New Music!

Kesha-Tick Tock
The young gal who sang on Flo Rida's unavoidable Right Round is forging her own career and with a song like Tick Tock I see lots of potential. Now first of all, this song has about 80 different titles: P Diddy, Dolla, Tick Tock, but I'm going with Tick Tock. I love it. I hope she releases it and it becomes huge because it is very "now" but not in a repetitive way. She seems to have quite the vibrant personality too. This is a gleaming example of a pop single filled with sass and a super fun chorus. Great start.


JLS-Beat Again
This song is the current number 1 in the UK. JLS are a boy band who came in second place in the most recent season of X-Factor in the UK. This is a wonderful debut single for the guys. It is hugely catchy and the beat is delectable. Also, the guys are super good at dancing. I love their very literal choreography. This is a good sign for boy bands in the UK. Congrats, guys!


Crystal Fighters-Xtatic Truth
I found this band through the website for music magazine NME. They are based in London, but the members of the group are quite international. One of the singers in the band had a grandfather who wrote an opera named Crystal Fighters which this singer found in Basque land. They use this found material for their songs. All very odd and interesting. This is their new song, Xtatic Truth that mixes modern electronic elements with a string instrument plucking along while singers coo in the background. It's quite the melange and it's delightful and exciting. I'm really looking forward to what these guys do next.


Mika-We Are Golden
He has returned!! The man with the curly hair and falsetto is back with his bright, colorful pop songs. I loved a lot of his songs from his 2007 debut Life in Cartoon Motion. He premiered his new single, We Are Golden, due for release in September in the UK last Friday on a UK radio show. It's super sunny and fun with a shouty, chanting, irresistible chorus. It's quite fantastic and theatrical. "Running around again, running for money" and "Teenage dreams in a teenage circus" are some choice lyrics from the song. This is a joyous return for Mika and I can't wait to hear the album also titled We are Golden.

Roux, Roux, Roux

You may have noticed I mentioned a group named La Roux in yesterday's News Galore. Well, La Roux is a pop synth duo from Londontown who make beautiful music. The singer is Elly Jackson who looks like my favorite kook, Tilda Swinton. Elly has short, sharp red hair and a super high voice. Their single In For the Kill is currently taking the UK charts by storm. I first heard about them when I heard their song Quicksand, a vintage pop ditty, a few months ago. Then, In For the Kill came out. I watched some of the video, and I thought the song was quite bad. Elly's voice was just too high, but now after some time, I love the song. Its success is truly surprising and unexpected. Well, these two have other great tracks up their sleeves as well. The debut album is out June 29 in the UK, but Roux Roux have recently played some shows in the US. I think they were in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago. They are apparently coming back here in the summer. Anyway the next single is Bulletproof, another catchy slice of pop. Another gem of theirs is Fascination which has a great, jolly chorus and a squelching, churning beat during the verses. A happy, summer song.
Check it out here:

http://this.bigstereo.net/2008/10/30/la-roux/

Their are two Quicksand EP's on iTunes. The more recent released one has a great In For the Kill remix by Skream. Hopefully, In For the Kill will be there in its original form soon.

Check La Roux's myspace out. Basically to sum it up: they are awesome.

www.myspace.com/larouxuk

Lovely Little Boots

Album cover (left), single cover (below)

Little Boots is an electro pop singer from the UK. She does awesome covers of popular songs on her Youtube Channel. She did a super fantastic piano version of Girls Aloud's Sexy! No, No, No! It is a thing of beauty. Her original songs are quite good too. Stuck on Repeat is an epic dance track, and Meddle is a rollicking high-octane good time. Her first single is going to be a song called New in Town which has an extremely catchy chorus. It's a grower. She also has a song with the lead singer of The Human League on her album called Symmetry. The clips of Symmetry I've heard are very promising. Her album, Hands, comes out June 8th. The album is being produced by Greg Kurstin who also produced Lily Allen's fantastic It's Not Me, It's You album and is one half of The Bird and the Bee. Little Boots really loves pop music and seems like a really sweet and charming little lady.

P.S. I adore her single and album artwork. So fierce. Check out them super chic and mod dresses she's rocking.

Check out her myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/littlebootsmusic

And her Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/littlebootsvideos

New Videos!

Emerging UK popstar, Luigi Masi, has released the video for his debut single Strobelight. This is a seductive and bumping pop song. It's not super fast and upbeat, but it's really effective and kind of glides and slithers along. It will be released October 20 in the UK with the album to follow in early '09. Check it out!

UK sister duo, Electrovamp, who I wrote about a couple weeks ago, have released the video for their new single, Drinks Taste Better When They're Free. I love these gals. They're sassy and fun. Their songs are super catchy, loud, and flirty. This song is loads of fun and the guitar shreds deliciously through it. I also love the 'wooo ooo" sound in the background.


Britain's own Estelle, singer of the genius and funky American Boy, has a new single. It is called Pretty Please (Love Me), and it features Cee-Lo of Gnarls Barkley. This song is unbashased old school joy. It's upbeat, and the vocals are perfect and soaring. It's a big band '60's-Motown sounding song. The video is amusing too. For some reason, Aubrey O' Day from Danity Kane is in the beginning, playing with her little dog, in the recording studio where the first part of the video is set. I don't really understand her presence. Actress Taraji Henson also stars in the video as Estelle's friend/rival who flirts with Estelle's boyfriend. Great song. Enjoy!

New Black Kids

The video for Black Kids third single of their album Partie Traumatic is the hyper catchy Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo). I love this band. Their songs are so upbeat and amusing and 80's. I love the part when the girls are shouting. The video reminds me of 80's arcade video games and their also seems to be a nod to Speed Racer except with a girl. Good use of handclaps in the chorus, and synths throughout. Enjoy.

New Artist!!

Ladyhawke is a New Zealander who sings 80's esque pop-rock songs. This is her second single that's being released in England, Dusk Till Dawn. This song is completely 80's, and I love it. The chorus is so simple with its "doo doo doo doo doo doo", and "Bang, bang, bang on the wall from dusk till dawn" lines, but it gets stuck in your head. The video is funny with all the crazy monsters. Her album will be released here on September 30.