Gil Scott-Heron, musician and poet, has released his first LP in 14 years today on XL records. After releasing two seminal LPs in the 70s, he spent a long time in obscurity (and prison). Scott-Heron influenced a generation of hip-hop artists thorough his music, his proto-rap style poetry and his political and civil rights activism, [...]

Radiohead – Reckoner (Jonny Miller Remix)
This is a wonderfully different take on the Radiohead track ‘Reckoner’ – Jonny Miller somehow turns it into a slow wintery disco burner (and as an added bonus the limited edition vinyl comes with a great screen-printed cover).

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Little Dragon hail from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are high school friends: Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Källgren Wallin and Håkan Wirenstrand.
This track, Twice, is taken from their self titled debut LP. They have recently released a follow up and equally great album,  Machine Dreams. Enjoy!
The animation is by Johannes Nyholm.

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Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson, the sister of THE KNIFE siblings.
Fever Ray makes incredibly emotional music that I can’t stop listening to.
Fever Ray „composes best in that state any new parent will recognise, awake but exhausted, where reality blurs into imagination and ideas flutter in and out.“
Fever Ray does not show her face in [...]

So keeping up the tradition of not playing snowy crappy music over the holidays, here’s a cover of Guns and Roses’ classic Sweet Child O’Mine by Taken by Trees.
Taken by Trees is a solo project by former lead singer for the Swedish band, the Concretes.
Merry Everyone!

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Very original video from Japanese band Sour.
The cast were selected from their fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

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Carrying on the covers theme of recent ‘7 inches of week’, this week’s is Candi Stanton’s classic You Got the Love covered by Florence and the Machine (and then remixed by The XX).
‘You Got the Love’ was originally released in ‘86 but was never a big hit; it was made famous in the early 90’s [...]

One-man-band-sampling-beatbox-harmonica supremo Son of Dave covers Daft Punk in his own special way.

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During the 70s, Jamaica’s music industry had no international copyright agreements, which meant anyone could cover a song “legally” and not have to pay royalties to the original artist.
This helped push the popularity of Reggae, internationally and at home, and gave us hundreds of classics with a Jamaican slant, like this cover of Procol Harum’s [...]

Not even 30 and Quantic aka Will Holland has already released 12 LPs on Tru Thoughts and dozens of singles not to mention many remixes and collaborations. Starting in Brighton, England making sampled based dance music, he’s slowly been making his way to a full band setup, adding more instrumentation and variety of styles to [...]