Au Revoir Simone are a bunch of girls from Brooklyn who play pretty and pretty sad keyboard pop.

There's a band that would have definitely worth checking out when they were still around: Neutral Milk Hotel. But one would have had to live in Denver in the 90s. Two Headed Boy has an intensity that peels off your skin.

Attention, download:

• Neutral Milk Hotel — Holland, 1945

And listen to this:

• Neutral Milk Hotel — Two Headed Boy

This weekend's post is a little early because we will be recording the whole weekend. Check out the solo project of Amy Millan who is one of the singers of the band Stars. Skinny Boy is probably one of the best songs of all times. I also really like her cover version of Death Cab For Cutie's I Will Follow You Into The Dark.

I don't actually remember how I came across Ester Drang and if they're any good, but check them out anyway cos they might be.

Plenty of Bands, England's going mad!

Dance rock band Dartz will be playing a little Europe tour in April. The other day someone said, Kopenhagen is beautiful, so go there and check them out:

• 12.Apr.2009, NBI, Berlin
• 14.Apr.2009, Lades, Kopenhagen
• 15.Apr.2009, Shadrak, Groningen

There's other cool bands touring soon, too: Colour are going to tour with Data.Select.Party in England.

Another recommendation of mine is the band Secondsmile, whose music constantly switches from silent singer-songwriter music to noisy harcore. I also like a band that sound like autumn light, they're called Pennines and the 90s emo revival band Look I'm A Ghost.

Hello highway, goodbye L.A.! Hier ein Schmankerl für die countryesk angehauchte Singer/Songwriter-Fraktion: Arabella Harrisson. Die Dame spielte seinerzeit Bass spielte bei den And/Ors und davor bei Jejune, welches beides auch endzeitgeile Bands waren.

Rechtsklicken, Ziel speichern unter, hören und freuen:

• The And/Ors - As We Play The Tape Tricks Us
• The And/Ors - Flexiclocks
• The And/Ors - Screams Nicole

John und ich machen gleich Roadie für Blast Furnace in Lübeck. Uff. Euch ein weniger arbeitsreiches schönes Wochenende!

Übrigens: Falls ihr mal zuviel Zeit habt: Bei epitonic und Insound kann man ungefähr ALLES(!) von irgendwelchem Indie-Zeugs runterladen, lesen undsoweiter.