Museum of Bellas Artes
Those Swedes are at it again. Adding to the country’s impressive electro-pop roster, this Stockholm three piece release a debut 7” through the Transparent Blog this month and know their way around Balearic dance, bubblegum melodies and piano-led gems.
http://www.myspace.com/museumofbellasartes

New Gorillaz song
Featuring the unknown UK singer Daley, Gorillaz surprise new single Doncamatic has an electro-reggae and pop swing. Bring on the November gig.

Jamie Woon – Night Air
Three years after creating a masterpiece of a remix for Woon (google Wayfaring Stranger remix) Burial produces this gorgeous and atmospheric night-time future-blues ballad. Reminiscent of Massive Attack at their finest.
Listen at FutureSoundsTemporary

Using Pledgemusic.com, the eyeliner-wearing dreadlocked one is hoping to release three albums and put on some “unusual and elaborate theatrical experiences” with the money raised. 15% of the total will also go towards the charity DePaul.

The three albums include a studio version of songs written for a recent production of Mother Courage & Her Children, an EP of songs based on Huckleberry Finn and a collection of songs inspired by Paul Auster’s book The Book of Illusions recorded by Steve Albini featuring Neil Hannon, Ed Harcourt and others.

To encourage pledges, Duke offered exclusive items including signed albums, a private concert, a sightseeing tour, dinner, a write a song session and a phone call all with Duke himself. It appears to have worked as those items are gone and in total he has received 573 pledges or 118% of the funds he originally asked for.

Last week, I featured (with a question mark) what was claimed to be a new Daft Punk song from the movie soundtrack to Tron Legacy. As reported by Pitchfork, it turns out the track is a fake but it’s not the only French dance music-related skullduggery happening on the net.

A new track from Justice was sent out to music bloggers last week by the Ed Banger record label. Called Beginning Is the End, a number of the big US music sites like Pitchfork, Gorilla vs Bear, Stereogum and hundreds of music blogs posted the song with a fairly lukewarm reaction. As it turned out, the Gallic dance number was a trite predictable and it was revealed as a fake by the band on Facebook. The culprit had managed to fool hundreds of people by faking an edbangerrecords.com email address.

Which begs the question – what were these fake artists hoping to do by cheaply mimicking two of the biggest names in dance music? It’s safe to assume it wasn’t for their own notoriety as they haven’t revealed themselves so perhaps it’s simply a game of chaos and manipulation?

Perhaps being mistaken for a fake is the new badge of honour? I received an email shortly afterwards from a band boasting that Kanye posted their song thinking it was Daft Punk and to check it out. Let’s nip this one in the bud before Wolfmother, who sound nothing like Led Zeppelin are number one every week ad infinitum.

Gorillaz unleash Stylo
From the forthcoming third album Plastic Beach, Stylo features guest vocalists Bobby Womack and Mos Def and suggests this will be the best Gorillaz album yet.
http://short.ie/stylo

State.ie’s faces of 2010 mixtape
Sample the best of new Irish talent with this 20 -track mixtape including songs from Two Door Cinema Club, Funeral Suits, We Cut Corners, Yes Cadets, O Emperor and more.
http://short.ie/faces2010

New Daft Punk?
Purporting to be the title track from the French duo’s soundtrack to the film Tron:Legacy, Fragile leaked onto blogs last week. It certainly sounds a bit like them but there’s no confirmation as yet.

Bryan Ferry works with Groove Armada
The former Roxy Music singer collaborates with Groove Armada on their best track in years; a plaintive and heartfelt electronic tune called Shameless.
http://short.ie/ferryga

DJ Hero – Daft Punk Trailer

Tuts My Barreh
“I want you to caress me like a tropical priest”. Unfortunately misheard lyrics to Mariah Carey’s ‘Touch My Body’ writ large in the karaoke booth. A Youtube classic.


Tom O’ Connor
Ireland gets its first proper Autotune superstar. The video received 132,000 views in its first five days online.

Outlaw Commentary
Probably the most expletive-heavy DVD commentary ever. Cockney geezers Danny Dyer and Nick Lowe just can’t understand why critics didn’t like their film.

Daft Punk unmasked
Well, one of them. WHAT? Did you expect him to actually look like a robot???
http://tinyurl.com/daftdude

Tupac is alive?
It may have been 13 years since he died but a hip-hop genius like Tupac wouldn’t let a small matter of death hinder him from hanging out in a New Orleans bar a few weeks ago.
http://tinyurl.com/tupacbar