SiA’s album gets rave reviews!

Yahoo! Music called it one of the top albums of the year and blogs everywhere are ranting and raving about it. We said it a while ago, SiA’s album We Are Born is the only album that we will pay money for. Why? Because she has consistently done great album and in recent interviews she threatened us with a songwriting hiatus for other artists, so we do all we could to help out. We bought it and although it didn’t come with album artwork (which we are disappointed about) we love every track on there. Lovely little album from the queen of organic pop.

Official cover art of Monica’s second single “Love All Over Me”

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Monica did the right thing by replacing the tepid “Here I Am” with the epic “Love All Over Me” as the second single. This is the artwork for it right here on the Loft. The third single should be “One In A Lifetime” and that probably could catapult her album Still Standing into platinum status.

Video Premiere: “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence + The Machine

In “Dog Days Are Over”, directed by Georgie Greville and Geremy Jasper of LEGS, and edited by Paul Snyder at Lost Planet, Florence is the shamanic leader of a surreal orchestra where spiritual elation explodes into smokey psychedelic anarchy. Each musical element of the song is personified by a group of colorful characters that combine 60’s girl groups, Hinduism, gospel choirs, drum circles, paganism and pyrotechnics. Florence is a painted primal force of nature that whips a religious experience into a riot.
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Introducing… Cassette Kids

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Going on a scavenger hunt around MySpace is always fruitful. The Cassette Kids are the newest find. The aussie band has some fun beats under their sleeve/s. Their music verges of the fringes of pop only to connect with a strong electro aura. In return for your precious e-mail details they will give a sample. A free track titled “Freaky Sweetie” is available on their website. Also, you can hear a bunch of tracks on their MySpace page.