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Videos of the Day – week of 1/12

1/12 – the Welsh band Catfish & The Bottlemen (I have a terrible time remembering that band name!?) were on Letterman last week as their new album has just come out stateside after a big 2014 in the UK

1/13 – this one’s been kicking around for a while, but here’s another artist we think you might just be hearing a lot more about in 2015…Ryn Weaver.

1/14 – Twin Shadow has a new album set for March 17th…as George (the main brain behind Twin Shadow) puts it on the YouTube entry for this new single, “my friends keep asking, ‘Turn me up’, what’s that mean? I keep saying, Take more from me. Ask more of me. Give me more back. Stop fighting against the things you want the most.”

1/15 – Kansas-via-L.A.-and-Hawaii DIY internet sensation Kawehi is at The Southern (and in the Corner Lounge) tomorrow…here’s her Nirvana cover that went viral last spring!

1/16 – Sharon Van Etten debuted a new song on the Ellen show yesterday!

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