French Horn Rebellion - This Moment

French Horn Rebellion are Robert and David Perlick-Molinari, two brothers born and bred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently residing in Brooklyn NY.

In 2007, younger brother Robert, an accomplished French horn player, found himself as principal horn chair of the prestigious Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. Standing at a crossroads, and fundamentally frustrated by the demands of mastering such an instrument, he finally asked his brother David to rebel with him.

Having set up shop in the arts/music hub of Brooklyn, it wasn’t long before French Horn Rebellion started to impact on the NY music scene, with older-brother David co-producing and engineering MGMT’s original Time to Pretend EP.

On the 1st of November French Horn Rebellion released single This Moment , taken from their debut album The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion.

The album warps the fabric of dance, electro, rock and funk. This Moment, is just one of those songs you can’t help but smile, tap your foot to, and bob your head when you listen to it.



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Source: Robot Dance Music, Last FM, Listen before you buy

Glasser - Mirrorage

"This synth siren sounds like a weirder and more credible version of Enya" (Guardian)

Glasser is the recording and stage name of American singer-songwriter Cameron Mesirow.

Mesirow's name – her stage one anyway – was inspired by "a midnight vision of a figure hovering over water". Her surname comes from her dad, currently a member of the Blue Man Group. Her first name comes from her mum, who isn't exactly a regular nine-to-fiver either. Casey Cameron first fronted an all-kazoo outfit called Kazoondheit in the 70s before forming new wave band Human Sexual Response who, apart from the classic daytime-radio staple Butt Fuck, had a minor hit in 1980 with Jackie Onassis.

So now, Mesirow has become a performer herself and she's already toured with the xx and Jónsi of Sigur Ros. Sometimes she sounds like an electronic Joni Mitchell, other times her airy voice combined with glacial keyboard textures makes her seem like a slightly more credible Enya. If anything, she's like a weird version of Enya.

Her debut album Ring has been released on September 28.



Glasser @ Myspace

Source: Guardian

Active Child - I'm In Your Church At Night

Active Child is a project from choirboy-turned-indie pop musician Pat Grossi, an L.A.-based songwriter who layers his keening, unearthly voice over diffuse waves of keyboards.

Inspired by his days as a choir boy and epic nights as a member of the band Weight Room, Grossi combines his soaring vocals with crunching analogue synths. The influence of chorale singing, along with the sensibility of non-secular music, is as apparent in Active Child's work as the influence of 80s bands like New Order, Joy Division and Tears for Fears.

I'm In Your Church At Night is featured on Active Child's debut EP titled Curtis Lane. He's currently working on his debut full-length album that will be released in Spring 2011.



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Source: Active Child, Pitchfork, Band Weblogs

The Shoes - Stay The Same (ft Esser)

French duo Guillame and Ben from Reims, aka The Shoes, met at the age of 15 and immediately clicked. They recently released their debut EP Stay The Same which is mainly made up of remixes of the single of the same name. This particular release precedes their debut album which will be released sometime in 2011.

Stay The Same is the follow-up single to last years collaboration with Primary 1 People Moving. They’ve since produced tracks for the forthcoming Shakira album, produced for French superstars Raphael, Gaetan Roussel and Julien Dore whilst also having tracks synched on TV show Gossip Girl, the new Joel Schumacher film “Twelve” and remixing the new Chapel Club single.

Their latest single features Esser and one can hear the influence of Hot Chip, LCD and even The Cure in there. It's got some great hypnotizing drumlines and percussion.



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Source: Radio Magnetic, The 405

The Glass - Four Four Letter

The Glass are Dominique Keegan and Glen ‘DJ Wool’ Brady. Dom runs the Plant Music label in NYC with partner Adrian “Stretch Armstrong” Bartos, and Glen lives in Berlin, where he runs the label We Collect Enemies and releases music under his DJ Wool moniker.

Both originally from Dublin, the duo made their first ever release in 2004 with Won’t Bother Me. They have released many singles since then, including last year’s Wanna Be Dancin'.

Now, The Glass have finally released their debut album, At Swim Two Birds, out on November 16th. The album is both an electronic and pop record and is preceded by single Four Four Letter.



