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The first impression you get after seeing this video

is “oh, they are weird. Tom Waits meets Gogol Bordello” but after listening to their album “Six Demon Bag” several times i am beginning to like them.
They dressed all in white, with white war-paint streaked under their eyes. They all sang big full-throated man chants; they all seemed to play several instruments at once, and “instruments” should be interpreted loosely– not only guitars, accordions, saxophones, and keys, but steel buckets, toys, spoons, and bowls of water.

The british duo Soulsavers has joined up with Mark Lanegan, who provides vocals on 8 of albums 11 tracks. The album ” It`s not how far you fall, it`s how the way you land” features appearances by Dove-vocalist Jim Goodwin and Will Oldham, who sings together with M. Lanegan on Neil Youngs “Through my sails. Listen to Soulsavers on Myspace

Each nominated a few favorites, chosen from all records released in the U.S. in 2006 which have not achieved gold status– aka 500,000 or more in sales. These will be pared down to a ten-album, yes, shortlist in April, from which a shorter list– consisting of precisely one winner– will be determined later in spring.

I am surprised to see some of the nominees- I expected them to sell more than 500.000.

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – So Divided
Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
Beck – The Information
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Letting Go
Cat Power – The Greatest
Cursive – Happy Hollow
Danielson – Ships
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Field Music – Field Music
Mew – And the Glass Hand Kites
Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
Joanna Newsom – Ys
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
The Strokes – First Impression of Earth
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
Wolfmother – Wolfmother
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Low, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Brightblack Morning Light,Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, Maxïmo Park, , Spiritualized (acoustic), Múm, Architecture in Helsinki, Blonde Redhead, Klaxons, the Rakes, Billy Bragg, Spank Rock, and more have made their way to the festival which takes place on May 31, and June 1 and 2 at Barcelona, Spain’s Parc Del Fòrum. (Nice place in the Med. sea)
Head here for the full lineup,