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Browsing through my new favorite social network Virb I stumbled upon a French band from the United States Of Paris (as their MySpace site declares), This Is Pop.

This (quite long) video We’re Going Nowhere from This Is Fake DIY Records on Vimeo.

Check out their Virb page (not MySpace; it’s soo ugly, it makes me wanna re-paint the kitchen) or buy the self-titled mini-album This Is Pop.

A good excerpt of what the independent music scene of 2007 has to offer so far.

1. Vampire Weekend ~ Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
2. Page France ~ Here’s a Telephone
3. Arcade Fire ~ Intervention
4. Aqueduct ~ As You Wish
5. Emmy The Great ~ Canopies and Grapes
6. Mark Houlihan ~ Beating The Hearts
7. Elvis Perkins ~ Ash Wednesday
8. Camera Obscura ~ The Last Song
9. The Shins ~ Phantom Limb
10. Million Billion ~ Inhuman
11. Calla ~ Bronson
12. Voxtrot ~ Kid Gloves (Daytrotter Session Live)
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ Sealings
14. OK Go ~ The Lovecats
15. A New Breed Of Monkey ~ Cradle To The Grave
16. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Satan Said Dance
17. The View ~ Wasted Little DJ’s
18. Klaxons ~ Golden Skans
19. Shout Out Louds ~ Tonight I Have to Leave It
20. The Detroit Cobras ~ As Long As I Have You
21. Good Shoes ~ Ice Age
22. The Sounds ~ Queen Of Apology
23. The Self Righteous Brothers ~ Diana
24. Final Fantasy ~ This Lamb Sells Condos

This is a petite indie-rock playlist and good driving and running music. Don’t speed or overpace!

1. Tapes ‘n Tapes ~ Insistor
2. YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO ~ Wait A Minute (wt. Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party)
3. The Velvet Teen ~ Radiapathy
4. The Strokes ~ Meet Me In The Bathroom
5. The Hives ~ Hate To Say I Told You So
6. Tapes ‘n Tapes ~ Cowbell
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Is This Love (live)
8. Arctic Monkeys ~ I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
9. Violent Femmes ~ Why Can’t I Get Just One Kiss
10. The Casual Dots ~ Momma’s Gonna Make Us A Cake
11. Mika Miko ~ Capricorinations
12. The Thermals ~ A Pillar Of Salt
13. Xiu Xiu ~ Boy Soprano
14. Silversun Pickups ~ Lazy Eye

A rockish Indie playlist of late 2006. The name translates to “some for your legs”. So put on your dancing shoes!

1. Tom Vek ~ C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)
2. Kaiser Chiefs ~ Everyday I Love You Less And Less
3. Violent Femmes ~ Why Can’t I Get Just One Kiss
4. Ok Go ~ It’s a Disaster
5. Raconteurs ~ Steady As She Goes
6. The Caesars ~ Sort It Out
7. The Casual Dots ~ Bumblebee
8. Babyshambles ~ La Belle et la Bete
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Is This Love (live)
10. Brendan Benson ~ Spit It Out
11. Jonathan Richman & the Modern ~ Roadrunner
12. Tapes ‘n Tapes ~ In Houston
13. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Over And Over Again (Lost And Found)

A mixture of high pitched Indie Rock and plinky, planky Indie Pop. You get the picture!

1. Nizlopi ~ ExtraOrdinary
2. Feist ~ Gatekeeper
3. The Postal Service ~ Such Great Heights
4. Stereophonics ~ Since I Told You It’s Over
5. Raconteurs ~ Together
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood
7. Tom Waits ~ Little Drop Of Poison
8. Citizen Cope ~ Back Together
9. Boy Omega ~ Leafless
10. Hush Puppies ~ White Cheese
11. Bright Eyes ~ Lua
12. Josh Ritter ~ Kathleen
13. The Velvet Teen ~ Caspian Can Wait
14. The White Stripes ~ We’re Going To Be Friends
15. Bitch ~ Unstick
16. Nizlopi ~ Wash Away (acoustic)
17. Tristan Prettyman ~ Shy that way
18. Jason Collett ~ Hangover Days (Live at the Fineline Music Cafe, Minneapolis)
19. Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band ~ Portrait in the Clouds
20. Anne McCue ~ From Bakersfield to Saigon

The name says it all. I threw in some reminiscent songs of my youth and garnished it with todays hottest Indie Rock.