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Source: Last Gas Station, MVRemix Rock

Patrick Wolf - Time Of My Life

Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps) is an English singer-songwriter from South London.

He started his musical education with violin lessons and church choirs and made his first theremin at age eleven. At fourteen, he joined and performed with pop art collective Minty. Two years later, he dropped his music A-Levels, which he was studying at Davies Laing and Dick Sixth Form College in Notting Hill Gate, and left home.

During this period (as well as working in a clothing store in Covent Garden) Wolf earned money from busking in a string quartet and formed a group called Maison Crimineaux, a noisy trio built on destructive ethics around white noise and pop music. He also continued to write and record his own material. A gig of Maison Crimineaux was attended by electronic maestro Kristian Robinson (aka Capitol K), who would then go on to release Wolf's debut album Lycanthropy.

Over four acclaimed albums he's embraced everything from folk and baroque pop to Berlin-influenced techno. Now he's back with Time of My Life, the first single from his forthcoming album The Conqueror, due in May next year.



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Source: Guardian, Wikipedia

Chromeo - Hot Mess

Chromeo is an electrofunk duo based in Montreal, composed of P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and Dave 1 (David Macklovitch). The two childhood friends jokingly describe themselves as "the only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture."

The two met in high school when Macklovitch joined Gemayel's band. During this time, Macklovitch's brother A-Trak started winning the DMC Championships, becoming World Champion in 1997.

After the band, Dave 1 and P-Thugg started to produce hip hop together. At this time Tiga was working with Dave 1 at a record store and asked him to work on a project for his label. Dave 1 and P-Thugg signed as Chromeo in 2001, and started creating tracks in 2002.

Albums She’s In Control (2004) and the more popular Fancy Footwork (2007) placed the duo on the dance track map, having various remixes released from artists such as Yusek, Crookers and Laidback Luke. Reviews were mostly favorable, comparing the sound to 80's groups like Hall & Oates, Klymaxx and Sylvester.

They released their third album entitled Business Casual on September 14. The steamy Hot Mess video emphasizes both words in the song’s title via a pretty, hairy shower scene.



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Source: Wikipedia, The Nevada Sagebrush

Girl Talk - Get It Get It

Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) began making music while studying at Chartiers Valley High School in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville. After a few collaborative efforts Gillis started the solo Girl Talk project and continued making music while studying biomedical engineering.

Girl Talk produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song. The New York Times Magazine has called his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen". Gillis also featured in the 2008 open source documentary RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.

This week, Girl Talk made his latest album All Day available as a free download and subsequently became one of the most searched names on Google, crashing his hosting site in the process.

All Day features snippets of songs from Neil Diamond, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beyoncé and INXS, while Get It Get It samples 19 different tracks. It opens with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance over Aphex Twin's Windowlicker before moving on to Missy Elliott rapping over Daft Punk's Digital Love.



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Source: Guardian, Wikipedia

WORSHIP - Collateral

At the end of last year, Berkshire based group WORSHIP had finished up a successful run opening for bands like We Have Band and Pete & The Pirates, as well as recording a Live Session for BBC.

After that the band decanted to Norway, where they spent a month writing and recording at a small residential studio. In August they finally revealed the first fruits of their labours.

Collateral assaults the ears with heavy stuttering basslines and drums, and a vocal that bears a significant resemblance to Thom Yorke of Radiohead. It paints a beautiful picture meant to be heard with headphones on, eyes closed and your head bobbing to the pulsing beat. WORSHIP are not signed to a record label yet, but probably won’t stay that way for long.



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Source: Breaking more waves, Indiemusicfilter

Data Romance - Bones

Data Romance are Vancouver duo Ajay Bhattacharyya and Amy Kirkpatrick, a brand of music that owes equal debts to the indie pop of Bat For Lashes and the electronica of Moderat or Nine Inch Nails.

The pair formed out of an online collaboration, and grew into a daring unit willing to flex their artistic muscles whenever possible. Since forming only two short years ago, they’ve already composed a film score and collaborated on multi-media video and art projects with artists from Brazil, New Delhi, Italy, France, New York and LA.

Relying on the Monome, an iPad-sized push-button LED box of bleeps and percussive thuds, the sound created is decidedly their own.

