Wu Tang vs The Beatles mashup album
Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers is a remix/mashup album incorporating Wu Tang Clan acapellas with songs and covers of The Beatles.
Get at Tea Set records
Hear new Joanna Newsom material
Have One On Me is the new triple album from the indie-harpist singer to be released later this month. Sample ’81′ a gorgeous, chiming little ditty from it on her label’s site.
http://www.dragcity.com
Gil Scott Heron returns to music
16 years since his last album, the spoken word poet returns with a remarkable vitality on new album I’m New Here. Get a free download and watch the video for Me And The Devil.
Watch and listen at Nialler9
Ellie Goulding gets NYC remix treatment
New York’s Penguin Prison and rapper Theophilus London give Goulding’s Starry Eyed a suitable disco workover.
Listen at Neon Gold
Ellie Goulding
I’ll eat the paper this page is printed on if Ellie Goulding is not a star by next summer. Under The Sheets is her debut single and it’s a corker.
http://short.ie/ellie
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
How would you like an 11-piece hippie-folk rock band from LA with one of the best debut albums of the year? Go forth and get addicted. Start with the rousing 40 Day Dream.
http://short.ie/edsharpe
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
80s electro-pop is truly this year’s predominant new band theme. Just listen to these Londoners’ take on that decade with the infectious Dance The Way I Feel.
http://short.ie/ouest
Silver Columns
Bloggers are speculating about the identity of the creator behind the Jimmy Somerville-esque lo-fi disco sound of Silver Columns. Ideas on a blog comment please.
http://short.ie/silvcol
Digital looks at two bloggers who took very different approaches to starting a record label.
“Who is Sliimy?” was a phrase bandied about by many music celebs like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Britney Spears on Twitter last month and within hours most of their followers (and intended audience) found out whether they wanted to or not. Sliimy turned out to be the first signing to celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s major label-backed record label Perezcious ( like “precious” but harder to pronounce), a French Mika-esque pop star with funny hair who releases an album in September.
Perez had enlisted the help of his celebrity friends to promote Sliimy to the masses. Perez may not be as groundbreaking as he intends to look though. Sliimy is already signed to Warner in France so Perez’s endorsement is merely an attempt to help Sliimy break into the U.S. Market.
While Perez has the pop culture platform for endorsing artists through tours and labels, on the other end of the scale, most are still relying on word of mouth and blogger recommendations to help them get where they want to go.
You couldn’t get more of a polar opposite to Perez than Neon Gold Records. The “boutique” New York-based label started by two New York college kids Lizzy and Derek began life as a blog in August last year with the express aim of releasing 7-inches of artists they were excited about. They used the music blog as their mouth-piece for getting the acts noticed and then would release 500 copies of each release, creating a hip label that majors now look to for upcoming acts.
Their indie-buzz acts have gone on to secure major label deals as the two became known as online tastemakers. Their first release was Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead – a band now signed to Sony, followed by the wonderful Marina and the Diamonds – now signed to Warner and playing Electric Picnic next week.
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