It has been a slow beginning to the year, but the music releases are starting to really come out now.
Hospitality kicks off this list with the fun “Betty Wang,” a good old fashioned indie song. Indie standard-bearers The Magnetic Fields are also back with their brand of sweet indie pop. Look out also for Wouter De Backer, aka Gotye (pronounced “gore-ti-yeah,” according to his website), a Belgian-born Australian whose music is blowing up in North America. His “Somebody Like You” is shooting through the charts and features Australian pop star Kimbra, who sounds the best I’ve ever heard her. Sleigh Bells’ second album, Reign of Terror, is out and it’s another strong one. Their first album, Treats, was my 2010 album of the year.
This list features a real roster of the who’s who in the indie world of up-and-comers, such as Hospitality, and those who have led the way, such as Leonard Cohen. One last thing, check out blues singer Ruthie Foster.
You can download this playlist from iTunes by entering this link into your web browser: tinyurl.com/momentumaprilmay2012
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Artist: NAME
Song: Song Title
Album: Album Name
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HOSPITALITY - Betty Wang - Hospitality (Bonus Track Version)
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - Andrew in Drag - Andrew in Drag – Single
SANTIGOLD - Big Mouth - Big Mouth – Single
DAS RACIST - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - Shut up, Dude
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Stay Useless - Attack on Memory
SLEIGH BELLS - Comeback Kid - Reign of Terror
LOWER DENS - Brains - Brains – Single
ST. VINCENT - Cruel - Strange Mercy
FLOGGING MOLLY - The Times They Are A - Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International
SHARON VAN - Serpents - Tramp
ATLAS SOUND - Mona Lisa - Parallax
DR.DOG - How Long Must I Wait - Be the Void
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler - Carrion Crawler/ The Dream
WE HAVE BAND - Watertight - Ternion
HEEMS - Womyn - Nehru Jackets
TENNIS - Traveling - Young & Old
BEN - Mean to Me - Go Fly a Kite
GOTYE - Somebody that I Used to Know (feat. Kimbra)- Making Mirrors
RUTHIE FOSTE - Aim for the Heart - Let It Burn
Leonard Cohen - The Darkness - The Old Ideas
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You can download this playlist from iTunes by entering this link into your web browser: tinyurl.com/momentumaprilmay2012
Brian Ellison is the host of The Prologue, an eclectic music show on BicycleRadio.com that mixes in cycling talk. He lives in Gillette, WY, where he is also the morning guy for KOAL 106.1. Ellison has a 12-year-old son who he spends a lot of time with and an old Trek SL1000 that he spends less time with than he would like.
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