Mia-Paper Planes

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g

Old song..the album Kala, her second, has been out for a year now. But here it is, released as a single by XL Recordings. This is the massive hit that has sent British singer Mia into massive stardom. Question is what took everyone so long to figure it out.

CSS - Move

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGS3s3FZz_g

Just a quick note before we get to the review. Indie Kid Vs Dance Kid's sister blog Panic Manual is holding a special event at the Tap (517 Bloor Street West, Toronto) on Friday night. IKDK will be there and will definately make our best attempt to hijack the dj booth to water down the Suede and Pulp with some Sonny J. Visit their blog for more details.

New single from the brilliant Brazillian band Cansei de Ser Sexy off their 2nd album Donkey. Fun quirky bouncing eighties sounding song. CSS will make a stop off in Toronto for a show at the Opera House. Definately a band with lots of energy and worth seeing in concert. The new single features remixes by the Cut Copy crew and a funky Frankmusik dub.

Kaiser Chiefs-Never Miss a Beat

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz40P1hFvWs

Canada, did you vote? I Did!

The Kaiser Chiefs busted onto the scene in 2004 with the release of two singles Oh My God and I Predict A Riot. The took the UK by storm and made a splash over here (Canada) in 2005 with some major label support for their full length Employment. I remember catching a fairly entertaining show at The El Mocambo but alas couldn't completely buy into the hype. A couple of years later they dropped another album Yours Truly, Angry Mob with some nice highlites. Its 2008 and the band is back with a fantastic single due off their forthcoming LP Off with Their Heads. Its definately got some ska going on and is reminiscent of the eighties movement. Fantastic.

The Tough Alliance - Neo Violence

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJhXLZwhZEY

My friend Laura mentioned these guys awhile back. This is a catchy tribal house tinged indiepop track. Taken from their 2007 album, A New Chance, I'm thinking this might be a reissue 12 Inch with maybe new mixes? Very Eighties sounding. The band are from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Foals - Olympic Airways

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3oIGHMYP8

Great single and fourth to be taken from their first album Antidotes which was released in March. The album on a whole by this UK band is fantastic. Indierock. They are signed to the transgressive label out of Europe and Subpop in North America.

The Courteeners - That Kiss

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anImT0C0fo0

Nice single that doesn't seem to be on their debut album St Jude which was recently released. Courteeners are an english band from Manchester which we profiled back in April. Another song perfect for the chilling fall weather.

Eight Legs - These Grey Days

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4L9koQ-B7k

UK Indiepop track from the Eight Legs out on Weekender Records. Maybe named after the Doctor Who characters?

James Yuill - This Sweet Love

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPkfFv_aJsA

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile. Work has been crazy amd 70 hour weeks don't really leave alot of time for much. Thank goodness Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada is a 2 day weekend. This is a nice indiepop track from James Yuill. He is signed by Moshi Moshi. Don't know much more. Perfect for the fall weather.

Attic Lights-Wendy

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKASliPe_B8

4th single from the album Friday Night Lights. You can read about the first 3 if you do a search on this site. Nice 4th single. It even has remixes of it done by Camera Obscura, Vaselines, Fratellis. Would like to hear what they did on this. Unfortunately the band's record label won't let me embed the video into the site so you will need to click above to get it. Good album.

It Hugs Back - Work Day

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEzjMbI9cII

Fantastic new single from this new signing to the always fantastic 4AD label. Great peaceful indiepop track. They have no album as of yet but have released a number of singles off various labels including Too Pure. This is a 7 Inch release out in the UK this week. A very sensible pop track

Bjork - Dull Flame Of Desire

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWV4N-ZcDJg

A sweeping epic duet from Sugarcube Bjork and Antony, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons. Video is done by the three runner ups to some other video contest of Bjork. Each got a 1/3 of the video for this song. Neat stuff. This is the 5th single taken from Bjork's sixth studio album Volta. After hearing this track I'm thinking I have to revisit Volta for another listen.

The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BHL5SWX0Q

Talk about a new single by Oasis? Why bother when versatile Uk rapper Mike Skinner releases a classic, the self titled track from his 4th album Everything is Borrowed.

The All New Adventures Of Us - Firetruck Doki Doki

Video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MnXQVSLzB1I

Catchy indiepop track with horns from this very young looking UK band who goes by the shortform version Tanaou. Signed to One Little Indian. Supposedly a collective of seven musicians. First album is due out in October called BEST LOVED GOODNIGHT TALES. Champion it!!

Carbon/Silicon - The News

Video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwVT_zX3hM

Mick Jones of the Clash/Big Audio Dynamite and Tony James of Generation X. Great track in the same vein as of BAD. Mick is definately getting old but good that he can still kick it old skool. Funny...this single was released back in 2007 but gets rereleased again this year with a video. Who knows why.

Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGHyRdBkEU

Okay. I'm a huge fan of Domino Records and they don't seem to ever go wrong. This is a single by Max Tundra. He has been around for awhile. Very interesting but doesn't completely win me over. Max (ben Jacobs) started his music career by issuing a track off the famed Warp label back in 1998 before going on to releasing 2 albums on Domino. This is the first single off his third release Parallax Error Beheads You which is released in October. Interesting Quirky Electro indiepop.