Now known as international stars and critical darlings, indie electro pop/indie rock act Cut Copy started out from humble beginnings – as the solo creative project of Melbourne, Australia-based DJ and graphic designer Dan Whitford in 2001. By […]
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Marcus Lambkin writes, records and performs under the moniker of Shit Robot. DFA Records will be releasing Lambkin’s sophomore effort as Shit Robot, We Got a Love on March 18th. Recorded in NYC and in Germany the album features a […]
Vanessa Brown, writes, produces and performs as V.V. Brown and when she released her latest effort, Samson and Delilah, Brown added the title of record label head to her description, as she released the album through her own […]
Alan Wilkis is the mastermind behind Big Data. and his first later single “Dangerous” featuring Joywaye is an incredibly funky and slickly produced bit of electro pop that’s perfect for the dance floor – and […]
if you know you’re contemporary electronica, you’d be familiar with John Davies, better known as Datassette. And as Datassette, Davies over the last decade has amassed an impressive catalog of material – including material recorded on […]
https://scache.vevo.com/m/html/embed.html?video=USUYG1041298&playerType=embedded Waajeed, a founding member of the famed Detroit-based act Slum Village met Dede Reynolds and Tim K, who were working together in a duo called Dede, in a bar beneath the J train in […]
Lenses, the latest album by the Los Angeles-based (by way of Portland, OR) duo of Soft Metals sonically owes a great debt to the legendary godfather of contemporary electronic music, Giorgio Moroder and to late […]
Although their first full-length effort was released in 2007, the Brooklyn-based trio of House of Blondes had only begun playing live shows together in 2012. in fact, I caught about half of the band’s second […]
Currently located in Brooklyn, the multi-instrumentalist and producer, William Flynn has worked with the likes of St. Vincent, Acrylics, Aufgang and the Prids; however as a solo artist, Flynn writes, produces and records under the moniker […]
Matthew Young has gained notoriety among circles for his work as a keyboardist and vocalist with Body Language, one of this area’s countless electro pop outfits, and for his work as one half of Vacationer. Young has […]
The Toronto, ON-based, Robert Alfons writes, records and performs under the moniker of Trust. His 2012 debut effort, TRST was released both critical praise and commercial success — critics at Vice, Pitchfork and The Guardian reviewed it favorably and the album was […]
Nepenthe, the third full-length release by the Brooklyn-based artist Julianna Bardwick. Upon the album’s release, Bardwick and her album have received critical praise from a number of media outlets including the likes of Pitchfork, the Fader, […]
Starting his career in the 1990s dance music scene in Washington, DC, Thomas Blondet has developed a reputation for blurring genre lines by infusing just about any beat and funk oriented genre known to man including deep house, […]
As a band, Liars has a long-held reputation for defying expectations at every single turn of their careers and for a sound that’s purposely challenging. WIXIW, which landed at number 21 on this site’s Best of 2012 list was a […]
Swedish artist Mattias Friberg writes, records and performs under the moniker of Shadow Shadow, a project that Friberg started out of a small cottage in in the Southern Swedish countryside, furnished with flea market electronics […]