Born and raised in Florida, Black Kids is an indie pop band formed in 2006 by siblings Reggie and Ali Youngblood (guitar, vocals and keys), joined by Owen Holmes on bass, Dawn Watley on keys and backing vocals and Kevin Snow on drums. The band’s debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, received favorable critical response in …
Black Strobe were formed in Paris in 1997 by producer Arnaud Rebotini and DJ Ivan Smagghe. Originally producing in the house genre, they later became more influenced by music from the 1970s and 1980s, especially industrial post punk and camp, European electronic body music (or EBM). However, they describe their dark electrosound as “frozen balearic …
French-born DJ, producer and remixer Yuksek (aka Pierre-Alexandre Busson) has been building an ever-growing halo of buzz in the past couple of years. Originally signed to Birdy Nam Nam’s label UWe, he has crafted some of the hottest remixes released in the first half of 2010. His productions include stellar remixes for the likes of …
Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Anderson’s new solo project. Her unusual compositions and characteristic eerie vocals have inspired some of the best remixers and producers to create amazing reworks of the songs featured on her first solo album. Most of these remixes you can find and purchase on iTunes and one of them you can …
Metric is a Canadian indie rock band. Originally formed in Toronto, the band has also, at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York and Los Angeles. The band consists of Emily Haines (vocals, keyboards and guitar), James Shaw (guitars), Josh Winstead (bass) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). Metric – Gold Guns Girls Metric – …
Erlend Øye is a Norwegian musician from Bergen, Norway best known for being part of the pop duo Kings of Convenience together with Eirik Glambek Bøe. He has released one solo album, Unrest in 2003 and a mix CD in the DJ-Kicks series in 2004. On top of his solo work and his work with …
