Disclosure ‘Tenderly’  I love this, Nick Grimshaw is behind it not to mention Alt - J and Friends getting support from Huw Stephens and Fearne Cotton respectively. With M82 using his Billboard US top 10 success last year and Anna Calvi on the playlist the indies are working their magic nicely.   See the Radio 1 playlist here and get a free Disclosure EP here

Tip for 2012 - Kindness

In 2009 Moshi Moshi approached Kindness to release a single (his minimalist version of the Replacements’ Swingin’ Party, backed with the breezy funk track Gee Up.  Now signed to Polydor/Universal this single Cyan was released in October 2011 and Gee Up gets re-released with the album in March. 


It’s got recognisable reference points — the leftfield disco of Walter Gibbons, the cosmopolitan rhythms of Grace Jones and Tom Tom Club, the frictionless 80s R&B of Alexander O’Neal, the blurry Polaroid pop of Ariel Pink — but they’re in an unfamiliar context.    

Tip for 2012 - Django Django

Django Django  have been honing their art for over 2 years,  this stop frame video to the single ‘Default’ is a collaboration between the band and Director Dan Brereton. The debut album is released on 30th January.

Tip for 2012 - Alt-J

∆ is the symbol you get from hitting alt & j on a keyboard.

Alt-j are too fresh for the tips for 2012, they have been receiving daytime support from Radio by Fern Cotton and Jo Whiley following support from Huw Stephen’s.

They are deep thinking art students from Leeds who produce pop with a post punk underbelly, a unique sound.  Now signed to Infectious Records the label that brought you Temper Trap, Cloud Control and Real Estate they release there single in February and the album is released in April, watch them go.

We licensed Alex Winston Choice Notes’ for Hyundai back in October 2010, it still sounds fresh.

Alex’s Debut album in released in 10th April, King Con – the suggestion that an Elvis impersonator is the ultimate con - came to Alex after spending several months in an Elvis costume herself whilst promoting her recent single “Velvet Elvis”. “Velvet Elvis” itself is inspired by objectum sexuality and the documentary I Married the Eiffel Tower.

Alex’s previous releases, including an acclaimed EP, were recorded on Garageband and King Con sees her take a step up in terms of production, working with the likes of Charlie Hugall (Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Crystal Fighters), Bjorn Yttling (Lykke Li) and The Knocks.

thenextweb:

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month. Speaking about how Tumblr differs from traditional “editorial” services like WordPress, Karp quoted figures from website traffic measuring company Quantcast, not directly referencing internal figures from its own analytics. (via Tumblr: Serving 120m People, 15bn Pageviews A Month)
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thenextweb:

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month. Speaking about how Tumblr differs from traditional “editorial” services like WordPress, Karp quoted figures from website traffic measuring company Quantcast, not directly referencing internal figures from its own analytics. (via Tumblr: Serving 120m People, 15bn Pageviews A Month)

This is the video to Stafford Brothers ‘Everybody’ a remix of the Real Madrid theme tune ‘Hala Madrid’.

Launched in December 2011 Howling Monkey worked in Partnership with ZOVA SMI to deliver licensing and music supervison for the Real Madrid Legends project.  This included an album and an accompanying Facebook app.

BBC Sound of 2012 is out

The BBC sound of 2012 was out on Monday, Alex Winston, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Kindness, Theme Park, Alt J and The Milk didn’t make it in but hey! they can’t fit everyone in.

Cool hip hop and r&b, soul/rock and cool pop is the name of the game.

We have linked to each artists Google search to keep the info relevant, you find their social networks from there.

A$AP Rocky

Azealia Banks

Dot Rotten

Dry The River

Flux Pavilion

Frank Ocean

Friends

Jamie N Commons

Lianne La Havas

Michael Kiwanuka

Niki & The Dove

Ren Harvieu

Skrillex

Spector

Stooshe