Young Galaxy is a dark horse, a dream pop/shoegaze outfit from Canada, with killer hooks and glue-like choruses, led by Catherine’s expressive vocals and Steve’s imaginative guitar work. They had released 2 impressive albums before 2011, but this year their new LP, Shapeshifting, grabbed my attention and has monopolised my listening habits for the past [...] Read more – ‘flux’.
Antoni Maiovvi will be terrorizing eardrums and shuffling feet at Yoga Bala this Saturday, 22/1/11, at the Greed party by Mirage. Methi will open the proceedings in her usual style, A.M will provide the main course and Technicolor will kill the zombie dancers that just can’t stop. See you there, zombie dancers. Here are a [...] Read more – ‘caligula’.
Ever since listening to Elegante Orchestra for the first time a few months ago, i have been in love with the sheer funkiness and tight timing of their sound. This is an amazing combination of disco and soulful funk we’re talking about here, jazzy arrangements and ground moving basslines joining together to make your feet [...] Read more – ‘elegant’.
Dinosauruxia is a beautifully weird electro/pop project from Northern Europe. Two inappropriately aged girls and a few pieces of equipment can sometimes be enough to create challenging and enganging music. Watch this space. For more info, here’s the band themselves. * Would you please introduce yourselves to our loyal 13 and 1/3 readers. We are [...] Read more – ‘teenage sensation’.
Eureka Brown is a brilliant brand new project from Urbana, Illinnois, USA. Essentially, it’s a two-person band that creates a dizzying, intoxicating, positively upbeat mesh of pop, electronica and dub. What sets them apart from other indie bands, aside from the quality of their few, so far, recordings is the idea that music in the [...] Read more – ‘Eureka!’.
Sally Shapiro‘s Disco Romance came out of the proverbial blue in late 2006, easily finding an early niche in the nu-italo revival that is in full swing these days. Fronted by an enigmatic and elusive singer that refuses to reveal her true identity, going instead by the faux-italian sobriquet of Sally Shapiro, and fuelled by [...] Read more – ‘northern lights’.
I’d better come out and say it. Most greek music makes me cringe. Actually, strike that. Almost all of commercially successful greek music, and a very large percentage of ‘alternative’ greek music makes me cringe. BUT, increasingly over the past few years, there have been a few, too few, exceptions to that rule. And Fantastikoi [...] Read more – ‘Imaginary Sounds’.
Enigmatic New Jersey almost-disco duo Pink Stallone have been on heavy rotation on my mp3 player ever since i discovered them a few months back, thanks to the awesome people at 20jazzfunkgreats. Seriously groovy tunes, glacial electronics, great taste in mixtape compilations, combined with a less-than-serious attitude makes for a more-than-great combo. Adam was kind [...] Read more – ‘PS.’.
One of the biggest musical shocks i have experienced these past few years was listening for the first time to the Italians Do It Better sampler compilation “After Dark”. Among stellar tracks by Chromatics and Glass Candy, were a couple of songs by this guy i had never heard of before. Professor Genius. And, boy, [...] Read more – ‘Notti Bianche’.
