NEU: Sunshine Phenomenon.

New York Jangle poppers CULTS are bringing in the summer with their new tune 'ABDUCTED', taken from the duo's eagerly anticipated upcoming album. It's a rockin' driven affair and way more energetic than their earlier efforts. ...sure went down well with the London sunshine today! Love it! CULTS release their debut album in the UK on the 30th of May 2011. It is now available to pre-order here at HMV and on iTunes.

Cults - Abducted from George Tanasie on Vimeo.

..and if you fancy seeing CULTS in the flesh, get down to The Great Escape festival or one of their other tour dates:


05/12-14 – Brighton, UK @ The Great Escape
05/16 – Cambridge, UK @ The Haymakers
05/17 – Oxford, UK @ Jericho Tavern
05/19 – Sheffield, UK @ The Leadmill
05/23 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
06/01 – Leeds, UK @ The Cockpit
06/02 – Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazy
06/03 – Aberdeen, UK @ The Tunnels

NEU: STAY AWAY!

Charli XCX has been ticking all the right boxes since she was 15 years old but it looks like it's time to take it to the next level. The eager starlet has dropped a staggering new track "STAY AWAY" which hits the pop-spot right away, with jagged driven bass, commanding song writing, punchy as anything beats she's now onto a winning formula. If she doesn't go as far as your Lilys, Marinas and MIAs i'll eat the proverbial hat. Great anthemic 80's laced pop is rarer than hens teeth these days and after the countless failed attempts of the last 2 years this is refreshingly original. Check it.

..And if you're digging this she's playing GOLDUST tonight at The Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen. Get down there! Check the event HERE for details.

NEU: Magic Potions

"Ridding in the wake of The Drums"

Probably.... But you know what, if you're in need of an indie-pop sound track to your summer city vibes, seattle's CRAFT SPELLS could be what your looking for this year. Have a listen to this and tell me you don't feel all warm and fuzzy inside.


Party Talk by CraftSpells

RETURNING: Guess who's back...

There was obviously some unfinished business as SANTIGOLD makes her floor pounding return backed up by a host of familiars. The rip-roaring 'GO!' from her new, up and coming album has just been 'leaked' on Jay Z's wonder blog Life and Times and is spreading like wild fire. The combination of  Santigold, Miss Karen O, Nick Zinner on guitars and Q Tip's studio magic means that this track was never going to plod along unnoticed, but hurtle towards your ears fired by the scheduled hype cannon. 

That being said, this lives up to the easy love, proof being after just two listens that vocal hook just won't dematerialise. No matter how hard you try.

Mysteriously there doesn't seem to be a date as far as the new album is concerned, but i'm sure this will fill the SANTIGOLD void of the past year or so! Her website can be found HERE. Enjoy...

Santigold Ft Karen O - Go (Produced By Q-Tip) by Hypetrak

NEU: In white girls we lust

RnB never sounded so good! THE WEEKND are on the money with this jittering, tight slice of what is more nostalgic hip hop than anything RnB. It's downbeat, with a stuttering sample close to the earliest of mobb deep.

Abel Tesfaye aka 'The Weeknd' is a solo artist from Toronto, Canada who dropped his first mixtape 'House Of Balloons' last month. Which incidentally happens to be a free download, so feast your cheap ear drums on it.  The viral for 'Glass Table Girls' is an 80's cocaine carnival nabbed and tweaked from Paul Verhoeven's ROBO COP of all places. Investigate further...

As Keith Richards said after snorting his dad's ashes... "That went down pretty well..."