From Esau and Radioclit's awesome mixtape, overlaying Esau over many known tracks, here's the good feelin' Kamphopo set to Architecture in Helsinki's Heart It Races along with a video shot in Lelongwe, Malawi.  So relax with...

Andreas Nilsson raises the bar pretty high for 2009 directing Swedes Fever Ray's soon to be its own 7" as well as the first song on their upcoming self-titled album.  Starting as if in the middle of a modern Grimm's fairy...

You'd be hard pressed to find any better new band out there than Fleet Foxes.  We award them Best New Act for their uninhibited creativity, putting newfound vigor into the American folk revival.  Their self-titled debut album...

Though we feel the dark days have just begun, it's nice to hear a voice of reassuring strength affirming the opposite.  Florence Welch brings her deep sonorous soulful voice to the indie genre - if you're willing to cross the...

First playing with his father Fela's band Egypt 80 at the age of eight years old, Seun Kuti now leads the band and keeps the tradition alive with Many Things.  Afro-beat has always been a denouncer of injustice and abuses of...

The weather is getting colder, but The Boy Least Likely To just can't wait. England is due for some snow on the beach with Te First Snowflake, featuring the indie pop duo writing prayers in the snow and scaling mountains to...

It seems like Portishead's last album has passed over most people's heads, undoubtedly due to its experimental nature. Portishead worked with John Minton on this latest video Magic Doors to produce a collage of images,...

For their great new 7" Used To Be, Beach House look like the most well-dressed couple of drifters we've ever seen planning their next move in a deserted diner.  Although not as psychedelic as most of their other tunes, they...

Fleet Foxes always manage to conjure up a strange fantasy-like atmosphere of a time long gone whenever we listen to them, which is probably why La Blogotheque wanted them in such a space.  They first sing Sun Giant on the...

If you got 10 minutes to spare (and you're not at work), sit back, relax and enjoy this rare bootleg DVD from 2004 featuring Diplo's early remix works starting with a Juvenile/Cure mashup followed by clips from the awesome H...

Who ever thought flamenco players could turn into rock stars?  And yet, here they are: Rodrigo y Gabriela.  This remarkable duo started off in Mexico in a thrash metal band before deciding to go back to more classical roots (...

Shara Worden is one of the best artists that have come out of the indie art-music scene, delivering a wonderously eclectic album that would make her past associate Sufjan Stevens very proud. Watch here in this wild animated...

Feist tones down her usual exuberance for her latest video, Honey Honey. An Ahab chases his monster while his loved one watches from the seashore in this incredibly-puppeteered music video.

After watching (and listening) to this impressive single, we are very, very eager for the upcoming release of his LP Temper.  Directed by Ryan Jeffery, watch as BP, a.k.a. Thomas Meluch, get chased across a field while the...

Efterklang, a Danish band whose genre is impossible to define, recently played a new song for La Blogotheque's Take Away Show in a restaurant's kitchen, stripping away their electronic side for a more acoustic feel. If you...