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Aceyalone
The Los Angeles rapper and founding member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku D’Etat and Project Blowed, Aceyalone returns with Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones, which draws on Phil Spector, 60s girl groups, the J.B.s and a slew of raw, dirty funk for sonic i... read more
Anni Rossi
4AD are releasing Rockwell, the debut album from Anni Rossi, on March 10th. From Minnesota via Los Angeles and now based in Chicago, twenty-three year old Anni is an exciting prospect. Having been classically trained since aged three, Anni is an acco... read more
Buffalo 77
Even the very best bands must first emerge from the most humble of beginnings. Here is a snapshot of a couple of years past: it is a cold winter's night, and Jay Leighton and Pete Ainge are driving the 200 miles from their Leicester home to Bristol t... read more
Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura announce a new single, the forthcoming album release of My Maudlin Career and tour dates in both the UK and US. They are also making the title track available to download as of today. With John Peel as an early champion, Glasgow’s C... read more
Cesar Comanche
Cesar Comanche's 6th studio album, Die In Your Lap, will appear in stores on 2-24-2009 via Cesar's own imprint, Defenders Of The Free World (DOTFW). With production from long-time friend and musical collaborator 9th Wonder (including the Album's firs... read more
Children
New York City’s Children are about to deliver an electric shock to the world of contemporary metal. Their debut, Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World, ripples with speed, precision, and a visceral intensity that is seldom seen in any genre of m... read more
Collin Raye
The irony of naming his new album Never Going Back isn’t lost on Collin Raye. His new songs may subtly recall the great, organic music of a bygone era but instead of stepping back in time he pulls the sound right up into the future. At a time when... read more
Cryptacize
Cryptacize deals in the unforgettable melody, the forsaken chord and the extravagant sentiment. It's a distinct kind of pleasure they offer, not casual background or 'lifestyle' music. An unlikely synthesis of musical styles, MYTHOMANIA (Cryptacize's... read more
Disco Pusher
In the shadow of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, DISCO PUSHER--the musical partnership of Sisko and David Greenberg--are working feverishly on a staggering, ever-expanding canon of songcraft. Like mad scientists of sound, few can rival the pair’s inexorabl... read more
Emmy the Great
Savage observations and stark admissions, cloaked in arrangements of disarming simplicity, First Love is the debut album from Emmy The Great, set for release on 2nd February on Close Harbour. These are the abstracted tales of protagonists drawn in... read more
Frankmusik
With his razor-sharp cheekbones, zig-zag undercut and bag full of sparkling musical moments Frankmusik is going to brightly burn his image on to 09’s retina . ‘Better Off As Two’ is his debut single — a lambent disco-pop diamond. Pop’s new leading... read more
Hollywood Mon Amour
Marc Collin, the Parisian composer who single-handedly changed the way we thought about Depeche Mode and Visage by – as Nouvelle Vague – daringly rearranging their songs with bossa nova beats and sultry chanteuses, is now chasing a very different amb... read more
J-Kwon
At just 22-years-old, St. Louis native J-Kwon looks as though he could be another emerging artist on the scene, but he's actually already a Hip Hop vet. After achieving chart-topping success in 2004 with the single "Tipsy" from his So So Def/Arista d... read more
Julian Lage
Since Julian Lage appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary Jules At Eight, as himself, an eight year-old guitarist and composer, he’s been labeled a musician not easily defined. Perhaps it’s simplest to pin the jazz label on Lage, having alread... read more
KO the Legend
Rapper KO The Legend is about to release his album "I Am Not You Rapper" including the hit-single 'She Wants 2 Get It'. Kid Official the Legend changed his name during his career to KO. The response to his music has already been very positive. MusicR... read more
Lady Sovereign
A 5 ft 1 pixie with giant passion, ambition and sheer raw talent, if there is one theme running through the magical existence of Lady Sovereign, then it’s that of being a fiercely independent creative spirit who, one way or another, was born to be di... read more
Mastodon
Heavy rock iconoclasts Mastodon will release their new album, Crack the Skye on March 24, 2009. However, hardcore fans will have the opportunity to pre-order a very special Deluxe Limited "Tunnel Book" Edition of Crack the Skye online only via the ba... read more
Red Light Company
Red Light Company were formed in 2007. Richard Frenneaux (vocals/guitar) was born in England and spent his formative years in Australia and New Zealand. Shawn Day (bass) is from Wyoming, the least populated state in America, but was born in Osaka, Ja... read more
Static-X
Static-X can't be stopped. On their sixth studio release, Cult of Static, the Los Angeles industrial metal quartet engages sensory destruction. Due out March 17, 2009 via Reprise/Warner Bros. Records, Cult of Static is loaded with songs that explode ... read more
Stoupe
Legendary Jedi Mind Tricks producer and beat brainchild Stoupe The Enemy of Mankind preps the March 31st release of his debut solo release: "Decalogue." For over a decade, and through 6 hit underground albums, Stoupe has beencreating sonic backdrops ... read more
The BPA
The BPA with Iggy Pop, Pete York, Connan, Ashley Beedle, Justin Robertson, Jamie T, Emmy The Great, Martha Wainwright, Simon Thornton, Cagedbaby, David Byrne, Dizzee Rascal, Olly Hite. Throughout the 1970’s, as Britain succumbed to the likes of Th... read more
They Might Be Giants
Kids! Parents! Prepare to be delighted as They Might Be Giants triumphantly return to the world of kids stuff with their new CD & DVD set "Here Come the 123s." The album includes two dozen instantly memorable songs direct from the imaginations of Joh... read more
Utada
In the small world of pop artists who write their own music enters the big voice of artist/songwriter Utada who is set to reveal her new single “Come Back to Me” this month. Utada, already one of the world’s biggest recording artists, will release h... read more
Youth Group
Any journey to a heart of darkness requires a sturdy boat, and Youth Group – a band never afraid to circumnavigate the glowering cliffs and rocky shoals of the human heart – needed, to paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws, a bigger boat for the bold voyag... read more