We start to know better Engus and Eleonore, these two young French phenomenons of electronic duo Carbon Airways. On September 28 they released a new hard and jumper track called "Dust", already performed in live before the out date.

Calm before the storm. You Walk Away EP was acclamed by the US fans during their perfomance at Coachella Festival last year. Then, after a tour and months of work, new EP is on the way. Starting by "Break The Silence", with their video showed as an anthem for young generation who's got his word to say about the world's pain, very linked to Hunger Games: The Mockingjay Part 2 movie. The song "Blasted Daydream" then is released at late July.

The next? Japan's Summer Sonic Festival. Applaused by Japanese fans (at the time of The Prodigy, Madeon and Dillon Francis), they spent two weeks in the rising sun's country, with music and... games. Kendama or something.


At their back in Europe, Carbon Airways continue their adventure. "Dust" is out, different of previous EP and the two previous songs. A little bit dark, but very strong, especially then they perform it live.
Their new EP named Distance Forces will be released on late October. About their debut album, they wait the good moment to reveal it. If you want to discover new songs, go see them in a gig.

Buy song "Dust" here: polydor.lnk.to/4oHHq


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While we are waiting for Radiohead's ninth studio album, band's leader doesn't stop surprizing his fans. Six months after his second solo album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, during 38 minutes, Thom Yorke did recently a song during... 25,920 minutes. Or 432 hours. Or 18 days.

Named "Subterrane", this song has been created exclusively for his friend Stanley Donwood and its retrospective exhibition, "The Panic Office". Donwood worked with Radiohead since 1994 (before The Bends), by designing band's albums plus all associated artwork. His exhbition is presented at CarriageWorks in Sydney (Australia) from May 21st to June 6th. And "Subterrane" is played during all the exphibition.

The thing is that "Subterrane" is made of ambient recordings and played through speakers in the floors, walls, and ceilings of the space, according to Juxtapoz. And the most impressive is that the song doesn't repeat itself several times. That means that it is much worked.

The worst: you won't find it on the Internet. Even by taping "thom yorke subterrane" on Google, the first links are related with Radiohead's song "Subterranean Homesick Alien" from OK Computer (1997). It is natural : Yorke wants this song like Donwood's exhibition : punctual, temporary and we can only enjoy it even more, if we are in Sydney.

Just about Radiohead, the band's official website opens by a colorful moving background linked to "Dead Air Space", but we don't know what this means. It's up to you to decode it...

Are you able to listen to a 432-hour long song? And more importantly, are you ready for Radiohead's new album release?

Sources: Virgin Radio (French), Semi-pernanent


UPDATE: the French website My Band News revealed by Dropbox a 3 minute video of Donwood's exhibition with Thom Yorke's "Subterrane" song in background. Watch it here : tinyurl.com/img7281...

Announced on December 8 with the release of his new single "You're On (feat. Kyan)", Madeon's debut album Adventure will "tell" the story of the French electro producer and prodigy, known on YouTube with his 39-song mashup "Pop Culture" (26 million views today). Expected to be released on March 30, the album will contain 12 fresh songs whose "You're On" and "Imperium", released in November.


The square, always the square ...

... or the diamond. It is what we see on the artworks for "Imperium" and "You're On". And, no surprise : the symbol formed by the square and the two arrows is on the two artworks for Adventure. The Deluxe version artwork shows a part of the landscape appearing in the classic version, inside the symbol. The classic version shows Madeon's logo, "Adventure" in Madeonian code and the tower present in "You're On" video.

On this debut album, we will discover 10 new tracks of Madeon who worked on them with soime artists, as Kyan, Dan Smith, Foster The People's Mark Foster, Aquilo and Passion Pit's Mickael Angelakos (who collaborated with Skrillex on "Recess" song). The Deluxe version will add 6 tracks with the 12 others as "The City", "Icarus", "Finale", "Cut The Kid", "Technicolor" and "Only Way Out", one of Madeon's hidden songs appearing in some old sets.



