Hooray For Earth - True Loves

Hooray for Earth is a New York and Boston-based four piece that makes big catchy pop music reminiscent of 80's synth pop that's all the rage now. Front man Noel Heroux says he wants people to genuflect when they hear it and cites "fantasy worlds, muscle cars, zombies, and constant sleep deprivation" among its influences,

The band's name is taken from the old Nickelodeon show “Invader Zim” in which humans put up a "Hooray for Earth" flag.

Hooray For Earth will release their first full length album, True Loves, on May 10, the follow-up to last year’s Momo EP.



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Source: ABC News

Jamie Woon - Night Air

Jamie Woon is a British singer, songwriter and producer who gained widespread acclaim for his single Night Air, following his previous independent EP release, Wayfaring Stranger.

The son of a Malaysian Chinese father and a Scottish Celtic folk singer and backing artist Mae McKenna, was born and raised in New Malden in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. Woon attended the BRIT School, where he graduated the year behind Amy Winehouse, whom he later supported live.

His sound and style is presently described as soul inflected vocals backed by samplers and programming, or a single guitar track. He describes his music as "... R&B, it's groove-based vocal-led music ..."

Woon's debut album is entitled Mirrorwriting and was released on 18 April 2011.



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Source: Wikipedia

Ladytron - Ace Of Hz

Ladytron is an electronic music band formed in Liverpool in the summer of 1999. The band consists out of of Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Reuben Wu and Daniel Hunt. All members are involved in songwriting, music production, remixing and (except Marnie) in DJ'ing. The band's name is taken from a song of the same name by Roxy Music.

Ladytron blends electronic pop music and some New Wave influences, along with some more experimental leanings including psychedelic elements, using an array of vintage analogue equipment to achieve their distinctive sound.

Ace Of Hz is taken from from their album The Best Of Ladytron 00-10, released on March 29th.



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Source: Wikipedia, LastFM

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Millionyoung - Replicants

"This electro whiz makes slow-motion techno that sounds like New Order had they never returned from Ibiza." (source: Guardian)

MillionYoung is a pseudonym for South Florida’s Mike Diaz. His music is a refreshing form of Chillwave, with a lot of bright synths, dreamy dripping nostalgia inducing backdrops and the occasional guitar. He released his first EP in 2009, entitled Sunndream and second EP Be So True in early 2010.

Best described as tropical electronic pop, MillionYoung is gaining more and more fans due to his blissed-out melodies and radiant song compositions. Single Replicants is taken off of his full length debut album Replicants, released in February.



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Source: LastFM

Grimes - Vanessa

Canadian singer Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) produces weird pop influenced by styles such as R&B, Industrial, goth, hip hop and Western medieval organum. She is noted for simple but strong percussion, vocal virtuosity, and addictive melodies. Despite having little acquaintance with music, Grimes (born 1988) has overcome this barrier and used it to her advantage.

She cannot read music and has no understanding of theory or notation, so her attempts to imitate often fail. The result is strangely beautiful, sometimes scary, frequently melancholic and catchy.

Vanessa is taken from Grimes's split LP with D'Eon, out April 19th.



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Source: Arbutus Records

Monarchy – I Won't Let Go (feat. Rokhsan)

In June 2010, London-based electro duo Monarchy (expat Aussies Andrew Armstrong and Ra Black) signed a major-label deal with Mercury. They were about to release their self-titled debut album after having their first gig beamed into space from Cap Canaveral. Then, things came crashing down when they were dropped, the album was delayed and everything went quiet.

Monarchy recently signed a new deal and I Won't Let Go is one of their new tracks, released on April 11th. Armstrong and Black don't show their faces or reveal their real identity because they feel that artists have become bland and sanitized by the constant broadcast of personal lives they feel obliged to compete with. It’s a statement on information overload and it allows people to focus on the music.

Their debut album is scheduled to be released this July.



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Source: Guardian, Anorak festival

KAUF - Relocate

KAUF, aka Ronald Kaufman, arrived from Florida three years ago to Los Angeles and slowly built a small bedroom studio to capture the naked emotion and studio precision of his music idols.

Little is known about Kaufman except for various sources stating that he's working on his first EP and a twitter feed announcing that Relocate is his first "fucking" song. Next single, When You’re Out, will be released in April.



