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	<title>The Blue Walrus - indie &#38; electro music for the masses</title>
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		<title>Bands to watch &#8211; Rosie and Me</title>
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We try to give everything that is sent to Walrus Towers a proper listen in the spirit of John Peel, but every now and again a band or artist comes across our desks that you know you&#8217;ve fallen in love to within the first twenty seconds. Rosie and Me (twitter) did just that. Hailing from Curitiba, Brazil they may describe themselves as simple and unpretentious, but they certainly know how to craft beautifully delicate and innocent folk pop.
&#8220;Come Back&#8221; is one of the sweetest songs I&#8217;ve heard for months with ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/03/14/bands-to-watch-rosie-and-me/</link>
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		<title>We Were Promised Jetpacks &#8211; The Last Place You&#8217;ll Look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When We Were Promised Jetpacks blew their way into my heart, it was with that youthful angst of pounding heavy rhythms and vocals that showed signs of a softer heart. With the release of this EP &#8220;The Last Place You&#8217;ll Look&#8221; they have opened their eyes an become all the more introverted from the experience.
Whilst &#8220;This is my house, this is my home&#8221; in its original form built and built on despair until a crescendo denoting the rebellion of youth, it has now been turned into the hauntingly beautiful last ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/03/11/we-were-promised-jetpacks-the-last-place-youll-look/</link>
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		<title>Bands to watch &#8211; The ABC Club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and we&#8217;re back in business with another fantastic prospect for the months to come in the form of a 5-piece from Leeds by the name of The ABC Club. Thieving Magpie will be the 6th release from the brilliantly bedroom based Things To Make And Do Records and offers a sound that is reminiscent of the new wave first album by The Strokes with tight drums and taut rhythmic guitars, whilst at the same time loose and easy vocals poured into each tune by singer Zandra Klievens.
You can stream both ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/03/03/bands-to-watch-the-abc-club/</link>
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		<title>The Radio Dept.</title>
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The Radio Dept. are finally returning with a new record in &#8220;Clinging to a Scheme&#8221; released in April on that fine purveyor of pop, Labrador &#8211; and if this is anything to go by it has been worth the wait. Heaven&#8217;s on Fire is starry eyed pop that glistens in the moonlight. Dreamy enough to distract even those most driven among us to slide into Wonderland, and containing a clever uncleared sample from Thurston Moore (ssshhh&#8230;) giving political edge, this is what pop music is supposed to be.
The Radio Dept. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/12/the-radio-dept/</link>
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		<title>Bands to watch &#8211; The Shimmer</title>
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When two of my favourite blogs (namely Illegal Tender and Fucking Dance) start singing the praises of a new duo, only a fool would ignore it. And the band they have been talking about? The Shimmer.
The Shimmer are brother and sister David and Jade Hanks, who you may know as The Mono, but all that really matters is that they make punchy, dark and emotive pop wonders. Now you put them in a Napoleonic fort with ex-Clor genius Luke Smith to record, and you get a diverse mixture of rough ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/10/bands-to-watch-the-shimmer/</link>
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		<title>Buffetlibre &#8211; PEACE (w/ Amnesty International)</title>
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The Buffetlibre duo have come up with an impressively unique concept for their PEACE compilation album that is due for release on 1st March &#8211; creating a musical atlas of the world with songs from each and every corner (or at least from more than 50 countries). These aren&#8217;t just unknown artists either, they&#8217;ve got Voxtrot from the USA, Official Secrets Act from the UK, The Hidden Cameras form Canada, The Toxic Avenger from France, Amycanbe from Italy, plus many other less recognisable but no less impressive acts from Lebanon ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/09/buffetlibre-peace-w-amnesty-international/</link>
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		<title>Baby Monster &#8211; She Comes Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baby Monster boys are back with a storming second single in &#8220;She Comes Alive&#8221;. This is a lighter, happier feel compared to Ultra Violence and Beethoven, but doesn&#8217;t disappoint by getting stuck in your head with a chorus that transcends the snappy electro-pop verse into a glorious and uplifting shower of aural colour.
Also exciting is that this is being released as the first single from BIGSTEREO &#8211; another blog that is turning its musical hand into a label. Congrats where its due (even if I&#8217;m a little jealous right ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/09/baby-monster-she-comes-alive/</link>
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		<title>Bands to watch &#8211; Black Daniel</title>
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Drowned in Sound may have picked Look Away Sancho as one of their singles of the week last November, but 2010 should be the year when Black Daniel (MySpace) take that grass roots internet community love a little further into the oh so popular indie psyche.
They write some distorted pop delights &#8211; catchy as fuck but with enough alt/indie sensibilities that they should be finding themselves onto plenty of the party playlists. Craig Louis Higgins Jr, Liam May, and Luke May s have written an album that is reminiscent of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/09/bands-to-watch-black-daniel/</link>
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		<title>Bands to watch &#8211; My Gold Mask</title>
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I may be a few months behind some of the hipper than thou US blogs on this one, but ever since the delicious Love Shack, Baby brought them to my attention with Violet Eyes, My Gold Mask (Bandcamp &#124; MySpace &#124; Twitter) have found their way onto far too many of my personal playlists and yet some how I have been neglecting them on here. Well time to set the record straight&#8230;
Gretta Rochelle&#8217;s vocal slide between soaring and screeching, with and effortless cool that reminds me a little of Blondie ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/06/bands-to-watch-my-gold-mask/</link>
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		<title>Communion</title>
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What is there to say about Communion? It started off in 2006 as a club night and community at the Notting Hill Arts Club, founded by Ben Lovett (Mumford and Sons), Kevin Jones (Cherbourg) and producer Ian Grimble. But my what an impression it has left as it has provided a platform for the newest bands on London&#8217;s circuit. The night has seen the likes of Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling, Mumford and Sons, JJ Pistolet and Peggy Sue grace the stage and has become closely associated with the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebluewalrus.com/2010/02/03/communion/</link>
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