Two lovely Canadian bands.

So whilst on the internet i somehow stumbled upon American folk band The warped 45's. Turns out they're actually pretty rad! If you happen to be in the mood for some chilled out folk music with impressively soothing vocals then i guess you're in for a treat. Citing Wilco as one of their main influences, they have a knack for crafting simple yet effective songs with poignant lyrics.
So that's all rather lovely!

Whilst looking through Canadian bands I also discovered a great new band called Wildlife. These guys know how to make a great energetic atmosphere in their songs, it's real feel good music! Canada's more garage rock type take on our Los Campesinos! Supreme tunes!

That's all for now, but before you scamper off, have a look at www.beardrock.co.uk it's a new music reviews website, so take a look around and prepare yourself to be dazzled by the unique ratings system that involves beards.

Leeds is on fire!

Just handshakes (we're British) - cool as fuck.

The city of leeds has earned it's place in the "rad musical cities" hall of fame, with alumni such as the stupendously inspirational Gang of four and erm, the Kaiser Chiefs? Ok, so maybe it's not that great. But i mean it still had The Mekons, the wedding present, the sunshine underground, Sky larkin and Grum, which makes it better than Newcastle at least.
With there being talk of some sort of Resurrection of Manchester music (radchester?) it's about time that Leeds got its grubby wee meathooks on some of that juicy musical wonder. And it seems like the city could well be onto something. The city has a good selection of bands at the moment, and although they might not be pushing boundaries in quite the same way as some of the Mancunians, there's no denying that there is a LOT of talent kicking about.

Take for example Just Handshakes (we're British). They make a delicious blend of semi-twee indie pop, and it's just as good as anything America is batting our way at the moment.

Milk White White teeth are another up and coming indie band from the Leeds area. You heard about them here first! They really have a knack for making catchy upbeat tunes that i'm sure you're going to love! Check them out!

Like Baritone northern accents? If you answered yes then you're most certainly going to enjoy blood oranges! If you answered no, then go back to drinking your shandy and popping out to Sainsburys in the "Landy" or whatever you dirty southerners to in your spare time. Blood Oranges are where it's at.

Last one here, and I could have gone on a little longer, but I don't want to bore you too much, and it's like 1:30am right now so i'm about ready for bed. But i digress, Post war glamour girls are fucking brilliant, so much energy and so much potential, I have no idea why they aren't massively popular yet! PWGG have a really unique sound that I just can't get enough of! Can't wait to hear more from them.

So there you have it! Conclusive proof that Leeds is the bees knees.

links all up in this bitch.

So, it's about time i dumped you some links to fresh talent. So HERE WE GO!

Dems - Lioness (Scottish lo-fi indietronica with tasty falsetto vocals)

The ABC club - Thieving Magpie (Halifax indie pop made for enjoying)

Geographer - Kites (one of my personal favorite songs out this year, twee indietronica) I will post a link to their fantastic 2010 EP at a later date, or if you want it sooner, just pester me for it.

Django Django - Wor (Why on earth are these guys not more popular?! Kind of indie i guess, just a really great band who deserve more recognition)

Black sheep - Suckers (Sorry for the indie bombardment, but hey, it's just great stuff!)

Nice music for nice weather.

It's not often we see weather the doesn't involve some sort of precipitation here in Britain (particularly "oop North"), so when the sun does decide to make a guest appearance, it's best to make the most of it and what better way to compliment our exploding gas ball friend than with some summery tunes!
So to help you guys out with that arduous task of rifleing through your ipod for something remotely upbeat i thought i'd reccomend 3 albums for sunny days.

The first album i'm offering up to you rascals is Cajun Dance Party's debut album from 2008. It's a lovely little chunk of twee sounding indie pop with love them or hate them vocals. So if you somehow managed to miss them back then, then here's your second chance.
I havn't got a clue what they're doing now but i still enjoy colourful life every so often. And so should you!

Second up is the 2010 album Weathervanes from New York folktronica 5 piece Freelance Whales. An album that's bound to warm up your summer, Weathervanes is essentially an indie folk album with a ton of other twee-as-fuck instruments thrown in, just to make it more smiley. Often compared with The Postal Service by music critics, and Owl City by retards Freelance Whales really have released a fantastic album with single, "starring" being one of my personal favorite songs of the year!

Finally, comes an album from appalingly named band "The Seedy Seeds", but providing you can see past the name, comes an album so catchy that you will be humming the melodies so much that not only will your friends want to kick your face off, but you will want to do so as well. But this is a good thing, because we all love a super catchy melody don't we? Anyway, their 2008 album count the days fuses jangle pop with dance beats. Think The Feeling only a lot less shit and with a bit more UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE.

I'm gonna be a bit sneaky here now, after telling you i'd only share 3 summery albums, another one has just been cast into my mind. Well it's more like one of those EP's that's like two thirds of an album. White Magic by CEO is hot shit. So download it now! Oh, and I think they sampled a KLF song on the track White Magic, but i'm not quite sure.