Bones, their most recent EP, out this month, is a collection of challenging compositions. You can download the EP for free from their website by simply paying with a tweet.



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Source: Trendland

Rosanna - Waterfalls

On paper it's what a crass US sports commentator would call a "NOFRIGGINBRAINER!" Swedish pop starlet signs to brand new record label to release pop single produced by the guy who did the last Kylie hit. (Digital Spy)

Rosanna Munter is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Her first experience of pop-stardom was as an original member of the pop girl group Play. Tommy Mottola signed Rosanna to Columbia Records when she was 13 years old.

As a member of Play she lived in the US for four years and sold over a million records. After the break-up in 2005, 17-year-old Rosanna moved back to Sweden. Music college followed. She played in bands, toured Swedish festivals and did the whole growing up thing.

She recently joined record label Popjustice Hi-Fi and debut single Waterfall doesn't flatter to deceive with a gathering storm of moody synths and beats that seem to acknowledge that dubstep's having a bit of a moment right now.

Waterfall has been released on August 23rd featuring a (major) sample from Siouxsie and The Banshees's Kiss Them For Me.



Rosanna @ MySpace

Source: Digital Spy, Wikipedia

Chad Valley - Anything

Chad Valley is the side project of Hugo Manuel, who also plays and sings in a band called Jonquil. The name might sound familiar, but that’s more likely the fact that it’s shared with a well known toy manufacturer.

Hugo Manuel makes music as if Passion Pit had spent a couple of summers in Ibiza. He provides a stunning, warped soundtrack and is about to become the UK’s chief pioneer of digital dream-pop. Think dark and truncated vocals, psychedelic keys and overwhelming rhythms, all in the melodic style of Washed Out and Memory Tapes.

Anything appears on his forthcoming four-track debut EP, Chad Valley, due out November 16.



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Source: The Pigeon Post, Guardian, Some of it was true

Broken Social Scene - All to All

Broken Social Scene is a Canadian musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. All of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto. The band refuses the label "supergroup", claiming that in the indie scene everyone is involved in more than one project.

The band's core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. This duo recorded and released the band's ambient debut album, Feel Good Lost in 2001. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on their material thus far, which was almost entirely instrumental. As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals. A new musical collective was born.

The group's sound could be considered a combination of all of its members' respective musical projects, and is occasionally considered baroque pop. It is characterized by a very large number of sounds and grand orchestrations featuring guitars.

Broken Social Scene released their fourth full-length album, Forgiveness Rock Record, on May 4, 2010.

The video for All to All - showing people in a chain slapping each other in slow motion, setting off the next slap in the chain - was created by Strike Anywhere Films, and as rumor goes, Broken Social Scene liked it so much, they've decided to make it the official video.



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Source: Wikipedia

Lykke Li - Get Some

Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson is better known by her stage name Lykke Li (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlʏkə li]). Her music often blends elements of pop, electronic, and alternative rock.

She was raised by artistic parents (her mother was a photographer, her father is a musician); lived in Portugal for five years and spent winters in Nepal and India.

Li released her first album, Youth Novels, in the Nordic region on 4 February 2008, prior to a wider European release in June of that same year. The album was produced by Björn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John) and Lasse Mårtén.

She recently announced on her website that she was in the studio recording material and that the album would be released 'soon'.

Last month she unveiled the first taste from her second album by an EP featuring two new tracks Get Some and Paris Blue, both available as a free download from her official website.



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Source: Wikipedia, LastFM

Wolf Gang - Lions in Cages

It’s been a year since we heard Wolf Gang’s last single The King And All Of His Men.

Wolf Gang is 23 year-old singer Max McElligott, a part Irish, part German drop out from the London School Of Economics who fell in love with music and out of love with studies. Never being one to take to a scene, Max always looked to heritage records, citing bands like the Talking Heads, Bowie and Roxy Music as influences to his evolving sound.

He entered the music scene about two years ago with a ranging style and a knack for multiple instruments out of his bedroom, and now he is working with Dave Fridmann – known for his work with The Flamming Lips, Weezer and MGMT.

Fridmann produced Lions in Cages and it's Wolf Gang’s first single (out on November 22th) off his debut album, which will be released by Atlantic in early 2011.



