, and the first track I’ve heard from the release is this lo-fi interpretation
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Britishness: London quintet Torches’ stirring alt-rock, “Sky Blue & Ivory”
London indie/alt-rock quintet Torches make the kind of wholesome, anthemic, stirring music that Brits seem to fall for, like Hurts without the synths or Clock Opera with an even bigger sound. ”Sky Blue & Ivory”
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Britishness: GuMM’s brash barrage of ‘garage-gaze,’ the melodic “Lionheart”
Most great rock music these days comes out of Great Britain, it seems to me. Not that I’m complaining. I’ve always preferred the British way of rocking out, and these Bristol guys do it
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Song of the Day: Animal Kingdom’s glorious alt-rock tune “Two by Two”
London-based indie/alternative band Animal Kingdom became the first artist on The Tune to have a full album named Song of the Day when I first heard the spectacular The Looking Away. But when my
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Download Zulu Winter’s indie folk-rock crescendo “Bitter Moon” [MP3]
We first highlighted London indie pop-rockers Zulu Winter back in April with the catchy, chorus-centric “Silver Tongue.” Now we’ve got another free download from the band’s album Language, which was just released on Tuesday. Perhaps
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Like Cults? Try indie pop band Young Romance’s “Break My Heart by Morning”
Gotta love London’s indie pop scene. The latest obscure band I discovered from that small town overseas is Young Romance, whose “Break My Heart by Morning” is somewhere between Cults and Friends. Singer Claire’s
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About to Break: Jessie Ware’s pensive, well-written pop, “Wildest Moments”
If you can’t tell by the fact that I’ve given Brixton, U.K. singer Jessie Ware not one but two About to Breaks, I’m convinced that by the end of 2012 she’ll be a big thing. She’s
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Electric Eel: melancholy dubstep + art pop = Glass Animals’ “Golden Antlers”
Like their tune “Cocoa Hooves,” which we posted at the beginning of May, British band Glass Animals‘ newest syncs art pop and R&B influences, melancholy guitar, a catchy melody, and a fair portion of
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Electric Eel: Plant Plants digitize the organic world on “One to Adore”
Here’s some fresh music from London-based electronic duo Plant Plants, who are planning their debut EP, ironically called EP2, for June 18. This one has a depth to it behind the hip-hop beat of
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Britishness: LA Shark’s tongue-in-cheek pop-psych-rock tune, “Mr Modern Man”
LA Shark are not from Los Angeles, but rather from London — which is very obvious within the first 20 seconds of “Mr Modern Man,” the band’s freshest tune. British accents pronounce very British
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Charlene Soraia’s beautiful piano cover of The Calling’s “Wherever You Will Go”
We missed this beautiful piano-and-vocals cover of The Calling‘s “Wherever You Will Go” by talented young London singer-songwriter Charlene Soraia when it was posted months ago, but we’re fixing that now. Enjoy! -Jordy Kasko
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