So earlier in the week we had Visage and now Heaven 17. How eighties am I going? This is totally brilliant though, Elly delivers a vocal that is very nearly as stunning as Carol Kenyon’s original!

After delving a little deeper I found that Carol provided vocals for such diverse projects as Malcom Mclaren’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ [...]

1/31/10 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
2/1/10 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
2/3/10 Quebec City, QC @ Imperial
2/5/10 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
2/6/10 Ottawa, ON @ Capital
2/9/10 Philadelphia, PA @ Voyeurs
2/10/10 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
2/11/10 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Not even a California date! I feel like the entire West Coast should be insulted.
La [...]

Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14%
The XX – XX
14%
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
6%
Florence & The Machine – Lungs
6%
La Roux – La Roux
6%

1)The XX – XX
14%
2)Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
13%
3)La Roux – La Roux
6%
4)Florence & The Machine – Lungs
5%
5)White Lies – To Lose My Life
5%
The XX – Heart Skipped A Beat
Phoenix – Lisztomania

Another week has passed, and the Reader Poll continues to surprise. The XX have taken the lead over Phoenix this week, with La Roux holding steady at 3rd. Dirty Projectors have jumped one place to 4th, and White Lies had a major surge, managing to zip right passed Florence & The Machine, Bat For Lashes [...]

Things are more or less where they were last week, though White Lies have fallen out of the Top 5, and now 3 bands are battling for #4. The Dirty Projectors have made their way on the list for the first time.
#1 Phoenix – 15%
#2 The XX – 14%
#3 La Roux – 7%
#4 Bat [...]

This is a sort of catch-up NRT, as I forgot to do this last week and a lot of cool stuff came out last week. So shame on me for the 2nd time today.

La Roux, La Roux (Cherrytree/Interscope)
Elly Jackson has been winning headlines lately over some fairly controversial (and yeah, in some cases outright stupid) [...]