Hometown: London, UK.
Vanessa Brown, aged 24 is one of those Londonites of ‘now’, you know the type, those really annoyingly talented ones that can’t stick to one forte, (they insist on making us all look lazy) call it ADD or talent, she’s already renowned for her singer/songwriter/performer/multi-instrumentalist/producer-shizzle, and with more /’s than a Halloween movie […]

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Hometown: NYC, USA
There’s a new face in town, please welcome Bad Brilliance, the walking logo injecting some happy-meal fun back into the New York night scene.
How would you describe your sound?

HOT 97 with trance synths.
How long has Bad Brilliance been around?
Bad Brilliance was first drawn on a napkin two years ago. One […]

Hometown: NYC, USA
The Virgins formed in 2006, Downtown New York City. They are the brain child of vocalist Donald Cumming, childhood muse of photographer Ryan McGinley, who chronicled Cummings riotous teenage years gallivanting around the backstreets in NYC, a feral and rebellious existence that persists in The Virgins music today. McGinley’s documentation of Cummings youth […]

Video Nasties are one of most spine tingling new bands to come out of London’s Dark Wave movement, a scene or sound characterised by its dark energy, exploration of the drug ketamine and reflection on a time where the high expectations of the millennium youth were shattered by the realism of CCTV-capitalist life in dystopian […]

Hometown: Brixton, London.
The lineup: Elly Jackson (vocals, keyboards).
The background: She’s 20-years-old, she’s managed by the same team as Klaxons, and she’s called La Roux from the French for “red-haired one” – to be specific, she’s got A Flock Of Seagulls hair, which makes sense because her music recalls the Golden Age of bizarrely-coiffed synth pop. […]

UK trio whose music consists of instrumental and twisted vocal pop elecro styles. Best known for remixes of Britney Spears, Roots Manuva, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Love Is All, Late of the Pier, and Lykke Li. New album Nights Out available now- best tracks Radio Ladio, Holiday, and A Thing for Me. www.myspace.com/metronomy