1. The Strokes ~ Under Control
2. The Hives ~ Hate To Say I Told You So
3. Tapes ‘n Tapes ~ Cowbell
4. The Hara-Kee-Rees ~ Keeping Me Down
5. Desaparecidos ~ Popn’ Off at the F
6. Arctic Monkeys ~ Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But…
7. The Dirtbombs ~ Possession
8. Death From Above 1979 ~ Little Girl
9. Stone the Crow ~ In One
10. Audioslave ~ Show Me How to Live
11. Silversun Pickups ~ Lazy Eye
12. Queens Of The Stone Age ~ Everybody Knows That You’re Insane
13. The Donnas ~ Too Bad About Your Girl
14. WEEZER ~ Dope Nose
15. Filter ~ So I Quit
16. Boy Sets Fire ~ Across Five Years
17. Raised Fist ~ Time will let you go, all alone, I break
18. Days In Grief ~ In Dreams The Dead Return
19. Life Of Agony ~ Woods
20. At The Drive-In ~ Quarantined
21. OK Go ~ Crash the Party
22. A Static Lullaby ~ A Sip of Wine Chased With Cyan
23. Coheed & Cambria ~ A Favor House Atlantic (Live At The Starland Ballroom)
24. Soundgarden ~ The Day I Tried To Live

This is my first approach to driving music. I lost it with Xiu Xiu, I know. Eh, what the hell? I like it and it’s summer.

1. Beatsteaks ~ Hello Joe
2. The Kooks ~ See The World
3. The Dirtbombs ~ Motor City Baby
4. Cobra Killer & Kapajkos ~ Lambretta Does It Better
5. Nina Simone ~ Mr. Bojangles
6. Tom Vek ~ If I Had Changed My Hand
7. Kimya Dawson ~ So Far To Go
8. Two Gallants ~ Las Cruces Jail
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ~ Is This Love (live)
10. Beatsteaks ~ I don’t care a s long as you sing
11. Xiu Xiu ~ Bog People
12. The White Stripes ~ I Just Don’t Know What To Do With With Myself

Can you mix classic Sixties Rock with todays Indie Rockers. Would they really get along? I think so. And I am convinced Janis would love James Jackson Toth.

1. Brendan Benson ~ What I’m Looking For
2. Janis Joplin ~ Me and Bobby McGee
3. Josh Ritter ~ Kathleen
4. Mando Diao ~ Ringing Bells
5. Maximo Park ~ Kiss You Better
6. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood ~ Summer Wine
7. Nizlopi ~ Girls
8. Nina Simone ~ I Put A Spell On You
9. Rufus Wainwright ~ Hallelujah
10. Stereophonics ~ Since I Told You It’s Over
11. The Velvet Underground ~ Femme Fatale
12. The White Stripes ~ You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket
13. Wooden Wand & the Sky High Band ~ Portrait in the Clouds

A little something for the darker moods. It helps. Nothing more to say…

1. Tom Waits ~ Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
2. Dire Straits ~ Romeo And Juliet
3. Johnny Cash ~ (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
4. Death Cab for Cutie ~ I Will Follow You Into the Dark
5. Dusty Springfield ~ The Windmills of Your Mind
6. Rilo Kiley ~ Does he love you
7. Tom Waits ~ Back in The Good Old World
8. Johnny Cash ~ We’ll Meet Again
9. Van Morrison ~ Sweet Thing
10. Dusty Springfield ~ Just a Little Lovin’
11. Julia Hummer & Too Many Boys ~ Katherina
12. Van Morrison ~ Moondance
13. Moby Grape ~ Hey Grandma
14. Nick Drake ~ Things Behind The Sun
15. Tom Waits ~ Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets.
16. Dire Straits ~ Romeo And Juliet
17. Johnny Cash ~ (Ghost) Riders In the Sky
18. Death Cab for Cutie ~ I Will Follow You Into the Dark
19. Dusty Springfield ~ The Windmills of Your Mind
20. Rilo Kiley ~ Does he love you