Indie Brits Noah and the Whale have had a little commercial success (literally), and they're keeping the ball rolling with Love of an Orchestra.  It takes a while to get going, but watching that old guy get down is worth the...

Mrs. Cold has clearly been hurt in the past, but the soft, gentle crooning of the Kings of Convenience may melt her yet.  The duo perform in a mostly-empty plaza, but are gradually surrounded by some pretty artists who sketch...

Battlling existentialist woes, Miss Mayfield is the singer/songwriter depressed rich girls wished they could be.  From her Dan Auerbach-produced album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt, Kiss Me Again shows Mayfield at her bleakest...

With their new EP March Of The Zapotec/Holland coming out soon, Beirut astounded Dave Letterman with their flugelhorn playing when they played A Sunday Smile on his show.

Sean Pecknold, brother to singer Robin, directs another video this time to accompany this magnificent song off of Fleet Foxes' Sun Giant EP.  Set in a two-dimensional land filled with geometric figures, follow two little...

You'd be hard pressed to find any better new band out there than Fleet Foxes.  We award them Best New Act for their uninhibited creativity, putting newfound vigor into the American folk revival.  Their self-titled debut album...

Folkies, gather round your next troubadour. Captured in the streets of Paris, he plays his guitar singing accompanied by a banjo player and a drummer, using a broom as his instrument. He ventures unexpectedly into someone's...

If you're looking for the next folk sensation, meet Horse Feathers, fresh out of Portland, Oregon. With violin, cello, acoustic guitar and subdued, hushed voices, let them take you away from your concrete jungles to the...

Little Joy is Los Hermanos singer/guitarist Rodrigo Amarante, The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti and the charming Binki Shapir as frontman. Together, they've created a little gem of an album, the self-titled Little Joy....

Fleet Foxes always manage to conjure up a strange fantasy-like atmosphere of a time long gone whenever we listen to them, which is probably why La Blogotheque wanted them in such a space.  They first sing Sun Giant on the...

The Swedish sextet is back with a new video for their brilliant album Na Na Ni.  Filmed in stop-motion black-and-white film, the members are stuck on a train while a ghostly forest streams by their windows, like love on a...

Though the album preview onyh turns out to be 3/4 of one of its songs, it is certainly tantalizing enough for any fan of Bob Dylan's, Elliot Smith's or Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's to get giddy with delight for Furr's...

Fleet Foxes recently performed for La Blogotheque on a dark summer night followed by The Dodos, Vandaveer, Essie Jaine, and Noah And The Whale.  Though they are unfortunately vocally joined by some of the surrounding crowd,...

Bon Iver performed at the Bowery last Tuesday, opened by Bowerbirds, and got a rave review in The New York Times Art section.  Bon Iver ended his set with a cover of Sarah Siskind's Lovin's For Fools accompanied by Bowerbirds...

This video should expunge any doubt on She & Him's talent. Taken from their album Volume One, the duo performed three songs for MTV Canada (You Really Got A Hold On Me, Black Hole and Change Is Hard). Though The Miracles'...