We hope you are enjoying the holidays with your family and your friends. If you think you don't receive gifts enoughs, some new music (and video) could end your 2015 in a good way. And yes, we are back after some weeks of silence, and 2016 will be for us a great year.

1. Diplo: Diplo and Friends Best Of 2015 Mix



We finally saw him everywhere. First, the duo with Skrillex named Jack Ü made a good album with definitively a new breathe for J. Bieber with "Where Are Ü Now". Second, his great band Major Lazer made records with the single "Lean On" (almost 1 billion views on YouTube), a great part of an album very probably dedicated to France, Peace Is The Mission.

In clear, Thomas Wesley Pentz didn't stop touring with his friends. Previously he revealed with Sleepy Tom the single "Be Right There", and for his Diplo and Friends Show, he gave us his favorite tracks of 2015. Diplo is not ready to stop producing, we're sure.




2. Skrillex: Stranger 



If the definition of Skrillex's concerts is strong and fire performances, he also can do calm songs or even an ode to the world. A goal succeed with The Creators Project - who made in 2012 a beautiful end for M83's trilogy with "Wait" - who both present a emotional and a lightful video for "Stranger" in piano-voice version with Sam Dew, KillaGraham, Tennyson and White Sea.

The message Sonny Moore shows us is strong and clear: little, big, old, young, from every place or from every belief, we're "strangers" but we're all the same, and nothing should prevent the fact of being all together.


3. Bring Me The Horizon: Drown (live from Maida Vale)




The power of That's The Spirit confirmed the new Bring Me The Horizon after Sempiternal. More vocals and more music ways have been explored by Oliver Sykes' band, and we can only love, as the full fifth album. We keep in mind their performance at Reading and Leeds in August, where everyone noticed Oli's love for Japanese kawaii metal band BABYMETAL with a special T-Shirt.

For the song "Drown", already revealed in 2014 before album's release, the band offered for Christmas an orchestral version made with the BBC. Beautiful.



4. Muse - Agitated (live at Glasgow Barrowlands)



21 years and still young, Bellamy, Wolstenholme and Howard came back on the rock lines with their 7th album Drones, full of guitar riffs and powerful songs as "Pyscho", "Reapers" or "Revolt". We had right to the beautiful following of Origin Of Symmetry's "Citizen Erazed" with "The Globalist" during 10 minutes.

The band wish us "Musey" Christmas with their song "Agitated" at Glasgow Barrowlands, first recorded before te release of Showbiz in 1999.



5. Radiohead - Spectre



You are not dreaming, the guys of Oxford are back on the studios since a few times. And if we all are waiting to hear their upcoming 9th album - following The King Of Limbs (2011), Thom Yorke's Radiohead revealed a special song for 007 Spectre movie.

"Last year we were asked to write a tune for Bond movie Spectre. Yes we were ... It didn't work out", Yorke said, "but became something of our own which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas. May the force be with you", he ended to refer to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

So, it haven't been used for official soundtrack, Sam Smith did. However, maybe it was too much good to put on movie's opening. So good that a fan combined the song to the opening deleting Smith's "Writing's On The Wall". So good the original song on SoundCloud has been played more than 3 million times in a few days.



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To end 2013 in music, we selected for you 10 albums/EPs/singles of 10 artists. You probably don't know all of them, so it's time to discover some new music.


1. The Crash Bandits : Better Off


 

This 3 piece band from Minneapolis, MN, Blink-182 fan, knows the definition of pop/punk/rock. After their first EP The Mutt out last year, The Crash Bandits revealed in July their first album Better Off. 14 punk-rock tracks to move your head.
A 2nd EP will be released soon.

Listen to the album here (free download) : thecrashbandits.bandcamp.com

 

2. Carbon Airways : Black Sun EP 



We already talked you about Carbon Airways, a brother and a sister from France who make huge electro-rock sounds. The EP Black Sun is a proof. It revealed, 4 months after "Black Sun" and "Conquest" songs releases, 2 new songs called "DNA Providence" and "Grace And Virtue", plus 3 remixes of "Black Sun".
The songs of their first album are currently in final mixing, and the album will be out April 2014.

Listen to the EP on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6990416



3. Nobody Takes Vegas : No Respect EP



The 5 guys from Long Island, NY, continue they Alternative Rock journey. The 2nd EP No Respect follows first one, Nobody Takes Vegas, with 6 new songs and a video, with the same energy.
Two good news : band's lead singer Nick LaGreca is 21 years old since December 7, and new songs are coming for 2014.

Listen to the two EPs on SoundCloud : Nobody Takes Vegas EP | No Respect EP
Discover Nobody Takes Vegas official website : nobodytakesvegas.com



4. Half Moon Run : Dark Eyes



If the Canadian band Half Moon Run begins to be known in 2013 (one year after releasing their first album Dark Eyes), it is because their debut single "Full Circle" has been used on the "Horizon" trailer for the game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (out October 29). The debut album' 12 tracks are calm, between Indie-Pop and Indie-Rock.

Listen to their debut album on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6651499



5. Madeon : Technicolor Single



19. French. The prodigy of electro music continues to surprise us, with Technicolor out August 3rd (following The City EP). After producing Two Door Cinema Club's "Changing Of The Seasons", Leclercq is working on his first album, and it will be released on early 2014 (according to one of his Tweets).

Listen to "Technicolor" on SoundCloud : soundcloud.com/madeon/technicolor-original



6. After Lilly : Please Wake Me Up Tomorrow !



Between french and english songs, the French band After Lilly revealed on July 20 twelve pop-rock songs in their debut album Please Wake Me Up Tomorrow!, following the EP Lost Your Way (2011). A little beginning for a great following, we hope that.

Listen to the album on BandCamp : afterlilly.bandcamp.com


7. Phoenix : Bankrupt!



The French band Phoenix come back is succeded : their 5th studio album Bankrupt! surprised some fans, starting with the album teaser. The 10 tracks remember a bit Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, however the sounds are more varied : synthpop, new wave. Indie-rock is still here.

Listen to the album on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6488062



8. The Strokes : Comedown Machine



No tour for The Strokes' fifth album. However Comedown Machine, containing 11 songs sounding like their first albums, received generally good critics. The single "All of Time" had its video including the band's good moments in touring (check out post about "All the Time" here).

Listen to the album on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6414905



9. Paramore : Paramore




Four years after Brand New Eyes, Hayley William's band Paramore revealed their self-titled album, acclaimed by fans and many music magazines (by examples Metacritic, NME). The album shows 17 great songs, sometimes powered, sometimes alternative rock, sometimes punk. And the self-titled Tour isn't finished, to people who want to see Paramore.

Listen to the album on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6443604


10. Bring Me The Horizon : Sempiternal 



The album name is definitively smaller than previous one. Anyway, Bring Me The Horizon don't stop making huge metalcore songs. Proofs ? "Can You Feel My Heart", "Sleepwalking" and "Shadow Moses". And the best place to see them was Reading Festival.

Listen to the album on Deezer : deezer.com/album/6412093



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