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It`s a nice, sweet video from Chris Garneau, an American singer and songwriter and musician. Garneau’s sound combines elements of folk, Americana, pop, baroque, and carnival music.

Fanfarlo is a London-based indie pop band formed in 2006 by the Swedish musician Simon Balthazar. in an effort to spread the word as far as possible and make their music as accessible as possible, Fanfarlo decided to offer their latest album, Reservoir, as a $1 download on http://fanfarlo.com until 4.7.09 or 40 kr at itunes. And it`s great stuff.

on npr
you can hear the entire album ” Dark night of the soul” of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse.The songs were written by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, but feature a different singer on each track-

The other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soul are James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel

Joshua Tillman is the drummer of Fleet Foxes

j.Tillman – Steel on Steel

J.Tillman – Laborless Land

Fiction Family – When She’s Near from ATO Records on Vimeo.

Fiction Family is a musical collaboration between Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman and Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins. The duo recently finished a self-titled, full-length album, which was released on January 20th, 2009. [

Dan Boeckner without beard but still cool

a cover of N-Trance’s “Set You Free”,

Great video from a live performance at the Volkstheater in Munich of The Notwist and Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra – Gloomy Planets is from the The Devil, You + Me LP.