Dillon Francis drops his new track “Bootleg Fireworks (Burning Up)” bringing the heat for the chilly months ahead. Dillon is taking his antics on the road throughout November, check out tour dates/cities below.
Trip-hop’s undisputed Queen and Morcheeba frontwoman Skye returns this Autumn with her third solo record, Back To Now, released through [PIAS] America on October 30th. Production credits for the album, which is accompanied by lead single “Featherlight”, come from the Grammy Award winner Stephen Fitzmaurice (Paloma Faith, Metronomy and Professor Green).
Back To Now sees Skye on assured form in the follow up to 2009’s Keeping Secrets. The album began life in similar fashion to her two previous releases, in partnership with her longtime collaborator and husband Steve Gordon. However, in contrast to Keeping Secrets and Skye’s solo debut Mind How You Go, guitar and piano were laid to one side and tracks instead evolved from the early barebones of beats and loops. Aware of the potential of the raw material she had written, Skye specifically sought out the production services of Fitzmaurice; “I’d worked with Stephen before when he mixed (previous single) “Love Show” and knew he’d be able to take these new songs to the next level”.
Fitzmaurice’s crisp production values couple with Skye’s ethereal voice to impressive effect, across a distinctly nocturnal soundscape. Synths bubble across early album highlights “Sign of Life” and lead single, “Featherlight”, both anchored by Skye’s effortless vocals, whilst “Every Little Lie’s” chorus mines a compulsive vocal hook to memorable effect.
Check out this Sydney duo named Toucan. They just put out their debut video. They’ll be at Big Day Out 2013 alongside Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleigh Bells, Foals and Crystal Castles among many more! Check out Big Day Out 2013 here.
Wild Belle joins the Passion Pit tour on the heels of a handful of dates opening for Tennis and a brief stint in NYC that saw the band playing a headline set at Brooklyn’s Zebulon and a performance for the launch of Alexa Chung’s collaboration with Maje.
“Backslider” is another cut from the band’s forthcoming 2013 release Isles. The video, shot and directed by the siblings’ youngest brother Bennet, is an evocative tale of a man who keeps on slipping back into old habits and revisiting old flames. Using projected 35mm film slides from their mother’s travels through Australia, Asia and the American west; it’s these myriad of cultural influences from the siblings’ upbringing that’s reflected in Wild Belle’s music and visuals.
Wild Belle’s live performances have already been recognized for their catchy hooks and breezy sound. The duo, who hails from Chicago, has quickly become one of the most promising acts of 2012! The band received glowing reviews with performances from earlier this year at SXSW, as well as, a sold-out headlining show in London, and support gigs with The Temper Trap, !!!, and The Maccabees. The band also performed at Hideout Block Party in their hometown of Chicago this last month where the band caught up with the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot to talk about the birth of Wild Belle.
Meet Mary Jane Smith and Victor Alexander Thell. Also known as Smith & Thell for short.
Some time ago they met and fell completely head over heels in love with each other’s musical urge, ambition, vision and passion for the art. After joining forces the outcome of their musical marriage has taken many turns and looked and sounded very different and members of the collective have come and gone. At a certain point Mary and Victor decided to replace them all with machines and somewhere in this electro acoustic landscape inspired by strong influences such as Björk, Chemical Brothers and Bat For Lashes they´ve managed to give birth to something we like to call unique and very promising.
An anthemic album of edgy electronic dance rock music that the group is notorious for, Canadian electro-pop trio Dragonette have released their third studio album, Bodyparts. The new album has received praise from USA Today, W Magazine, Good Morning America, Perez Hilton, Lucky, NYLON, PAPER, Marie Claire, Vulture, SPIN, Rolling Stone among many others. The drag-o-licious video for single “Live In This City” dropped last week & RCRD LBL has premiered the “Live In This City” (Database Remix) MP3.
Dragonette On Tour w/ The Knocks
9/25: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre * BUY TICKETS
9/26: San Francisco, CA @ Mezzanine * BUY TICKETS
9/27: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir * BUY TICKETS
9/28: Seattle, WA @ Decibal Festival / Showbox Market* BUY TICKETS
Check out NOISEY’s premiere of Miike Snow’s new video for “Pretender” which is the next chapter of our friend Jean Noel, the character from previous Happy to You videos. And how cool is it that this time he’s experiencing festival culture at LA’s HARD Summer.
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