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FRIENDS have seriously been doing all the right things in the lead up to the release of their debut album. They've released a couple of incredibly catchy pop tracks, which have gone onto be picked up by a ridiculous number of music blogs as well as a high rotation on Triple J. And if you know anything about anything, that equals success. On top of this, they've also managed to get themselves on massive festival bills across the globe, including our own Splendour In The Grass. No longer is the name, Friends , exclusive to that [...]

Friends - Manifest! By Russell Warfield 2010 single 'I'm Your Girl' sounded exactly as breezily-cool and nonchalant as you would expect of a track from a Brooklyn band with such a resolutely un-googleable name as Friends . Rolling off a loose funk groove, all live drums and unhurried bass, lead singer Samantha Urbani (even her name is trendy as fuck) sounding sassy as hell, warning other chicks off her man in an entirely non-jealous, non-confrontational way. 'Friend Crush' mined similar territories: an unabashedly confident and slinky pop [...]

Whether it be the stale typographic stylisation of their unexplainably underused moniker or the gratuitous exclamation mark tacked onto the name of the debut full-length, Brooklynites Friends seem all too finely attuned to that which they're up to. The explicitly pertinent question, therefore, is how well are they workin' it? The prompt response to such rhetoric is fairly noncommittal. Even regarding the singles previously thrust in our general, tech-savvy direction Manifest! is a distinctly mixed bag – if one bulging with Lesley Hann's bass: there's great stuff (I'm His [...]

Watch the new video for Friends '  song "Mind Control" below, taken from the album "Manifest!". Now that the band have been signed and have released a couple of singles, completed their debut album and toured the U.S. and Europe, you can tell that they've been able to put a little more money into this video, but it still has that feel of the other videos like "I'm His Girl"  and [...]

Is "Manifest!" your destiny? You will know soon enough... I just heard this song for the first time very recently, and loved it right away. I know next to nothing about the group, except that they're from Brooklyn and have released a pair of "buzzy" singles over the past year, including this one. I also know that naming your band "Friends" may not really be the best choice, given that it was also the name of an extremely popular television show that comes up first in Google every time. But with an album as good [...]

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One of this years hype bands, Friends , are back with new track "Mind Control" and news of their debut LP,  Manifest!   continue reading >>

    Después de rolas como " Friend Crush " o " I'm His Girl ", todos moríamos por escuchar más de Friends. El hype los llevó a tocar mucho a principios de este año, y hasta vinieron al Festival NRMAL en Monterrey, en donde lo hicieron muy bien. Ahora nos presentan "Mind Control" un nuevo track que vendrá incluido en su álbum debut Manifest! que saldrá el 4 de junio. Enjoy.

Whomadewho - Brighter The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy. Track of the week: ‘Below the Cherry Moon’ by WhoMadeWho WhoMadeWho will be releasing a new album this year, and I’ll be seeing them live in a few weeks and they’re magnificent while gigging, but sometimes [...]

Friends : 3 dudes. 2 girls. Brooklyn. Jake Bullit : 4 dudes. No girls. Birmingham. They've been paired up through their label, Lucky Number Music and the result is blog-haus dance floor ecstasy. Jake Bullit's smooth and punchy multi-layered synth-strumental is the perfect backdrop to Samantha Urbani's sexy vocals on "Friend Crush:" Friends - Friend Crush (Jake Bullit Remix)

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Brooklyn five-some  Friends  are turning a few heads with new single Friend Crush , which gets the remix treatment from Leo Zero + Jake Bullit . 'Crush reminds us a bit of Ladyhawke 's debut material. Both versions (one disco, one 802s electro) are available for free below. I loved  I'm His Girl  last year, their infectiously bass slappin, triangle and cowbell hitting debut. And just because I know you'll love it, check out a sampler of [...]

