Spirit of Eden
Montreal's electro genius and Grimes' recent partner D'Eon comes back with a new album, 'LP' to be released on June 5 on the ultra-cool Hippos In Tanks. The man is a free mind and a sort of modern freak. A ...Read More
Out of the 400 or so 'new' artists booked at this year's edition of the UK mega-music convention The Great Escape in Brighton, there were only something like 30 altogether that I was truly keen to check and half of ...Read More
Viva Riva is the first Congolese film in years and the very first of Kinshasa-based director Djo Munga Wa Tunda. A kind of African Pulp Fiction, the film treats with a lot of humor and flamboyance all the violence and ...Read More
Over the last few years, Manchester has certainly been the most exciting city in Europe for new music. Here is another brand new trio, Prophets Of Sinnerman, coming up with a rather intimidating but well chosen name considering the worrying ...Read More
So OK, Athletic Bilbao have recently beat Manchester United twice in the Europa League and that was a true performance for sure, but what can we say about its home talents We Are Standard who have managed for several years ...Read More
O. Children are back with a new album, Apnea, the follow-up to their 2010 eponymous album, to be released on 28th May via Deadly People. Hereunder is a free download of one of the album tracks, "PT Cruiser". Apnea represents ...Read More
Rimar is a young producer from Brooklyn who produces a very slick, smooth and blissful futuristic electro-funk/R&B with a chill wave tinge. He is definitely part of a new wave of North American artists such as Weeknd, Top Girls, Inc, ...Read More
...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
