...believe. The future looks bright for this young Toronto-based duo started a few months ago by Robert Alfons - a young handsome singer/songwrter/keyboardist whose 80's bad boy look could have got him a role in the movie picture Fight Club ...Read More
So we're back, after a long spell over Xmas and New Year holidays. It's time to wish you all the best for 2012, hoping on our side that this SOE festival will definitely happen this year ! Nothing too sure ...Read More
It's about time I talk about this mighty young NYC producer who takes hip-hop to brand new grounds and regularly provides killer beats and sounds to the new generation of East-Coast rappers - precisely Harlem in most cases - Lil ...Read More
Genuflex is a brand new project from Finn Vine who, incidentally, used to be in the band White Rose Movement but this has got nothing to do with it. Genuflex is the extraordinary mix of cold and sometimes industrial electronic ...Read More
Yes indeed, No Ceremony is one of SOE's favorites ! They regularly come back here, track after track, remix after remix...and we still don't know anything about them ! Hopefully we'll find out end of June, down on this small ...Read More
TOY is a London-based 5-piece band formed only a year ago but who has already shared stages with the likes of The Horrors - whom they've followed on the last tour for several dates - or S.C.U.M. They globally look ...Read More
Meghan Remy and her lo-fi solo project US Girls just got signed on Fatcat and she certainly deserves to be on such a high-profile label. Here is the video of her latest single 'The Island Song' taken from the 'US ...Read More
This Purity Ring live shot by Chris La Putt and seen on the Brooklyn Vegan blog illustrates my report of the 2011 edition of CMJ because their set at Fader Fort was for me one of the most striking ...Read More
I saw Torches live two weeks ago at the excellent Binnacle Micro-Festival in Shoreditch (I'll come back to that later with a report of last week's CMJ in NYC too) and they confirmed the impression I immediately felt when listening ...Read More
Here is the second gem from Manchester fresh and mysterious project No Ceremony/// and, like the former one 'Hurtlove', the whole vibe as well as the artwork of 'WEARME' give the strange feeling that it could be the soundtrack of ...Read More
I hardly talk about German artists these days. Here is one from Berlin who comes up with a track that clearly intrigues and works. From the distorted vocal intro of 'I Can't Exist', one could think that it's going to ...Read More
Thanks to Rachael @ London-based and newly formed PR and digital agency CPR Agency, here is another fantastic production from mysterious Manchester new band/artist (?) No Ceremony. Actually it's a remix of Patrick Wolf's 'Time Of My Life' and I ...Read More
Here is the first single from 21-year old Oliver Tank's debut EP, released on the 24th October by Australian label 'Yes Please'. Based in Sydney (Australia) Oliver Tank makes some beautiful 'dreamwave' music with computers and it sounds like Eno ...Read More
Ernest + Tom is Jane Parker's one woman band from Manchester (UK) and her great new song 'Non Stop Orbit' here below is on the tracklisting of a limited edition (500) 4-track 12" single, released by MaK Records (Manchester Aid ...Read More
20 year-old Pensylvania-based Alec Koone aka 'Balam Acab' releases his debut full-length 'Wander/Wonder' next week on Tri Angle and I can't wait to get a copy after listening to 'Oh Why', the first track on the album as well as ...Read More
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