This Weeks Feature: Glasvegas

The name alone is awesome. Imagine Las Vegas but with a bunch of Scots. Instead, Glasvegas is something much more accessible, a pop band.

Glasvegas are an unsigned experimental pop band who hail from Glasgow, Scotland. On the song "Daddy's Gone" they sound like a mash-up of the Ramones and the Beach Boys. Glasgow isn't known for its surf music but that's the territory these lads are wading through.

The song is about, well, obviously, a father who has left his family.This could easily be mistaken for a 50's doo-wop B-side, but here it is one of the most heartfelt songs I've heard all year. Maybe that is why no big labels have come calling yet. Glasvegas just isn't modern. Unless if modern is the reemergence of the Jesus & Mary Chain.

This Weeks Playlist:

"Daddy's Gone" Glasvegas Daddy's Gone - Single
"My Chosen One" Guillemots from the cliFfs
"Kissing the Lipless" The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
"Adieu" Enter Shikari Take To The Skies
"Hanging In A Tie" South Ambulance Labrador summer sampler 2007
"Tahiti" Bat For Lashes Fur And Gold
"Bumps and Bruises" The Wheel Desire and Dissolving Men
"Sawdust & Diamonds" Joanna Newsom Ys
"Mary Jo" Belle & Sebastian Tigermilk
"Michelle" The Beatles Rubber Soul
"Dog" El Perro Del Mar El Perro Del Mar
"Heart With No Companion" Leonard Cohen Various Positions
"Jesse James" The Pogues Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
"Hallelujah" Jeff Buckley Grace
"Garrie" The Life There Is
"Floorplan" Tegan and Sara The Con
"Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King of Swing, To Name A Few" Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise!
"Sunday Eyes" Blue Million Miles Blue Million Miles
"I'm Cool (Interlude)" Outkast Stankonia

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