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So, only a few days til christmas eve, here is my Mixtape for Xmas 2011 - hope you like it: 01 - Mike Viola - Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas 02 - Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas 03 - She & Him - The Christmas Waltz 04 - Bleu - Cold, Cold Christmas 05 - Jim Boggia - Christmas Baby Please 06 - The Nines - It's Christmas 07 - The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York 08 - Travis - Alone On Christmas Day 09 - David Mead - Christmas Is So Far Away 10 - Coldplay - Christmas Lights 11 - Aimee Mann - Whatever Happened To Christmas 12 - Ben Folds Five - Stumblin' Home Winter Blues 13 - Eels - Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas 14 - She & Him - Baby, It's Cold Outside 15 - The Nines - Winter Song 16 - Billy Mack - Christmas Is All Around 17 - The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) Most of the songs are streamed here:   I made this tape not downloadable for...

Bleu - Besides  Seems to be delayed, probably it'll be out in early 2012. Besides is a collection of unreleased songs (a long time ago they would have been called B-Sides...). You only can buy it HERE . Jellyfish - Spilt Milk & Bellybutton (January 10)  The vinyl re-release from Omnivore Recordings. Preorder it HERE . Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (January 23) The first single "When I Was Young" for free download HERE  Goldfrapp - The Singles (February 6) Well, it's a .. Singles collection. - with a great selection of tracks - and two new songs. More info's HERE . AIR - Le Voyage Dans La Lune (February 7) ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ (A Trip To The Moon) is a classic black & white silent short film by French director Georges Méliès from 1902. It is widely considered one of the most important works in film history, and the very first to use science fiction as its theme, incorporatin...

Yesterday Lojinx , an independent record company based in the UK (love them for bringing artists like Bleu and Fountains Of Wayne to Europe) posted a review of the new Ben Lee record Deeper Into Dream . It's in German, so I did a little translation : A record about dreams is what Ben Lee wanted to do. It became an unusual mixture of a folk record, guitar pop a mini audiobook. At certain points of the record songs are fractured by small stories or dialogues from friends of some experiences – in dreams or reality. They keep a record thematically together which offers a broad range for a singer songwriter album. Other than on some of his so far eight other records, the Australian works with a complete band. He develops songs than remind more of Death Cab For Cutie or Ryan Adams than a dreamy singer, which tilt into too much sweetness - whenever he tempts to do a song for format radio. He’s entitled to make money with his music, but these straightness offensives...