New Artist Discovery: Local Natives

Very good band here. I originally discovered them back in January but never got around to posting them. I won't say much about them because I want them to capture you with their music. I've embedded their player below and recommend listening to "Airplanes" first. Give a full listen though as I believe they are a band worth purchasing (of course after you buy fun. and Mumford & Sons)

Similar to (but different enough): Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Freelance Whales, Broken Bells.

Mucho New Bands - Part One

Typically I would post a semi-in-depth look at a personal newly discovered artist in my "New Artist Discovery" series but since I haven't posted in quite some time I'm backlogged. So I've been compiling a list of many new bands I've come across in the last 8 months. It's too much to have big separate "New Artist Discovery" posts on each artist like I do and I want to catch everyone up quickly because they won't be new bands much longer. Anywho, here is the list of bands you should check out with my quick blurb on them. (Writers Note: Most of them were undiscovered or not popular at the time I heard of them and may be popular now...my fault for not posting them when I originally heard them so you could have an edge over your friends for the "new band you've discovered"). I'll cover the "Mucho New Bands" series in a number of posts, so stay tuned or grab the RSS feed. Enjoy:

Derby -
Why Should You Listen? - Because you haven't heard a band like this in a while that effectively uses the clap as a rhythmic element and makes the song better because of it.
Listen Here to the whole player but if I was to pick a couple I'd say "If Ever There's a Reason" (great song), "Don't Feed the Bear", etc...

Style - Uhh, indie something but not really sure on this one.
Similar to: Tough one here because they are pretty unique. I could see elements of Weezer (however they don't sound like), Noah and the Whale and a few others I can't think of right now.
Free Song -

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Andy Shauf -
Why Should You Listen? - Because he has some fun indie folk rhythms. He takes indie folk to a slightly different level with some pep in most of his songs. If you liked Jeremy Fisher that I posted a while back then you'd like this guy. Slightly tamer than Fisher but still fun to listen to.
Listen Here to "Your Heart", "You Remind Me", etc...
Style - Indie folk rock, canadian folk, indie
Similar to: Denison Witmer, Joe Pug, Jeremy Fisher

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The Portland Cello Project -
Why Should You Listen? - How many cello bands are out there that are interesting and do indie works? Also, Portland puts out some of the best music in the country and they happen to hail out of there.
Listen Here to "Seeds May Fall" (great tune), "Tallymarks", etc...
Style - I have no idea. You can't classify them. I mean they are a bunch of cellists that cover songs like "Toxic", "What Goes Around" and then invite indie artists to sing their songs with their background...so yeah, I have no idea.
Similar to: No one. How can you be similar to a cello indie band?

The Turtleman

I have three comments:
Why has Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs not filmed an episode with him yet?
I think the turtle man's Indian ancestors would be proud.
Some people are better off being dumb so they don't know how badly hurt they can get.

Alternate Movie Posters

Here's what some movie posters would look like if they had starred the originally-considered actors.

Old Spice Guy Custom Messages

Just found this article about how the Old Spice Guy is responding to people tweeting @oldspice by doing custom video messages. I will say they are fantastic. Here is one of my favorites:

Lego House - My Dream