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Lykke Li Blesses The Loop With Her Sadness
Posted by rober in IN THE LOOP, POP CULTURE & NEWS on June 3, 2011
Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li gets this week top spot at the loop with “Sadness Is A Blessing”, another highlight from her sophomore album ’Wounded Rhymes’, beating such competitors as Cults; Junior Boys and Jay Paul .
Bon Iver; Battles; another highlight from Fucked Up’s impressive new rock opera and the glorious noise made by Fuck Buttons’ Benjamin John Power side project, under the moniker of Blanck Mass are the highest entries in this new edition.
You can check the loop in full here.
An extended selection of our current favourite tracks can also be heard @ our hype machine page.
Röyksopp’s Women: Listen to “Junior” In Full.
Posted by rober in POP CULTURE & NEWS on March 13, 2009
RÖYKSOPP-Happy Up There
After the mild disappointment that was their second opus “The Understanding”; Röyksopp, Norway’s biggest electronica export, are back to their most pop-tastic form in “Junior”.
The duo from Bergen has scheduled two albums to be released in 2009, when “Junior” is about to hit the shops and can be listened in full at the band’s myspace page; it will be followed by “Senior” at the end of the year. First impressions are more than positive . The album is packed with potential singles, most of them helped in the vocal field by the cream of Today’s cutting edge Scandinavian female artists. After the jump, a quick look at Röyksopp’s women. Read the rest of this entry »
REVIEW 2008: HONORARY MENTIONS – 21 BLOG DARLINGS
Posted by rober in MUSIC REVIEW, POP CULTURE & NEWS on December 19, 2008
THE SHORTWAVE SET-No Social
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Collectively nicknamed as Blog Rock, during this decade a big number of new artists discovered by the increasing presence of music blogs online, have grown to be a parallel world coexisting with the big-buck marketing of the four majors oligopoly, being a true engine for the industry’s renewal. Their influence was felt and in some cases intercepted, with some high profile ones closing down and some others watching their contents and ethos being modified. The remaining ones still fulfilled their gatekeeping role with clockwork precision and the following names were among their luckiest findings.
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Apodados colectivamente como blog rock, durante esta decada un gran número de artistas noveles descubiertos por la creciente presencia de blogs musicales se han convertido en un mundo paralelo, coexistiendo con el ostentoso marketing del oligopolio de las cuatro grandes y consolidándose como un auténtico motor para la renovación de la industria. Su influencia se hacia notar y en algunos casos era interceptada, con algunos ejemplos notables cerrando sus puertas y otros viendo como sus contenidos y ética eran alterados. Los que quedaban siguieron cumpliendo su papel de filtro con precisión casi mecánica y los siguientes nombres se encontraron entre sus hallazgos más felices. Read the rest of this entry »




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