Os que nos seguem com alguma frequência, saberão que temos seguido os Brooklyneiros (apesar de serem naturais do Missouri) White Rabbits, desde há algum tempo.
O sexteto terá o seu terceiro álbum, "Milk Famous", disponível a partir de dia 6 de Março. Desse disco há agora um vídeo, realizado por Andrew Droz Palermo, para o primeiro single do disco, "Heavy Metal", que ainda está a ser oferecido em mp3 pela banda (ver abaixo, para download).
A banda divulgará o seu novo disco, para já, numa digressão americana com os War on Drugs e os Tennis.
Do quarteto texano, This Will Destroy You, que já vai no seu segundo álbum, há um vídeo para o seu segundo single de "Tunnel Blanket".
Não se iludam com o tom ligeiro da música e do iníco do vídeo, há que persistir e ver, até ao fim, esta pérola do realizador Malcolm Elijah.
Desde de 2004, data em que foi lançado o último álbum de Mark Lanegan Band, Mark Lanegan não esteve propriamente parado. Depois de ter deixado os Queens of the Stone Age em 2005, ele trabalhou com os Gutter Twins, e em três álbuns de Isobel Campbell (ex-Belle and Sebastian).
"The Gravedigger´s Song" tinha sido publicada na web em Dezembro mas agora aparece com um vídeo inspirado em imagens de alguns dos clássicos do terror.
Este tema fará parte do alinhamento de "Blues Funeral", editado a 7 de Fevereiro, e que silenciará o repouso de oito anos da Mark Lanegan Band.
Segundo o texto que acompnha o vídeo, Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) andou a passear com a sua namorada, Krystle Blackburn, e, das imagens capturadas nessas viagens pelo mundo, criaram o vídeo para "We Must Go On", single que estará disponível a 26 de Janeiro.
O tema e o vídeo podem ser descarregados gratuitamente, se não quiserem doar nada, no sítio de Pretty Lights.
Em Junho de 2011, a passagem de Pretty Lights no Bonnaroo, foi aqui tema de conversa.
Culpem os Wilco por serem responsáveis por, depois de 30 anos de espera, haver mais Popeye desenhado à mão, que deu origem ao vídeo "Dawned on Me", tema do álbum "The Whole Love".
A produção autorizada do vídeo pela King Features, teve a realização de Darren Romaneli.
Na designada "sunday strip" de Popeye no jornal, por Frank Caruso e Ned Sonntag, apareceu a ilustração acima onde aparecem os membros da banda (Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone, Mikael Jorgensen, e Glenn Kotche) com as personagens de Popeye.
O duo Xiu Xiu terá o novo álbum, "Always", à venda em Março. "Hi" é o single de apresentação que já tem um vídeo, realizado por David Horvitz e o próprio Jamie Stewart, que também filmou.
"Always" foi produzido por Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) que também participou no disco como vocalista e baterista.
Do novo álbum, "No One Dan Ever Know" (capa na foto), da banda de Glasgow Twilight Sad, há um segundo single, "Another Bed", a editar a 6 de Fevereiro, que tem um vídeo realizado por Craig Murray.
Kate Bush apresentou um novo vídeo para o seu tema "Lake Tahoe", mas numa versão mais curta do que a original, apresentada no seu último álbum, "50 Words For Snow", e com o vídeo renomeado para "Eider Falls At Lake Tahoe".
A preparar-nos para o novo álbum dos Sleigh Bells, "Reign of Terror" (capa na foto), há um novo vídeo, realizado por Derek Miller e Gregory Kohn, do single "Comeback Kid".
Enquanto o presente bluff da indústria monopoliza os media com a fava do bolo Rey, a naturalmente talentosa Lianne La Havas, sem necessidade de uma rede para a sua voz ou de um refazer da sua imagem por um consultor da indústria, vai passando despercebida fora da Grã-Bretanha (por enquanto).
