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Sounds like:
Air and Alessandro Baricco,
Darkel,
Zero 7
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 12, 2010
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To get this week started, I have the acoustic live performance that the band did for KEXP. They did really fantastic stripped down versions of singles "1901"³ and "Lisztomania", as well as the delightful cover of Air's "Playground Love". I have bee...
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2

Sounds like:
Stevie Nicks,
Christine McVie,
Lindsey Buckingham
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 5, 2010
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An alarming number of interesting Fleetwood Mac covers have accumulated in my inbox by all sorts of artists. These are just a few of my favorites including Vampire Weekend doing a bouncy cover of Everywhere and Cat Power with an acoustic cover of Dre...
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3

Sounds like:
Tweedy,
Jeff Tweedy,
Billy Bragg & Wilco
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Jun 4, 2010
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I believe that had Yankee Hotel Foxtrot come out as originally planned on Reprise, it would have been perceived as a failed experiment. Getting dropped by Reprise was the best thing that ever happened to Wilco. Instead of an indulgent, erratic attemp...
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4

Sounds like:
The Lumineers,
Of Monsters and Men,
The Wedding Band
By
Jason Grishkoff
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May 22, 2010
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This track for me is a classic example of how much your opinion of music can change when you attach a personal memory to it. Its like it transforms into something fresh, something new and definitely something more personal. Mumford and Sons are a ban...
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5

Sounds like:
Fever Ray,
Planningtorock,
Honey is Cool
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Apr 26, 2010
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I never understood this song. Not the original, when every person, ever, was raving about The Knife and that amazing album (and I thought it merely interesting, alien lanscapes of gothic electronica pop). I didn't understand it when this cover became...
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6
Sounds like:
Nick Drake,
High Places
By
thismusicwins
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Apr 16, 2010
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Trips and Falls hail from Montreal, and became the latest Song, By Toad Records signing at the end of last year. After a six month wait, their début album 'He Was Such A Quiet Boy' came out on my 18th birthday, March 22, 2010. As is so frequent with...
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7

Sounds like:
Coldplay,
Noah and the Whale,
Mumford and Sons
By
Jess Alatorre
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Apr 15, 2010
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SXSW (South by Southwest) can launch artists into the spotlight. At the most recent festival in Austin, one such group really made a splash. Villagers' debut album, "Becoming a Jackal", is almost at our fingertips and the blog world suggests it has b...
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8

Sounds like:
The Whitest Boy Alive,
Erlend Øye,
Feist
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Apr 12, 2010
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A few months after releasing their debut, Øye and Bøe compiled a remix album, Versus, with new versions of almost all the songs on Quiet Is The New Loud. The remixes, courtesy of artists such as Ladytron, Four Tet and Röyksopp, manage to almost be...
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