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Bat for Lashes, Basement Jaxx, SEBP, Passion Pit

1. Bat for Lashes covers Kings of Leon What’s with everyone covering these Nashville sons lately? Natasha Khan joins Lykke Li, Lemar, Tina Cousins and more in the list of artists who have recently covered the band. Listen to them all. Kings of Leon are Everywhere 2. Basement Jaxx return ‘Raindrops’ is the forthcoming soundtrack to the summer festivals. [...]

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Kings of Leon covers are EVERYWHERE

What’s going on? It seems everyone is trying to get a slice of the Nashville boys popularity by covering their songs lately. Here we chart the best and very worst of them: 1. Tina Cousins – Sex on Fire (9/10) This is the most polarising version by far. It’s either genius or pap. We can’t decide so [...]

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Band of Blogs: The Big Pink, Theophilius London, Bat for Lashes

1. The Big Pink Continuing the nu-gaze revival are this Brit pair whose sheets of sound are infected with a modern electronic touch. Check out their single Velvet on 4AD or go see them playing Crawdaddy this Saturday. http://myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink 2. Theophilus London Theo’s trying to confuse us. He’s not from LDN, he’s from Brooklyn. His excellent This [...]

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