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Interesting turn of events...
My mind is blown. Kris Allen did a cover of The Swell Season's "Falling Slowly" on American Idol, and while on tour, he has been doing a (brilliant) Falling Slowly/With Or Without You mashup. Now The Swell Season is covering Kris Allen's cover of their song. Oh. My. God. This is amazing.
In this video, Glen Hansard explains to the audience that ( Read more... ) -
First Post: Twice
Title: Twice
Author: Me
Rating: PG, closer to -13 or R in the last few parts
Summary: It's been over a year since he left, months since her letters stopped coming, and they're both beginning to realize they've missed out on something grand.
Additional Notes: I had originally meant for this to simply be a drabble collection (inspired in part by ( Read more... ) -
Once soundtrack makes another list
The soundtrack for Once was chosen by NPR as one of the 50 most important recordings of the decade. See the full list here.
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New song and special guest
Hope everyone's enjoying the new tour - feel free to put up recaps, setlists, pics, and general squee on here :)
Just thought I'd share something that most of you have probably already seen, but here goes anyways:
From the youtube description: The Swell Season at Warehouse Live in Houston on November 13th, 2009. Glen introduced a new song, ( Read more... ) -
6 Icons ^-^
I've just got 'Strict Joy' through Amazon.ca today, which makes me esctatic (listening to it right now ^^), which in turn, makes me want to make a few icons. And there they are!
Preview:
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Hey kids. If you're up for that sort of thing, there's an autographed copy of 'Strict Joy' being auctioned right now to benefit the African Well Fund. You can find it here.
Bidding's only up to $14.00 right now, so you might even be able to pull it for just about the cost of the CD. -
'Low Rising' - Video
Via their Twitter about half an hour ago:
Watch the exclusive video premiere of 'Low Rising' now on Spinner. Enjoy it guys.xxx (Link)
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Tour update and New Interviews
I'm sure you've all heard by now, but a flurry of new dates have been added to the tour! Full tour listing can be found on The Swell Season site. And it looks like Doveman will be opening up for a quite a bit of the North American tour!
Recently, Glen and Mar also did a small press tour. All the articles resulting from that are starting to come ( Read more... ) -
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I just watched Once again, which made me think to post this. This is an old video, but I thought maybe the community would appreciate (what is probably yet another) Falling Slowly cover:
This is my boyfriend and one of my girlfriends :) I hope you enjoy it!
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