Lianne, de 22 anos de idade, tem dois EPs editados, "Lost & Found", editado em Outubro de 2011, e "Forget", publicado em Dezembro. Também em Dezembro de 2011, abriu concertos de Bon Iver, na digressão norte-americana.
Espera-se a edição do seu primeiro álbum no início de Maio.
Foi apresentado, na sexta-feira, o vídeo para o tema "Forget", que podem encontrar no seu segundo EP. Aproveitamos para incluir também o vídeo de "No Room For Doubt", do seu primeiro EP, com a colaboração do norte-americano Willy Mason, da editora de Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes). E, por último, um tema da sua passagem pelo "Later with Jools Holland".
"You and I" é o lado B do último single, "Black Treacle", que passou aqui e que tem hoje uma edição física. Este tema não faz parte de "Suck It And See" e surge como de Richard Hawley and the Death Ramps (um pseudónimo dos Artic Monkeys que deu origem a um single com o mesmo nome).
A banda decidiu filmar as gravações em estúdio, nas quais participou Richard Hawley, imagens que ajudaram à criação de um vídeo para o tema.
First Aid Kit, as incriveís manas Soderberg (já aqui devidamente apresentadas), têm um novo vídeo para o seu segundo single, "Emmylou", retirado, curiosamente, do seu segundo álbum, "The Lion´s Roar", que será editado a 23 de Janeiro.
Ao contrário do que seria de esperar, Karla e Johanna, numa entrevista, disseram não terem chegado a este som ouvindo os clássicos, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, entre tantos outros, mas foi pelo seu interesse na música de Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst participou neste álbum), e do que o influenciava, que chegaram a eles.
Sleep Party People é o nome do projecto do multi-instrumentista e produtor Brain Batz. Ao vivo actua com outros coelhos amigos, dos quais não se sabem os nomes, mas temos a certeza que é já um projecto de culto no seu país.
"Sleep Party People", o álbum de estreia, foi editado em 2010 e teve uma reedição no ano passado. A 9 de Abril estará disponível a nova obra, "We Were Drifting On A Sad Song".
"We Were Drifting On A Sad Song" faz parte do novo álbum e tem agora um vídeo (ver abaixo).
Para quem os ouve/vê só há duas opções, ou se gosta ou se detesta.
Realização e argumento: Marie Limkilde http://www.marielimkilde.com
Produtor: Josefine Gervang Heimburger http://www.heimburgerproduction.com
Se Nick Cave e os seus projectos, como os Grinderman, deixam muitos a salivar, salivaram muito mais quando Cave resolve dar aos amigos "Gindreman 2", de 2010, para ser remexido; e quando leva, para a sua cozinha ou laboratório, chefs ou cientistas loucos como Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), os UNKLE, Joshua Homme (QOSTA), Cat´s Eyes, Barry Adamson,...
Babetes prontos a 13 de Março, dia em que o disco chegará às lojas reais e virtuais. Haverá uma edição em vinil.
Já há um vídeo para Bellringer Blues remexido por Nick Zinner.
Alinhamento de "Grinderman 2 RMX":
1 Super Heathen Child (Grinderman/Fripp)
2 Worm Tamer (A Place To Bury Strangers Remix)
3 Bellringer Blues (Nick Zinner Remix)
4 Hyper Worm Tamer (UNKLE Remix)
5 Mickey Bloody Mouse (Joshua Homme Remix)
6 When My Baby Comes (Cat's Eyes com Luke Tristram)
7 Palaces Of Montezuma (Barry Adamson Remix)
8 Evil ('Silver Alert' Remix com Matt Berninger)
9 When My Baby Comes (SixToes Remix)
10 Heathen Child (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
11 Evil (The Michael Cliffe House' Remix)
12 First Evil
Do álbum "Give You The Ghost", dos POLIÇA, o projecto de Ryan Olson (GAYNGS) e da vocalista Channy Moon Casselle, há um primeiro vídeo, "Lay Your Cards Out".
Entre outros, participam neste disco outros habituais colaboradores de GAYNGS, como Justin Vernon e Mike Noyce.
