The husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne from Montreal layer unique instrumentation upon interesting vocal work in a mega-folk/alternative-pop corroboration that is quickly racing up the Last.fm charts and tugging the ears all over the radio dial. Tallying just over 59,338,408 plays by 1,315,192 listeners on Last.fm; users tag Arcade Fire as chamber pop, avant-garde & awesome.

Right now the title track for their new album "The Suburbs" is annihilating their Last.fm scrobble charts, but for reference we'll throw it back to their #3 most scrobbled track of the past 6 months:…

This has turned out to be one of my all time favorite weeks worth of music to Recommend on our www.Last.fm/discover Radio.

New music from Codeine Velvet Club brought us to one of my favorite songs by the Fratelis…

New The Gaslight Anthem re-introduces me to an old favorite by Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music…

Of course we feature the Artist of the Week Langhorne Slim

Plus Yukon Blonde, Watson Twins, Rilo Kiley AND a trifecta of pure awesome-ness kicks from the new Minus the Bear single, to two of my all time favorite songs…

Hey everyone,
So just like last week I am going to post up ten songs by ten different bands in an effort to get the best similar music recommendations out of you. Take any one (or however many you please) of these tracks and suggest some more songs that you deem 'similar' for ANY REASON YOU CHOOSE! They could sound the same, share the same drummer or perhaps were both theme songs to the last time you got 'lucky' ;-) Either way, post up something good and I'll give you a shout out on the air!

1a alkaline trio –…

The free download of Coldplay's live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, is now available on Coldplay.com. Click here to download your free copy: http://www.coldplay.com/lrlrl/lr.html

Hey guys & gals,

Bryan here from Lastfm Recommends… ya know, that show you hear on the Lastfmdiscover stream from the "LISTEN ONLINE NOW > using the CBS Radio Media Player" http://player.play.it/player/player.html?v=4.10.27&id=19958

The whole purpose of the program is to not only help promote the newest & most awesome music hitting Last.fm BUT ALSO expose the tunes deemed similar by other Last.fm users!

What basically happens is I sift through the newest & most popular stuff on the charts, do a spiel on it and then refer to the Last.fm Wiki to flesh out a trio of related songs based…