In the meantime check out the Cajón on this:

He’s still scared of his own voice though – hiding it under effects – but Mark Ronson‘s vocals are pretty good from what I can hear on his new track Lost It (In The End).

Mark has done it again though. It is an awesome tune. This album is shaping up to be pretty spectacular. I already loved the first single Bang bang bang with the incredible MNDR and am now shivering with excitement over hearing the whole of the Record Collection LP when it’s out on 27 September in the UK.

You can hear the track over on Pretty Much Amazing‘s blog:

Mark Ronson and The Business INTL – Lose It (In The End) feat. Ghostface Killah

Having laid drum tracks for Alesha Dixon, Girls Aloud, The Pet Shop Boys and Kylie - Florrie has decided she wants her own piece of pop super stardom.

Surprisingly the Bristolian singer is still unsigned – but I doubt the record industry will allow that to remain the same for long – especially with the release of her latest and strongest track Give Me Your Love.

For Florrie’s first two releases Call 911 and Panic Attack she has worked closely with house DJ and producer Fred Falke - and with Give Me Your Love she has continued this partnership.

Her first two tracks have gone far more down the house route, but with Give Me Your Love you can tell she’s put a lot of love into the drums and seems to have steered towards a stronger pop.

You can get all her tracks plus their remixes for free from Florrie’s website but you can also listen to her latest here:

Florrie – Give Me Your Love mp3

Florrie is extremely talented. If she sticks to her drumsticks and Fred Falke and gets signed to a good record company that treats her as a musician – she’ll rasp the crown off the tyrant GaGa and become the rightful queen of pop.

Last year Entrepreneurs gained some recognition with a remix of Marina and the Diamonds - but it seems what’s going to set him apart is his own astonishing music.

Entrepreneurs offers on his debut EP Uv Been Robbed (joking, but not) a glitchy industrial electronica backdrop over catchy pop melodies – delivered with distant crunched vocals not too dissimilar to Julian Casablancas.  Listen out for the great little guitar solos too.

In true entrepreneurial spirit you can buy Uv Been Robbed (joking, but not) for what you like. Although all the songs are great – Hunting Roger Rabbit is one of my favorites – with a great chorus and awesome beats. Tim over at The Blue Walrus –  where I found Entrepreneurs - loves Bubblegunk - and as he says shows some ‘great finesse’ – there are lots of elements that on paper shouldn’t mix.

You can choose which one is best by listening to all the tracks on this Sound Cloud:

Uv Been Robbed (Joking, But Not) by Entrepreneurs

Next big thing? I think so.

Other than the museum I struggle to come up with a reason why you wouldn’t visit Seattle – it’s lovely and also where Nate Moceri of Frame the City comes from.

Moceri now resides in Portland – and as Frame the City grafts some slick laid back electro rock. The mixture of Moceri’s distant but compelling vocals with well written songs work perfectly and keep me coming back for more.

Memories of his hometown’s rock legends are conjured up by Moceri’s voice – you can find out more about Seattle’s musical past at the Museum there. No wait – look it up on Wikipedia instead.

Frame the City released their first album Someday We Will All be the Same in Janruary 2009 and the We Were Wolves EP in February this year, you can buy both from Amazon. Katie Byron and Ashley Ennis frequently collaborate with Nate as guest vocalists and Frame the City are currently in the studio recording their next EP.

As a preview here are two tracks courtesy of Nate. We Were Wolves is one of the most gorgeous tracks I’ve heard for a long time. It’s no surprise from both of these songs that Nate has previously been on MTV’s books for songwriting and composing. Hopefully before long Frame the City will just be on MTV.

Frame the City – We Were Wolves mp3

Frame the City – Wearing Jeans to Bed mp3

You can like Frame the City on Facebook.

Anyway Jonsi of Sigur Rós has just released a new music video for one of my favourite songs of the year – Animal Arithmetic from his first solo album, GO.

Here it is:

Its a wrap

Student debt sucks. I finished attempting to increase my brain capacity over four years ago and am still about as close as world peace to paying it off. To avoid paying it back I may soon take the approach of the members of DOM and remove my surname from the face of the earth.

Erik, Bobby K and front-man Dom are from Worcester, Massachussets and since forming early this year are now going on tour supporting Ratatat. No – they won’t tell us their second names.

Dom himself is quite eccentric – he’s writing a soft-core porn script, still collects food stamps and dreams of DOM being signed to ‘Lil Wayne’s label – you can learn more about him through his interview with Pitchfork.

I admire that the band is ambitious – they admit their music is developing and are keen to record in a studio to break out of their lo-fi limitations. Still, they have the strong foundations to create some great hits – I’m sure they’ll repay their debts before they know it.

Here’s the first track from their EP Sun Bronzed Greek Gods and the one everyone’s downloading. Although not quite the “YMCA” pop anthem Dom was aiming for – it’s better than anything on MGMT‘s new album.

Dom – Living in America mp3

Buy Dom’s EP Sun Bronzed Greek Gods on iTunes

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Too painful to look at the camera

Synths and glam may have been part of my diet as an 80s child but I never totally fell in love with 80s music. It’s only now – and after the main revival of 80s chic has passed that am I coming to appreciate what the decade of decadence produced.

Recently I went to Lovebox in London’s Victoria Park and went bananas over the bananas Grace Jones. It turns out another 80s superpower won my heart more – Tears for Fears. Well not quite, a few acts before Grace came BBC Sound of 2010 nominees – Hurts. Tears for Fears can only dream of being able to produce their kind of music – with all the technological advancement in the last 30 years that Hurts have to play with.

The northerners’ powerful, catchy and epic pop surprised most of the crowd – especially when they started singing along to songs they’d never previously heard. Although they didn’t win the Sound of 2010 – I expect Hurts to be the most successful from the shortlist. Ellie Goulding? Yeah – no one cares.

Here is a live version of my favourite song at the moment Better Than Love:

You can also watch the music video for Better Than Love on youtube. Or you can watch the brand new music video for Wonderful Life which they are re-releasing as their next single.

Peter Bjorn and John is made up of 3 Swedes called, Peter, Bjorn and er, John. I bought their previous album, Writer’s Block (iTunes) after stumbling on the track featured in this post. It’s a lot more lo-fi than their new work. I’m sure you’ve heard the excellent single Young Folks from the album.

Now they’ve got over writer’s block, I’m hoping their new album, Living Thing is going to be a musical War and Peace. There’s a tracklisting at Off the Radar. Now listen to the fat beat and super pop chorus constantly like I have and see why i’m excited:

Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing To Worry About (mp3)

Living Thing is released on 31 March and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.