Loading ...Little Dragon have been around for a while, since 1996 to be precise and it has been nearly 6 years since Off The Wall put out their first release which was a double A-side 7″. The band consists of Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion) and her close high school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Källgren Wallin (bass) and Håkan [..]
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December 1, 2011 – 2:51 pm
NME Cool No.1
80%Azealia Banks topped the NME Cool List 2011 this week. Since being seen in 2010 in the Nike 1Love video of Harlem, and alongside Thom Yorke and Buraka Som Sistema in Major Lazers’ “Lazers Never Die” the La Guardia trained 20 year old has caught the attention of a lot of industry types. She is now working on new tracks [..]
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November 24, 2011 – 11:58 am
Ado
The UK-based Ado has got a release on Fake Bloods label BLOOD MUSIC. Hailing from Scotland the young producer is taking the web by storm. As with Fake Blood and indeed the label, there is not much know about the chap. He has done recent remixes of Kissy Sell Out, Tom Starr and more expected soon. There also arent many [..]
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November 17, 2011 – 1:07 pm
Friends
I am a huge fan of the tv series and since the middle of 2004, I have been checking on the world wide web ever hour of every day to see if any comebacks were planned. To my enjoyment I was amazed to see that the characters had all got together to form a band. Fortunately this is not true, [..]
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November 9, 2011 – 4:40 pm
Koan Sound
Bristol based dubstep duo KOAN Sound are on Skrillex’s label OWSLA, and their release Funk Blaster was out on November 1st. Skrillex was one of the founders complextro which is a mash up electro complex deep basslines and dubstep sounds. They take this genre and add a bit of electro synth to it, giving the dubstep vibe a bit more [..]
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November 3, 2011 – 12:13 pm
Das Racist
Das Racist are coming over to the UK to celebrate their first commercially released album, Relax, which was released on September 13. The album includes production from Diplo, El-P, Rostam Batmanglij (of Vampire Weekend), and Anand Wilder (of Yeasayer). If you have not heard of the alternative hip hop group based in Brooklyn, they shot to fame through their song [..]
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October 27, 2011 – 1:22 pm
Foe
Foe is an incredible female artist who used to be a member of the band Arthur. She has recently been writing with the hotly tipped Entrepreneurs, and is becoming a hyped artist in her own right. Foe aka Hannah Clark has recently signed a record deal with Mercury imprint, Vertigo records and an album is expected out early next year [..]
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October 19, 2011 – 3:06 pm
DRC Music
DRC Music is a collective of producers that made an album in 5 days with Congolese musicians in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during July 2011. The result of the collaboration is a release of “Kinshasa One Two”, a fundraising effort for Oxfam that manages the rare feat of raising money for a good cause [..]
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October 12, 2011 – 2:15 pm
14th
There’s a secretive new duo in the future bass/nu-dub step/whatever-this-new-stuff-is-called world, and it’s in the shape of 14th. Combining Tracey Duodu’s individual vocals and a combination of throbbing bass lines and scattered drums, they’re sure to be joining the ranks of Bondax, Jast Japan et al in the current underground scene, but with the boy/girl combination going on along with [..]
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October 6, 2011 – 1:58 pm
I am Harlequin
I am Harlequin is German-born musician/singer/songwriter and producer Anne Freier. Her music blends elements of pop, indie and electro pop. Since 2005 she has been composing music for film, ads, musicals as well as theater and art projects. She is bound to be likened to Florence and The Machine, but is very worth the listen can stand her ground as [..]
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October 5, 2011 – 10:37 pm
The debut album from this London five piece manages to straddle between artistic indie and big, engrossing choruses. Some have described it as Coldplay-ish, but that’s always said with the tone that somehow Coldplay sell out arena’s by being shit. Which doesn’t really add up. Language does sometimes sound a bit same-y, but for a debut, Zulu Winter have proved [..]
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Kindess’ new track isn’t only very, very nice it also comes with a cute little retro teaching-aide style video.
Everyone knows the Olympics are fast coming, so here comes the first of what will probably be a lot of Olympic-orientated apps. This one introduces you to the torch bearers and art events. iTunes
May 24, 2012 Dingwalls
Touted as a band to experience live, Man Like Me are throwing a party next Thursday to celebrate the launch of their new single ‘Squeeze’. Mates including Tom Vek and Mike Skinner, it’s sure to be a decent party!
