Call this purely coincidental (or lazy journalism), but we decided to bring you the news that both Au Revoir Simone and Savoir Adore are giving away albums upon albums of their music for free. While both require you to actually do something, the notion is nice nonetheless.
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In 2007, Brooklyn’s Au Revoir Simone seemed to be everywhere. The trio of Heather D’Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart had just put out The Bird Of Music to wide critical acclaim, D’Angelo guested on the also critically acclaimed Boggs album Forts and they found themselves playing shows with the likes of Air and Peter, Bjorn and John. But aside from a remix album, the trio has been relatively quiet on the recording side of things — until now.
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One of our favorite beta sites these days is Buffetlibre Rewind, which hosts — legally mind you — a bunch of our favorite contemporary artists covering the “classics.” We’ve picked out three we liked (along with videos of the originals), but there are plenty more where those came from.
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