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Three wonderful songs, great performances and beautiful videos from David Mead - Live from Ivy League Studios:

So here it is: the new record of Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto .  The more successful they got, the more skeptic I was regarding their new records. Viva La Vida was a little highlight after X & Y , which I never liked very much, while Parachutes is still one of my top five records. When the Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall EP came out, I was disappointed. It was like they became the new U2 . So when the full record came out yesterday I listened to it immediately. 01. Mylo Xyloto - The intro - leading to... 02. Hurts Like Heaven - I bet it's the third single. I hope so. It's a good, upbeat song. This has something of the Coldplay I liked. 03. Paradise - Obvious single number two. Better than the first single. 04. Charlie Brown - Still not sure if I like it. 05. Us Against The World - Still not sure if I like it, too. 06. M.M.I.X. - Kind of an interlude to... 07. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - The first single. It's okay. 08. Major Minus - It's nice...

Five years after The Reminder Leslie Feist is back with a new album. The Reminder was successful for a a surprisingly long time. Here in Germany it was in the Top 100 LP charts for longer than two years. Metals , the new record, is darker and at the first listen partially not as catchy as its forerunner. 1. "The Bad In Each Other" 
2. "Graveyard" 
3. "Caught A Long Wind" 
4. "How Come You Never Go There" 
5. "A Commotion" 
6. "Bittersweet Melodies" 
7. "Anti Pioneer" 
8. "Undiscovered First" 
9. "Cicadas And Gulls" 
10. "Woe Be" 
11. "Comfort Me" 
12. "Get It Wrong, Get It Right"  Highlights: The Bad In Each Other, Graveyard, How Come You Never Go There, Anti Pioneer

I was lucky to get a digital advance copy of Brandon Schott 's new record 13 Satellites . It's surely a very different album than his last one Dandelion . And here's a short review: 01 Annie - A beautiful intro. 02 Early Morning Light - Do I hear The Beatles here (in 1967 - 1970)? Great tune. 03 Full Circle Night - Could be a great radio single. 04 This Is Home - Beautiful balled and lyrics! 05 Flowers Fading - My favorite so far. 06 A Daydream (or A 2AM Serenade) - Nice chorus! 07 Building A Boat 08 Satellite - The song is out for some time already at soundcloud . And it's catchy. Good choice for a first single. 09 Exploding Angel - Again very beatlesque. 10 Louise St. - A short, mostly instrumental song. A little gem. 11 All The Way Down - What a chorus! Already after the first listen it's stuck right in my head! 12 My Love Won't Let Me Down - The last "proper" song on the album.Gorgeous. 13 Fading (Outro) -Well, is t...

Bleu & Mike Viola Fran Healy & Andy Dunlop & Dougie Payne & Neil Primrose as Travis Ben Folds & Darren Jesse & Robert Sledge as Ben Folds Five Jason Falkner & Andy Sturmer & Roger Manning Jr as Jellyfish Ben Lee & Ben Kweller & Ben Folds as The Bens Justin Currie & Ian Harvie & Andy Alston as Del Amitri Any other artist (post it in comments) Created on Oct 14, 2011 View Results poll by twiigs.com

Here a new 2 hour interview of the The Time Machine's podcast with Mike Viola :

Ben Folds - The Best Imitation Of Myself Ben Folds brings you his three disc best of compilation (CD1 is the Best Of , CD2 is a live compilation and CD3 is rare stuff as well as new songs by Ben Folds Five!) - it's out October 11. There is also his Fifty-Five-Vault - a selection of 56 (yes, fifty six ;-) rare songs from the early Ben Folds Five era until today. It's already available here . It's mainly demos, live and unreleased stuff. Bleu - Besides   In November Bleu will release his B-side compilation Besides . It's only available on vinyl and digital download, and only on his website .  Ben Lee The new album of Ben Lee is out October 11, it's called Deeper Into Dream . Jellyfish   The two Jellyfish re-releases of Spilt Milk and Bellybutton only on vinyl are sadly delayed until January 12 2012. Mike Viola Electro de Perfecto - the new record of Mike Viola - is out on CD ...