Fleet Foxes - Best Cover Art of 2008

The people have spoken: Not only did Fleet Foxes create some of the best music of 2008, they also had the greatest cover art! With 3000 people casting their vote, Fleet Foxes came out on top, followed by Roots Manuva’s “Slime & Reason” and Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.
Like the organizers Art Vinyl points out, they [...]
Tags: art vinyl, Best Cover Art, Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Roots Manuva
Posted in News, Vinyl | January 5th, 2009
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New Vinyl Releases

New vinyl releases! Here are our picks of the week!
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
King Khan & BBQ Show - Animal Party
Low Motion Disco - Keep It Slow
The Raconteurs - Old Enough
Tindersticks - Boobar Come Back To Me Lucky Dog
Made In Mexico - Guerillaton
Colossal Yes - Charlemagne’s Big Thaw
George Coleman - Bongo Joe
Emmylou Harris - [...]
Tags: Animal Collective, King Khan & BBQ Show, Low Motion Disco, Neil Young, New Vinyl Releases
Posted in Nylvi, Vinyl | January 5th, 2009
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Royal Trux - Vinyl Re-issues

Good news for all Royal Trux fans. Drag City is re-issuing both the band’s classic debut “Royal Trux” and the follow-up, the experimental double-album “Twin Infinitives” on vinyl!
Released in 1988 and 1990, these albums are often seen as cornerstones in Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty’s lasting reputation as one of the most experimental, messy and [...]
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Posted in News | January 4th, 2009
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Download: Arcade Fire - Burning Bridges

Arcade Fire has just released their new documentary Miroir Noir, which tells the story behind the making of Neon Bible and the subsequent tour.
The doc is available both in a digital version and more traditionally as a dvd from their Miroir Noir website. Here you can also get an mp3 of “Burning Bridges”, an instrumental [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, Burning Bridges, Free download, Miroir Noir
Posted in Download | January 3rd, 2009
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Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

When talking about the greatest and most important labels, it’s hard to avoid mentioning Stax Records, even if it never reached the sustained celebrity of rival Motown Records. Founded 1957 in Memphis Stax Records launched soul music greats such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Booker T. & The MGs [...]
Tags: Booker T. and the MGs, Isaac Hayes, Motown Records, Otis Redding, PBS, Sam & Dave, Stax Records, The Staple Singers
Posted in News | January 3rd, 2009
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Download: Domino - Free Not Free

Thanks to the kindly people over at Domino Records mp3’s from The Count & Sinden, The Kills, Wild Beasts, Clinic, Lightspeed Champion, Max Tundra and more are now available for free download.
They are all featured on the new label sampler “Free Not Free,” which celebrates another good year for Domino and can be downloaded for [...]
Tags: Clinic, Domino Records, Free download, Free Not Free, Max Tundra, The Count & Sinden, The Kills
Posted in Download | January 2nd, 2009
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Announcing the Winners of the Nylvi Christmas Competition

We started a Nylvi Christmas Competition a while ago where we said we would give out a freely chosen record to five people who added a link back to Nylvi. The deadline was New Year’s Eve so we just finished the draw, and the lucky winners are: Scott, Melanie, Corey, Sara and SSQ. We will [...]
Tags: christmas competition, free records
Posted in Nylvi | December 31st, 2008
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Download: They Said OK - new mix!

From Canada, They Said Ok ‘because we want to make you dance’. Well indeed friends, this wee mix will indeed make you dance, the perfect warm up for a night of italo-disco, fused minimal techno, dubstep, classics end of year tunes, indie disco gems and perhaps an Elton John cover
1- Better off alone - Cosmo
2- [...]
Tags: 2009 mix, Download, hot new 2009 producers and mixers, MIX, remixers and such fol, They Said ok
Posted in Download | December 31st, 2008
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Little Comets: One Night In October

We’re already written posts on Empire Of The Sun and La Roux, but someone that the BBC Introducing / Ips of 2009 didnt pick up on are the Little Comets who based on ‘One Night In October’ have been criminally overlooked. Combining lyrical intelligence and wit not heard from an English band since Pulp, and [...]
Tags: Little Comets, Pulp, Vampire Weekend
Posted in News | December 31st, 2008
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Download: Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel

Vampire Weekend namecheck Peter Gabriel. Peter Gabriel gets hit up by Hot Chip. Hot Chip re-write the song by Vampire weekend that namechecks Peter Gabriel. Peter Gabriel sings on said track. Are you still with me? We’re going sub-sub-post-modern here. It’s a pretty interesting take on the same track that the Very Best guys reved [...]
Tags: Hot Chip, Peter Gabriel, Vampire Weekend
Posted in Download | December 31st, 2008
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