Party with Bat for Lashes

How many of you felt or acted like Bat for Lashes and her friend on New Year's Eve? I know I was a good boy.

This is the new clip from The Haunted Man. It's called "A Wall".

Lots of new videos by Mother Mother

Mother Mother have been busy video-makers recently. Here are four clips from their latest release, The Sticks. The first clip, "Let's Fall In Love", is here.

"Bit By Bit"

"The Sticks"

"To The Wild"

"Dread In My Heart"

Free Frank Turner

Yeah, so I'm not gonna make the whole "free Frank Turner" joke. I'm just not gonna do it.

Frank Turner put out one of the best albums ever in 2011's England Keep My Bones and put out some amazing stuff before that. And he's left us waiting for something new for almost two years now.

Well, he's just decided to give away the track "Four Simple Words" (I posted a live video a while back) from his new album, which will be out in Spring of 2013. Woo hoo! You can get the song by trading your email address at Xtra Mile Recordings.

New songs from The National, but some are still kinda old

I love The National. They were one of those bands that took a while to get into my brain, but now that they're there there's no getting out.

It's been over two years since they released High Violet and I don't think I'm alone in wishing they'd release their next album.

In the meantime, they have been teasing out some songs. Yes, most of these were actually from 2011, but I haven't put them up before so I'll feature a bunch here, from oldest to newest.

"Think You Can Wait" from the Film Win Win

"Exile Vilify" from the game Portal 2

Here are "Rylan" and "I Need My Girl" recorded in December 2011 for Q on CBC Radio.

They've also been busy doing songs for TV shows:

"The Rains of Castamere" for Game of Thrones

"I'll See You in My Dreams" for Boardwalk Empire

"Thanksgiving Song" from Bob's Burgers.

And most recently, they played three new songs at All Tomorrow's Parties:

"Sullivan"

"Prime"

"Lola"

New album on the way from Tribes

Tribes have a new album called Wish to Scream coming out May 20. You can check out a taste, in the form of a tune called "Wrapped Up In A Carpet" by signing up on their Facebook page. The song is a laid-back acoustic slide-and-strum number with some tasteful organ shots. Nice.