Joanna Newsom是一个有着无限精神头的女生，特点就是年轻并且涉猎广，出生于1982年的她，出身于音乐世家，是Terry Riley的邻居，从小学习钢琴，掌握一手精湛的凯尔特竖琴，思维跳脱不局限，朋克的诗意、民谣的纯真、爵士的曼妙都是她心有灵犀的素材，并影响着她的创作动机，在民谣的肌理之上将异域民歌与先锋创作的手法融于一炉，是The Pleased、Deerhoof等多支同族Indie乐队的键盘手/竖琴手，《The Milk-Eyed Mender》是其第一张Solo唱片，展现了一副儿童般未经修饰的嗓音，浅吟低唱之处有种青葱本真的美感，古怪而甜蜜，轻轻撩动的琴弦也契合着其一尘不染的整体调调，Will Oldham和Cat Power都对其赞赏有嘉。

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这是一个颇具超现实主义色彩的爱情故事，关于一个不相信真爱的女孩遇上一个疯狂爱上她的男孩：约瑟夫·高登-莱维特饰演的汤姆是以给贺卡撰写各种贺语为生，满脑子充满奇妙浪漫的他不意被自己的女友莎莫（佐伊·丹斯切尔 饰）飞掉。为了反思他和莎莫的问题所在，汤姆于是开始回忆自己和这个女孩过去在一起的500个日子……
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl Doesn't. The film tells the story of the relationship between a woman, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), who doesn't believe in true love and a man, Tom (Gordon-Levitt), described as a hopeless romantic, who falls in love with her. Over a span of 500 days, the story moves in a non-linear fashion from the perspective of Tom, who goes from ecstatic giddiness one moment, indulging in a fantasy song and dance sequence at one point, to crippling depression the next. The soundtrack features two songs ('Us' and 'Hero') by Regina Spektor, and 'Sweet Disposition' by Melbourne-based band The Temper Trap. Artists include Black Lips, classic tracks from The Smiths, Doves, Feist, Meaghan Smith and many more.
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01. Mychael Danna & Rob Simonsen - A Story Of Boy Meets Girl
02. Regina Spektor - Us
03. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
04. Black Lips - Bad Kids
05. The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
06. Doves - There Goes The Fear
07. Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams
08. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
09. Carla Bruni - Quequ'un M'a Dit
10. Feist - Mushaboom
11. Regina Spektor - Hero
12. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
13. Wolfmother - Vagabond
14. Mumm-Ra - She's Got You High
15. Meaghan Smith - Here Comes Your Man
16. She & Him - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

这早已是一张公认的经典之作，如果说《the queen is dead》是有史以来最伟大的摇滚专辑还略微有点勉强的话，那它也一定是上世纪80年代最出色的音乐专辑。第一首专辑同名歌曲结尾的近三分钟的吉他独奏，紧张快速却又极富旋律感，Johnny Marr的吉他天赋在这展现的淋漓尽致。第二首《Frankly, Mr. Shankly》虽然旋律简单，却百听不厌，Morrissey的嗓音温暖亲切，似乎是一位大哥在向你绘声绘色的讲他的经历。《There is a light that never goes out》无疑是乐队最有名的单曲，歌曲的亮点依然是结尾那略带欢快的节奏旋律和悲伤的唱调，似乎史密斯早已看透了世俗，一番无奈的感慨和宣泄。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第216位

Recently signed by the UK office of Parisian label Source (Air,Phoenix), Kings Of Convenience are Erik Glambek Boe and Erland Oye from Bergen, Norway. Favoring simplicity and melody over big production, they write emotive, intimate music that will connect instantly with fans of Nick Drake and Belle and Sebastian. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

2004年秋，DCFC与Atlantic唱片签约，一年后，发行了加入主流厂牌后的第一张新作《Plans》，也许是天生的独立傲骨与Ben Gibbard天才般的词曲创作功力，这张新专辑不仅首周便空降全美专辑榜第四名，滚石杂志更盛赞“俏妞的死亡计程车可能成为自9O年代Grunge乐风以来最重要的西雅图乐团”，AMG音乐网站也给予四颗星的高评价。当Ben Gibbard从开场曲《Marching Bands Of Manhattan》唱出“If I could open my arms and span the length of the isle of Manhattan”，相信你会被优美的旋律与词意所感动。听完《Soul Meets Body》，脑中不断盘旋的是那句“A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere”。11首作品，11首充满甜蜜与酸苦的情诗。

