After featuring so many beach, sunset and balearic flavoured bands in this column in the past, I really tried hard to avoid coming up with anything to do with the aforementioned…

Cults is the just recently formed lovechild of 21-year-old NYC film students and couple Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion. As opposed to many so-called ‘internet hype bands’ which seem to follow a ‘marketing plan’ and utilize the whole ‘mystery’ thi…

Information on the Toronto based house production duo Azari & III seems to be sparse around the web. And that’s after two very successful club track single releases (‘Hungry For The Power’ and ‘Reckless (With Your Love)’), countless mentions in ‘Best…

Although their Myspace profile has just been created a few months ago and they have only played a handful of live shows so far, Yuck are ‘all the rage’ over in their hometown London right now and all of their songs currently circulating on the web…

Penguin Prison is singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Glover, residing in NYC and making electro pop in the true sense of the term. Reminiscent of the quirky Hot Chip but with a much more soulful vocal delivery and songwriting recalling…

On our neverending mission to bring you undiscovered pop gems from small labels, it’s all about Baby Monster this week. With only two original songs and a couple of remixes…

While the major labels are pretending to be struggling, sales are said to go down and some people even go as far as saying that ‘recorded music’ as a whole is on the decline…

Chaz Bundick from Columbia already has quite a history regarding creative activities, at only 23 years old. Having played in a punk band and studying graphics design, he now releases his first album as Toro Y Moi…

Goth aesthetics and sounds have been making quite a comeback in the recent past, the video to Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” being the most popular example in mainstream music. The band Former Ghosts…

Warpaint hail from Los Angeles and is an all-girl band crafting picturesque intimate and energetic songs utilizing traits of post-punk, shoegaze, folk and psychedelic rock paired with angelic, yet distinct vocal delivery. Indie music market leaders like Cat Power, Sonic Youth and Yeah Yeah Yeahs…