Malian superstars Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) are releasing their first ever remix compilation and this calls for a little celebration. The fourteen-track album was released on December 20 in Europe and will be out in the US on January 10 2011. It features tracks from their best-selling albums Welcome to …
Australian electro/rock band Dukes of Windsor was formed in 2004 in Melbourne but is currently based in Berlin. Their stark sound fuses minimalist rhythms, punchy bass-lines, cascading guitar riffs, and glacial synths. The original lineup consisted of Jack Weaving, Oscar Dawson, Scott Targett, Cory Blight and Bobby Manila. Joe Franklin replaced Bobby Manila on bass …
Hailing from Akron, Ohio, The Black Keys is a blues-rock duo consisting of singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney. Formed in 2001, the band finds inspiration in Mississppi blues classics and mid-1960s psychedelic rock. Over the past eight years, The Black Keys have proven to be a very prolific band with seven …
Desire is a musical project produced spearheaded by Johnny Jewel (already famous amongst Italo Disco circles for his work with Glass Candy and Chromatics) and signed to the Italians Do It Better record label. Desire – Don’t Call The band was born a couple of years ago after Johnny spotted vocalist Meagan Louise singing in …
Bag Raiders are a Sydney-based electro duo who scored a breakout hit in Australia in 2007 with “Fun Punch” and an even bigger smash in 2008 with “Shooting Stars”. The duo (Jack Glass and Chris Stracey) has become one of the most sought-after electropop act in Australia and their aural gems have won them the endorsement …
Eclectic might not be strong enough a word to describe Franco/Finnish alternative rock act The Dø (as in “do-re-mi”, the first note on the musical scale). Formed in 2007, this duo combines the talents of Finnish vocalist Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti and Paris-born multi-instrumentalist Dan Levy. The unexpected success of their debut album, A Mouthful, which …
Dead Sea Lions is a young electro rock band from Paris. This four-piece act is barely a year old and they’ve already managed to get some nice write-ups in revered music magazine “Les Inrocks” and fashion bible “Elle”. Its members Alex, Paul, Mustapha and Adrien, all in their mid-twenties, started making music together in January …
80kidz is a Japanese electro duo (originally a three-piece) formed in 2006 in Kyoto. They released their first bootleg mixtape “The Kidz Are Alright No. 1” in 2007. The mix sold out rapidly and requests for DJ appearances quickly followed. Volume 2 was another success and 80kidz soon started to get noticed by many music …
