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Fight Til It's Dead

from the Teen Girl Scientist Monthly album Modern Dances

Summer Skin (single)

Mona & Maria is a new duo from Oslo. They are now here with their debut album My Sun.

Mona & Maria’s music can be described as harmony-based pop with folk elements and great, and often grand, arrangements, but still with an acoustic feel. Their debut My Sun consists of 10 self-written songs.

Mona & Maria tell us about the debut; “Something was let loose after we started working on songs that did not fit the sound of the band we were in. We strongly felt the need to create something more personal, and we started making melodies to something obscure that had been lying dormant in both of us. After a band breakdown, came a new musical need that we found in each other. We both were terrified of singing alone, but together we sort of found a third person to make us feel secure. We began experimenting with harmonies. It became our way of being together. After several rounds and recordings of these songs, the record started to take shape, and we found our soundscape by working with dynamics. We wanted to have both the low-key and intimate, and the grandiose and dramatic, to have both darkness and light at once. We wanted to make unpretentious arrangements that enhanced the lyrics and the melodies, and not buried them. The result was My Sun.”

Mona Andersen (27) and Maria Knudsen (28) have already written songs together for many years, and both were central parts of the band Bazooka Boppers, with which they released two albums. After the band’s break-up in 2010, Mona and Maria continued playing together, and it worked out so well that they decided to move forward as a duo. The album was recorded at Engfelt & Forsgren Studio with Christian Engfelt (Cato Salsa Experience, Apricot and Turns, and as a producer Lionheart Brothers, Cheaters and more) as a producer, along with the girls themselves. Engfelt also plays the bass on a few of the songs.

Also participating on the album are some of Norway’s very best musicians:

Martin Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist, The National Bank, Jonas Alaska) - percussion
David Wallumrød (Jonas Alaska, Bjørn Eidsvåg med flere) - keys
Eivind Staxrud (Raga Rockers) - guitars
Olaf Olsen (Big Bang) - drums
Knut Schreiner (Turboneger, Mirror Lakes, Kåre & The Cavemen) – guest guitar
Marcus Bror Forsgren (Lionheart Brothers) – guest guitar
Kaja Fjellberg Pettersen (Karpe Diem, Jens Carelius, Siri Nilsen) - cello
Bendik Brænne (Dum Dum Boys, Los Plantronics) – saxophone and flute
Henning Sansdalen (Le Corbeau, Hanne Hukkelberg) - bass
Hans Friis (Dum Dum Boys, Los Plantronics) - trombone

Members of KORK also participate on strings and bassoon. 


Mona & Maria - My Sun

The Death Of Pop are Angus James & Oliver James.

Drums by Thom James.

Produced by The Death Of Pop.

Artwork by George Abram.

Released 17th March 2013.

What A Day

'Temporary Touch' is the first single from Selebrities' second album, Lovely Things, which is due out June 25 on Cascine.

Selebrities - Temporary Touch

Watch my new "Adderall" music video now: http://smarturl.it/AdderallVideo 
Listen to "Adderall" on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/AdderallSP  

New EP Low High Low available now at  http://smarturl.it/lowhighlow 
Song written/produced/recorded by Max Frost
All instruments by Max Frost




Twitter: @maxfrostmusic
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Lyrics:

I'm picking up really sketch vibes
My woman's been telling me lies
About other men
About where she's been hanging

Suspicious thoughts in my mind
Been brewing up over time
"He's just a friend,"
When to me he's a stranger

I can hold no evidence
But I can't think emotionless
And something in your choice of dress
Tonight can lead to just one guess

White Lies
You try
Can't blind my eyes
You got your red dress on
And you want to play
Like I can't know things that I've never seen

Its been keeping me up every night
Most of the time 
I toss and turn in bed and I try
Not to explode
When you arrive
sneaking through
like it ain't 5
like this house ain't mine

Yes I been picking up really sketch vibes
And I keep looking over at your side
Wondering where you been
Thinking that he ain't a friend 
Knowing that thoughts are a sin
And so I'll say it again

White Lies

iTunes

From the upcoming album, Wait To Pleasure, available on April 23, 2013.

"Hare Tarot Lies" is digitally available now from Mexican Summer.
www.mexicansummer.com/shop/no-joy-hare-tarot-lies/


No Joy - "Hare Tarot Lies"

This is the first single off Holograms' second full-length record 'Forever.' This record will be out September 3rd on Captured Tracks and  September 18th on Stranded Rekords (Sweden). 

Pre-order the album now on iTunes: http://goo.gl/AUGyA

Holograms // Flesh and Bone

MGMT

Alien Days

Alexander Shields – vocals, drum programming, electric guitars, bass, synthesizer

Alanna McArdle – vocals

Produced, recorded and mixed by Misha Hering with Alexander Shields at Holy Mountain Studio.

Taken from the album 'Whirlpool' released 15/07/2013 on Stare/Lefse Records.

Aurora

EP debut oficial de Big Summer para El Genio Equivocado.

Morning Sun

Gold

Found You Out

'False Idols' - album pre-order details - CLICK HERE: http://bit.ly/ZzBKWC

http://www.trickysite.com • New album 'False Idols' out May 27th (International) & 28th (USA).

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrickyOfficial/app_208195102528120">DOWNLOAD this track for free on Facebook</a>

Tricky is back with a new album and his own record label, both bearing the name False Idols. Like much of the album, "Tribal Drums" features vocalist Francesca Belmonte. As early reviews have stated, the album is a stirring return to form from Tricky. False Idols comes out May 28th on False Idols in association with !K7 Records, and also features vocals from Nneka, Peter Silberman (of The Antlers), and Fifi Rong.

Download this track for free here - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrickyOfficial/app_208195102528120">Tricky's Facebook Page</a>
And first track promo'd, "Nothing's Changed" is also still available for free here - http://www.trickysite.com/sign-up/

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False Idols

Tribal Drums

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Bear State - Strange Feeling

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Electrified

WATCH THE VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Tt3dFIl92HE

Taken from the forthcoming “FADED” EP released on 37 Adventures.

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twitter.com/Stay_Bless

Inspired equally by the classic songwriting of Fleetwood Mac, George Michael, Bruce Hornsby and Spiritualized, and the strikingly modern production techniques of Actress and Darq E Freaker; Stay Bless is modern symphonic pop that utilises emotional honesty as its key instrument. The lush “Always”, is a tantalising first glimpse at their world, a rapturous and euphoric appreciation of canonical pop classicism that is as majestic as it is moving; a sumptuous vision of transcendental grace grounded by richly affecting vocals from frontman George Cassavetes. The striking, beautifully simple accompanying video by Esther Cloe Theaker only serves to point up the exquisite emotional directness of the track. 

The track is taken from the forthcoming EP 'Faded', which was recorded over the course of half a year, between the band’s flat and borrowed nocturnal studio time. The writing and recording process became an oasis for Stay Bless, whilst their personal relationships and health distorted and broke down around them. 


Stay Bless - Always

B-side to Wolf Alice's single 'Bros'. Out now.

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Bros



Every Cloud

Born To Run Free

Chaos Mon Amour - Bohemia ( FREE DOWNLOAD )

'Wolves' taken from Denai Moore's debut 4 track EP - Saudade.

Out now at iTunes - smarturl.it/saudade
Vinyl available at - denaimoore.com
Plus sign up to the mailing list now and receive 'Gone' instantly for free: www.denaimoore.com


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