Just in time for Father’s Day down-under comes a simply adorable tune and video by one Emily Capell, “My Dad’s a Smiths fan”. All we know is from her MySpace, “an upcoming singer song writer from North West London.” With only a handful of views of the video and fans on MySpace she hasn’t “come up” very far yet but hey, I’m feeling it.

The first song on her playlist is “Reality TV”, which is fitting given we found her song during the ad breaks of X-Factor Australia. Which had some tear-jerker awesome performances for sure.

First Aid Kit are coming… to Auckland. Sadface. Luckily they did a Daytrotter live session a couple of weeks ago so at least we get today’s awesome track Tangerine, amongst others, to listen to.

We were surfing through a mass of awful remixes of Gala’s classic 90′s anthem Free from Desire when amongst the rubble we found spanish Mendetz‘s cover of the tune from last year. Not only is it faithful to the original but its extra endearing and sincere – not something you can say about a dance song that often.

They also do an adorable cover of Morrisey’s “First of the Gang to Die”, which you can hear on their myspace.

Tommy Ill has a new album coming out 23 August. He’s touring the country to support it and winding up in Wellington on 24 September. Can’t wait, the man totally brings it live… but till then we have the video for first single off the album “Robot” to bop along to.

Nice.

Nicely creepy and quite dubby. I first heard this on Stinky Jim’s radio show. That man has excellent taste – the show is always worth a listen.

DEEP COVER – SUN ARAW from CatCakes on Vimeo.

Sun Araw is playing at Happy in Wellington on October 14th and Whammy in Auckland on the 15th. Definitely looking forward to this one.