i crashed my car into the bridge, i watched, i let it burn, i threw your shit into a bag and pushed it down the stairs ♫ Icona Pop – I Love It Who:  Caroline Hjelt & Aino Jawo What : Climactic party pop, like Foxes, Johnny Neon, La Roux Where : Stockholm + Facebook When : No official news yet. Why : Icona Pop emerged with last summers chick-power groover “Manners” and now they are back to change everything you thought they new about … continue reading

For so long a hidden, forgotten, neglected genre, disco has enjoyed an enormous renaissance over the past decade. Old cuts have been re-discovered, while groups such as Hercules & Love Affair have exposed the disco roots of house music. A tragedy, then, that this year alone has witnessed the deaths of Donna Summer and Bee Gees’ singer Robin Gibb. For a moment, it looked as though we might also lose Nile Rodgers. As a guitarist, his skills pushed Chic to the forefront of the disco movement, adding a highly trained, jazz sensibility to the group’s nascent funk. Battling back from ...

Gossip “A Joyful Noise” Genere : dance-rock Provenienza : Olympia, Washington, USA Se ti piace ascolta anche : Marina & the Diamonds , La Roux, CSS, Lady Gaga, Garbage , Santigold, Juliette and the Licks I Gossip giocano sul contrasto più che mai, fin dal titolo: “A Joyful Noise”, rumore però con gioia. Così come Beth Ditto è ormai un’icona fashion, però con una taglia XXL ben lontana dalle modelle stecchine infilzate alle sfilate di moda. E anche la loro musica gioca su sponde distanti: da una parte un’attitudine rock, dall’altra un suono oggi più electro-pop che mai. Così' come sono un gruppo ...

Melody Thornton and Bobby Newberry duet in the desert in the video for “Bulletproof,” an acoustic cover of La Roux’s 2009 hit single. The black-and-white clip, directed by Don Tyler, is the fourth song off the former Pussycat Doll’s mixtape P.O.Y.B.L to receive the visual treatment, following “Lipstick&Guilt;,” “Smoking Gun,” and “Someone to Believe.” “First [...]

Tom Morello, Flea, La Roux, Quincy Jones, Sheila E also show their respects to the disco legend

Now this is a mixtape. The Glitch Mob have graced us with thirty minutes of their heavy hitting, melodic beats mixed up with everything from LFO to La Roux to Dr. Dre. It’s a mix with different phases going from high energy sections to more mellow parts where the beat takes a slow a pulsing [...]

The legendary guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers has told Clash Music that he has recently hooked up with Elly Jackson of La Roux in hope of a future recording project. Nile Rodgers , whose past achievements include performing with David Bowie and Ben E. King, let slip to Clash about the pairs meet up in London in a recent interview. “I was in London giving a speech, and before my plane took off I popped over to the studio. We only looked into each other’s eyes one night and played guitar and listened to music one night, so it’s ...

IAMEVE is the concept creation of singer-songwriter Tiff Randol. Her album The Everything Nothing captures Randol's journey from self-destruction to self-love, all playing out to gigantic, electro popping nuggets that is reminiscent of artists like Ellie Goulding and La Roux. Check out her track and accompanying video for "Throw Me a Line".

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: La Roux, CSS Song: Gossip - Picture Perfect World (RAC Mix) [download here ] What's so good? Fresh off of his first original single “ Hollywood ,” André Allen Anjos of RAC drops off “Picture Perfect World,” a darker house track that still plays up the bubbly-pop good vibes of just about every RAC remix. André had this to say on his SoundCloud: I’m definitely not going to stop doing remixes. Here’s my latest for Gossip. It was fun to make something a bit darker and a little housier. Such a great voice to ...

Alpines - ‘Empire’ First 2:54 , now Alpines are dusting off older material for new presentation to the listening public. They have been described as a cross between The xx and Kate Bush (Florence Welch said that), La Roux is probably closer but still they’re on to something. Alpines call it night-pop, sophisticated electronica with an operatic lean, upcoming single ‘Empire’ rings with atmospheric metallic clangs and a mystical vibrato. There’ll be remixes by Maribou State, Tessela and CREEP. Catherine Pockson and Bob Matthews  lend themselves well to collaborations having worked with  Maya Jane Cole, Craze + Hoax and Darksky ...

Let’s get this straight. Less is not more. Usually. For all purposes of this column, more is more. And that’s what I’m sticking to. Which leads me to compilations, collaborations, and all things involving two or more grotesquely talented artists. The more the better. The first of these collaborations is possibly the most ambitious, the track by Gorillaz , Andre 3000 , and James Murphy : 'DoYaThing'. Traditional Gorillaz style, Damon Albarn’s unamused vocals accompanied by a simple beat and unexpected twists throughout. Andre 3000 is one of those twists, bringing his wild energy and fitting it perfectly into ...

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Lykke Li, Yelle Song: Niki & The Dove - All This Youth [download here ] What's so good? A couple of the Niki & The Dove singles released to date have gone a little over my head, but with “All This Youth” they’ve found one that I quite like. Released in anticipation of their soon-to-be available album Instinct , the song sees the Swedish duo sounding a heck-of-a-lot like Lykke Li, which isn’t surprising given that they have similar roots. Unfortunately, “All This Youth” won’t actually be making the cut for the final album ...

Die britische Pop-Sängerin Vicotia Hesketh hat die neue Single ihres Projekts Little Boots in ein formschönes Musikvideo verpackt. Bereits vor kurzem konnten sich alle Interessierten "Every Night I Say A Prayer" in einem tanzbaren Remix des deutschen Produzenten Tensnake kostenlos herunterladen ( motor.de berichtete ). Der Song ist nach dem bereits vor einigen Monaten veröffentlichten Track "Shake" ein weiterer Vorbote auf den zweiten Langspieler der Dame, welcher allerdings augenblicklich weder Titel noch Veröffentlichungsdatum besitzt. Den housigen Anstrich trägt die neue Single hingegen nicht zufällig — immerhin hat Hercules And Love Affair -Mastermind Andy Butler tatkräftig an der Entstehung mitgewirkt. Das Video beinhaltet ...

One of the later additions to the U k’s current-ish wave of ‘credible’ female pop-stars, Marina rocked up in early 2010 with her debut album ‘The Family Jewels’. And of course, we all knew it wouldn’t be long until one of them slipped up, whether it be La Roux or Little Boots or whoever else is bothering the dizzy heights of thirty these days; a femme-fatality. ‘Electra heart’ is an ingloriously languid statement of Marina’s demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career. There is actually a song called ‘Bubblegum Bitch ...

These days cultural critique can feel a bit like form meeting function. "Society has gotten too loud," you scream, predictably, into some digital megaphone. "Things have gotten too fractious," you note, obliquely, in between attention-deficit monitoring of multiple social networks. "No one has time for big ideas anymore," you trail off; people are done listening and you have no useful second movement. So, you double-down on your contrarianism, becoming oppositional and distant, unaware, or perhaps helpless, that this is - that you are - now the new, ever-shifting majority. And then along comes a song like "And Then The Girls" from Pittsburgh ...