By vikkichowney on March 30, 2011
This video of Adele singing ‘Someone Like You’ at the Brit Awards 2011 has been everywhere of late. Her ‘comeback’ album 21 (if you could really call it that, since she was performing throughout the period between 19’s release in 2008 and now) was recently at number one in 14 countries. The world’s gone crazy […]
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By vikkichowney on March 22, 2011
Ultra music festival (UMF)/Miami Music Week starts this Friday, and as usual, has a stellar line up of electro acts on its three-day bill. From deadmau5 to The Chemical Brothers and Underworld, it’s set to be another great year. Barcelona’s SONAR is my focus for this Summer (and my first ever festival abroad), but I’ve […]
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By vikkichowney on March 17, 2011
Once upon a time, Burial and Four Tet got to together to make a delicious slice of dubstep-inspired synth called Moth. Music bloggers across the land fawned, we played it on repeat and sighed at the marvel of such a perfect unison. Then, just two years later, they did it again. But this time added […]
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By vikkichowney on March 4, 2011
There’s something about the mixture of Jenn Wasner’s haunting voice and Andy Stack’s uber-modern folksy influence on their third album, “Civilian”. The title track of which is one of my favourites of 2011 so far, without a doubt. They’ll be playing at SXSW and are currently touring the US, but there are sadly no plans […]
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