Beautiful voice, melody and face all in one. Until Amy Winehouse comes back, I’m glad to have this lady on my iTouch. This is the sort of music Lauryn Hill should be making. Check out here.
Category: New Music
New Music: Tim Berg
This song reminds me a bit of 90’s garage, even though it’s pure swedish dance pop. I can see this being played on Kiss100 all summer. Song’s called Bromance. Check out here.
New Music: Moxie Black
I don’t really know much about this band, it all seems a bit elusive but their track ‘So Much Better’ has been on loop on my iTouch all day and I just can’t get enough of it. Check out here.
New Music: Mads Langer
Tipped to become a big big Danish pop star. Does an excellent cover version of Olive’s ‘You’re Not Alone’. Check out here.
New Music: Parmalee
Good American rock- the kind you want to listen to on a long road trip across a dusty highway. Check out here.
New Music: Christina Perri
Christina Perri has had a huge online following thanks to just one song, ‘Jar of Hearts’. And I can kinda see why, it’s a really well written track. Look forward to hearing more from this talented lady. Check out here.
New Music: Everybody Else
This band have a bit of a unique sound, if their song ‘First Class’ is anything to go by. Young garage rock. Check out here.
New Music: K.A.Y
This lady’s version of ‘Bang Bang’ by Nancy Sinatra is so good. Just needs a little refining. K.A.Y has that look of Gaga about here, but with a bit of Ke$ha thrown in there with some Robyn to add… Check out here.
New Music: Breathe Electric
American electropop bands always either get it really wrong or they get it really right. I think Breathe Electric are pretty good. They’ve got an interesting tagline… ‘Breathe Electric was created with you–the listener and soon-to-be biggest fan–in mind. They know the melodies you want to hear and have no qualms with delivering them through heaps of hook and catchy sing-a-long choruses’. I guess they’re totally not fussed about being called commercial, which makes a change! Check out here.
New Music: Rob Cowen & The Dissidents
I really like this band- they’re very British rock, and have a pretty lively sound to their songs. ‘The Heartlands’ is a bit of an anthem. Check out here.
New Music: Rumer
I guess the first thing you think of when you listen to Rumer is that it’s all a bit Karen Carpenter. But what’s wrong with that? It’s the sort of music you want to listen to when you’re on your bike on a sunny day in the park… Check out here.
New Music: Still Corners
Beautiful summery soft pop music, gives me the same shivers that melodic trip hop does. Check out here.
The Count & Sinden with Mystery Jets
New Music: Rai Knight
Rai Knight are getting a lot of buzz right now thanks to their single, ‘New New’. I love it. If you want to shake your bum around and smile like you’ve just been poked by a rainbow then check out here.
New Music: Clare Maguire
I stumbled across Clare Maguire’s Myspace sometime early last year, long before I had this blog. She had just one song up, called ‘Strangest Thing’, and it blew my mind away. It seems like she’s been signed up since then, as a new version of the same track is now online and her Myspace looks amazing. Check out here.
New Music: Mike Posner
OK, so Mike Posner might not be new news to some people, but I’ve realised that I really like him and I haven’t featured him on this blog so I guess now is better than never… He mixes synthpop with hip hop and rnb, which might not be something new but he does it pretty well. Check out here.
New Music: The Sleeping Bags
If you’ve stumbled across this blog looking for actual sleeping bags- sorry. I refer to a new band that make a really good sound. Check out here.
New Music: Rosanna
Carrying along in the same vein as Ellie Goulding, Rosanna (signed up by the web’s greatest blog PopJustice’ new label, HiFi), has that trademark Swedish sombre vibe mixed with an amazingly uplifting kind of beat. Check out here.
Wiley’s giving away 100 songs to you for free!
Yea, I think he’s lost his marbles. If you like Wiley, then click here to download all 100 songs that he’s decided to give away for free- I’m not sure I can deal with all that much Wiley! For those of you outside of the UK, Wiley is one of the masters of Grime music: you either love it or you hate it. Zip file 3 has a new song featuring The Streets called ‘Don’t Hide Away’ which I kinda like.
New Music: Monarchy
If you are clued up on your new music, you’ll know that Monarchy have caused havoc on the blogs for months now- but seeing as this blog is still a little baby, I forget to mention some bands from the past who will no doubt be big in the future.
Monarchy launched their sound with a mysterious image around them- no one knew who they were or what they were doing. Their songs were out of this world, and eventually, they were revealed to be a repackaged version of Milke. They cancelled their first proper gig ages ago and since then I’ve been a bit frowny with Monarchy, just because I got so excited when I found out about them and it seemed like they were just… being a bit strange.
But I’m over it now, and I’m totally loving their debut video (which is actually an old Milke track). I always felt that Milke never had the break they deserved, and rebranding as Monarchy seems to have done the trick, with them now getting a big record deal. Check out here.