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Watch out for her! Laleh Pourkarim is an Iranian-Swedish singer-songwriter. She came to Sweden when she was 1 year old and went to school in Angered, Gothenburg. Before that she had lived in Azerbaijan and Minsk, Belarus. She personally produced and wrote her 2005 self-titled debut album, in which she sang in three different languages: English, Swedish and Persian. At the Swedish Grammis Awards for 2005, she received seven nominations and won three: Artist of the Year, Producer of the Year, and New Artist of the Year. The following year her second album Prinsessor was released. [...]

Tweet It's been over two years since Beach House graced us with a new record. And while some simply wait anxiously for the successor to "Teen Dream" , I've found myself fully immersed in an EP over the past few weeks that's helping me through. The EP in question is a self-titled debut work by Granit , a female duo from my dad's native Barcelona. Cristina Checa and [...]

I just stumbled across Real Friends new EP Everyone That Dragged You Here which released at the end of last month. They're crankin out some insanely catchy, hook-laden pop-punk from Chicago's south side. If you're into bands like The Wonder Years, Fireworks, or The Story So Far you gotta check this band out. Floorboards by Real Friends Pick up the full EP at Bandcamp

A man who likes sushi and produces wicked electro tunes at the same time sounds perfectly to match into our growing Pink-Pong family. Beyond that this guy is from Switzerland, so he can provide us with tasty chocolate and fresh alpine air! But in fact the winsome Ryan Riot from Zurich has even more on the ball. He is a great remixer, who already worked for You love her coz she's dead , and produces so called "Electro-Nu-Rave-Hard-Hyped-Tr ash" just as his latest EP Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on Satan's Circus Records . [...]

Tweet I don't make it a habit of actively seeking out acoustic pop music. I wouldn't even consider it to be one of my top three favorite genres. I find most of it to be either too lazy to listen to, or too opinionated for me to enjoy. Still, I somehow end up finding some diamonds in the rough. These usually end up being the longest lasting albums in my musical rotation. Long after the dance pop and new wave numbers have lost their flavor, artists like [...]

Amongst all the exciting music of 2011, one city in particular clambered head and shoulders above the rest; Boise. The Idaho capital seemed to produce an unending stream of innovative, highly emotionally driven new music, from TEENS to Mozam Beaks (now Mozam) and Shades to Finn Riggins, not forgetting Youth Lagoon, it's fair to say that Boise is well and truly drawing the plaudits it deserves. With 2012 well underway, it appears there's no stopping The City Of Trees, with a fantastic reworking of Hypno Safari's Shade dropping last week, and now with this debut track from emerging [...]

Tweet The debut album "Tangle Town" by Don Ryan begins with a sampling of crackling records from perhaps some long ago Tin Pan Alley recording, then shoots into the raucous "This Town" . Specializing in a heady gumbo of experimental Alt-Folk with psychedelic leanings, Ryan conjures a world that has become a sort of deranged, dark circus. Ryan proclaims "this town is burning down" to the tune of handclaps and chimes giving the statement more of a celebratory feel than [...]

Dark, dreamy and decadent, Oslo's Maribel are doing a very good job of capturing people's attention at the moment. Just ahead of the release of their latest album Reveries and following an extremely well received support slot to Lanterns on the Lake in London last month, Maribel's Paal Espen Kapelrud talks about the eventful life of the band up until this point, and what inspired the creation of their driving, enigmatic, sexy new release. Who are Maribel and where are you from? We are Paal [...]

18 year-old producer Charlie Banks stepped out with a huge debut EP last week, more than justifying the buzz that follows him. As well as making beats, Charlie also DJs and runs his own very successful night in Bournemouth called Hit The Deck. Charlie Banks - Saying What [Dirt Crew Recordings] The Saying What EP, released by Dirt Crew, features three fresh tracks by Charlie plus two

Tweet Sometimes when I listen to music, I know I am getting a piece of the artist's heart right there in the song. That feeling is nearly matchless. That's how I felt when I first heard Suburban Dirts . Rockabilly rock hasn't sounded this raw yet well-delivered in a long, long time. Frontman John Wheatley sings like he grew up during the same era as our grandfathers, with a hint of our time around the edges grounding him. Alluding [...]