Os Errors, visitantes desta página desde há muito, vão editar o seu terceiro álbum que, pela a amostra do primeiro single, "Pleausre Palaces", e do respectivo vídeo, realizado por Rachel Maclean, poderá ser uma obra mais "perto" de uma maior audiência, isto comparativamente aos discos anteriores.
O novo álbum dhama-se "Have Some Faith In Magic" e estarádisponível no final de Janeiro.
O segundo single de "Ashes & Fire", o último álbum de Ryan Adams, publicado no fim do ano passado, tem um segundo single, "Chains of Love", que já tem a companhia de um vídeo.
Os Can´t Win Charlie Brown, que participaram no Music Alliance Pact, em Julho de 2011, e que têm um novo vídeo (ver abaixo) para "I´ve Been Lost", tema de "Chromatic", foram seleccionados para participarem no South By Southwest 2012, em Austin, Texas, um dos festivais mais importantes de música em toda a terraosfera. No entanto, como não se podem "deslocalizar" para a Holanda e também não sabem fazer pastéis de nata, e não têm fundos suficientes para chegarem ao Texas, eles precisam da vossa ajuda. Como tal, lançaram uma forma original de pedirem a nossa colaboração. Podem ler no síto da banda:
"Em troca de uma ajuda oferecemos um ou vários presentes:
Valor da doação
O que temos para oferecer:
0.01€ ≤ 4.99€ Eu ajudei*
5.00€ ≤ 7.99€ Eu ajudei* + Poster assinado
8.00€ ≤ 9.99€ Eu ajudei* + Poster assinado + Download de EP inédito "3:33"
≥10.00€ Eu ajudei* + Poster assinado + Download de EP inédito "3:33" + bilhete**
* inclusão do nome de quem ajudou no mural
** Um bilhete para o concerto no Cinema S. Jorge dia 29 de Fevereiro de 2012, com a participação especial da bateria siamesa dos Paus
*** todos os que participarem receberão um email com todas as informações e tudo o resto a que têm direito"
Vamos lá a ajudar esta causa, mais barata que um maço de tabaco.
Do EP "Headcage", de Matthew Dear, disponível desde ontem, há um novo vídeo para o tema "In The Middle (I Met You There)" com a colaboração, na voz, do convidado Jonny Pierce (The Drums).
Conceito e Realização por Morgan Beringer (vimeo.com/morganism)
Fotografia adicional por Toyin Timeyin
Os nossos talentosos :papercutz, que participaram no Music Alliance Pact em Junho de 2009, têm agora um vídeo, por Pedro Pinto, para a sua versão (que podem fazer o download abaixo) de "Disintegration", dos The Cure.
O concerto que os Arcade Fire deram a 18 de Setembro, o último da digressão de "Suburbs", no décimo aniversário do Austin City Limits, está agora disponível online graças à PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). Obrigado.
We Trust, o projecto de André Tentugal que abraçou muitos corações com o seu tema "Time (Better Not Stop)", e que passou aqui com o vídeo com que também ilustramos este post, tem, desde Novembro, o seu álbum de estreia, "These New Countries" (capa do disco na foto), disponível, com muitos outros doces para descobrir como esta canção hoje incluída.
Este mês, em exclusivo para o mundo, disponibilizamos o tema "Time (Better Not Stop)", dos We Trust, para além dos outros trinta e cinco dos outros blogues participantes no M.A.P.
Realização: Rickard Bengtsson
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ARGENTINA: Zonaindie Nubes En Mi Casa - Aceleremos
Nubes En Mi Casa is an indie-pop band led by singer Josefina Mac Loughlin. Aceleremos is a preview from their upcoming second studio album, Me Suelto y Vuelvo. The song sounds like an instant hit and we're sure it will become one of our favorite tracks of 2012, so we can't wait to hear the rest of it.
AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They? Sures - The Sun
The Sun is a short burst of sunshine from Sydney duo Sures. It sounds like a Beach Boys outtake, which might sound boring given the number of bands out there paying homage to Wilson and Co. Fortunately, The Sun is just two minutes of harmonising over a dull melody - it's a catchy tune that will have those of us in the southern hemisphere pressing repeat throughout summer.
AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig Diver - Illusions
Quiet is the new loud. Diver, a folky trio from various places in Austria and Germany and now based in Vienna, play beautifully melancholic songs with three acoustic guitars and lyrics that go "everyday reality is an illusion of possibilities". Illusions is the opener of their first full-length album Kites, which will be out later this month. In the meantime you can listen to their self-titled debut EP on Bandcamp.
BRAZIL: Meio Desligado Bixiga 70 - Balboa Da Silva
Bixiga 70 is what happens when you combine African beats, jazz and Brazilian swing in a city as hectic as São Paulo, where they're from. Their first CD was released last year and is available to download at the band's website.
CANADA: I(Heart)Music Honheehonhee - We Only Go
There's more than a hint of early Arcade Fire to We Only Go but, as someone who misses early Arcade Fire, I don't see why that's a strike against Honheehonhee. Besides, this song (not to mention the rest of their debut, Shouts) is exuberant, unhinged fun, and the world can always use more music like that.
CHILE: Super 45 Los Embajadores - Peso
From all the tips made in the Chilean music scene for this year, Los Embajadores is one of the most interesting. Romantic goth-pop songs reminiscent of Cocteau Twins as well as the darkest hours of Miguel Bosé. Faisanes is the name of their soon-to-come new album, and Peso ("Weight") is its first single.
CHINA: Wooozy Elenore - Psycho Man
Beijing-based Elenore formed in late 2009 and have developed a sound influenced by bands such as Oasis, Kasabian and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The single Psycho Man fuses 60s swing drum loops, fuzzy guitar riffs and a Middle Eastern instrumental chorus which became a hit on China's popular site Douban. In February, Elenore will release their first EP both on CD and the band's own digital distribution site.
DENMARK: All Scandinavian Nelson Can - Apple Pie
Danish girl-trio Nelson Can release their eponymous debut EP this month as part of a triple EP release with The Freudian Slip and Echo Me. Punk aesthetics spoon with pop flair and hipster cool on their first single Apple Pie, which reaffirms that apples are indeed a good thing. Like the girls on Facebook and check out the video for Apple Pie on YouTube.
ENGLAND: The Guardian Music Blog Money - Who's Going To Love You Now
A four-piece based in Manchester, Money are part of that city's tradition of earnest young men, "the weight on their shoulder", as Ian Curtis once sang. They quote Austrian poet Rilke, while their Facebook features a "eulogy for the death of everything". A recent Guardian New Band of the Day article contended that they "have a similar air of mystery and cerebral intensity to Wu Lyf, with a vocalist who can do enigmatically gruff as well as fervid and angelic", positing them as the Mancunian Manic Street Preachers, with a shared sense of the sacred and intense.
ESTONIA: Popop Zebra Island - Falling Through
Mysterious Zebra Island rocketed into blogs and social networks at the very end of 2011 and everyone in Estonia seems to love them, although no-one knows much about the band. Zebra Island is led by Rasmus Lill from Kosmofon (featured in the March 2011 edition of MAP) and beautiful vocals are provided by Helina Risti. Falling Through, their first and only song so far, is a lovely, pulsating electro-pop masterpiece that keeps you wanting for much more Zebra Island.
FINLAND: Glue Greymouth - The Boy
Singer and songwriter Elisa Husu founded Greymouth in the summer of 2011 to recreate her folky songs with a full band. The Boy is the first taster of this project and highlights Elisa's beautiful voice on top of epic acoustic sounds with a marked Fleet Foxes influence.
FRANCE: Yet You're Fired Concrete Knives - Brand New Start
A perfect title for the first song of the year, Brand New Start is a highly enjoyable pop song, so good it's featured in a commercial, and so fresh with its choir and upbeat sound, I would name it song of the year. Very good proof that the French indie scene is better than ever.
