No, this isn’t a post about Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian, it’s about good tunes coming to us straight from the Shire. The Kiwi band, The Naked and Famous, are making waves hitting shores other than their own and we’re picking up what they’re putting down…
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Goth is like good wine. The longer it lingers, the better it gets. And Zola Jesus (Nika Roza Danilova) has pretty much proven so, with her appearance in the scene and the impact she has brought with her (black drapes and dark mascara in tow).
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The day-glo genre might be dying in the West but in Japan, blogosphere darlings 80Kidz might as well be the newly crowned Daft Punks of the East. Weekend Warrior, their follow-up to 2009’s This Is My Sh!t reminds us of what we loved about electro–silly synth stabs and hipster chic beats included.

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Essentially a one-man band, Marble Sounds is the brainchild of Belgian Pieter Van Dessel. Quiet and unassuming, the songs on debut album Nice Is Good might be the stereotypical dude-with-tender-vocals, but it’d be a mistake to label this as twee indie.

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ASDIG is like a combo of all my favourite groups; there are the narcotic guitar haze and whispery female vocals that remind one of My Bloody Valentine or Cocteau Twins, the psych freak-out of Velvet Underground and the electronic textures that are reminiscent of Mum.

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While everyone’s going ga-ga over Best Coast, here’s a band that truly knows how to put together some feel-good California vibes with irresistible melodies.

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Post-rocking their way back into the scene are local band Furniture. ‘False Start’, their first single off their new sophomore album They Made Me Out Of Dreams You’ve Forgotten kicks in with the urgency of a teenage power pop band (although most members are probably around their 30s).

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No, the Kyoto Protocol here isn’t the UN climate change agreement but an experimental, raw-sounding local band that are reinventing the punk rock genre. With a wildly expressive delivery influenced by the likes of The Clash and Queens of the Stone Age, KP consist of 5 fun-loving males who decided to band together to explore the frontiers of experimental rock.

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Hailing from Norway, Aniki began toying with music production when he was only 13. He started by trying out different genres and in 2000, stuck to hard house, later jumping to electro after he heard Kelevras’ KrunKd Up mixtape. [more »]

Bandung bedroom musicians Anggung Kuy Kay and Ryan Nobie Adzani have been making chiptune electronica and downtempo pop using custom toy equipment and keyboards since 2005. Their semi lo-fi, ethereal electronic sound is influenced by artists such as Mum, Manitoba, Tunng, The Album Leaf, Isan and a wealth of net artists on sites like observatoryonline.org.

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