Friends!

You can now hear “Waves” from my forthcoming LP The Magician’s Private Library out February 23rd on XL : : LISTEN HERE

Also, I’m excited to announce that I’m performing a solo acoustic show for the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series at Joe’s Pub on February 10th with authors Joshua Ferris, Ron Carlson & Padgett Powell. Purchase tickets here

If you can’t make it to Joe’s Pub, come see me and the band perform at our Other Music in-store on February 15th @ 8pm. FREE!!

xo,
holly

Hello,
I'm am writing to you from lovely California. I have been here since finishing my last tour of 2009 with The XX and The Friendly Fires on the West Coast in early December.

Being as it is two days before New Years Eve, I have been reflecting on the year that has past. I cannot begin to say how grateful I am to everyone who has come out to support Timmy and I on the road. To those of you who have given us warm, home cooked meals; a cozy bed to sleep in or visited me at the merch table and kept me company. We could not have done it with out you.

From the Midwest tour with AA Bondy, the East Coast with The Antlers, Europe with The XX, and then again with The XX and The Friendly Fires on the West Coast. We have been busy, but there has been no shortage of good music and amazing people surrounding us at all times.

I am happy to announce that it looks like the coming year will be more of the same...

First I am so excited to say that we will be opening for Vampire Weekend in New York on January 18^th at Webster Hall!

Secondly, beginning in February, we will be touring across the continental United States with Tegan & Sara!!!  The tour dates are below, PLEASE GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Last, but not least, I’m happy to announce that my full-length album The Magician’s Private Library will be out on...

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Hello,

I'm am writing to you from lovely California. I have been here since finishing my last tour of 2009 with The XX and The Friendly Fires on the West Coast in early December.

Being as it is two days before New Years Eve, I have been reflecting on the year that has past. I cannot begin to say how grateful I am to everyone who has come out to support Timmy and I on the road. To those of you who have given us warm, home cooked meals; a cozy bed to sleep in or visited me at the merch table and kept me company. We could not have done it with out you.

From the Midwest tour with AA Bondy, the East Coast with The Antlers, Europe with The XX, and then again with The XX and The Friendly Fires on the West Coast. We have been busy, but there has been no shortage of good music and amazing people surrounding us at all times.

I am happy to announce that it looks like the coming year will be more of the same...

First I am so excited to say that we will be opening for Vampire Weekend in New York on January 18^th at Webster Hall!

Secondly, beginning in February, we will be touring across the continental United States with Tegan & Sara!!! The tour dates...

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a very helpful video

New music's opening batsman straps on his pads and strikes the blogosphere's best balls for six

Surfer Blood - Swim (To Reach The End)
(from MySpace via Sex is Disgusting)
Knarly old walnuts of Christmas tat fill the blogosphere's threadbare stocking. Let's escape the riptide of enforced merriment and hop aboard the surf pop revival with this Florida quartet's tribute to boardies both sea and sidewalk bound.

Holly Miranda â€' Forest Green Oh Forest Green
(from Lizzyville)
Florence and the Machine got a deserved dollop of praise from NMOW sensei Paul Lester on guardian.co.uk/music's Albums of 2009 list, but tourmate Holly Miranda can't be far behind. Her debut album, The Magician's Private Library (out in February) is packed with cute, scary, charming, violent pop like this. Watch your back, Flo ...

Annemarie â€' Blue Sky On Holiday
(from Eardrums)
A cupcake! And a patchwork cardigan! And glasses that skid roguishly down your nose as you bend over your copy of Kavalier and Clay! Scenes and zines and that "special friend" who always knows exactly what you mean. Hand-in-hand on the road to eternal adolescence. Sweet.

Juelz Santana feat Chris Brown â€' Back To The Crib
(from The Fader)
Great, catchy song backed up by a traditional video rammed with women and cars and Breezy shadow boxing and - there you go - we've arrived at that thing that happened already. The cars and women...

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Tracklist:

01 Forest Green Oh Forest Green
02 Joints
03 Waves
04 No One Just Is
05 Slow Burn Treason
06 Sweet Dreams
07 Everytime I Go to Sleep
08 High Tide
09 Canvas
10 Sleep on Fire

Notes: TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek produced this debut album from the Feist-like Brooklyn singer-songwriter (formerly of the Jealous Girlfriends) who was repped on Kanye's blog earlier this year. Features contributions from members of TVOTR and Antibalas.

Media: Download "Forest Green Oh Forest Green" here. Stream Miranda's five-song Sleep on Fire EP at her website.