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So you’re walking home, rain is pouring, the skies are grey, etc, etc. You’re getting soaking wet and your day was probably the worst in the last few months. Your ipod shuffled to Big Star and Marcy comes along. That’s the moment when the skies turn blue again. That little second in time.

Probably, that’s how Kelley Stoltz got inspired to write this beautiful song. Marcy is an acoustic driven power pop ballad, somewhere between The Kinks and Teenage Fanclub’s magnum opus, Grand Prix.

The single is out and you can buy it! Even in 2012.

JFC

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Brand new video for Cass McCombs’ latest single “Bradley Manning”, off his more rock-oriented album Humor Risk. Buy the 7" or the digital version (includes a b-side called “Empty Promises”) through Domino.

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Nashville, TN.

My favorite country girl just did this awesome version of “Piledriver Waltz”, a song that was written especially to your favorite movie of 2010, Submarine. Alex Turner thought of this mellow-simonandgarfunkelesque-polaroid ballad would fit perfectly into the movie, and I guess it did. But Caitlin just took it to another level. Taste it. Everything is better with a slide-guitar.

JFC

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Delphine Dora & Half Asleep, “You’re Not Mad, You’re Just Lonely” (We Are Unique Records, 2012)

First submitted post we’re publishing. It was written by the artist herself, hence the quoted text. We usually won’t accept self-promotional posts here – we want our “Submit a post” button to be used by music fans letting us know about bands they like, and not their own – but this is actually a nice album, worth taking a spin or two and streamable on BC after the jump.

You’re not mad, you’re just lonely is a full-length recording from the duo Delphine Dora & Half Asleep. Together, the French and Belgian musicians crafted an album of startling pop songs, with classical, experimental and contemporary influences, taking an obvious pleasure in their collaboration while seeking to push forward the boundaries of their respective universes. For this new project, they spent a week together in Southern France, 5 days of which they dedicated to the composition and recording of the album’s 13 songs. During the session, they invoked the literary spectres of playwright Sarah Kane, writer Janet Frame, famous wife and letter-writer Zelda Fitzgerald, or of Beckett’s fictional character Molloy, making central to their musical peregrinations the theme of mental alienation, a topic they each in their non-music-related lives devoted several years of research to. The result is a spontaneous and somewhat heterogeneous collection of songs centred on the piano and vocal, and that will take the listener to a variety of enchanted, amusing or terrifying places.

<a href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely” data-mce-href=“http://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-mad-youre-just-lonely”>You’re not mad, you’re just lonely by Half Asleep & Delphine Dora</a>

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of Montreal, Sala Apolo

It’s Sunday night (not exactly the most rock n’ roll of nights) and I’m watching of Montreal. I haven’t even been drinking, but the balloons, the mischievous piglets, the confetti, the large inflated synthetic boobies (you kinda had to be there), and a mesmerising (not to mention topless) Kevin Barnes sure have the same effect. Having seen them at Primavera Sound last year, I was glad to get a chance to see them in a more ‘intimate’ setting, where, in addition to seeing the setlist in advance, I was able to see the colour of Kevin’s socks, the stealth dancers creeping their way to the front of the stage and the smiles exchanged between band members. Obviously they were never going to play all the songs I would have liked (I’m still dreaming of a Kevin Barnes acoustic set in a tiny back room of a coffee shop), but a set including Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse, The Party’s Crashing Us, A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinder and a sped up version of She’s a Rejector still left us singing our hearts out all the way home.

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