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I heard a song today that really caught my ear.  The band is called Of Monsters and Men.  Not to be confused with the 1968 sci-fi novel “Of Men and Monsters.”  A tale about super intelligent and giant aliens that have conquered Earth.  Humanity exists on the margins of this race’s society, living in borrows in the walls of the homes of these creatures and stealing for sustenance.  Whoa right?

This 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 piece band from Iceland have been favourably compared to Mumford and Sons or the Arcade Fire.  Their song “Little Talks” dominates the radio on that volcanic Island like Mumford or Arcade do here.  The buzz was brought to North America by Seattle hipster jam superstation, KEXP and I heard the song on XM-AltNation.

Of Monsters and Men – “Little Talks”

Download MP3 >> 01 Little Talks

While researching something to say about Of Monsters and Men, KEXP came up because they were an early champion.  So on a whim I decided to listen to a few cuts of their “Song of the day” podcast.  Holy shit, lots of rad stuff on there… they have it figured on KEXP.

I just clicked some random songs and one that caught my ear was Brooklynites, We Are Augustines.  I don’t know, but first listen of the song “Headlong Into The Abyss” had me thinking it would make a great song for my World War One podcast…

The story about these guys is extraordinary.  Basically, they were a positively hyped band called Pela.  They were on the verge of great things when some tragedy befell the band.  They had a hard time fighting with their record label.  During this stressful time the lead guitarist Billy McCarthy learned his brother James had commit suicide.  It became too much and the band folded very quickly in the summer of 2009.

Billy and another band member decided to try and soldier on, but this time as a new group (Augustines) and release their music independently.  A little tweak of the band moniker and some powerful endorsements from KEXP… and We Are Augustines is back in business.  Have a listen to this:

We Are Augustines – “Headlong Into the Abyss”

Download MP3 >> 03 Headlong Into the Abyss

That’s a blog. Go with yourself.

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John in the morning on KEXP turned me onto this music video.

Pretty video from classical composer Craig Armstrong featuring Evan Dando of Lemonheads fame.  Song is called ‘Wake Up in New York.’  Not gunna lie, I kinda want to live in New York at some point in my life, and I think Coral wouldn’t object to that.

and this is an interesting track that you can download if you like.

The group is called O+S and the song is ‘We Do What We Want to.”

Click and listen: O+S – ‘We Do What We Want To’

Not bad right?  Sorta dreamy and sweeping.

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Montreal band Beast is on the show today at 3PM!  wow.  Tune in please.

Beast
TONIGHT!
Zone Show #170
@ Lucky Bar
Doors: 8PM and done in time for The Daily Show.

Go with yourself.

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