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Chaîne de xoxxxoooxo. The Weeknd: House of Balloons. Less than two months ago, few of us had ever heard of the Weeknd.

The Weeknd: House of Balloons

Then, as soon as the creepy R&B tracks from this free mixtape began to circulate, the hype engine revved up. The_Weeknd-House_of_Balloons_(Official_Mixtape)-2011-DjLeak. The_Weeknd-House_of_Balloons_(Official_Mixtape)-2011-DjLeak Type: Audio > Music.

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Katy B - Katy On A Mission - Official Music Video. Katy B: On a Mission. Last year, Katy B was widely credited for bringing vocal finesse and feminine pop appeal to an increasingly aggro dubstep-crossover arena.

Katy B: On a Mission

She dropped a fantastic Benga-backed debut single, "Katy on a Mission", that vocally wrung out both elation and longing over his abrasive, buzzing stutter-step. And she kept that streak going with a couple of guest spots on Magnetic Man's self-titled record: The eerie come-on "Crossover" and the ecstatic jungle throwback "Perfect Stranger" were album highlights that proved her voice could breach the barrier of heavy-duty bass and plant its feet firmly atop it.

Two UK top 5 hits later-- "Katy on a Mission" and the Ms. Dynamite collaboration "Lights On"-- and members of the English music press started to peg her as the next singer to bring crossover legitimacy to bass music. Turns out that'd be selling her a bit short. Katy_B-On_A_Mission-2011-H3X. The Dirtbombs. The Dirtbombs - Party Store (2011) mp3 320 vtwin88cube. The dodos - black night (2011) EXCLUSIVE! Dodos: No Color.

The Dodos - No Color (2011)(ADVANCE)(MP3@320 NPR Stream Recording)(Indie Rock Psych Folk Baroque Pop)(High Quality MP3. The Dodos - No Color (2011) *** MP3@320 NPR Stream Recording *** *** Official Release Date: March 15, 2011 *** The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.

The Dodos - No Color (2011)(ADVANCE)(MP3@320 NPR Stream Recording)(Indie Rock Psych Folk Baroque Pop)(High Quality MP3

Since 2009, Keaton Snyder had joined the band as their vibraphone player. Originally formed in 2006 as Dodobird by multi-instrumentalist Meric Long, unpredictable San Francisco indie rock duo the Dodos acquired their new moniker with the arrival of Logan Kroeber, a fellow West Coast artist whose penchant for experimental drumming and progressive metal melded perfectly with Long's interest in West African Ewe drumming and country blues fingerpicking.

The Dodos are known for using an alternate instrumental approach. Queens of the Stone Age - Regular John. Queens of the Stone Age [Reissue] It was fitting that the final release from Kyuss featured a cover of Black Sabbath's "Into the Void", because throughout their seven-year existence, the Palm Desert quartet essentially existed in one-- the band's devastating stoner-rock earned the respect of various celebrity admirers (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden among them) but they never successfully sold it to the masses.

Queens of the Stone Age [Reissue]

Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age – (Special Edition) – (Advance) Dez16v ( TLS Release. Kurt Vile - Freeway. Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo - 2011 (VBR) (ftt. Anna Calvi, Teaser Trailer. Anna Calvi : la furie douce en interview. Souvent, on a rêvé d’Anna Calvi.

Anna Calvi : la furie douce en interview

Comme, par exemple, quand on voyait sur scène PJ Harvey puis Jeff Buckley, en se disant que ça serait chouette qu’ils aient une fille. Anna Calvi, premier album de la frêle Anglaise, assouvit ce fantasme. Frêle ? Oui, dans la vie de tous les jours, où une timidité maladive n’empêche pourtant pas de pointer une personnalité majeure, au parcours et aux ambitions étonnants.

Frêle, certainement pas sur scène où depuis un concert de début 2010, ce rock fugueur d’une beauté, d’une musicalité et d’une liberté terrassantes, nous a littéralement envoûtés. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (2011) - CD RIP - FLAC - Individual Tracks + Front & Back Covers - iP00D. BBC Review Before even releasing her debut album, Anna Calvi has been lauded by Brian Eno, included in the BBC’s influential Sound of 2011 list and toured with Interpol and Nick Cave’s Grinderman.

Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (2011) - CD RIP - FLAC - Individual Tracks + Front & Back Covers - iP00D

Dizzy heights indeed for a young woman with just one single to her name, but a string of intense, captivating live shows over the past year have generated a buzz of excitement about this London-based, half-Italian singer-songwriter. The first thing that strikes you about her eponymous album is what an immensely confident record it is. Its creator has apparently spent the past three years perfecting its songs, and the end result is a fully formed, multi-faceted sound that engages the listener’s attention from the very first note. Opener Rider to the Sea begins with a series of stark, elegantly atmospheric guitar chords reminiscent of Mogwai, instantly showcasing Calvi’s virtuoso musical abilities. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place. Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place. The interface between the voice and technology is central to Juliana Barwick's art.

Julianna Barwick: The Magic Place

A Louisiana-born, Brooklyn-based singer who previously released the album Sanguine and the EP Florine, Barwick makes music whose raw material is almost exclusively her voice. But it's hard to know what she might sound like alone in a room. When she records, Barwick layers and processes and twists her utterances into figures that can alternately be described as familiar, soothing, alien, and tense. She might bring to mind the bright harmonies of Panda Bear or the mystical invocations of Elizabeth Fraser, but her approach is her own. That's partly because her music feels homemade. We've grown used to following along with artists from their first demo to their first self-released EP to their debut album and then their breakthrough moment courtesy of a company that specializes in caffeinated sugar water. Is something beautiful and ethereal that feels timeless and transcendent enough?

Know Your Neighbor: Julianna Barwick, The One-Woman Choir. Julianna Barwick - The Magiace [2011] V0. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers (Director: Tarik Saleh) Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes. To date, Lykke Li's biggest exposure was her song "Possibility" appearing on the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack.

Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes

From a producer's standpoint, her inclusion was a no-brainer: Not only was her debut titled Youth Novels, but it captured the intense yearning of youth, which is also an aim of the Twilight series. Few indie artists seemed as well poised as Li to vocalize Stephenie Meyer's heroine's point of view. As the singer herself told Pitchfork recently, "I like that age when you feel misunderstood and still believe in the pure idea that love conquers all"-- perhaps the most concise and astute explanation of that franchise's appeal.

That is, however, only one aspect of Li's considerable appeal. Like Joss Whedon's show, Wounded Rhymes is an album of stark, scintillating contrasts: between fantasy and reality, between the powerful and the vulnerable, between the brash and the quiet, between the rhythmic and the melodic. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes.