This one is for all my ‘whipped’ brethren out there. Skateboards, ukeleles, blokes, and tiny shorts…who could ask for more. If you look closely the two friends at the beginning, they remind me of the duo Stony Rivers…with the roles reversed of course!

Who are the Besnard Lakes? A indie band formed in Montreal by a husband and wife duo, Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. In 2007, they released The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse with a cameo by another appreciated band of mine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Silver Mt. Zion. Here is a song from their upcoming album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night.

According to the band “Each song on Machines That Listen is a story that takes place in a different room of a hospital. Track 2 “and the radio played on” tells of a dying elderly man and his wife’s last moments together, while “hold me down just don’t let me go” is told from the perspective of an ER nurse treating a stab victim.”

Machines That Listen is out March 16th.
Download The Delta Mirror: “He Was Worse Than the Needle He Gave You” from Pitchfork.

You can stream more songs on the band’s MySpace page.

Maybe I’ve been living on another planet since 2004, but I stumbled across this while getting into the show Californication. A great rendition that I thought may be worthy of a post – you be the judge. The only thing missing is the Stewie Griffin lounge singer cameo.

This is a fun video for a beautiful song. Toro Y Moi is a one-man project from Chaz Bundick. The album “Causers of This” is out February 2 on Carpark records.

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From Wikipedia
Seabear is an Icelandic indie-folk band from Reykjavik, Iceland. Although hailing from Iceland, they sing primarily in English. They are signed to the Morr Music record label.

Seabear started as a one-man project of Sindri Már Sigfússon, but he eventually ended up taking in six other members.

In 2007/2008, the Seabear song ‘Cat Piano’ was featured in a BBC advert for Finding Neverland as well as in Season 2, Episode 2 of Gossip Girl (TV series). Seabear’s most renowned song is “I Sing I Swim” – the music video for the song was viewed more than 582.000 times on Youtube as of November 2009.

Seabear’s music has been described as “Sufjan Stevens meets an unplugged Arcade Fire” by Clash (magazine). Sindri Már Sigfússon has been called the “icelandic Beck” by Rolling Stone

In 2008, Sindri Sigfússon released his solo album “Clangour” under the name Sin Fang Bous.

According to their MySpace and Facebook pages, they have finished their new album “We Built A Fire” which will be released in March 2010.

As you should know by now the highly anticipated new Vampire Weekend album is out there. Here is the video for the first single Cousins. As always the video is great and as always the song is fun and catchy. Below it, Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of VM helps out on the track Warm Heart of Africa by The Very Best. The Very Best is a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya a singer from Lilongwe, Malawi and Belgian DJ/production duo Radioclit.