Starting as a Brooklyn duo making remixes for the likes of Rihanna, Killers and Yoko Ono, Lindbergh Palace grew to become a four-piece band.
The band, Leah Hayes (also of Scary Mansion) , Jonathan Benedict (also of Jones Street Station), Josh Harris, and Alex Hamadey, is now creating their own dark electronic pop songs with ancient synthesizers, spacey guitars and house beats from old drum machines
Lindbergh Palace have released their self-titled debut EP in December and is available digitally on their site and on iTunes.
World renowned DJ Lauren Flax has recently unveiled her new project with co-conspirator Lauren Dillard: the haunting new duo CREEP.
CREEP is very influenced by the house and UK bass scene, but at the same time their music is quite dreamy. They’re still working on tracks, but have attracted some notable guests.
Debut single Days (released on January 25th), will feature Romy Madley Croft from The xx. It's definitely more upbeat than The xx although there are certain similarities between the two groups in terms of their delivery and atmosphere.
There has been a lot of 80s-fetishising pop of late, much of it excellent, but even in such grand company Selebrities stand out. (Source: Guardian)
Selebrities are Maria Usbeck, Jer Robert Paulin and Max Peterson, a three-piece from Florida via Buffalo and Brooklyn, and they sound like the xx playing faster disco-paced post-punk electronic pop music.
Jer was born in Buffalo and moved to Florida at age 11. He met Maria while attending art school in South Florida. They both had some similar and different tastes in music, but the 80′s era was something they could always agree on.
Around 2006 they started playing music together. It started as a side project for fun, recording music was very new for them. Those tracks sat on the computer for almost two years, until they decided to put them on Myspace to show friends, and got some pretty good responses from random people as well.
In 2009 they moved to New York, where Jer started working a retail job. Max was one of his co-workers, and was always playing amazing tracks through the speakers. When Jer found out it was Max his own music, he asked him to produce their stuff and sent him the myspace link. Max loved it and became the third member. Selebrities was born.
Debut EP Ladies Man Effect, released in November 2010, creates a world where dashingly voguish ‘summertime gothic’ electronic-pop mingles freely with the neon imagination of 1980’s New York. The EP is available as a free download from Cascine.
Seeräuber Jenny was founded by young Fran Barker in a leaky conservatory with a 4-track, a miscellany of instruments and a bag load of fuzzy influences like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine.
She began to trade songs with Neil Claxton, 250 miles away in Manchester, in an odd but fruitful creative email strategy. "Me or Neil will write something then send it to each other then we add something of our own and send it back," says Barker. "We just keep on like that until we’re both happy."
Push It Away is Seerauber Jenny's first ever release. Tracks for a 2011 full-length album are being wrapped now.
The video for their debut single, is an animated film which band member Neil said was "guided by lots of pictures Fran appropriated from her vast library of the weird and wonderful and slightly melancholy."
Promoe (Mårten Edh, born Nils Mårten Ed) is a Swedish rapper, and member of Swedish hip hop group Looptroop Rockers, formed in Västerås, Sweden, 1992. He has a background of graffiti-writing and many of his songs deal with graffiti.
Promoe has released five albums, quite a few 12”s and also many singles with Astma&Rockwell.
He got regonition from the first of the albums but increasingly so with the second album, which made the charts properly, in Sweden and worldwide. The lyrics have always been political, though slightly shifting in nature.
His latest single Never follow is available as a free download at the Looptroop Rockerswebsite.