Chapter 1 : The city, the tower and the the code

One week after "You're On" release, Madeon revealed on YouTube the official video for the song as Part 1 for Adventure, as M83 did in 2011 for "Midnight City" (from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming) with the kids having superpowers - and coming back in "Reunion" and "Wait".

Here is what Madeon "built" these last months and what we see in the video : a huge tower and a big city in the desert, full of strange symbols (actually letters). We see a young woman, walking in this city, who is intrigued by the tower, brighting at night. A day, she meets a boy having on his arm a tattoo of the diamond symbol. Both find each other the night during Madeon's set and push together a button, lighting the tower. A "To be continued" ends the video, making us waiting for Part 2.



The "Madeonian" symbols - or letters - as we like to call, are everywhere on the buildings of the city. If we know how to decode them, we can read some words as "Don't Jump", "We see you", "Stay here", "Don't jump" and "City is your home forever".

By the way, the symbols appear on the artworks for "Imperium", "You're On", Adventure and on the videos for "The City" ("This was our city") and the teaser for "Technicolor" ("We can get it back"). This make us believe that Madeon puts codes and clues at each song or artwork.


Ready to join Madeon's adventure ?

If you are in the USA, you will probably go to Coachella Festival from April 10 to April 19 (headlined by AC/DC, Jack White and Drake). Madeon will reveal his first "Adventure" set on Sundays 12 and 19 with maybe screens forming the diamond, and the square screen, which will be connected to his Launchpads as he revealed at La Nuit SFR Live last year.

We all cant wait to here these songs with evocating names : "Zephyr" (a diamond), "Pixel Empire" (appearing in "Technicolor" artwork), "Home" (from the sentence in "You're On" video) and "Isometric" (Madeon looks loving maths). The tour dates will be come in the next days, so stay connected.

You can pre-order Adventure and discover the tracklist of the album in the Apple Store : itunes.apple.com/us/album/adventure-deluxe/id955824966

We invite you to discover artworks in big and some funny pictures for "You're On" at Madeon's blog: madeon.tumblr.com...

Joel Zimmerman becomes very active in SoundCloud. The Canadian artist posts for several days many compositions, enough to make a new album.

After his fourth studio album > album title goes here < released in 2012, with the songs "Professional Griefers" and "The Veldt", deadmau5 continues to create new songs and posts them in SoundCloud : "Avaritia", "Where Phantoms Sleep" (4 parts), "Phantoms Can't Hang", "Creep", "Slient Picture" ...

Naturally we can't write the list of all the songs (the songs are available here). But with a part of that list, deadmau5 could make a new album, which will be released (probably) in 2014.



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Square, rectangle, triangle and circle : the four french DJS of C2C kept a surprise for one week, today their reveal it us. The band released the official video for "Delta" from their first album TETR4 (pronounce "tetra"), made by CRCR.

The story takes place in a very desert planet, actually in a futurist city. A giant tetrahedron, probably a spaceship, comes in the city. The king of the city, a bit depressive, orders the soldiers to destroy the tetrahedron, but the forcefield sends back and kills soldiers. While a madman was gonna face up to the object, the king stops him, then the tetrahedron opens with a great light, without knowing what there's inside the light.


As you can see, the video has got many basic geometric shapes, signatures of the band. By the way, the soldiers are dressed like medieval people, in futuristic city and planet. So, is "Delta" video actually the translate of the name of one of Kaiser Chief's albums The Future Is Medieval ? Apparently it's only just a coincidence.

Watch now the video for "Delta" :


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Do you remember this young french electro-rock band we presented in July ? We talked about their 2 new songs "Black Sun" and "Conquest". And a few days ago, the duo revealed official video for "Black Sun".

The video translates good the name of the song : "Black" for the dark place where the duo is playing, probably a garage, with some lights, and "Sun" for the "hot" and huge sound which give us want to move our head.

Carbon Airways continue their tour, we wait now a first album. Anyway, you can watch the official video for "Black Sun" :

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After the era of Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay comes back with a new song announced several days ago, "Atlas", for the forthcoming movie "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire". The song and the lyrics have been revealed on September 6th.