皮特·約恩是美國的一位歌手、吉他手和鼓手。他曾就讀於雪城大學。在畢業之後他搬往洛杉磯開始音樂生涯。迄今為止他已經發現了七張個人專輯

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一网友说“听到耳朵不舍得休息”
他们的首张专辑"A Mouthful"夺得了法国流行榜冠军。独立民谣风格的乐团，带点电子。
自从在一个电视广告中听到那首On My Shoulders，我便开始四处寻找这个声音，结果《A Mouthful》如愿以偿、毫不失望地成为08年听过的所有新专辑中我最喜爱的一张。
然而，当我向朋友推荐这支叫作“The Do”的乐队时总觉得有些怪异，我只好接着介绍The Do的成员为Olivia B.Merilahti和Dan Levy，来自法国巴黎和芬兰赫尔辛基的一对新跨国组合。可喜的是，这种美好的异样感同样体现在The Do的音乐里，太多不同的曲调和愉快的转折让人无从期许接下来会继续得到什么。
听Stay (Just a Little Bit More)这样的歌曲让我想起了久违的The Cardigans，Olivia升起的高调唤起些许Blonde Redhead的印象，那些有趣的童音部分则人想到Cocorosie，而突然一首hip-hop曲风的queen dot kong让人彻底败倒。据Olivia所说，对他们第一张专辑《A Mouthful》影响最大的是冰岛的另类流行女王Bjork，他们共同的魅力都在于打破各种风格之间的屏障，以打造自己独特的声音。
Thedø的音乐跨度之大,即兴的难以想象.只前面几首你完全可以相信Thedø是一个堪称完美的民谣乐队,一转眼她们就变成了不带电的CSS(夸张了点),有点令人摸不着头脑,《queen dot kong》就基本就是变成女子版的Eminem了(毫不夸张)!歌曲在Folk-Blues-R&B之间转换,但却不是完全融合在一起.总体而言,前半部分比较美,后半部分比较暗.
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《First Impressions of Earth》是The Strokes乐队加入RCA之后的第二张专辑，也是乐队的第三张正式专辑。专辑在美国发行第一周的销量为8万8千张,在本周Billboard 200专辑榜中的排名却与《Room on Fire》持平，名列本周第四位。在本周Billboard 200专辑榜中的排名却与《Room on Fire》持平，名列本周第四位。
在专辑的制作方面，The Strokes仍和包办了前两张专辑的老搭档Gordon Raphael继续合作，顺理成章的就是，The Strokes在音乐上不仅再次延续了之前的复古曲风，而且更是将乐队擅长做的旋律华的精彩的Riff发挥得淋漓尽致。无论是开篇曲目《You Only Live Once》，还是打榜单曲《Juicebox》，或是《Razor Blade》，The Strokes标志性的Riff都贯穿始终，而创作核心Julian Casablancas也再次包办了其中大多数的歌曲。

Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The founding members are lead singer/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy.

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You might not know his name yet, but you soon will. Windmill – aka 26-year old Matthew Thomas Dillon – is emerging as one of the country’s best singer-songwriters, his music a heady distillation of US indie, early ‘70s melancholia and twisted folk-pop. Born and raised in Newport Pagnell, Dillon’s music has always been his escape. Puddle City Racing Lights may be his first ‘proper’ release, but it follows countless homemade albums recorded on a £140 four track and intended for only him and a few close friends to listen to.
‘I used to make demos in my bedroom, my bed covered in keyboards,’ says Dillon. ‘I would imagine what kind of record I would be able to make with an acoustic piano, real strings, real drums and a studio… and earlier this year I got to do it.’
The resulting album is a pivotal part of Windmill’s blossoming. Making his stage debut as recently as 2005, Dillon has made a great leap in a short space of time, producing an astonishingly good debut album within two years of that tentative first step into the public domain. Echoing the greats of US indie – Built To Spill, Guided By Voices, Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips – and the stars of the Canadian scene, Arcade Fire, Puddle City Racing Lights is a record that demands repeat plays. And this accomplished debut is completely the vision of one man.
‘I have such a clear image in my mind about how Windmill songs should be and I had concerns about getting other people involved,” he says. “This was literally the first time that anyone other than myself would be involved in making my music.’
It was, he says, a scary prospect, but one made easier by a crack team of musicians (members of The Earlies’ live band and former Alfie member Ian Smith) and co-producer, Tom Knott. Together, they whipped up a storm of lush strings, clashing percussion and cacophonous vocals.
‘Tom and I built up a lot of creative trust from the beginning, which was really important,’ says Matthew. ‘He also tolerated me when I was bouncing off the walls.’
Dillon himself provides the album’s key instrument, the piano. ‘I was determined to make a piano album,' he says. `It’s the instrument I have always been connected to. I used to buy records and skip through the tracks until a killer piano riff kicked in. Piano, huge drums and finding a different way of saying things – that’s Windmill to me.'

