Lovers of text book indie rock – listen up! A copy of The Vaccines‘ new album Come Of Age made it to Poule d’Or headquarters and you can win this badboy. Like – you might be lucky and find the CD in your mailbox. A CD, for the younger ones, is like a physical collection of mp3s.

All you have to do is move yourself to the music, click here, like Poule d’Or on (the) facebook and follow the instructions. The winner will be picked randomly this Sunday, 3pm CET.

The Vaccines also tour selected cities across Europe at the moment. As always, I hope your city has been selected. The Londoners are playing loads of dates: Berlin October 22nd, Hamburg October 23rd and Paris November 9th among others. Find all dates on their website.

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Poule d’Or 10 graduates Karana from Brooklyn released a new song – banging electronic pop. So much swag, show them some love. They have a whole bunch of great songs up on their Soundcloud, don’t sleep on them. And with 68 facebook fans they might give you some of that musical street credibility you always dreamed of. Think about it. Also grab Poule d’Or 10 from the left sidebar if you haven’t already. It’s 14 songs and a free download.

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Finding Sunglasses in my inbox totally warmed my little heart. The duo that met studying at Savannah’s famous College of Art and Design shared a song for the very first Poule d’Or compilation back in February 2010 and it’s been rather quiet around them since, at least on my radar. So now, Samuel and Brady finished their debut album Wildlife and it’s gonna be out November 13th. Attached is their first single Cold Shoulder. Good stuff – find a free download of Poule d’Or 1 on the left sidebar.

Sunglasses – Cold Shoulder

Poule d’Or stands today on the edge of a New Frontier. My good friend Chin will run this all new segment and regularly explore uncharted areas of good music. Not bound to a specific genre, New Frontier will go beyond the familiar Poule d’Or sound and introduce music that might not be on everyone’s radar yet, but which is too fresh, smooth, brilliant, banging, fun, swagger – you get the idea – to be kept in the closet. So here we go, take it away Chin:

When the idea of New Frontier came up, the first artist I thought about introducing was Rainy Milo. Her jazzy, gentle voice is the perfect starter for New Frontier because she is most definitely one to keep your eyes and ears on! 16-years young and unsigned singer Rainy Milo just graduated from the renowned BRIT School in London that counts Alumni such as Amy Winehouse or Adele. At the beginning of the year out of nowhere the Interlude ‘Bout You’ caught my attention. With little over two minutes this track was on constant repeat on my playlist. And I knew, this girl HAS to put an album out. Desires not heard yet, no album in near sight. But a new Rainy track finally appeared on Soundcloud. Who would have thought that Rainy days are goooood days.

Find out yourself and listen below to the Oddisee-produced track ‘The Other Way’ and the already mentioned ‘Interlude’ and leave a comment how you like it.

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Neonfaith. “Just a few kids in Jamaica, Queens making music in the basement.” – nothing more, nothing less. There is obviously a hint of Jamie xx in here, I’m into it. The xx’s new album should have sounded more like this. Mercury is the latest song making it out of their basement.

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