Today's Mix/Cover/Live + MP3 Roundup includes The Postal Service, Florence and The Machine, Besnard Lakes & Feist/Ben Gibbard. Remix MP3: Florence and The Machine - Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit Remix) Cover MP3: Feist and Ben Gibbard – Train Song (Vashti Bunyan) Live MP3: Postal Service - Nothing Better (live) MP3 Of The Day! Besnard Lakes MP3: Besnard Lakes - Albatross http://www.myspace.com/thebesnardlakes

80. Jay Reatard Blood Visions For all those folks that have been screaming "punk is dead" for two decades I'd like to present Jay Reatard to show you that punk is most definitely not dead. Now his tunes may not be wholly punk in nature, there's a bit of metal and even some pop mixed in there, but his attitude and his approach to songwriting is most definitely punk. Two and three minute long songs spit out in the blink of an eye with hard charging guitars to go along with them. Yeah, punk's not dead it ...

In recent years the crowd that is claiming "the album is dead" has grown louder and louder. We couldn't disagree more. As more and more people turn to iTunes and the Hype Machine to download the latest and greatest singles, we have stuck to the traditional album listening and found that there are still some truly great records being made these days. For most of this year we have been inundated by bands breaking into the world, mainstream artists trying to recapture their former glory, and indie rock "superstars" growing into their own, it has been exciting and fun ...

Technicolor Health Harlem Shakes "Niagara Falls" Actor Vincent">St. Vincent "The Strangers" The Crying Light Antony and the Johnsons "Epilepsy is Dancing" Hospice The Antlers "Bear" Horehound The Dead Weather "Hang You From the Heavens" Sigh No More Mumford & Sons "The Cave" Lungs Florence & the Machine "Drumming Song" Post-Nothing Japandroids "Heart Sweats" Noble Beast Andrew Bird "Anonanimal" Fantasies Metric "Gold Guns Girls" It's Blitz! Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero" Gorilla Manor Local Natives "Camera Talk" Dark Was the Night Various Artists Feist & Ben Gibbard - "Train Song" Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Phoenix "Lasso" Miike Snow Miike Snow "Burial" Manners Passion Pit "Little ...

I normally move away quickly to the opposite corner of the record shop as fast as I can if someone points in the direction of a charity record, for almost without exception they are well-meaning but crap. But not Dark Was The Night , a 2CD release from earlier this year on behalf of Red Hot , the long-established AIDS charity (I remember buying a compilation VHS tape for Red Hot back in 1990 that featured loads of covers of Porter">Cole Porter songs). It has 31-tracks from some of the very best indie artists around, mainly from the USA. It was ...

80. Jay Reatard Blood Visions For all those folks that have been screaming "punk is dead" for two decades I'd like to present Jay Reatard to show you that punk is most definitely not dead. Now his tunes may not be wholly punk in nature, there's a bit of metal and even some pop mixed in there, but his attitude and his approach to songwriting is most definitely punk. Two and three minute long songs spit out in the blink of an eye with hard charging guitars to go along with them. Yeah, punk's not dead it ...

1. Knotty Pine Dirty Projectors + David Byrne 2. Cello Song The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez 3. Train Song Feist + Ben Gibbard 4. Brackett, WI Bon Iver 5. Deep Blue Sea Grizzly Bear 6. So Far Around The Bend The National 7. Tightrope Yeasayer 8. Feeling Good My Brightest Diamond 9. Dark Was The Night Kronos Quartet 10. I Was Young When I Left Home Antony + Bryce Dessner 11. Big Red Machine Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner 12. Sleepless The Decemberists 13. Die Iron & Wine 14. Service Bell Grizzly Bear + Feist 15. You Are The Blood Sufjan Stevens 10:14 Disc 2 ...

Best compilation ever. Sorry Cera and Braff...but it's even better than the Juno and Garden State soundtracks 40-fold. I know, I know, many of you thought the only good things this February are the release of the 3-D Jonas Brothers concert coming to an IMAX in your neighborhood and Miley Cyrus & Taylor Swift performing at the Grammys. But to soothe your soul the folks at the Red Hot Organization , an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture, have released a token indie dream mix for the ages. Dark Was The ...

'Dark Was The Night' will be released on February 17th, 2009. It’s comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture. The album has been produced by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner. The likes of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Fire">Arcade Fire, Redhead">Blonde Redhead, Beirut and more appear on the album. Red Hot was founded on the premise that ...

This mix has died. This last song, a fantastic cover of Nick Drake's "Cello Song", is from the compilation curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National entitled Dark Was The Night . A total of 32 exclusive tracks were gathered for this years edition which benefits the Red Hot Organization. It'll be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download on February 16th and is loaded with great indie acts such as, oh hell, here's the whole line-up: (find links to buy the album here ) Andrew Bird Antony Fire">Arcade Fire Beach House Beirut Redhead">Blonde ...

PICK IT UP - ROCK FOR A CAUSE: Musicians are working together these days performing some pretty sensational songs for Dark Was The Night a new benefit albums for the Red Hot organization (an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular culture). The latest compilation (a double CD) was produced by Bryan and Aaron Dessner from the National . This one offers up all new, original songs from some seriously hefty talent (see below) and it goes on sale on Tuesday. Never has doing the right thing sounded so good! Read on to for the ...

A. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (Alt: YSI) B. Breanne Duren - Lenses (Alt: YSI) C. Feist & Ben Gibbard - Train Song Removed by Request D. Ben Sollee - How To See the Sun Rise (Alt: YSI)

So, apparently we're gonna have six more weeks of winter. That doesn't worry me so much as long as I've got some good music to bundle up with in the interim. Luckily, here's some samples from the highly anticipated Red Hot charity compilation, Dark Was The Night . Produced by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner, it's a double-disc (triple-LP) compilation to raise money and awareness for HIV and AIDS. I've included the full track-list below, and it's pretty insane, actually. Names you might be excited about include Feist, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear ...

En la edición de esta semana de Planeta Pop , escuchamos la nueva música de The Bird and The Bee, Collective">Animal Collective (foto), Royksöpp, Neko Case, Handsome Furs, Feist & Ben Gibbard, Marisa Nadler, The Whitest Boy Alive Telepathe, Hot Lava, Tunnelvision, Moto Boy, Say Hi, Extraperlo o Tobab Krewe. La playlist completa pinchando aquí y ya sabes que puedes escuchar el programa en el 87.6 de la Fm de Madrid, en directo en Internet en las horas de emisión, todos los martes de 12 a 14 h (GMT+1), a través del podcast o en el blog a lo ...

Toute la nomenclatura pop (made in US et UK), se retrouve - pour la bonne cause -  au mois de février autour deux projets musicaux ambitieux, et à but non-lucratif...   ••••••••• Tout d'abord, l'association WAR CHILD (UK)... ayant pour but de venir en aide aux "enfants de la guerre" à travers le monde (Afghanistan, Irak, RDC...). Avec quinze années d'activité (activisme?) et plus d'une dizaine de projets musicaux permettant de financer leurs actions, l'association sort la compilation "War Child Heroes" le 16 février prochain. Un disque de reprises mis en son par quelques stars de la scène pop ...