The Shins are back! After pleasing us with the albums “Oh Inverted World” and “Chutes Too Narrow”, they are bringing warmth to the oh, so cold month of January 23th of january is the magic date for their new album “Wincing the Night Away”…can’t wait!

Here’s a little taste while we’re tapping fingers in excitement…

Phantom Limb - The Shins (from SubPop)

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Susanne Sundfør is a 19 years old female singer from Haugesund in Norway. Her first radio single is called “Walls”. The Bergen based artist is influenced by artists like Carole King, Radka Toneff, Cat Power, Martha & Rufus Wainwright, Elton John to mention some.
Her debut album is rumoured to be released in march 2007. You can listen to the beautiful “Walls” at her myspace page.

It’s hard to keep up with all the bands that the various members of the Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene are in; it goes from the rad post-rock of Do Make Say Think to the folsky solo songs of Amy Millan from Stars, or to the Feist’s cool cabaret. One of the lesser-known bands in that constellation is Reverie Sound Revue.

Broken Social Scene concert photo by Kathryn Yu

Lisa Lobsinger joined Broken Social Scene as a stand-in for other female singers from the collective (Emily Haines of Metric and Amy Millan), but she’s long since earned her spot as a full-time member; her ghostly stage presence (and yeah, her hair too) are familiar to all BSS fans. What most people don’t know is that she’s got a band, composed with friends from Vancouver and Calgary. Reverie Sound Revue released an EP in 2003, 6 catchy pop songs that’ll sound great while you dance on the train with your headphones on, or for a happy party with your hipster friends. “It’s All The Same” is irresistible.

Nice logo, eh?

Now for the good news again: the band is working on a new album, to be released last year. It’s rumoured to be just as cool as BSS’s You Forgot It In People; at least that’s how high my expectations are!

A handful of mp3’s from the reference fansite of this discreet band, ReverieSoundRevue.tk:

Reverie Sound Revue - It’s All The Same
Reverie Sound Revue - The A.M.
Reverie Sound Revue - In The New

Irving has made a new video, for my favorite song on their album “blood from the flowers, death in the garden”, - “Jen, nothing matters to me”:

The dreamy Silver Lake band Great Northern has joined the Eenie Meenie-label, and they have just finished their album “Trading twilight for daylight”, due for release in the middle of May. I’m not going to say much more, - the music is enough:

Great Northern - lOw IS hEIghT
Great Northern - hoMe
Great Northern - baBIes
Great Northern - tHe mIDdlE
(all from myspace)