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Band of Blogs: Birdy covers The xx, Kreayshawn, Active Child & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

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Birdy – Shelter

15 year old Jasmine Van den Bogaerde first came to attention with her cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love in the UK. This time around she turns The xx’s Shelter into a burning piano ballad.
Birdy – Shelter by OfficialBirdy

Kreayshawn

“She’s got the swag and it’s pumping out her ovaries.” Welcome to the new generation of hip-hop. 21 year-old female rapper Kreayshawn (pictured) has just signed a major label deal after her brilliant debut single Gucci Gucci hit over 2 million views on Youtube in under a month.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

A ridiculous name, some ridiculous head-dress and a guy called Orlando. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’ new single Trouble sounds like a cross between a house-focused Hot Chip and Caribou. Catch him at Oxegen.

Active Child & How To Dress Well

Take one flame-haired former choirboy who’s interested in choral ’80s music and pair him up with a skewed alternative R&B producer and you get the unique collaboration Playing House which features on the former’s upcoming album.

Active Child – Playing House (Ft. How To Dress Well) by VagrantRecords

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Sites of the Week: Hello Giggles, Wave At The Bus & My Doodle Songs

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Hello Giggles

Zooey Deschanel and friends have started her own “lady-friendly” entertainment website.

hellogiggles.com

Wave At The Bus

One dad’s year-long task to embarrass his 16 year old son by dressing up in a different costume every morning as he leaves for school.
waveatthebus.blogspot.com

My Doodle Songs

Google’s interactive Les Paul guitar tribute now has its own site and instructions on how to play popular songs.

mydoodlesongs.com

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Meet the Rock Video Girls

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Back when big hair and spandex ruled American rock, there were a coterie of scantily-clad girls who were regularly hired to dance seductively in music videos. This is a brief look into an era that music thankfully forgot.

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Daithí’s all in a loop

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Not a week goes by without another musician dreaming up a great way to utilise digital media to promote their music. Last week, it was former Golden Silvers singer Gwilym Gold with his own mobile non-static non-linear mobile app format Bronze in which the song is never heard the same way twice. The same could be true for this week’s digitally-minded musician, Daithí O’ Dronaí, the Galway fiddle player and runner-up in Sky One’s Must Be The Music programme, who released the rather fine Embrace EP a couple of months back.
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