Hey Everyone

This weekly blog will feature Artists and Bands that you should be listening to, no excuses. This is an offshoot of Knuckle's Music Your Not Listening To (But Totally Should Be) , just on a larger, more detailed level. Each week I will tracking through an artist, their history and their albums. This blog will not be reduced to "This band is awesome cause I say so". Also not to be confused with Les Legions Noires' musically inspired blogs, my entries will be more Indie/Alternative music, opposed to his punk/metal blogs.

There is also one other difference with this blog: I will be asking and posting user submitted entries each week. One (or two) users will be selected based on their submission to be included in the upcoming blogs, though like I said, this blog will not be one sentence posts saying LISTEN TO THIS!!!!!!, so each submitter has to make a quality post detailing why this artist deserves to be featured. I will be accepting submissions through the Conversation feature, so please send all entries there.

But without further adieu, this weeks feature artist:

Florence + The Machine

Florence and The Machine is an indie/alternative band from London, England that came to be in '07. Florence Welsh's talent was discovered in the bathroom toilet, drunkenly singing Motown songs. Since then she started recording music and touring with friends and other collaborating artists. The current touring line up includes Florence (vocals), Robert Ackroyd (guitar), Isabella Summers (keyboard), Tom Monger(harp) and Christopher Lloyd Hayden (drums). Florence and The Machine have been dubbed "soul inspired indie rock".

The debut album, Lungs, was released in July 2009, which stayed in the number 2 position for five straight weeks in the UK, right behind Michael Jackson. Their debut single "Kiss With A Fist" was also part of the Jennifer's Body soundtrack. A deluxe version of Lungs can be found on iTunes for a total of 19 songs at the mere cost of $13.99, or less than a dollar a song for great steal.

Live version of "Dog Days Are Over"

Other notable singles are "Rabbit Heart (Raise Up)", "Cosmic Love" and my personal favorite "Dog Days Are Over".

I discovered Florence and the Machine through Last.fm's recommended station that was tailored for my taste in music. After hearing a good portion of their album I started to look up more of them through youtube and quickly feel in love with them. Their music is very similar to other notably great artists: Feist, Eisley and Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O.

"Kiss With A Fist"

"Cosmic Love"

That is it for this week's edition of What You Should Be Listening To,and I hope you enjoyed this week's artist. As I stated before, I want submissions from you guys so I can add them into each weekly blog as contributors. So send me your music via conversation and I'll try to add it in.

And now for some random videos and interviews:

Interviews:

Other notable songs/covers:

All pictures courtesy of Last.fm, videos via YouTube (duh).