Morning Parade - Under The Stars

Gradually building a tonne of hype over the past few months after being revealed by Illegal Tender, Morning Parade are clearly right on the cusp of something huge. Having recently signed a major-label deal after a frantic A&R scrum, the five-piece from Essex are ready to finally start pushing their sound to a wider audience.

Steve Sparrow, Chad Thomas, Phil Titus, Ben Giddings and Andy Hayes are five friends from Essex who play dance inspired, anthemic rock for the masses. They craft dramatic, heart-on-the-sleeve anthems, fusing electronics with guitar parts and keys with self-assured emotion.

Debut single Under The Stars will be released on November 29 and the band are currently putting the finishing touches to their debut album.



Morning Parade @ MySpace, Facebook, Twitter

Source: Subculture, Illegal Tender, Faux

James Blake - Limit To Your Love

James Blake is a 22-year-old producer who has been studying contemporary music at Blur's alma mater Goldsmiths College, and in a way it sounds as though he's regurgitating a lot of what he's learned, in the best possible way.

He makes dubstep music, but not the typical dank, dark dubstep dude. His songs creep forward and there's lots of heavy bass, but at the same time there's also a playful soulfulness to his tracks, which often feature his own singing voice slowed down by digital effects. The result is a bit like Moby's Play.

He recently followed up his Klavierwerke EP by covering Feist’s Limit to Your Love.



James Blake @ MySpace, Facebook

Source: Guardian, Pitchfork

Goose - Words

Goose are a Belgian electro rock band consisting of members Mickael Karkousse, Dave Martijn, Tom Coghe, and Bert Libeert.

The band was formed in the summer of 2000 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Although first starting out as an AC/DC-like covers group, they quickly turned to writing and recording their own songs, heavily incorporating synthesizers into them.

They won Humo's Rock Rally in 2002 and later that year recorded their debut single Audience with Teo Miller. Coca Cola used their debut single for TV adverts across Europe. They were signed to Skint Records in 2006 and released their second single Black Gloves in July that year.

Their newest album Synrise has just been released preceded by first single Words.



Goose @ MySpace, Facebook

Source: Wikipedia

The Coral - 1000 Years

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 by school friends James Skelly, Nick Power, Bill Ryder-Jones, Lee Southall, Ian Skelly and Paul Duffy. The sextet began working on their own material almost as soon as they had learned to play their instruments properly. The band's music is a mixture of old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelia and folk with modern rock influences.

The band was discovered in rehearsal by ex-Shack associate Alan Wills, who was impressed enough to set up the Deltasonic Records label for them. A recording contract with Sony Records was not long in following, and the Coral broke through into the mainstream in the new millennium with a series of releases that found them fêted as one of the UK's most original new acts.

Their 7th album Butterfly House was released on July 12, 2010 and produced by John Leckie (The Stone Roses, Radiohead). The album includes singles 1000 years and More Than A Lover. This is The Coral's first album without Guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones, who departed in 2008.



The Coral @ MySpace, Facebook, Twitter

Source: Wikipedia

Graffiti6 - Annie You Save Me

The unlikely pairing of producer Tommy D (Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kylie Minogue and producer of Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy) and singer/songwriter Jamie Scott (of Jamie Scott & The Town) began 18 months ago as an experiment neither thought would work.

When the pair met for a writing session they came up with a track called Stare Into the Sun, which was picked last summer for the Sun's TV ad campaign, and Graffiti6 was formed.

They went for Graffiti6 because they're really into graffiti and when they play live there are 6 musicians.

The band decided to put out their own music on their own label and recently released EP Stone In My Heart in March 2010 and full-length album Colours in September. Annie You Save Me is their second single.



Graffiti6 @ Twitter, MySpace, Facebook

Source: Guardian, Wikipedia