The internet is packed with artists trying to hype themselves. Try browsing today’s popular songs on Soundcloud. Most of what you get is made with laptops, beatboxes and a whole lot of social networking. (Anything acoustic is rare.) It took…
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May be the Biggest thing that happened to Soundcloud this week: The Hype Machine is now spotting embedded Soundcloud players. Hypem’s Zoya Feldman already told about it earlier, now it finally happened. This makes The Cloud Player and Soundcloud a…
We’ve all been properly introduced to the mash-up phenomenon by now. That one song that is actually two or more songs but blended into one recording (and hopefully well done). People like Girl Talk or 2 Many DJs pushed the…
South African Paul Stubbs was born in New York, while his parents were in exile during the final years of apartheid. He returned to the country he calls home in 1991. At the age of fourteen he started writing rap…
Here’s a band that looks ready for the new decade. Audio Bullys versus The Strokes on 8-bit? MidiMidis combine the springy 8-bit sounds of a nintendo with the voice of a sigaret smoking, whiskey drinking rock leadsinger. As weird as…
Here’s a saying already used way too often: Looks can be deceiving. Sorry, had to use it. Those sweet looks belong to Ioanna Borovska. Born in Bulgaria, raised in the U.S. She started playing records in the late nineties. She’s…