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Los Campesinos - Romance Is Boring video

Band: Los Campesinos Song: Romance is Boring Why: This is the off the third album and one of my many favorites from it. I've heard the album and yes I honestly think it's just as good if not better than earlier albums. B likes this band mostly because they have real meter changes in their songs. From their label: Ask yourself this: how many indie bands make a second record that's better than their first, and then make a third record that's better than their second, all in little over eighteen months? Think about that one for a bit. Romance Is Boring by Los Campesinos! from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo . Stream the whole album on myspace Preorder the album (release date 1/26/10)

Los Campesinos! @ The El Rey

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Damn I forgot to post this earlier. Last Friday a couple of weeks ago I won tickets to one of may favorite bands Los Campesinos through the generosity of LA metblogs. I had entered the ticket giveaway which asked for a link to my favorite picture of Wales where the band hailed from and the location of the image. A quick google image search led to many boring, non-specific to any part of Wales pictures so I went with the one subject I knew of in Wales in my comment: The only thing I can think of Wales related is Carol Smillie, the original host of Changing Rooms on BBC America (aka Trading Spaces in the US). She was way cute. I assume that this is not going to win me any Los Campesinos! tickets. Later that day the one and only Lucinda sent over a silly email informing me that I merely won because there were only two entries (including mine) and two prizes so that's an automatic win for me!   So I took Corey of course and spent the whole time outside during the opening ...