Arch M is from London. He crafts spluttering, beautiful, barely-there songs from urgent guitar melodies and skittish, overdriven bass lines. You can find the seven track E.P. The Mountain Tan Commercials, free to download, by clicking here. It only lasts nine minutes long, but the brevity somehow adds to it all. Not included on that record is the excellent ’21st Union’, which can be heard at www.myspace.com/archm.
The Young Equestrians, who make rather lengthier songs, are from New York. They use, according to their myspace page, “ keyboards, electronics, accordion, guitar, cello, …

Some things are just bizarre, and this is one of them.
The saxophone playing walrus that has adorned these pages over the past few years has come to life.

My Christmas wish may just have come true.

I don’t have a full Christmas mix this year due mostly to licensing issues, but I do have a trio of some beautiful Christmas tracks and a new Christmas compilation you can buy and feel all warm and fuzzy inside as your hard earned cach goes to a very good cause with Peace on Earth Vol.II.
First of all, here is a video of First Aid Kit playing Blue Christmas. It’s a beautiful, quite traditional, rendition with just a guitar and organ from the promising Swedish duo recently signed to Wichita.

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