Birdy
14 year-old Jasmine Van den Bogaerde hit UK charts and worldwide blogs after BBC Radio One play of her piano and voice cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love.
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Wild Beasts
With interest in the band rising over the last four years, England’s Wild Beasts will return next month with third album Smother. The first single, Albatross, is a lovely lilting piano number with a somewhat pretentious video.
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Charles Bradley
An amazing classic soul singer who never got his break finally gets recognition. Now 62, the Brooklyn singer has released the brilliant No Time For Dreaming, his debut album on Daptone Records (home to Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings). Bradley plays the Sea Sessions festival in Donegal in June.
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Sade feat. Jay-Z
Everyone loves Sade, even Jay-Z, as evident by this remix of her song Moon & The Sky featuring The Jiggaman on a verse.
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Band of Blogs
Thu, Apr 14, 2011