GERMANY: Blogpartei Apparat - Ash/Black Veil
This month we've got one of the most discussed German artists of last year. Apparat's 2011 album The Devil's Walk took the concept of Sascha Ring, the man behind the moniker, further. The soundscapes created feels like a cairn, carefully layered and poised, yet built to last; but Ring has decided to use his falsetto, which has caused controversy with reviewers. Decide for yourself if this concept works well on Ash/Black Veil. I think it does!
GREECE: Mouxlaloulouda Hristos Lainas - H Thlipsi To Brady
Hristos Lainas' first solo album, I Agapi Tha Lampsi ("Love Will Shine") is stuffed to the brim with alluring pop melodies, drenched in skittering 12-bit samplers, filtered vocals, warm and luscious analog synths and infused with a pleasant aura of drowsiness. Lainas assembles an array of sounds and textures, adds sporadic splashes of static atmosphere and in the process creates a magnificent listening environment of rose-tinted optimism and disenchantment. H Thlipsi To Brady ("Sadness In The Night") submerges a sense of intense feeling within its 80s fantasy electronic ether and instantly takes hold of your ears.
ICELAND: Rjóminn Toggi - Let Them Bleed
This catchy little song, taken from the Iceland king of pop's second album Wonderful Secrets, should be the anthem for any self-respecting Occupy movement. Feeling a need to protest? Then let Toggi's tune occupy your mind and fire you up.
INDONESIA: Deathrockstar Belkastrelka - Pujian Ekspatriat
Belkastrelka are an eccentric electronic duo who sample sounds from various sources - windows, the library, television, nature and everything else. Combined with the tiny but wild vocals of Asa Rahmana, they create feral dance music.
IRELAND: Nialler9 Collie Collins & Monto - How Does?!?
A collaboration indicative of Ireland's growing insurgency against genre borders, Keep Her Lit is an EP which was released last year from Dublin rapper Collie Collins. Teaming up with producer Monto for four tracks of electronic-infused rap, the result is something wholly Irish yet globally progressive. It's a free download too.
ITALY: Polaroid Esperanza - Aliante Giallo
Three skilled musicians and DJs put together a project devoted to an idea of music with no barriers. The sound ranges from chillwave to house, from trip-hop to psychedelia, and becomes a wide landscape. Featuring a collaboration with Banjo Or Freakout and released on the prestigious German label Gomma, this album works magic when the bpms slow down and the electronics becomes warmer and warmer.
JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies Praha Depart - Portrait Man
Praha Depart demand attention, the Tokyo band mixing constantly morphing guitar with drum smashes to create mesmerizing tracks that reveal new sonic details with each new listen. All of those elements appear on Portrait Man, but the highlight of the song is lead singer Mai and her jittery voice. Over the course of Portrait Man, her vocals bring to mind Lydia Lunch before zigging towards a style reminiscent of Sue Tompkins of Life Without Buildings.
MALTA: Stagedive Malta Dolls For Idols - Run
Dolls For Idols are an electronic band underpinned by indie and pop sensibilities. Their music embraces 80s-inspired synthesised sounds and the 90s rave generation, all served up with an attitude that is very much rooted in the here and now.
MEXICO: Red Bull Panamérika Los Mundos - Ni Un Segundo Más Sin Música
Los Mundos is a long-distance collaboration that perfectly speaks about musical memory and desertic solitude. The title of this lush pop-shoegaze song means "Not a second more without music". Indeed, it's the urgent need of a music lover: to spend all their time in a record store (how nostalgic), living their days wearing headphones with an obsession for everything that spins - very accurate for a band whose name in Spanish translates as "The Worlds".