Wolf Gang @ Myspace

Source: Indiemusicfilter

Gauntlet Hair - Out, Don't ...

Gauntlet Hair is the project of Andy R. and Craig Nice, who began making music together when they were 15. The band name makes you believe that these guys would be a tortuous punk band, but they're actually a rather cheerful psych-pop group with an interesting take on the ever-so-popular melodic shouting.

I Was Thinking, the duos self-released album that came out earlier this year, is full in assortment of hyper-rhythmic guitar scratching and eruptive hooks that is pleasing to the ears and makes you wanna dance

The band have just released a new single coming out through the Mexican Summer label, the a-side of which is Out, Don't...



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Source: Mexican Summer, Indie Shuffle

Twin Shadow - Slow

Twin Shadow is the moniker used by twentysomething George Lewis Jr., born in the Dominican Republic, raised in rural Florida and worked as a composer for a touring dance company before settling down in New York City recording debut album Forget in 2010. The band name refers to his close relationship with this twin sister.

As Twin Shadow, Lewis authors a kind of retro, electro-tinged soul-balladry; big songs with big choruses, synths, echo and drama. He recorded Forget primarily by himself in apartments and sometimes even hotel rooms.

Forget may be sweetly romantic and spare, but Twin Shadow's touring life is anything but. Lewis describes "living the dream" of a rock and roller on a recent swing through California, which included getting kicked out of hotel pools, being plied with drugs by "creepy" fans and waking up in the middle of a festival after devouring pot brownies and passing out in a park.

The video of Slow is a clever parody of porn casting couch sessions, with Lewis getting complimented on his “big talent” at the end.

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Source: Rolling Stone Magazine, Alternative Music

TEETH - See Spaces

"If Girls Aloud did a duet with New Young Pony Club, then it would probably sound like this Dalston dance trio." (Guardian)

Teeth – or, as they're variously known, TEETH!!!, T3ETH, and T∑∑TH – formed in 2008 when the fashion communications student and the Prolapse member drafted in the Graphic Design graduate (they make their own videos and fanzines). The band has received a great deal of blog attention, based only on live performances and a few tracks on their Myspace page.

The London trio released their debut single, See Spaces in August. The track is a harmonious blend of drums that seem to drag one beat behind the tune, a four-note keyboard pattern that sounds like a rave riff at half speed, and vocals, which appear to have not so much sung as yawned. It's spacey and shimmery synth-punk in slow motion.



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Source: Guardian

Young Empires - Glory Of The Night

Young Empires are Robert Aaron Ellingson, Jake Palahnuk and Matthew Vlahovich out of Toronto. The electronic/world beat trio formed in October 2009.

Self-described as World Beat meets Haute Rock, Young Empires deliver fresh yet distinguished dance tracks that make you want to strut.

Since inception, the band has had the blogosphere in a spin, being diagnosed as an early Yeasayer, Foals or The Rapture. Their home demo Rain of Gold hit #13 on Hype Machine’s charts garnering the trio international attention and spawning a select run of international shows.

There are currently only demo versions in their repertoire. However, their debut EP is already in the works.



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Source: The Windish Agency, LastFM

Strange Talk - Climbing walls

Two months after uploading some demos on MySpace, Melbourne band Strange Talk found themselves fashioning an EP with UK based producer Eliot James (Two Door Cinema Club, Bloc Party, Futureheads).

Strange Talk are Stephen Docker, Gerard Sidhu, Travis Constable and Gillan Gregory, and they have been getting a lot of attention lately with their perfect pop tune Climbing Walls. The band have also remixed the likes of Muscles, Miami Horror and Art Vs Science under the production moniker Thieves of Aon.

Their debut EP, is slated for release early next year, Climbing Walls is included in Kitsuné’s 10th Maison compilation.



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Source: Whothehell, Last Gas Station

Hurts - Stay

Hurts are a British synthpop duo from Manchester composed of singer Theo Hutchcraft and synth player Adam Anderson. Before Hurts, the duo were in (scruffier) bands The Bureau and Daggers, the latter of which supported Gary Numan.

