Magic Kids – Hey Boy [Stream]

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About time we had a proper children’s choir around here again. Imagine the The Langley Schools Music Project hooking up with the Beach Boys with mr Phil Spector at the helm. Chances are you end up pretty close to the Magic Kids - a happy-go-lucky sunshine pop combo from Memphis, Tennessee, featuring members of The Barbaras and Girls of the Gravitron. Pure pop bliss!

Cocoanut Groove – The End of Summer
on Bookbinder Road [MP3 AudioPorn FM]

Previously part of The Tidy-Ups and currently a member of Mattias and the Everyday Mistakes, Cocoanut Groove is Olov Antonsson's solo project, where he gets to pursue his dreams of the perfect pop tune.

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Bears – Please don’t [Audio Porn FM]

So we had some electro mania here for a while. Whaddya say we go to the other end of the scale and get a bit rootsy? From Cleveland, Ohio, come the Bears, a sweet little pop band in love with harmonies, 60s jangly pop and the Beach Boys.

Here’s the bittersweet, touching and simply irresistable "Please don’t", the opening track from their new, just released sophomore album "Simply machinery" (which is brilliant, btw). It’s definitely a tune you hope to find in your iPod when the cruel autumn winds start to get nasty.

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