From The Basement press release:

Our second series is now being delivered to broadcasters and if you are in the UK you can catch the first show with Gnarls Barkley, Sparks and The Kills on Sky Arts 1 at 10 pm on Wednesday 4th December.

Subsequent shows will be broadcasting each week through December on Sky:

Weds 3rd Dec - Gnarls Barkley, Sparks, The Kills 

Weds 10th Dec - My Morning Jacket, The Fall, White Denim

Weds 17th Dec - Iggy Pop, CSS, Shortwave Set

Weds 24th Dec - Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes 

Weds 31st Dec - The Raconteurs, Seasick Steve, Band of Horses

Weds 7th Jan - TBC supported by Mercury Rev and Terry Callier

IFC will be broadcasting the series across the US through Jan ‘08 – we will give you specific dates when we have them. 

If you cant wait, check out a few performances we have put on the website from Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve and White Denim.

www.fromthebasement.tv

There’s a new group from San Fransisco called Photons. This band has grown into an eight piece, equally four guys and four girls that feature the bassoon and glockenspiel with a regular rock outfit. They recently released a six track self-titled Photons EP and it’s well worth the $6.

“Drummer/songwriter Calvin Liu formed San Francisco’s Photons in the spring of 2008 with the original intention of making indie pop that might sound like “a more cheerful Joy Division” — a simple idea that would evolve dramatically as the band’s size continued to grow.”

In the short time Photons have been together, they have garnered praise from bloggers, calling their sound “peppy jangle pop,” “eclectic pop,” and “energized lo-fi pop.” We agree that this is a band to keep an eye on in 2009.

Photons - This Must Be Love

Photons - Photons EP tracklisting:

1. This Must Be Love
2. What Do You Want From Me
3. Something Left to Live For
4. Cease and Desist
5. Animals
6. Goodbye For Now 

The Twilight Sad are releasing a limited edition CD with Fat Cat Records, “to help fund their tour with Mogwai.” Titled The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents And Hit The Road, the disc will be out on CD and digital on December 8. The title of the disc continues the reflection of a homicidal adolescent in rural Scotland drowned in their dark noise-driven sounds.

The eleven track disc is “a collection of covers, instrumentals, previously unreleased material and live tracks recorded at the ABC, Glasgow.” Several songs are covers of Joy Division, The Smiths, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Andy MacFarlane recorded The Wea-ther Is Bad for Semiconductor’s Brilliant Noise, “a film pieced together from archive NASA footage of the sun’s surface.” (Wikipedia)

The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents And Hit The Road tracklisting:
1. Walking For Two Hours
2. That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy
3. Untitled #28
4. Cold Days From The Birdhouse
5. And She Would Darken The Memory
6. Twenty Four Hours (Joy Division cover)
7. The Wea-ther Is Bad  (from the short film Brilliant Noise)
8. Half A Person (The Smiths cover)
9. Untitled 27
10. Modern Romance (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
11. I Was Hoping Winter Was Over

According to Fat Cat Records, The Twilight Sad “will continue work on their next album which is due for release in 2009.” This will be their second full-length, following the critically acclaimed Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters released in 2007.

The Twilight Sad discography:
The Twilight Sad - The Twilight Sad (2006 EP)
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters (2007 LP)
The Twilight Sad - That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy (2007 single)
The Twilight Sad - And She Would Darken The Memory (2007 single)
The Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did (2008 EP)

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

It’s A Musical have posted their third music video from their debut album, their second video since the album was released on 10.28.08. This song is the title track for The Music Makes Me Sick.

It’s A Musical - The Music Makes Me Sick

To read about the duo’s debut: It’s A Musical debuts with The Music Makes Me Sick (Puddlegum)

YouTube - it´s a musical: the music makes me sick.

Seabear founder, Sindri Mar Sigfusson, is back with a solo project called Sin Fang Bous. Sindri’s debut will be released in Iceland on December 5, and in the US on February 17 (2009). The digital version has already sprung among many online stores. 26 year old Sindri self-produced Clangour in his home studio while working on the next Seabear album (source).

The album is called Clangour and the twelve driving tracks emphasize layered electronic sounds than the folk-pop sound that defines Seabear. The acoustic aspects are still there none the less, making Sin Fang Bous’ Clangour quite a joy to listen to. If you have a love affair for Icelandic bands, Sindri’s new project will only feed your obsession.

A 7″ with two songs from the album came out on October 26 and is still available. The vinyl version has two songs from Sin Fang Bous‘ Clangour: Advent In Ives Garden and Clangour And Flutes.

Sin Fang Bous - Catch The Light

Sin Fang Bous - Clangour tracklisting:
01 Advent In Ives Garden
02 The Jubilee Choruses
03 Catch The Light
04 Sinkership
05 Melt Down The Knives
06 Clangour And Flutes
07 We Belong
08 Carry Me Up To Smell Pine
09 A Fire To Sleep In
10 Fa Fa Fa
11 Poi Rot
12 Lies