
Following in the footsteps of bands such as Phoenix or Pony Pony Run Run , Fortune are bringing a breath of fresh to the French indie electro scene. With their debut album, Staring At The Ice Melt , Lionel Pierres, Hervé Loos and Pierre Lucas are clearly setting the tone: it's unashamedly pop, it's fresh and effective and it's gonna make you dance! Fortune - Bully Even Thomas Mars from Phoenix [...]

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Paris band Fortune is releasing both an EP entitled "Gimme" and an album, "Staring at the Ice Melt", on March 23. The quartet are comprised of musicians with backgrounds from several other bands like The Yolks, The Big Knife, Abstrackt Keal Agram, Y Front and Rodolphe Burger's Meteor Band. Labeled post-punk you can hear traces from the usual new wave and synthpop bands. But the guys also cite influences from 60s pop rock bands like The Zombies and The Troggs of Love via disco and Michael Jackson to modern bands like Granddaddy, Dopplereffekt, Lo-Fi-Fnk and Vampire [...]

Hot Paris band Fortune unveils "Gimme EP" Cut from the forthcoming debut album Staring At The Ice Melt. Produced by Pierrick Devin (Adam Kesher, Alex Gopher, Cassius and Cut Copy) and mixed by Stéphane "Alf" Briat (Phoenix, Air and Sebastien Tellier) Here we have a free download of " The Remix Collection " CD featuring remixes of tracks from Phoenix, Pony Pony Run Run, Rubin Steiner, My Tiger My Timing and Axe Riverboy Phoenix - 1901 (Fortune Remix) [...]
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It's THURSDAY and here are TWELVE THURSDAY TUNES that we have found somewhere on labelsites, artist's sites, promosites or on web-magazines. From next week, the TWELVE will be out of THURSDAY TUNES, and we will give you whatever we've got, no matter how many we've found. So next weeks column will be called THURSDAY TUNES. Here are this week's tunes: The Wombats - Kill the director ("This is no Bridget Jones". A new classic from The Wombats! from Spinner.com ) The A-sides - Cinematic (I love this song, and [...]
Axe Riverboy : "Carry On" [mp3] other Axe Riverboy music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Bear in Heaven : "Bag of Bags" [mp3] from Red Bloom of the Boom other Bear in Heaven music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Ela : "Professional Love" [mp3] from Real Blood On Fake Trees other Ela music blog [...]

Oh baby, welcome back to MOKB's weekly recap of all that was in the NFL. We'll cross-reference with some indie tunes as usual. I'll try not to burn out in Week 13 or 14 like I did last year. I've been training and eating better, so I feel good about it. New Orleans 10 at Indianapolis 41 What a way to kick it all off! OK, I'm partial to the Colts of course, but how good did they look?! I mean, the defense was equally [...]

Another month, another batch of rad (and free) downloads with the extrawack! seal of approval...and a photo of a monkey with a pistol. Have at 'em. The Deadly Syndrome - "Eucalyptus" Here" mp3 Adrian Orange and Her Band - "You're My Home" mp3 Tiny Masters Of Today - "Hey Mr. DJ (CSS Remix)" mp3 Enon - "Mirror On You" mp3 Sunset [...]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of you who've heard of Axe Riverboy before have probably come across La Blogotheque's wonderful "Take Away Shows" and caught a glimpse of him playing with Of Montreal in the streets of France. I say "him" because Axe Riverboy is a solo project of French pop band Tahiti 80 's vocalist, Xavier Boyer. Impressed by his caught-on-camera noodling, I decided to hunt down his debut album, Tutu to Tango . It's only available in France and Japan, so it took some hunting [...]