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Mason (feat. Róisín Murphy) - Boadicea

Mason consists of Dutch producers Iason Chronis and Coen Berrier. This duo has released music on numerous electro and techno labels, remixed artists such as Moby, Robyn and Gabriella Cilmi and launched their own label 'Animal Language' in 2008.

For their debut album, They Are Among Us, Chronis and Berrier collaborated with various artists such as Kurtis Blow, DMC, Sam Sparro and Róisín Murphy who features on the first single Boadicea. The track was inspired by Boadicea, the story of the ancient revolutionary warrior queen.



Mason @ Myspace

Source: Wikipedia

Bell X1 - Velcro

Bell X1 are an Irish band from County Kildare. They have released four critically acclaimed albums and received several major award nominations.

Most of the band were originally members of Juniper who formed in 1991. That band met while they were schoolboys. Paul Noonan was Juniper's drummer and Damien Rice was the lead vocalist, guitarists Dominic Philips and Brian Crosby and multi-instrumentalist David Geraghty completed the original line-up. The band became a quartet with the departure of Rice over creative differences and arguments over the choice of song to release as a single.

After a short break they reformed themselves as Bell X1, named after the Bell X-1, the first plane to break the sound barrier. Noonan became the new band's frontman. The band released debut album Neither Am I in 2000. A second and third studio album, Music in Mouth (2003) and Flock (2005) followed respectively before Tour De Flock (a live CD and DVD set) was released in 2007.

This month Bell X-1 will release its newest album Bloodless Coup including lead single Velcro.



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Source: Wikipedia

Pandit - Kathryn, My Love

Pandit is the moniker of Lance Smith from Lumberton, Texas. After multiple attempts with various projects, he decided to go solo in mid 2009. His intention is to develop well crafted pop songs that are infused with alternative experimentation.

Smith describes his material as a “never know what you are going to get” type of approach. There’s never any formula as to how the song’s are written. His method of creating music is purely a stream-of-consciousness, similar to that of Bradford Cox.

Single Kathryn, My Love is taken of his debut album Eternity Spin, released on February 22, 2011.



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Source: LastFM, Waaga Records

Arsenal - Melvin

Arsenal was founded in Brussels (1999) by Hendrik Willemyns and John Roan who forced their way into various dj-sets with their EP release.

The band released their first album, Oyebo Soul, in 2003. The album contains track A Volta, which was featured in the American television series Six Feet Under. Oyebo Soul led to follow-up Outsides (2005), featuring the collaborative talents of Aaron Perrino, Gabriel Rios, and Chi Zang. Outsides, and its subsequent live shows, won the band more fans, and Arsenal were voted best live band at the Rock Werchter Festival. In 2008 they continued their winning streak with album number three, Lotuk.

Fourth album Lokemo will be released on April 11. With the help of people like Johnny Whitney (Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love), Mélanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Shawn Smith (Brad, Satchel, Pigeonhead), Mike Ladd, Ken Andrews (Failure) and local underground act Depotax, Arsenal plan to turn Lokemo into an album with teeth.

First bite is Melvin (released on March 20).



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Source: LastFM, Arsenal, iTunes

Woodkid - Iron

French director and photographer, Yoann Lemoine, has had a diverse and compelling career over the past few years. From his high fashion and music photography to award winning animated work for AIDES Graffiti, he’s plowing through visual genres with consistent precision in narrative, technique and finish.

His latest work for Woodkid is not only a testament to his prowess in cinematography, art direction sensibilities and nuance in effects; but 27 year old Lemoine is also the singer and songwriter behind this musical act.

First single Iron (featuring model Agyness Deyn) is taken from his debut album Iron out, released in March.

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Source: Motionographer

Oregon Bike Trails - High School Lover

Oregon Bike Trails is the moniker of Zach Yudin. He currently resides in Santa Monica, CA and makes music in his bedroom inspired by 60s bubble gum rock, lo-fi, and bands like Animal Collective and Fleet Foxes.

Oregon Bike Trails doesn't have a full-length album, but you can check his Band Camp page for weekly new releases.



Oregon Bike Trails @ Blogspot, Band Camp

Source: MusicMindZone