Winter Gloves - Party People 11:16 PM

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Montreal's Winter Gloves are set to release A Way To Celebrate, a new digital-only complement to their debut album, about a girl, which will be available from iTunes on October 6th at a special low price.

A Way To Celebrate is a reworking of the band's debut LP, about a girl, which included the song, "Invisible," ranked #17 as one of Esquire's "Top 50 Songs Every Man Should Be Listening To," and caused SPIN.com to call them a "hot Montreal band...wistful keyboard kitsch should please fans of Ra Ra Riot's tightly woven pop songs or Wolf Parade's more ambitious rambles."

The digital release is a collection of remixes, live versions, experiments with arrangements and everything that made sense in between, including a recording in a local train station in the band's hometown. Winter Gloves are also releasing their video for 'Party People', directed by Marie-Eve Lapointe and assisted by Vincent Chalifour, in support of their forthcoming tour.

Winter Gloves has spent the past year taking about a girl on the road across Canada and the US, touring alongside the likes of You Say Party! We Say Die! and Thunderheist, with a solid sprinkling of summer festivals thrown in for good measure. The shape-shifting that happens when you bring a song on the road is an evolution that the band wanted to document; A Way To Celebrate is an archive of this time on the road as much as it is a thanks to the band's new fans who have supported the original debut album.

Portugal. The Man - Do You 3:41 PM

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Portugal. The Man's "DO YOU" MUSIC VIDEO JUST RELEASED!!!

Head to Portugal. The Man's website and experience what happens when the song "Do You" from album The Satanic Satanist comes to life on your computer screen.

Boxer Rebellion - Flashing Red Light Means Go 1:37 AM

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Be sure to check out the stunning, animated sci-fi music video for "Flashing Red Light Means Go" from the UK indie-rock squad The Boxer Rebellion. Directed by Grant Berry & Nick Tarte, the video was created digitally, frame-by-frame, over an incredibly intense period of four weeks and is a fantastical moving image of futuristic travel we can only conceive in our most dizzying of dreams. Check it out below.

The Boxer Rebellion made headlines in January by becoming the first unsigned band in history to break the Billboard Top 100 Albums Chart on a digital-only release. "Union," the band's latest album, birthed a phenomenon when lead track, "Evacuate," became the first iTunes "Global Single of the Week," clocking up a staggering 560,000 downloads in seven days. On fanbase alone, the album knocked My Morning Jacket off the iTunes US Alternative Charts top spot, while also becoming an iTunes Top 5 album on both sides of the Atlantic ... all within 48 hours of release. Additionally, the band most recently made headlines again when they announced a groundbreaking partnership with HMV in the UK.

Sally Shapiro - Miracle 1:30 AM

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Swedish italo-disco artist Sally Shapiro is excited to release a brand new video for the first single, "Miracle," off her sophomore release, My Guilty Pleasure, out now on Paper Bag Records!

A little bit about the making of "Miracle" according to Sally and her producer Johan Agebjörn, "This music video is directed by Will Joines, whom we had the pleasure to shortly meet during our one and only (and short) DJ tour to North America. He photographed us during the appearance in New York and was really nice. We like his work so we had him to direct this music video together with the producer Gilana Lobel and a few more people."

Following on the success and critical acclaim of Disco Romance, My Guilty Pleasure, continues Sally's natural progression towards a blend of 80s-inspired italo disco and twee indie pop - melancholic yet hopeful, sweet yet danceable. The album takes influences from genres like trance, cosmic disco, acid, ambient and jazz while retaining that sweet disco romance you know and love. My Guilty Pleasure contains 9 tracks, including the singles "Miracle" and "Love in July," and is available now on CD and limited edition 180GRAM vinyl.

Sally Shapiro "Miracle" from the album "My Guilty Pleasure" from Paper Bag Records on Vimeo.

The Duckworth Lewis Method - Meeting Mr Miandad 12:06 AM

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Here's a nice notice of a side project of Thomas Walsh of Pugwash.

Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash have dared to shake the foundations of rock and roll: they have created a concept album all about cricket. And just in time for another historic England victory in the Ashes.

So why does it work? Their musical versatility means the album skips effortlessly from track to track. Hannon's superb lyrical ability and extensive vocabulary gives The Duckworth Lewis Method a sardonic cleverness while always remaining aware of the silliness of this project.

'Jiggery Pokery' is a Gilbert and Sullivan style ballad of Shane Warne's debut dismissal of Gatting: captivating, upbeat and uproarious. Even the instrumental 'Rain Stops Play' remains evocative of the rather silly sport. Synth-heavy 'The Coin Toss' is a cogent example of this album: piano-led, lyric-bursting pop with spoken word interludes. a personal favourite is 'Meeting Mr Miandad' which overflows with Beatles influence.

Frank Turner - The Ballad Of Me And My Friends 2:33 AM

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Monumental excitement and critical acclaim continues across the US for English folk-punk artist Frank Turner with the release of his new album, Poetry of the Deed, this past Tuesday.

The traveling troubadour's style of direct, heartfelt songwriting is captivating fans and critics alike, garnering Turner massive buzz and phenomenal press coverage including a riveting performance on CNN.com streamed to mainstream audiences throughout the world as well as earning the top spot on PasteMagazine.com's "16 Albums To Look Forward To This Fall."

Shaping up to be 2009's critical-darling, the fiery passion on Turner's albums translates live with spine tingling vigor and honesty.

The Swimmers - People Are Soft 9:18 PM

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"To start again, we're the lucky ones" opens "Shelter," the first track on People Are Soft, with the sound of a band reinventing itself. Philadelphia's The Swimmers are set to release People are Soft on November 3, 2009 via MAD Dragon Records (ADA), a towering, vulnerable sophomore album that is a debut in its own right.

Following 2008's Fighting Trees-The Swimmers' first release on MAD Dragon which garnered rave reviews from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Magnet, The Tripwire and Time Out Chicago, making their Artist to Watch and Top Ten Year End Polls-Steve and Krista Yutzy-Burkey, Scott French and Rick Sieber decided to make a clean break, build a home studio from the ground up and record an album entirely themselves. The result is intensely personal songwriting couched in distorted synthesizer hooks, crushed electric guitars and swelling reverb trails. "It was a very focused and isolated time. Scott and I traded back and forth, refining and affecting the mixes.I think we all journeyed pretty deep inside ourselves during the project," said lead singer/songwriter Steve. I'm including a link to a John Hughes tribute music video that was created by a fan - music for the song "What This World is Coming To" is synched to the images, followed by the track listing for the new album.

www.myspace.com/helloswimmers

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Leah Orlikowski @ St. James Infirmary 4:32 PM

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St. James Infirmary Leah Orlikowski live at the India House backpackers hostel. New Orleans, La. USA.

Chuck Prophet - Recording in Mexico City 4:07 AM

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Songwriter/Musician Chuck Prophet and band travels to Mexico City to record his upcoming album, ¡Let Freedom Ring!.

Filmmaker Scott Compton and DP John Behrens went along for the ride armed with Canon 5D MkII HD SLR cameras.

Amid power outages, earthquakes, corrupt police and swine flu hysteria on CNN, Chuck and band managed to plug in and roll tape on a old-school rock record that takes no prisoners.

This trailer is on the upcoming documentary chronicling the adventure.