NETHERLANDS: Unfold Amsterdam Hospital Bombers - Traditional Maori Fight Song #9
This self-proclaimed stadium-folk outfit have been in hiding for too long, sitting on a wealth of new material that they've struggled to shape into that 'difficult second album'. Thankfully, this month they'll finally release the sequel to 2008's Footnotes - the grandly titled At Budokan. Their lovingly lo-fi folk-pop is always rougher and rawer in the live setting, but this new collection again shows them up to be masters of careful songcraft, albeit unashamedly quirky songcraft that's emblazoned with handclaps and violins.
NORWAY: Birds Sometimes Dance Billie Van - On My Knees
Billie Van's music makes me reminisce back to the 50s and the 60s, when country music was good and Nancy Sinatra was the one; when rock 'n' roll meant four chords and terrific songs; when guitar solos were mandatory and slapback echo came from the amps. Her music is all of this - great pop songs, tearful country ballads and hip-shaking rock 'n' roll, but it's also new and done in a refreshing way.
PERU: SoTB Chico Unicornio - Triángulo
Once again, it is the independent scene that gives us another interesting musical proposal. Chico Unicornio is a one-man project that combines acoustic folk sounds with a nice Andean instrument called a charango. The music that this young man makes is new to our local sound, giving it a freshness and novelty.
PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco? We Trust - Time (Better Not Stop)
We Trust is André Tentugal's one-man band. In 2011, Time (Better Not Stop) was one of the most-played tracks by a new independent artist on Portuguese radio. We are proud to have it here, exclusively, for download for MAP readers. You can also find it on We Trust's debut album, These New Countries, which was released in November.
ROMANIA: Babylon Noise Coughy - Precambrian
Coughy are an experimental duo residing in Bucharest, featuring former and current band members of The Amsterdams. Therefore it is regarded as a creative playground where everything is accepted as a form of expression without the self-censorship required when playing in a regular and quite popular indie-rock band.
RUSSIA: Big Echo M A Y Г L E Y - Farfour
M A Y Г L E Y are getting ready to strike Russia's cruel winter with an ancient God's spell, drowned in a wall of sound. Religion, symbolism, adrenaline, isolated genres and the naked language of post-Stalin 60s influence this psychedelic shoegaze project, who have made a great record.
SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop Make Sparks - Your Heart's On Fire
Scotland's rock scene is firmly in the spotlight thanks to the wildly successful exploits of Biffy Clyro and young pretenders Twin Atlantic. For those looking for the next band to follow in their footsteps, two contenders stand out: Make Sparks and LightGuides (featured in the July 2010 edition of MAP). Catchy choruses are fitted as standard on Make Sparks, who are making all the right noises with their relentless touring and recording ethic, slick promo videos and a vivacious pop sensibility.
SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To... Riot !n Magenta - CTRL
Do androids dream of electric sheep? One thinks of such things when the contrast between the organic and inorganic meld together into a primordial blur of passion. Riot !n Magenta gently slip into the stream of your thoughts with Hayashida Ken's dark, pulsing rhythms and Eugenia Yip's wispful and forlorn vocal delivery. There's tension in every stem as the words haze through: "I try to take it slow, you go faster...You need control...". Definitely hoping to hear more from this special duo.
SOUTH AFRICA: Musical Mover & Shaker! Jeremy Loops - The Gypsy Opera
Jeremy Loops is not a traditional band. He creates music on the spot with his gamut of loop pedals and impromptu collaborations. With The Gypsy Opera, he brings together his delicate mix of folk, hip-hop, bluegrass funk and blues all by using his guitar, ukelele, harmonica and beatboxing skills. It is something rather magical to behold.
SOUTH KOREA: Korean Indie Galaxy Express - As Time Passes, Always Been Good
Galaxy Express is one of the best rock bands in Korea and have been for quite some time. During their Wild 30 project in 2010, a 30-day quest during which they recorded a piece of music for their Wild Days album every day, they showed that they put on the best of performances, even just going to karaoke. In late 2011, Galaxy Express released split EP Naughty Boy with Korean punk pioneers Crying Nut, which contained a re-recording of the somewhat atypical but gorgeous and engaging As Time Passes, Always Been Good from those wild days. Look out for more from Galaxy Express in 2012 as they're heading for a US tour in March and playing SXSW for the second time.
