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W♥M066: Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!

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Sally & I finishing part one of her report from Playground Weekender Festival, and as I'm post-editing it, there are some stuff I was throwing out.

Instead, I thought I'd put together this quick Girlpop show since I will be gone most of the day today (Saturday) and probably won't have time to put into writing another review. Don't worry, I have about 100 albums I have to listen to. Sometime it feels like homework, but once in a while, you'll get an album that is simply a joy to listen to. I'm talking about Miss Li (short for Miss Linda), from Sweden.

She'll be appearing in the US for a brief three dates:

Sat-March 20 Austin, TX The Driskill Hotel , 8pm
Tue-March 23 New York, NY Mercury Lounge, 7pm
Wed-March 24 New York, NY Joe's Pub, 7pm

I got the information from one of my favorite label, Minty Fresh Records, but it doesn't look like you can purchase her music through them. Instead, you can head over to National Records and there'll be information on how you can purchase her latest album, Dancing the Whole Way Home. Highly recommended.

Other girl acts, I've been listening to on-off are pictured below:

The Gentle Waves - Sister Woman The Gentle Waves	Strawberry Fair - I Can't Do Anything Strawberry Fair	Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie Baccara	Music Go Music - Light Of Love Music Go Music
Chairlift - Bruises Chairlift	Stereo Total - Tas de Tôle Stereo Total	The Battle of Land and Sea - Harden My Heart Battle of Land & Sea	Telepathique - I'm Not The Man You Think I Am Telepathique

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Compiling Compilations

Seems silly to compile compilation albums, isn't it?

Well, compilation albums are such a great source of discovering new music. Especially if they're cover compilations (since you already know some of the songs, you're willing to take a chance on something new).  So below are some compilations that I thought I'd bring to your attention.  Plus two of them are available for download for free, so check it out:

Perturbazione - Portami via di qua sto male A CENTURY OF COVERS Head over to kirstenspostcard to download A Century of Covers: Belle & Sebastian Tribute (2006). The most interesting cover is "Get Me Away I'm Dying" translated into Italian by Perturbazione. To hear another version of this song by Bettie Serveert, head over to Cover Lover.	Haley Bonar - The Queen Of Everything TWIN TOWN HIGH: MUSIC YEARBOOK VOLUME 9 This 2007 album compiles some of the best Minneapolis bands. There are some excellent bands on here. At least five really amazing songs, so picking one is really hard for me. I've decided to just use the first song by Haley Bonar. It sounds a bit naughty. The other songs will be spotlighted later in my Minneapolis entry.
Irene - Stardust HOY COMI SANDIA EP #2: A SWEDISH INDIE-POP COMPILADO You know we love the Swedes here, so I wanted to mention about this Swedish Indiepop compilation. Most of the bands on this compilation have already been covered by us (see W♥M: Sweden). I wanted to mention a band that we haven't talked about: which would be Irene. Checking out their myspace, I noticed they're going to be playing Eurosonic Festival in January 2008. "Stardust" seems like a very short song but it's very good. I especially love Bobby's bold voice (it reminds me of 80s Europop). If you like this, you'll probably really love The Legends - which we're also reviewing here.	Lewis Taylor - Hide Your Heart HACKTONE DIGITAL SAMPLER 2007 It's free and there's no DRM on any of their 8 tracks. Download them here. I have created a custom cover art, in case you guys want to group them together under your Various Artists or Sampler folder. You can download the art by following this link (save it as a jpeg). Hacktone have been pretty good about giving free samples on their iTunes page, but since you need to live in the US and have an iTunes account, these unDRM free tracks are well worth checking out. For more details on Hacktone, visit their website or read our coverage of some of their artists on W♥M.
The Zambonis - Hockey Monkey EXOTIC RECORDINGS PRESENTS DIY DISS Check out Exotic Recordings. We've covered one of their band on W♥M, but I'm planning on reviewing a few more from them in this month. This compilation, I believe some of the songs are original. I do know each of the introduction to the song (usually a "diss") were recorded exlusively for this compilation. I'm assuming these compilation (which aren't for sale) are given away if you buy a CD from them.	Pavement - Stereo EVERYTHING IS NICE: MATADOR RECORDS 10TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY Released in 1999, this is a 3-disc set. The tracks that I really liked off this compilation is Non Phixon and The Arsonists. Obviously, Pavement is undoubtedly  one of the more popular band that is on this compilation - so here's "Stereo". The prices are pretty reasonably, I think I picked it up for $10 (for about 40 tracks!)
The Gentle Waves - Sister Woman REVOLUTIONS #3 These came free with Select Magazines This song is from The Gentle Waves' second album, Swansong for You (2000), it's my second favorite song after "Falling from Grace". Trivia: Isobel Campbell appears on the cover.	Lily Allen - Knock 'em Out NEW NOISE #13 They give these things out for free, they're basically samplers from EMI. I've discovered quite a few good bands from these samplers, their latest one has a great track by Lily Allen. This song is pretty cute, it's about coming up with excuses to avoid being picked up - including the hilarious "I'm pregnant, yeah."

 

 12/07/2007 23:50:43  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com