Reissue of the band's 2004 album 'Futureheads'. Included are 2 bonus tracks, the Radio Mix versions of 'Decent Days and Nights' & 'Hounds of Love'. 679. 2005.

Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by Las Vegas-based American rock band The Killers, released on June 7, 2004 in the United Kingdom and on June 15, 2004 in the United States.

来自西班牙马德里的独立小女生，可爱的小巫婆。关于这个乐队的信息寥寥，只在一个西班牙文网站上看到有她的一些介绍。可是，这些都无法遮掩住它的优秀，它让你相信一副可爱又有些叛逆的好嗓音和一些简单优美的acoustic演奏已足够吸引人，而且这一切又显得那么和谐美好，就像你从来不曾近距离探求过一样，神秘而迷人。

Shearwater转型了，而且转得更加唯美。Shearwater尝试了很多新的乐器，钢琴，电吉他，贝斯，提琴，竖琴等等，完全就是请来了一支摇滚乐团和弦乐团来助阵容，唯美的节奏，Jonathan也用了大量的假声来表现，居然还用上了Experimental和noise，不可思议，犹如一抹浩瀚的寂寞，气势汹涌澎湃地告诉世人，请忘记过去的我们吧！

是夏天，一阵清风吹来，和煦的阳光，带着一份清新的味道。这可能是听众对这张经过18个月期待的第二张专辑Riot On An Empty Street的第一个印象，但对于Kings Of Convenience来说，却是有着对”人”内心世界的观点与想像。“真得很难解释人们心里到底在想什么。”他这么注解着专辑的内容，从专辑开场的 Homesick、首支单曲Misread亦或是Gold In The Air Of Summer，随着上张专辑的脚步，他们化身为说故事的人，用大家熟识的和谐音调，娓娓的诉说着他们对”人心”的描写。而有着80年代Go Between风味的单曲I’d Rather Dance With You，在歌词里写着”我有一整年没有看过一本书，唯一看过的一部电影，我一点也不喜欢…。”“你的生活可以像本书或是部电影，我非常渴望去找寻日常生活里，如电影情节般的状况。”另外，“Boe的历任女朋友一直是我们乐团很重要的一个部份，”Oye还这么地解释，“他有一个曾经交往了两年的女朋友，在那段时间里他写了很多的作品，让我们有不少压箱的作品。”而事实在也的确如此，因为Boe的新女友就出现在专辑的封面上

On the quirky scale, Regina Spektor makes Zooey Deschanel look like Jennifer Aniston. Everything about the Russian-born singer-songwriter is a little bit skewed-- her accent, phrasing, pronunciation, hooks. So, after toiling in the downtown NYC scene for the first half of the decade, it was a pleasant surprise when her 2006 album Begin to Hope cracked Billboard's Top 20 on the strength of bittersweet pop bites like "Fidelity" and "Better". Based on an advance listen to some of the tracks from her follow-up, Far (due in June via Sire), we can happily report that success hasn't spoiled Spektor's oddball charisma.
For Far, the singer enlisted a quartet of hit-making producers: Begin to Hope's David Kahne, Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Maroon 5), Garret "Jacknife" Lee (U2, R.E.M.), and-- most surprisingly-- ELO frontman/Paul McCartney and George Harrison collaborator/Traveling Wilburys member/overall rock'n'roll institution Jeff Lynne.

Shearwater新专辑The Golden Archipelago

精灵般的Sigur Rós，冰岛上的精灵男人Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson。在09年Sigur Rós的领军人物Jónsi 发行了他的个人首张专辑《Riceboy Sleeps 》，虽说旋律美轮美奂，但是少了Jónsi 的演唱确实有些意犹未尽。但是今天Jónsi 又完成了他的个人新专辑《Go》，收录9首新歌。与其说是Jónsi 的个人专辑，倒不如说是Sigur Rós作品的续集。Jónsi同样将他特有的歌曲风格带入个人作品当中，那美妙的旋律环绕，那柔和撩人的嗓音包围着你，只能说身临仙境般的美丽。《Go》，一张超级满意的个人专辑

Justin Vernon began recording as Bon Iver following the breakup of DeYarmond Edison, an indie folk group similar in tone and manner to Iron & Wine, Little Wings and, to a certain extent, Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Pronounced 'bohn eevair', it is French for "good winter" which is spelled wrong deliberately. This debut CD is centered around Justin Vernon, who is the primary force behind Bon Iver, as he moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter, alone for three months. From this solitary time emerged a bold, uninhibited new musical focus of all his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss, and guilt that had been stockpiled over the past six years into songs. The NY Times called this record "irresistible", and it was given a "Recommended" rating by Pitchfork. 9 tracks. Jagjaguwar Records. 2008.