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  • Bat For Lashes: What’s A Girl To Do?

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    Descended from an ancient dynasty of gravity-defying Pakistani squash players, Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes is kinda like a Björkian Goldfrappy Portishead. Haunting and poppy at the same time…the new single, What’s A Girl To Do, is this week’s iTunes free download and the video is a cool, eerie collision of ‘E.T. and Donnie…

  • iTunes Gets Friendly?

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    I always wondered why Apple never added Last.fm-like social features directly to the iTunes user community – a world which seems really very closed. However, it seems Apple’s finally getting friendly with the launch of a bunch of iTunes Widgets to show off your iTunes purchases, reviews or favorite artists. I guess it won’t be…

  • Music for Time Travel – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

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    When I first heard How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? while trawling through my friend Mike’s music, I wondered why I’d never heard of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings? They sounded like a band from another time, even their cover art is kinda old skool…but they’ve actually only been around since 2002.…

  • Pretty In Sixteen Pink Breakfast Candles

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    Mark Ronson on The Kaiser Chiefs’ You Can Have It All… ‘It could have been the slow dance song in a John Hughes movie – like Molly Ringwald all bummed and stuff, before the cute guy she’s been secretly in love with comes over and takes her hand.’ I see it too and I want…

  • The Go! Team – Grip Like A Vice

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    Woot! One of my favourite bands, The Go! Team has their new single, Grip Like A Vice out in a couple weeks, followed by their second album, Proof Of Youth in September. Check out the single below…

  • The Fragile Army

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    My favourite loopy band, The Polyphonic Spree, has just put out an 8-minute MP3 mashup of all the tracks from their upcoming album, The Fragile Army…can’t wait until June 10th :d Download it here…

  • TunesTEXT

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    I’m not a big fan of desktop widgets – they’re mostly clutter. However, Cyan’s TunesTEXT for OSX’s Dashboard is actually pretty useful. Like the Last.FM’s iScrobbler, TunesTEXT monitors what you’re listening to in iTunes. However, rather than blogging your listening, TunesTEXT attempts to find the lyrics for your Now Playing track from a bunch of…

  • Road to V > The Good Die Young

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    Paul’s just signed up his band, The Good Die Young, for the Road to V and hopefully a chance to open at the V Festival. TGDY play self-described Anthemic Indie Rock. Head on over to their Road to V profile page, have a listen to Cut From and (if you love me) rate them a…

  • Awesome…

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    …twelve minutes at last night’s Superbowl XLI half-time show took me back to July 1990, seeing Prince play at Wembley Arena with my schoolbuddy Ashish – we were both sixteen and in awe of our musical hero…seventeen years later, da boy’s still gottit 🙂 Watch out for covers of All Along The Watchtower, We Will…

  • Prototypes – Je Ne Te Connais Pas

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    Apple’s Put Some Music On TV spot for the latest iPod shuffle gives a shout out to Who’s Gonna Sing from the Prototypes, label mates with one of my favorite bands, The Cardigans and a band that reminds me of Kenicke and The B-52s 🙂 You can download the Je Ne Te Connais Pas EP…