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

It only took about three decades, but finally some hip-hop artists are keeping it real and coming out of the closet. Floridians Shunda K and Jwl B, aka Yo Majesty, have been on the underground scene for the last 10 years. After releasing a grass roots, sex-filled rhyme EP in 2006 with potty mouth dance […]

One of the most touted Myspace bands of the moment, Black Kids have finally released their pop-indie debut album Partie Traumatic with a bounty of booty shakin’ tunes.
The Florida pop-indie quintet is bringing back that feeling of youthful emotional angst and despair usually penned by cult bands like The Cure and Arcade Fire. But these […]