It's not a song in which we dance and jump (like "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" or "Viva La Vida") but a calm song. "Atlas" makes us think of a few songs of Coldplay's third album X & Y and "Chistmas Lights" with the piano and Chris Martin's voice in master. "I'll carry your world" is the main sentence for the song, and probably for the movie's hero Katniss Everdeen.

For info, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" will be on sale on November 22nd. You can by the way watch the official lyric video of Atlas here :


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MGMT announced a few weeks their come back with a self-titled album planned for September 17th, plus their first single from the album "Alien Days". This monday, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden reveal on their website the artwork of this new album, but in a original way.

It's in their website that we discover a GIF-Image with 16 little square pictures. After assembling the 16 parts, we obtain a great square picture (a photo with the duo + the MGMT logo)?. The idea is original and we think that no band did it before.



Now we have to wait less than two months for the release of MGMT album. The first single "Alien Says" surprised a bit the fans, a calm song, more Indie than Rock. But opinions are positive for the song.

If you didn't listen to "Alien Days", check it out now :



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Bankrupt! album managed to conquer Phoenix fans. While the band is browsing the festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella or Primavera, Phoenix released today its second official video after "Entertainement", called "Trying To Be Cool".



This video, made by The Creators Project (which also made M83 video "Wait" in december 2012), shows the band in studios, with countdowns and many dancing girls. For a time that we see the band have a good time during this video. They are honestly cool like this. Ah, these French ...

If you have time, check out Phoenix's full concert at Glastonbury Festival :



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It's true that they are not known in the whole world. But for people who like rock and metal, it's worth it to know this band from Long Island, New York. Nobody Takes Vegas, whose the singer is Nick LaGreca, released on June 27 their second EP named No Respect.

Available on their website, iTunes and SoundCloud, No Respect confirms a great rock sound like for Nobody Takes Vegas EP.
Straight in the first song, "Don't Mind The Debauchery", we want to move the head. Then follow "Mistakes At Twin Lakes", "Only At The Top Of The Mountain" and "The Jaunt". And, surprise, the fifth song, "Floater" is calmer than the previous songs. We hear an acoustic guitar instead of electric guitar. But the end of the song sounds more rock.
And at the end of the EP, "No Respect" song, our favorite. An amazing rock song with an aftertaste of metal sound. And the official video is awesome too, we retain the moment where a guy takes a bottle in the fridge, and when the song starts, he involuntarily drops and breaks it.

Now discover this band by listening to their EP on SoundCloud :

You can also check out the official video for "No Respect". Now it's up to you to say if this band is awesome. For us, it is.



Note to people from NY : Nobody Takes Vegas will play at Even Flow Bar & Grill, Bay Shore, NY. We hope that, a day, they will come in Europe ...
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They are definitively back. Alex Kapranos' band, Franz Ferdinand, come back for a fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, planned for August 26.

The band has also released to its fans 2 tracks from their new album. The first ones after Tonight : Franz Ferdinand, called "Love Illumination" and "Right Action". Two good songs, very catchy like their previous albums even if the sound looks a bit different.

Check out the 2 songs :






Here's the track listing of Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action :


1. Right Action
2. Evil Eye
3. Love Illumination
4. Stand On The Horizon
5. Fresh Strawberries
6. Bullet
7. Treason! Animals
8. The Universe Expanded
9. Brief Encounters
10. Goodbye Lovers & Friends...

The garage rock band The Strokes continue his back. After the announcement of their 5th album Comedown Machine, and the release of the song "One Way Trigger", The Strokes released today the video for the first single "All The Time".

And what happens in this video ? A grouping of videos of the band taken these last years, concerts, recording and crazy moments, in particular during Angles Tour (2011-2012) ; thus the name of the song makes complete sense, and all that in a sound that remembers the songs of the albums Room On Fire and First Impressions of Earth.

Enjoy !



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