Broadcast - Winter Now (Live on CBC)

Papercuts - Do What You Will

This new single from Papercuts sounds like My Morning Jacket, it's a beautiful subdued song with great vocals. I wish somewhere in the song a guitar would turn around and go another way, though. Papercuts' 4th record is out soon on Sub Pop.
The image is by Guy Maddin, his film My Winnipeg is one of my favourite films.

Waskerley Way - Ghost Cat

Waskerley Way has a full lenght (Waterfall) out soon on Wonder Beard Tapes. It's released on cassette and as a free download. 'Ghost Cat' is the first single and is now available from Waskerley Ways' bandcamp .
Waterfall tracklist:

Ghost Cat
Tida’ Apa
Haram Haram
Salome Cat
Liero Cat
Hyper Hazard
Bracing
Sense Of Humour Remains Largely Intact

Le Tetsuo - Queare

Le Tetsuo are now called PAN. Below the b-side from Le Tetsuo's last single 'Sometimes I'm Walking Around I Feel Like I'm Going To Open Up And Crack' from 2009.

Blue On Blue - Scarred Lovers

A new minimalistic demo from Blue On Blue. The singer's former band An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump are reforming and touring again. That's very exciting news, their two singles are brilliant and I was looking forward to an album, so maybe it's coming now.

Minks - Araby

Minks have a release show tonight for the debut LP By The Hedge. Captured Tracks released a special tape for the event with live tracks and a new song 'Araby'. As they say themselves, it's probably their best track. More Minks is here.

MINKS "Araby" by user5012449

Women - Bullfight

It's not clear if Women split up, but this is a 'new' song from a limited split 7". 'Bullfight' is great, listen below. It would really be a shame if they didn't make another record.

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - (If You) Keep Me In Your Heart

Aidan Moffat made a new record with Bill Wells, Everything's Getting Older, it's out early May. The first single is released on valentine's day.
In March he tours the UK with Malcolm Middleton's new band Human Don't Be Angry.

Broadcast - Papercuts (Black Session)

I was shocked last friday when I read about the passing of Broadcast's Trish Keenan. I have been a fan of the band since the debut from 2000, I was listening to that record for months and was fascinated by the sounds and the lyrics. The records that followed had the same effect, Broadcast was a unique band that created beautiful otherworldly music. Always pushing their limits, it was an exciting band to follow.

The music world reacted very shocked to the news, a lot of blogs and musicians posted their thoughts. Aquarium drunkard posted the Black Session Broadcast recorded in May 2000 for French radio. I never heard live recordings from this period. It's a beautiful 12 track session with songs from the debut, an early single, a track from Extended Play and 'Hammer Without A Master'. Go to Aquarium Drunkard for the download.

There's an interesting interview with Broadcast from 2009 about their last record Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age on The Wire's website and there's an article about Broadcast on Pitchfork.

Session tracklist:

1. Long Was The Year

2. Where Youth And Laughter Go

3. Message From Home

4. Echo's Answer

5. Dead The Long Year

6. Look Outside

7. Come On Let's Go

8. Interlude 2

9. Unchanging Window

10. Papercuts

11. Lights Out

12. Hammer Without A Master

Wise Blood - 2 ALL THE GIRLS WHO HAVE TRUSTED ME

'2 All The Girls Who Have Trusted Me' was released on an EP last summer, there's a cool video now, streaming below. The sound is not so good so I also uploaded the mp3 for a stream. Wise Blood's debut LP is out in spring.