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141. Liv Dawson - Somewhere Good
142. Sabrina Claudio - Too Much Too Late
143. Jhene Aiko - While We’re Young
144. H.E.R. - 2
145. YEBBA - Evergreen
146. Syd - Know
147. Miguel feat Travis Scott - Sky Walker
148. Alexander Biggs - Figure It Out
149. Kelly Lee Owens - Keep Walking
150. Declan McKenna - Why Do You Feel So Down / The Kids Don’t Wanna Come Home
151. Dustin Tebbutt - Atlas In Your Eye (For Jasper Jones)
152. Jai Wolf feat Mr Gabriel - Starlight
153. Omarion - Distance
154. Hurts - Chaperone
155. Feist - Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
156. James Blake - Vincent
157. Joy Williams - Don’t Let Me Down
158. Beck - Fix Me / Up All Night
159. HAIM - Want You Back / Little of Your Love / Right Now
160. Jarreau Vandal - Make You Love Me (feat Zak Abel) / Someone That You Love (feat Olivia Nelson)
feist - bittersweet melodies
[using images from the wonderful irina werning's 'back to the future' series, the wonderful new video and song by feist is just heartwarming and touching in all the right places. awesome!]
feist - how come you never go there
[it sure has taken a LONG time for a video to be commissioned for this album. from the looks of it, maybe she wanted to grow her hair out perfectly for the video shoot?]
feist - undiscovered first (live @ black cab sessions)
[check out this awesome (and crowded) one take performance of the song 'undiscovered first' from feists' latest album 'metals'. as always, she is amazing!]
james blake - limit to your love (feist cover)
[this is just AMAZING! what a haunting cover of the feist track! filled with silences, dub bass interludes and a overlapping sense of sadness throughout, there is a certain amount of genius within the confines of these 3 mins. i can't stop playing this over and over and over and over again! brilliant!]
feist - i feel it all [link 2] [good ol feist returns on the video front with yet another fun joy of life (this time with FIREWORKS!) collaboration with patrick daughters. i wonder how many times they had to rehearse with this one?]
duffy - mercy [link 2] [hailing from wales, duffy has been working with bernard butler (suede) for the past two years, honing her songwriting and vocal skills before getting the record label red carpet push that seems to surround her the past month. if you haven't discovered this polished retro star yet, now's a great time to get in on the bandwagon before her album is released early march. i'm a fan!]
adele - chasing pavements [link 2] [with her debut album 19 just released and this current single at #2 for the 2nd week in the UK charts, i feel like my duty to push adele to the masses is pretty much done. at this point, this gal is already a 2008 success story in my book. if you want to check out her recent cover of the strokes' "last nite" on the bbc live lounge, click here]
dawn landes - twilight [link 2] [there's always something peaceful and poignant when i hear modern bluegrass (especially when a female voice is involved). with a fine line from being folk music, acts like gillian welch and alison krauss constantly enter my playlist with high regard. now i can add NYC based dawn landes into my mix. i've only heard a few tracks from her album fireproof, but what i have heard is just lush. twilight reminds me of something you would hear at a modern day last chance saloon (ironic that the video is set in a beauty parlour). sigh...]
gabriella cilmi - sweet about me [link 2] [working with hot UK producers xenomania (sugababes/girls aloud AND upcoming 2008 projects by annie/franz ferdinand), aussie born uk based gabriella cilmi is quickly being hailed at amy winehouse-lite. not sure if that's fair or accurate, but there is something interesting about her voice. hopefully her debut album will produce some better tunes other than this catchy, yet 'bleh', 1st single.]
PS: if you are totally feeling duffy, here are two more videos just for you:
jools holland's annual hootenanny feat duffy - first cut is the deepest [the annual all star show in which the ever amazing jools holland gathers together his favorite voices and invites them to perform on his amazing stage. this year duffy was brought into the mix and rightfully so. this is just wonderful!]
PSS: check out this cute cover version of peter bjorn and john's "young folk" by dawn landes!
feist - 1234 [link 2] [there's nothing more interesting than to see one of your favorite acts of 2007 get overexposed by a simple apple nano ad campaign, but then again, to see feist make the top 10 of the billboard pop charts as a result is also kind of cool. there's also the fact that this video is my favorite of the year and gosh how i wish i was one of the dancers!]
this has been an amazing music year so far with new stuff coming at me daily (much that i've shared back to you). but amoung the batch, a few acts have filtered through and kept on returning to my personal playlists.
since it feels like such a slow week, i figured now is probably the best time to re-introduce some of the artist highlights of 2007 from january to june (in no particular order):
[for friends and fans of wongie, you probably know the class of 2007 (so far) pretty well. but for the rest of you, hopefully you can discover some gems from the list below. also you may have noticed that wongie faves mika, amy winehouse, gossip and lily allen aren't here (since they were loved in 06, i kind of took them out of the lineup just cause i'm a stickler like that!)]
[feist by robert knoke] feist - 1234 (van she technologic remix) [link 2] [just read that my girl feist got playlisted on the influential bbc radio 2 as their single of the week (which also means that the uk will quickly jump on her lovetrain). add to that good news check out this grrr remix of 1234 by the awesome aussie band van she that landed in my inbox today! enjoy the weekend kids!]
feist - my moon my man (boys noize remix) [FINALLY, this video should have been out eons ago! this girl is single handedly bringing dance choreography back to the indie scene. i love it!]
feist - one two three four [not only is this one of the happiest videos i've seen in awhile, but it looks like the video stylist single handedly bought out canada's church street american apparel store. oh the joy of skipping!]
UPDATE 4/15 check out this really nice profile by the new york times here (you may need to register to read).
feist - my moon my man [though the release of her album isn't due for another 2 months, little snippets of feist have been popping up all over. here is one of the webisodes using her 1st single.]
feist - sea lion woman [thanks to stereogum, check out this new webisode using a cover of the nina simone classic to hype her upcoming album the reminder]
