Last years Big Echo was a record of brilliant Californian guitar-pop and now The Morning Benders have returned in honour of a great cause. The release of the Japan Echo EP is designed to raise money to benefit the rescue efforts after the devastating earthquake, tsunami and consequent nuclear disaster in Japan – the country [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Digitalism new album out in June
March 28th, 2011 | by Jo | published in News, Stream
With all the folk releases that have dominated so far this year, electronic music is hitting back. Electro Big Dogs Justice announced their comeback last week with Civilization, and now Digitalism have gone one further. Yes, the German dance bezzlers have announced a new album, called I Love You Dude, on June 20th, announcing it [...]
[Moving Mondays] Public School 22
March 28th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Moving Mondays, Stream
The fifth grade choir at Public School 22. I was only shown this last week but they performed at this year’s Oscars so they must be pretty big by now. For those of you, like me, who hadn’t heard of them, PS22 cover pop songs in an effort to promote the value of teaching the [...]
Sinden & SBTRKT
March 24th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Stream
Two new tracks from Sinden and the anonymous vowel-hating producer SBTRKT. You might have already heard ‘Midnight Marauder’ and ‘Kind of Familiar’
New Bon Iver album out in June
March 24th, 2011 | by Jo | published in News, Stream
Now that he’s got his fill on collaborating with the most diverse array of musicians imaginable, Justin Vernon is now back with his best project, Bon Iver. He announced through Rolling Stone that his yet-to-be-titled second album is out in June. Exciting news on the folk front in 2011 so far then.
Drop The Lime – March Mix
March 23rd, 2011 | by Sim | published in Download, Stream
Put together to celebrate one year of Red Bull Studio in London, New York’s Drop The Lime aka Luca Venezia gives us a taste of his live sound. No tracklisting as yet but I’ll update the post with one as soon as it surfaces. Drop The Lime – March Mix Download it.
And the winner is…
March 23rd, 2011 | by Sim | published in Features, News
Our competition, for an exclusive A2 print of Professor Green signed by the man himself, came to a close on Sunday and I’m pleased to announce the winner is… Mike Manger Congratulations, we’ll be in touch! Thanks to everyone that entered and better luck next time!
Cults – You Know What I Mean
March 22nd, 2011 | by Ollie | published in News, Stream
New York duo Cults have been mentioned by many as a band to watch this year. An album is expected by festival season, and this latest track proves why that’s something to look forward to. Brian Oblivion and Madeline Follin are originally from San Diego and it seems that their native California has certainly left [...]
Fleet Foxes – Battery Kinzie
March 22nd, 2011 | by Ollie | published in News, Stream
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues is surely one of the most anticipated albums of this year. The record comes out on May 2nd and the bearded Seattle-ites have treated us to a second track from the forth-coming record – Hotcakes previously brought you the LP’s title track back in January. ‘Battery Kinzie’ sounds more like the [...]
TV on the Radio play new tracks at SXSW
March 21st, 2011 | by Jo | published in Download, News, Stream
. Take a listen above to one of the new tracks debuted by TV on the Radio at SXSW this year. The track is called ‘Repetition’ and it sounds great. It really builds well and becomes pretty mental towards the end. It’s in the same vein as tracks like ‘Shout Me Out’ and ‘Wolf Like [...]
