I've just discover this band called....

[Aperitif]

I declare this thread successful, Greg, thank you! Your planted seeds have already caused a grand flowering via contributors choices..! Long may it continue. Why stumble through Alex Petridis when all the hot news can be found on CycleChat?!
I'll add a recent (for me) find, 'Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue - a tight, multi-talented dynamic live group, as I have mentioned ad nauseam I think, since first seeing them play:

and, a bit more mainstream, but equally impressive - Emili Sandé, who is bathing in the bath of acclaim. Powerful voice.

 

[TVC]

Normal for Iceland:

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ok, new kid on the block, give the guy a chance because he's nervous...and a bit pissed.
Probably the greatest thing in the history of music...

 

[Monsieur Remings]

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Excellent thread by the way Greg, will keep an eye out for The Civil Wars. Very nice sound and I like the name.

 

[caimg]

Thought if just add my weight to the Civil Wars vibe - I did the same BBC Radio 4 show as them this morning (Friday) which goes out early Saturday evening, look out for it. It's called Loose Ends and presented by Clive Anderson. I'm playing bass and singing falsetto BVs with 'I am Harlequin', the second band on after the Civil Wars.

Not just lovely guys but pure damn cool too!

 

[Aperitif]

Ok, new kid on the block, give the guy a chance because he's nervous...and a bit pissed.
Probably the greatest thing in the history of music...

Damn demoralising watching the piano getting slapped around with casual disregard like that...and the sounds making sense. I give up...and I haven't even started yet.

 

[Ashtrayhead]

View: http://vimeo.com/38217268


by Nothing But Noise.
Nice bit of ambient music by a Front242 side project

 

[rich p]

This is a freaky one - Jesus or Charles Manson or Roger Whitaker?

It has to be this smilie