English singer Anna Calvi and David Byrne (Talking Heads) teamed up to record a cover of ‘Strange Weather’, originally by Keren Ann. The song will be released on 14th July as a part of the 5 track covers EP, produced by Thomas Bartlett, who previously collaborated with bands such as The National i Antony and the Johnsons. Haunting cover and you will definitely hear strong Anna Calvi’s influence here.
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Major Lazer and Sean Paul released a video for ‘Come on to Me’. Japanese-themed clip features women dancing in colorful geisha outfits and men playing taiko drums. Impressive choreography and massive drum power!
The video was directed by Ruben Fleisher.
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Watch this new stunning video for ‘Coeur De La Nuit’ by two Berlin-based DJs, Ferdinand Dreyssig and Marvin Hey. The track is a remix of ‘Vois sur ton Chemin’ from the classic french movie ‘Les choristes’. Beautiful choir plus melodic house beat plus artistic video, just a perfect combination! It will get stuck in your head, guaranteed 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
British duo The 2 Bears have released a video for their new single ‘Angel (Touch Me)’, to be found on their forthcoming album The Night. The song itself with its very light, delicate beat could appear a bit boring, but the video is worth watching 🙂
Fantastic Florencio Cruz and his new video for ‘Pueblo del Sol’. Absolutely yummy sax!
Watch the new, animated Metronomy’s video for ‘Reservoir’ from their latest album, Love Letters. The cartoon was directed by Daniel Brereton. The abstraction of of the song and video quite reminds of another band’s hit, ‘The Look’ from The English Riviera LP.
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Wohoo! Long-awaited Kasabian’s album ’48:13′ will finally drop on June 9. The band have just released a video for their brand new single off it, ‘Eez-eh’. Check it out here. Gonna keep you up all night! Or day 🙂
Video was directed by Aitor Throup.
Known for her nonconventional, freaky videos tUnE-yArDs, doesn’t disappoint this time either. Watch here the new, colorful clip for ‘Water Fountain’ from her upcoming album Nikki Nack (out May 6). Very creative girl, no doubt about it 🙂
UK trio London Grammar have shared a new music video for their beautiful track ‘Sights’, which will be out as a single on June 1. At first glance the clip shows Hannah Reid, Dan Rothman and Dot Major performing live, but there’s a little twist at the end. Very intimate scenery for very emotional song.
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English indie rock band, Klaxons, have shared a video for their new catchy single ‘There Is No Other Time’. The visuals perfectly match dancey rhytm and melodic synths. Something tells me it will be a good disco anthem of this summer. The song will appear on Klaxons’ forthcoming LP Love Frequency which drops June 2nd.
Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip is about to release his new solo album, Await Barbarians, on June 10. Here’s the first glimpse of it, ‘Elvis Has Left the Building’. Very soothing song with a nice lyric video if you want to sing along 🙂
Check out this London-based rising electronic singer. Camden Cox has just released a video for her ‘Kinda Like’ track which is her first song running online. At first glance her music seems to share the common ground with artists like AlunaGeorge, Grimes, BANKS or Disclosure. Very promising girl. Kinda like her.
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The former White Stripes frontman Jack White has announced his new, second solo album (follow-up to 2012’s Blunderbuss). It’s titled Lazaretto and it’s set to be released on June 10. Listen here to the first taste off it, an instrumental ‘High Ball Stepper’. Massive guitar sound!
The album’s first single should come out later in April.
San Francisco-based Thee Oh Sees have unveiled not-surprisingly psychedelic, animated video for ‘The Lens’ from their upcoming record ‘Drop’ (out April 19). Surreal visuals perfectly go together with classic, orchestral bassline and soft vocals. Good one!
The video was created by Alex Theodoropulos.
Quite surprising new video from Bombay Bicycle Club. Bollywood-themed ‘Feel’ comes from their new album ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’, out now. Maybe not the best song ever (well, this is already One Direction’s priviledge), but definitely respect for diversity in their creations.