SPAIN: Musikorner Dolores - Volcán
Dolores are four, they're from Madrid and they are certainly one of the best hopes for noise-rock made in Spain. Post-punk and shoegaze are two of the genres Dolores mix for achieving their sound (which is also spiced up with a touch of good ol' pop and loads of energy). A good bit of that power can be heard on Volcán ("Volcano"), whose stunning rhythm will invite you to dance the hell out of yourself. And you won't be able to refuse.
SWITZERLAND: 78s Blanket - Hailey Fought The Law
Want to watch a video starring the runner-up of the figure roller-skating world championships dressed as a rabbit? Here you go. Given that Blanket's accompanying song is a fragile and psychedelic piece of awesomeness, we obviously have a win-win situation.
TURKEY: WEARTBEAT Haossaa - Holgar Godoni
Last year, Ozan Aktuna, Enis Özbek and Tolga Güldallı, three-pieced avant garde noise band Haossaa, became legends in the indie scene of Istanbul, mostly for their extraordinary live performances. And when their debut LP came out last September, their reputation finally got crowned.
UNITED STATES: I Guess I'm Floating Fantasy Island - Avenue
One of 2012's more promising American groups is Fantasy Island, a Los Angeles duo responsible for a pair of intriguing, soulful jams since their formation in late 2011. They've got a new single out on UK label Stroll On Records and a debut album on the horizon. With a song like Avenue (and the equally fantastic Breaking A Heart) it's hard to keep wild expectations in check... guess we'll just have to wait and see what the rest of the year cooks up.
VENEZUELA: Música y Más Okills - Nube
Okills is a band that started in mid-2010 and fuses alternative indie-rock with other genres, resulting in some fun music. In September 2011, they released their Iniciando Transmisión EP for free via the web in a pack that includes six songs, illustrations and photos of the band.
Desde de 2004, data em que foi lançado o último álbum de Mark Lanegan Band, Mark Lanegan não esteve propriamente parado. Depois de ter deixado os Queens of the Stone Age em 2005, ele trabalhou com os Gutter Twins, e em três álbuns de Isobel Campbell (ex-Belle and Sebastian).
Segundo o texto que acompnha o vídeo, Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) andou a passear com a sua namorada, Krystle Blackburn, e, das imagens capturadas nessas viagens pelo mundo, criaram o vídeo para "We Must Go On", single que estará disponível a 26 de Janeiro. 
Sleep Party People é o nome do projecto do multi-instrumentista e produtor Brain Batz. Ao vivo actua com outros coelhos amigos, dos quais não se sabem os nomes, mas temos a certeza que é já um projecto de culto no seu país.
ARGENTINA: Zonaindie
AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?
AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig
BRAZIL: Meio Desligado
CANADA: I(Heart)Music
CHILE: Super 45
CHINA: Wooozy
DENMARK: All Scandinavian
ENGLAND: The Guardian Music Blog
ESTONIA: Popop
FINLAND: Glue
FRANCE: Yet You're Fired
GERMANY: Blogpartei
GREECE: Mouxlaloulouda
ICELAND: Rjóminn
INDONESIA: Deathrockstar
IRELAND: Nialler9
ITALY: Polaroid
JAPAN: Make Believe Melodies
MALTA: Stagedive Malta
MEXICO: Red Bull Panamérika
NETHERLANDS: Unfold Amsterdam
NORWAY: Birds Sometimes Dance
PERU: SoTB
PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco?
ROMANIA: Babylon Noise
RUSSIA: Big Echo
SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop
SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To...
SOUTH AFRICA: Musical Mover & Shaker!
SOUTH KOREA: Korean Indie
SPAIN: Musikorner
SWITZERLAND: 78s
TURKEY: WEARTBEAT
UNITED STATES: I Guess I'm Floating
VENEZUELA: Música y Más