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Coachella line-up announced

January 19th, 2010

Coachella has announced its full line-up and it looks well, very Coachelly-ish. Headliners for the three nights over the weekend of April 16th to 18th are Jay-Z (Friday), Muse (Saturday) and Gorillaz (Sunday). Among the other big names scheduled to play are LCD Soundsystem (pictured), Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, She [...]

Tags: Coachella, David Guetta, Deerhunter, Gorillaz, Grace Jones, grizzly bear, Hot Chip, jay-z, Julian Casablancas, LCD Soundsystem (pictured), Major Lazer, Matt & Kim, MGMT, muse, Owen Pallett, passion pit, Pavement, phoenix, She & Him, Spoon, The Dead Weather, The Gossip, the xx, them crooked vultures, thom yorke, tokyo police club, Vampire Weekend, Yo La Tengo
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Cam

Friday Time!

January 8th, 2010

What time is it!? Friday! Wait that doesn’t make sense… Either way here’s a loot bag of online goodies! Because I have a crush on you! Shh! * The Jersey Shore cast had a photo shoot were they look all classy! Those crazy kids clean up nice! * Modern fossils of dead technology! Look how [...]

Tags: David Bowie, flight of the conchords, jersey shore, Kings of Leon, Ricky Gervais, The Arcade Fire, the xx
Posted in Blog, Just For Fun | Posted by Kate M.

Songs We Were All Over In 2009: Playlists

December 31st, 2009

Two different music tastes, two different playlists of tunes! These aren’t necessarily ranked in order of our favourite songs of the year, but a mish mash of what we felt best represented 2009 for us. After the jump, see & listen to our lists – including tracks from Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Beyonce, Julian [...]

Tags: 2009, alicia keys, bat for lashes, drake, Florence and the Machine, good tunes, holiday wrap, jay-z, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, lady gaga, lily allen, listen, metric, michael jackson, music, passion pit, phoenix, playlists, the xx, wale, weezer, white lies
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Wendy

The xx + jj = Touring Potential?

November 27th, 2009

The xx (currently touring with Friendly Fires and soon Hot Chip) and jj, the mysterious Swedish electro-pop band, are rumoured to be a touring in the early months of 2010. The xx have been scheduelled to tour with Friendly Fires, Holly Miranda, Hot Chip, and a brief tour with jj. If you haven’t heard of [...]

Tags: jj, music, the xx, tours
Posted in Concerts & Events | Posted by Megan C

The XX Marks The Spot…

August 28th, 2009

For new & fresh music that is. The XX are made up of four 20 something year-olds from London, England. I stumbled upon their single Basic Space which made me want to find out more about them, so I ventured over to their MySpace. After listening to them all of yesterday and most of today, [...]

Tags: basic space, the xx
Posted in Blog, Music & Videos | Posted by Alberto