Scream until your nipples bleed? Damn those Brits are sassy.
Here are some of my favorite performances from last night’s BRIT Awards. Coldplay+Rose Pedals=Love
Coldplay “Viva La Vida”

Duffy “Warwick Avenue”

Pet Shop Boys, Lady GaGa & Brandon Flowers Medley

Estelle & The Ting Tings Medley

U2 “Get On Your Boots”
(The Edge messed up. THE EDGE MESSED UP)

That War Child Heroes compilation is going to be very good if this lovely Duffy cover of Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” and The Hold Steady’s “Atlantic City” are any indication. I <3 good covers.

If you read this blog regularly, you may find my 1500 word Coldplay rant from earlier this year to be pretty hypocritical, considering I didn’t even put the album on my own Top 10 for 2008. I guess, in the end, I couldn’t justify bumping any of these albums (even though I do love Coldplay [...]

Not sure if this video will stay live (the official post has embed disabled). Anyway, Duffy. I love Duffy. Brit Power-pop is the best kind. The song, “Rain on Your Parade” is a bonus track that will be featured on the second disc of a deluxe edition re-release of Rockferry, due out November 17 in [...]

Duffy’s Rockferry is one of my favorite records of the year, and every once in a while it gloats about how good it is and makes fun of some of the other stuff on my iPod. I may even catch her October date @ Webster Hall. She’s recently added some US dates, both headlining and [...]

Duffy – Stepping Stone
Duffy has a pretty strange morning after in the video for Rockferry’s fourth single, “Stepping Stone.” Sorry about that Duffy. And it also looks like she goes out that night and cheats on the guy. But it’s OK because this song is amazing.

Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs
Besides a very long single that bored me to tears, I think Death Cab could possibly get away with this record. For some reason, Gibbard’s serenade no longer woo’s me. However, some of these tracks are very nicely arranged, and the sounds here are very different from the band’s previous [...]