These dudes are just 17, yet judging from their promo pic above, they already have that matured swagger. Possessing a name like Casablanca , is a real gamble for any band. As the same name of what many people consider the greatest film ever made, the band better have the music to back it up. Luckily, these Londoners sure do. Their brand new jam "I Need To Know" is an airy indie rock concoction, that fills the sky with baritone vocals and an undeniable confidence. Everything is just pitch-perfect tight here, that there [...]

Last year Il Abanico released the Crossing Colors EP ( ilabanico.bandcamp.com ) introducing a band that was able to take memorable pop moments and twist them into startling caricatures. Working with fluent, melodic instrumentals, the vocals of Juliana Ronderos layer themselves regally, creating harmony with symmetry. Beyond the more scientific profundities of the album, the listenability and player-listener relationship is a nurtured, coddled factor that might make you subconsciously recognize the album as "simple" before understanding it's [...]

I stumbled across Mux Mool last year on one of my rambles through Soundcloud. He is one of a raft of awesome experimental electronic artists signed to Matthew Dear's label Ghostly. Based in the USA, Mux Mool's music is hard to define, but if I were to attempt to I'd say his music is synth laden electronica - with a heavy dash of hip hop thrown in. Mux has just released a new LP called 'Planet High School', and its currently streaming via The Fader . Two of the stand out tracks are 'Brothers' and 'Baba' - [...]

"Melodic tunes that frankly just hit the spot..." Having steadily gained attention while blitzing the summer festival circuit last year and occupying some standout opening slots for The Kaiser Chiefs and The Kooks it is quite obvious to see that Camden four-piece Tribes are boasting quite a lot of potential. The recent release their debut album Baby saw them wholeheartedly realise it. There's something of a nineties Britpop feel to Tribes and that's absolutely no criticism; they have a strong, guitar-based indie flag to fly with a troop of melodic tunes that [...]

Tweet As the story goes, when Frànçois Marry arrived in Bristol, England from France in 2003, he wrote a note accompanied by a picture asking for people to make music together with, taped it in his window, then proceeded to check out local car boot sales for instruments. Starting out with a hodgepodge of found instruments (including a keyboard he played with his foot), Frànçois began playing live in Bristol in early 2004. 2005 - 2007 saw him collaborating with various local [...]

Now while I praised the modern digital age of bandcamp and soundcloud for finding the wonderfully obscure, it was in the old fashion method of 'face to face conversation' that I came across Dalai Lama Renaissance . Now while that may somewhat taint any reputation I have as a blogger, I am entirely grateful to a bearded Belgian called Claus who put me on to DLR , as friends of his back in his home country. DLR 's latest offering, ' 80 BPM ' is a fantastic composition of laid [...]

Tweet Recent years have seen two trends take over pop music, and, consequently, the charts: electronic music and female vocals, oftentimes together. 2010 saw the UK introduce, among many others, obviously, two young faces that were great exponents of the cross between electronics and female vocals: Marina and the Diamonds and Ellie Goulding . Now, there's a new bright young face to introduce: Foxes . Foxes , born Louisa Rose [...]

Meet Cultivora , your one-stop resource for everything that has to do with music festivals. The festival world is bigger than ever, and the newly launched Cultivora website specifically addresses the travel needs of this growing community of festivalgoers Everything Cultivora offers - travel tips, recommendations, news coverage, and more - is tailored to the needs of music travelers. They've started with twelve upcoming music festivals, including SnowBall, WMC, Coachella, and Bonnaroo, with many more to come. Check out the website HERE . Related News: Take Cultivora's Survey and [...]

Bands who write would-be pop songs, but with that lo-fi aesthetic that sound like they recorded the whole thing on a dictaphone have always made me swoon, and Yoofs ( facebook / twitter ) are just such a band. Their carefree songs are full of the exuberance of youth and the lo-fi underproduction will make you nostalgic for a time before people bothered with such things as a recording studio. The Bournemouth-based band were previously known as AC Slater after everyone's favourite muscles in Saved By The Bell, but after the DJ with that name kicked [...]

I am a sucker for a killer surf-pop tune, and The Re-Bops are promising to deliver a succulent selection of them on their forthcoming debut LP, Drag Race . The St. Catahrines based band of Nic Waterman (Vocals, Guitar), Steve Morley (Drums) and Liam Cosby (Guitar) recently unleashed "RocknRoll Guitar Man" on the world and it's an infectiously dirty ditty that's sure to get under your skin in a good way. Waterman was previously with Guelph's The Emerald City, and Cosby and Morley worked together in The Gas Station Junkies, [...]

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