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I don't know why I didn't post this earlier.  yeah, i would have liked to say a few words about each band.  The important part is that you get to hear these 10 awesome FUN songs !  Enjoy 1. DayDream Vacation – "Clever’s Not My Best Excuse" 2. The Bamboos – "Medicine Man" FREE SONG ALERT 3. Deep Sea Diver - "You Go Running" 4. David Wax Museum – "Harder Before It Gets Easier" 5. Bahamas – "Caught Me Thinking" "Caught Me Thinking" by Bahamas FREE SONG ALERT 6. Gabriel Teodro s –"Mind Power" Powerful lyrics.. "I will not be defined by where I'm from" 7. Chill Moody "Cotton" FREE SONG ALERT 8. Mark Foster + A-Trak + Kimbra – "Warrior" 9. Shana Halligan – Paper butterfly Also featured on the super cool Knock And Rock web video series Shana Halligan - "Paper Butterfly" 10. Coco Morier – "Explosion&q

One of my favorite series here @ Root Down in the Shadow is the Cover Song of the Week .  The cover songs range from imitation to divergent.  Some keep the original mood.  Some are dramatically changed.  This week's entry as reminded by the original artist Gotye "[is] just like the ’60s when local artists would sometimes pick the original artist at the post by doing a cover and getting it out to an audience before the original artist was in the market." EDITOR NOTE: This quote was taken from a great interview by CMJ By Christine Werthman. Seeing as how I couldn't find that article when searching in Google, I thought it would be great to share it with you, as well as these videos! Aussie Gotye released Making Mirrors last fall.  I received the hit single 'Somebody That I Used to Know' via the KCRW Today's Top Tune in early October.  I lost track of it in the following weeks as I was focused on a lot of concerts in October.  I was reminded of it