Tweet We briefly mentioned Friends  back in October , but allow me to introduce them properly. The latest sticky-sweet girl pop band hails from the unlikely location of Bushwick, an often sketchy and recently-hip area of Brooklyn. In a way, it make sense as girl-pop, as a genre, is often sketchy and recently hip. Fortunately for Friends, the moniker that they finally settled on, their particular brand of electro-dazed pop is verging on excellent. Though they haven't even dropped [...]

I openly admit I’m a ‘pigeon holer’, I like to categorise music. Heaven knows why. Perhaps it’s a sport or weird hobby. The point is I can’t quite do that that with this track. You could argue this Brooklyn based 5 piece join 80’s synth based pop with the shiny production used today, okay nothing new there but they use repetition to create structure and don’t build to an earth shattering poppy chorus. You could argue even fu... Read more..

Friends Brooklyn quintet Friends are looking to build on all the support they've been getting over the last few months and have announced a new single - 'Friend Crush' will be released on February 6 2012. You can listen to the track ahead of its release below - it's the follow up to their inescapable, breakthrough single 'I'm His Girl'. To coincide with the single's release, there'll play a trio of dates in the UK - the middle date at London's The Lexington has already sold out, but there's still tickets for XOYO in [...]

Friends is a tight-knit group of...friends based in Bushwick. The band formed after a bed-bug scare (I think everyone in NYC unfortunately knows someone with a horror story at this point) caused a number of the now members to live together for a week. While they waited out the (bed-bug) storm, jam-sessions were had, and Friends was born. Apparently there can be a silver lining to fumigating all your worldly possessions. They released their debut album Friend Crush via the Lucky Numbers label this summer. If you like hazy synth pop with dripping vocals, you'll [...]

Friends is a tight-knit group of...friends based in Bushwick. The band formed after a bed-bug scare (I think everyone in NYC unfortunately knows someone with a horror story at this point) caused a number of the now members to live together for a week. While they waited out the (bed-bug) storm, jam-sessions were had, and Friends was born. Apparently there can be a silver lining to fumigating all your worldly possessions. They released their debut album Friend Crush via the Lucky Numbers label this summer. If you like hazy synth pop with dripping vocals, you'll [...]

Friends is a tight-knit group of...friends based in Bushwick. The band formed after a bed-bug scare (I think everyone in NYC unfortunately knows someone with a horror story at this point) caused a number of the now members to live together for a week. While they waited out the (bed-bug) storm, jam-sessions were had, and Friends was born. Apparently there can be a silver lining to fumigating all your worldly possessions. They released their debut album Friend Crush via the Lucky Numbers label this summer. If you like hazy synth pop with dripping vocals, you'll [...]

A few days ago I was checking out on Brooklyn's Friends with their song I'm His Girl . I didn't know they released their debut single in March with Friend Crush /Feelin' Dank. Found out that Friends and Ganglians will be playing a show at Ottawa's Raw Sugar Cafe on November 24, 2011 . Something about their sound has that 1990s nostalgia pop-urban feel to it. The song title has this certain urban slang. Friend Crush is pretty catchy song [...]

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Given that, at the time of writing, there are only 4 copies of Friends’ “I’m His Girl” vinyl left, we thought we’d heighten the sense of pained anticipation that naturally precedes each post by waiting until now to tell you… you’ve really got to get hold of one of these. And we’re probably going to buy one, we’re sure you can handle the maths on that one. Since we last wrote about these men and women, the passionately reckless hyperbole being thrown the band’s way (a trend that we’d like to think we’re [...]

• Friends - I'm His Girl

Friends is a Brooklyn-based independent that blends a wide variety of sounds into dance-ready indie pop music. The band returns with another single after 'Friend Crush.' "I'm His Girl" sounds like New York disco fronted by Feist. Singer Samantha Urbani and Aurora Halal produced the music video. Lucky Number Records has released 'I'm His Girl' as a download and 7 inch. Friends - "Friend Crush" from stereogum on Vimeo . Sample audio. Download music from Friends [...]