Easy way to win a playa' over is with a dope band name, having sweet catchy tunes, and bringing me home made cookies (no almonds or coconut shavings! Gross). Here, Scotland's very own, The Fratellis, succeed in spades (which interestingly is a US expression from...
Read More
New Jersey/New York pop punk trio (a hotbed for the genre, if you didn't know), Candy Hearts - currently on Warped Tour - give a bit off a mixed vibe of Best Coast and Tacocat (aren't palindromes fun?!). In 2012 they teamed up with mega...
Read More
GIBBZ, the drunken, obnoxious, and offensive mess-of-a-Brooklynite alter ego of the Berklee College of Music grad, Mike Gibney. His pals convinced him it was "ok to drink copious amounts of alcohol and make everyone within a 30 ft radius uncomfortable." So if I got this...
Read More
So sometimes bullies can be cool. Well, better said, usually bullies ARE "cool" kids who pick on their future bosses, hook up with their future bosses future wives, and collect head trauma via football practice and failed keg stands. In the same way subjected groups assimilate...
Read More
Not a new band or anything, but these ATLiens (although they have since moved to Nashville) - The Shadowboxers - provide light, dancy, fun, and bouncy soul-funk tunes for your summer playlists. So there's a win I just tossed ya right out the bat. These...
Read More
Hailing mostly from Tornado Alley (not a good start), The Notionaries sing happy songs while bringin' to mind a similar sounding British youngin', Saint Raymond (ok, getting better) and his jams "Brighter Days" & "Wildheart" (remember the Notti-teens and the daggering? No? You should re-read it,...
Read More
(yes, that photo is amazing, in case you were wondering) I thought most DJ's got in to it to compensate for something, or because like, they couldn't get in to clubs on their own, but Afrojack is 1) Dutch, and everyone knows clubs love Euros with...
Read More
Another Electropop Swede gettin' after it in the USofA with a new album this month is Tove Styrke (it's becoming a well known thing that Sweden makes the best pop). And if you were wondering, she is NOT the mispronounced euro daughter of Tony Stark...
Read More
Southampton native, Foxes, is a solo electro-pop project finally making her own tunes that she calls "experimental pop". She's been a "featured artist" on lots of other ppl's work like Fall Out Boy and Rudimental before pushing the labels to let her do her our stuff. Thankfully...
Read More
Giorgio Moroder is a legend (I mean, LOOK at that pornstar 'stache), who if you remember, Daft Punk had a whole tribute song about in their last album. This dude's got 3 Academy Awards and 4 Grammys. He wrote "What a Feeling" from Flashdance, and also...
Read More