I'm not very often a fan of blog bands. What is a blog band you might ask? Well it's my own term for those bands that don’t really seem to feature on the radio, or ever really make much of a name for themselves in magazines or TV, but are still heavily blogged and often end of up with albums in the end of year "Best Of," lists.

Over 5 minutes of joy for you in the form of todays post upload. Given to me originally just a few days back to lift my mood and make me smile, and now the same positive thought process is being employed by my good self in passing this on to you lot.

Keeping things on an upfront tip with this very current new single from Kiwi lass Ladyhawke today. The few tracks that came before this didn't really do all that much for me, though this one has definitely been blowing up the spot down here in SW19.

Another result lifted from my own compilation cd, as I mentioned in the Percy Sledge post previously. This time caught on the drive home from a terrific day out mountain biking some trails down in the south of England yesterday. Terrific all-American sounding indie pop from The Shins here, and it's just one of a number of equally excellent singles and tracks put out by the band so far.