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A bit of the insight into Mø’s tour life 🙂 The Danish artist, whose real name is Karen Marie Ørsted, reveals some information about touring, gigs, collaborators, meaning of music and… her name. You’ll like it if you’re her fan.
New video from the quirky Swedish pop singer Elliphant. ‘Revolusion’ is her latest single to be found on her upcoming EP ‘Look Like You Love It’ (out April 1). Creepy, very Die Antwoord like. She definitely has a power though 🙂 + Free Download
Neneh Cherry has teamed up with another Swedish music icon Robyn and here is the fruit of that collaboration. ‘Out Of The Black’ is the lead single on Neneh’s new album ‘Blank Project’ (produced by Four Tet), her first solo LP since 1996. The urban collage video was created by artist Dario Vigorito, aka 241-24-7.
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Hilarious, animated video from Flume for ‘Space Cadet’ recorded together with Ghostface Killah and Autre Ne Veut. The song appears on the upcoming (April 15th) deluxe edition of this young Australian producer’s debut album released last year. Nicely surreal, colorful cartoon 🙂
One more reason to love Sweden: Amason. This great collaborative project features some of the best Scandinavian talents: Pontus Winnberg of Miike Snow, Gustaf Ejstes of Dungen, Nils Törnqvist, Petter Winnberg of Little Majorette and Amanda Hollingby of Idiot Win. Watch the animated video for this supergroups’s latest single ‘Ålen’. Lovely track with angelic vocals.
The video was directed by Tobias Centerwall.
New song from the British producer Starsmith. Pop, but not that much in-your-face. Bearable if you need some pop.
LA-based singer Jillian Banks, simply known as Banks, has shared a new, very sensual video for her latest single ‘Brain’. Thrilling, surreal and mysterious visual experience. There’s some magic about this girl, worth keeping an eye on.
Brilliant 1,5-minute video showing the history of recorded music. It was made in one-shot at London’s world-famous Abbey Road Studios. Music remains, no doubt about it 🙂
American rock band Dum Dum Girls have released a short, 11-minute movie which features the song ‘Are You Okay?’ from their latest LP ‘Too True’. The thriller was written by Bret Easton Ellis and it stars Dee Dee, Shiloh Fernandez and Sophia Marzocchi. Pretty gloomy story!
Australian female rapper Iggy Azalea and British singer Charli XCX have teamed up and recorded ‘Fancy’ to pay tribute to the ’90s legendary ‘Clueless” film. The song itself might leave something to be desired, but the videoclip is worth watching to recall some classic movie’s scenes.
Australian electronic band Cut Copy have recently shared a nice video for ‘We Are Explorers’ from their ‘Free Your Mind’ LP (out now). The video was made with 3D printed little green figures who are exploring the world in the darkness. Nice one.
Sweden’s ambient pop artist Iamamiwhoami seems to have some special relationship with water. After taking a bath under waterfall (‘Fountain’) a month ago, in her new video Joanna Lee is diving into the deep, blue sea to hunt for pearls. She is quite interesting, isn’t she?
Watch the official video for Damon Albarn’s new song: ‘Lonely Press Play’. The track comes from his first solo album, “Everyday Robots’ which will be released on April 28th. The video is composed of the images shot by Albarn on his tablet during his travels over Tokyo, London, Dallas, Utah, Colchester, North Korea, Iceland and Devon.
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After 2 years since a great success of her last LP (‘Wounded Rhymes’), Swedish singer Lykke Li, announced her new album, ‘I Never Learn’, to be released on May 5. Here’s a little teaser 🙂
Here’s the latest video from the Icelandic experimental-pop group, múm. It tells a story of some female robots who seem to be capable of feeling emotions. Nice travel through some unreal world. The electronic song ‘When Girls Collide’ comes from the most recent band’s album ‘Smilewound’ and the video was directed by Javier Longobardo.
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