On a trip to Italy, they discovered "disco-lento" (slow disco), and became fixed on a more austere and stylish European aesthetic. Hurts was born. Musically, they construct melancholic 1980s-inspired electro-pop with songs that they say are inspired by the British mentality of being "not too bad".

In 2009 the band featured as Band of the Day on Guardian.co.uk and finished in fourth position in BBC's Sound of 2010 poll.

In early 2010 they officially released their debut single, Better Than Love, and played their first ever live shows. Debut album Happiness was released on 6 September 2010.

To promote the release of their debut album, the band collaborated with author Joe Stretch to produce an interactive audio book narrated by Anna Friel. It is on Spotify, with the first entry being found by searching for "a5m4".

Hurts will release their 3rd single Stay on November 15th.



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Source: BBC, Wikipedia

Warpaint - Undertow

For a band that sound as though they're barely working up a sweat, this slowcore group are causing quite a stir. (Guardian)

Warpaint is an all-female ambient rock four-piece from LA formed on Valentine's Day 2004. The band is currently composed of Emily Kokal, Theresa Wayman, Jenny Lee Lindberg and Stella Mozgawa and has gone through many lineup changes, including actress Shannyn Sossamon and Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer.

The recording of debut EP Exquisite Corpse began in December 2007. The sessions took place over two months and were mixed and mastered by former Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante. Warpaint self released the EP in 2008 and the album was re-released on CD in 2009.

Shortly afterward they were signed to Rough Trade and immediately began extensive touring throughout the US and Europe including an opening slot for The xx.

On October 25th the quartet released their full length album, The Fool.



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Source: Guardian, Wikipedia

Is Tropical - South Pacific

This London based three piece began 2010 as relative unknowns, having rarely ventured outside the confines of the capital, but the band's electric synth-pop managed to dominate the dancefloors across the UK.

When Is Tropical perform live, the three men are distorted by not only the masks they wear, but also by home-made psychedelic projections. Yet this isn't the sound of some mysterious cult society: it's pop music jim, albeit weirdo-pop.

Now signed to uber-hip French label Kitsune, Is Tropical are preparing to release their 2nd single South Pacific on November 22nd.

The band have made this track available as a free download.



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Source: Clash, Artrocker

Massive Attack - Atlas Air

British trip-hop duo Massive Attack follows its long-awaited album Heligoland with a limited-edition EP - and it's all for a good cause. The album supports Warchild, and is expected to be available on November 21st 2010.

Atlas Air marks the 15th anniversary of the legendary Help album, which brought Massive Attack together with the likes of Oasis, Blur, P.J Harvey, Radiohead, and other major British artists in support of the nonprofit organization that helps child victims of war. As with Help, all proceeds from Atlas Air will go toward the organization.

The EP will feature an edit of the titular song, a Tim Goldsworthy remix, plus the Guy Garvey-penned and previously unfinished Heligoland leftover track, Redlight (featuring the original Guy Garvey vocals).

Heligoland, released in February 2010, was the group's first new album since 2003's 100th Window. The album, which includes the single Paradise Circus features guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, and Tunde Adebimpe.

To stream the original 1995 Help album and learn more about War Child, visit this link.

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Source: Warchild, The Independent

One Night Only - Say You Don't Want It

One Night Only formed in summer 2003, consisting initially of Mark Hayton, Daniel Parkin, Sam Ford and Kai Smith. The band did not have a vocalist until George Craig, a friend of Ford's brother, joined in a practice. He was asked to be the vocalist, but insisted on playing guitar as well. Smith then left the band. They initially played songs by bands such as Blink-182, New Found Glory and the Beatles, as well as some of their own material.

The name, One Night Only, came about when asked to play a gig. They did not have a name at the time and so came up with One Night Only, intending the title to, literally, last for only one night, however the name stuck to this day.

Their debut album Started a Fire was recorded at RAK Studios in St John's Wood, London from August to September 2007. The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite more famously known for his work with U2.

The band are said to have written over 25 new songs since Started a Fire. Originally due to be released in the summer of 2009, the self-titled 2nd album was finally released late August 2010 and produced by Suede and Pulp producer Ed Buller.

The first single taken from the new album is Say You Don't Want It, released on August 16th.



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Source: Wikipedia