Ivan & Alyosha - Easy to Love

Seattle band, Ivan & Alyosha, are currently touring with Brandi Carlisle which is huge for them considering not many people knew about them a year ago. A few months ago they offered their latest album Fathers Be Kind on a name your price basis on bandcamp and the blogosphere exploded with kind words for them. In some songs they sound like a smaller The Head & The Heart and have that indie folk/pop sound that makes you wonder why songs like this aren't on the radio. It's music that's easy to attach yourself to without much effort. They are still offering their first album from 2009 The Verse, The Chorus for free on bandcamp. I think it's the hand claps and whistling that make this song my favorite and with lyrics like "The sky turns black, we know it will from time to time/ and we've been through that, and we came out on top" the optimism is infectious.

Ivan & Alyosha - Easy to Love

Download "Glorify" off their new album for the price of an email

  

All the Damn Kids - Like Seeing a Fox in Daylight

"It's not just, it's not just falling in love", this was instant love. This is the first song that plays on their myspace page. After a day of constantly listening to new music All the Damn Kids struck me the most. I have no idea why, but maybe it was just the uncomplicated indie pop that grabbed me. I dislike genres as much as the next person, but I think that because this is a perfect definition of an indie-pop group is why it works so well. They aren't trying to be experimental, or fuse six different genres into one song, they are just making music that suits them. And it is absolutely scrumptious. It is like Snow Patrol and Shout Out Louds had a British love child together maybe with a punk rock lover for a step-mom. Maybe it's true, maybe not, but it doesn't matter, I like it. "Like Seeing a Fox in Daylight" was the first one I liked but  "The Books Stop Here" is the one making the rounds on the almighty blogosphere and you can find available legal and free downloads on soundcloud. For those of you not familiar with how to download from soundcloud it is a nice thing to learn if you love music, so figure it out (sorry I would be horrible at explaining it, it's not hard). Here is the link for their soundcloud. Hope you like it.
Like seeing a fox in daylight [single version] by AllTheDamnKids
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