London / Brighton Live (Oct. 17 - Oct. 23)

This week, the king of choral RnB, Active Child, plays a one-off show at St. Pancras Old Church, Philadelphia’s Sun Airway showcase at Hoxton Square and Male Bonding headline a night at The Garage with Gross Magic and The History of Apple Pie. Also in the city for the coming week are Spectrals, Babeshadow, Julian Cope, Real Estate, Spotlight Kid, Bear Driver, Bon Iver and Architecture In Helsinki. Full list below.

• Active Child - Playing House (ft. How To Dress Well) (MP3)
• Sun Airway - Infinity (MP3)
• Real Estate - It’s Real (MP3)

NO LADDER by COVES

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Monday

• Male Bonding, Gross Magic, The History Of Apple Pie @ The Garage, London (Tickets)***
• Spectrals @ Monto Water Rats, London (Tickets)

Tuesday

• Julian Cope @ Concorde 2, Brighton (Tickets)
• Sam Amidon @ Cecil Sharp House, London (Tickets)
• Babeshadow @ The Shacklewell Arms, London (Tickets)
• Real Estate @ Rough Trade East, London (In-store)***
• James Vincent McMorrow @ Rough Trade West, London (In-store)

Wednesday

• Active Child @ St. Pancras Old Church, London (Tickets)***

Thursday

• Spotlight Kid @ The Hope, Brighton (Tickets)***
• Veronica Falls + Echo Lake @ The Lexington, London (Tickets)
• Apparat + When Saints Go Machine @ KOKO, London (Tickets)

Friday

• How Yin + Spotlight Kid @ Hoxton Underbelly, London (Tickets)
• Morcheeba + Elizaveta @ KOKO, London (Tickets)
• Bear Driver @ The Victoria, Dalston, London (Tickets)

Saturday

• Jacques Greene + More @ Corsica Studios, London (Tickets)
• Flying Lotus + Antivj @ Roundhouse, London (Tickets)

Sunday

• Bon Iver + Kathleen Edwards @ Hammersmith Apollo, London (SOLD OUT)
• Architecture In Helsinki @ Heaven, London (Tickets)
• Real Estate + Spectrals @ Proud Brighton Ballrooms, Brighton (Tickets)
• Sun Airway + COVES @ Hoxton Sq. Bar & Kitchen, London (Tickets)

What have I missed? @thismusicwins

New: James Vincent McMorrow - Higher Love (Stevie Winwood Cover)

Evidently there are exceptions to my general aversion to the singer-songwriter tag; James Vincent Mcmorrow is singing proof that there’s life left in the term yet. In a cover strikingly reminiscent in sound and context to Bon Iver’s double drop on live American TV a few months ago, he’s recorded what can only be described as a heart-wrenching piano cover of Stevie Winwood’s classic ‘Higher Love’. The Music Ninja perhaps put it best:

Guaranteed to send shivers down the spine of even the stoniest-hearted anti-romantic, ‘Higher Love’ is a must for all folk-lovers.

James Vincent Mcmorrow - Higher Love (Stevie Winwood Cover) (MP3)

For this week’s This Music Wins radio show on Resonance FM you can expect the fantastic new Fleet Foxes song, ‘Helplessness Blues’, from their upcoming album of the same name, BBC Sound Of 2011 shortlisters Esben & The Witch with their song, Warpath and a short show review from their slot at the Brighton Pavilion Theatre Tuesday. Also, the new track from London folk-collective Bear Driver, who will be releasing a new song ever week in the lead up to their slot at SXSW in Texas in March. Also a new surfer pop demo from quiet-of-late sun-worshippers Real Estate, as well as the Justin Vernon inspired folk harmonies of James Vincent Mcmorrow - whose album drops March 7th in the UK. The new song from Italian Born, London-based Banjo Or Freakout, closes the show, with his shoegazing bedroom folk anthem ‘Go Ahead’.

[LISTEN TO RESONANCE SATURDAY AT 6.30]

[DOWNLOAD MP3 OF SHOW]

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (MP3)

2. Esben And The Witch - Warpath (MP3)

3. Bear Driver - Fugitive (MP3)

4. Real Estate - Blue Lebaron (MP3)

5. James Vincent Mcmorrow - If I Had A Boat (MP3)

6. Banjo Or Freakout - Go Ahead (MP3)