Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 05 May 1988), known professionally as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008.

In 2009, Adele won two Grammy Awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 51st Grammy Awards.

Adele attracted the attention of XL Recordings with a three-song demo posted on MySpace and then signed with the label. Since her debut, 19, Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically. The album debuted at number one, and has been certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a viewer record-breaking Saturday Night Live episode in late 2008.

Adele released her second album 21 on 24 January 2011 in the UK, and 22 February in the US. The album was a critical and commercial success, selling 208,000 copies in its first week in the UK and debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in the US, selling 352,000 copies in its first week. The album has charted at number one in 17 European countries and the US.

After performing at the 2011 BRIT Awards, the album track "Someone Like You" reached number one in the United Kingdom, while the album also remained at number one. "Someone Like You" held the number one position for four consecutive weeks.

The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964. 21 has spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one in the UK, the longest ever by a female solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, surpassing Madonna's nine weeks at number one back in 1990 with her greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection.

In the US the album has spent a total of nine weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 to date. The album has also broken the record for the most UK digital downloads. As of May 2011 the singer was worth £6 million tying her with Lily Allen and Duffy for 9th place on the list of the richest British and Irish music stars under age 30.

"Rolling in the Deep" is a song from her second studio album, 21. The song was written by Adele and Paul Epworth and has been described by Adele as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune".It was released as the lead single on 29 November 2010 in the Netherlands. "Rolling in the Deep'" became Adele's first number-one single and first top five hit in several countries.

The song has been positively received by music critics. It peaked at number one in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and became a top ten hit in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway. The song debuted at number two in the United Kingdom, becoming Adele's third top ten single.

"Rolling in the Deep" became Adele's second single to chart in the United States. Later on, it became her first ever single to top a Billboard chart when it reached number one on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart in March 2011, and became her first number one hit in the country when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 in May 2011. As a result, Adele became the first British singer to have topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts in the same week since Leona Lewis did the same back in 2008.

The following week Adele maintained her number one positions becoming the first British artist to hang on for more than one week since Phil Collins back in 1989-90 and the first female to do so in the chart's history. As of May 2011,

"Rolling in the Deep" had sold over 2 million digital copies in the US., making it her best-selling single there, topping her previous best-selling single "Chasing Pavements".

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Rihanna - California King Bed

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), better known as simply Rihanna), is a R&B recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers. She subsequently signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for then-label head Jay-Z.

In 2005, Rihanna released her debut studio album, Music of the Sun, which peaked in the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart and features the Billboard Hot 100 hit single "Pon de Replay." Less than a year later, she released her second studio album, A Girl Like Me (2006), which peaked within the top five of the Billboard albums chart, and produced her first US number one single, "SOS", as well as the top 10 singles "Unfaithful" and "Break It Off".

Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), which peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, featured five top ten hits including three US number one hit singles—"Umbrella", "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia"—and the worldwide hit "Don't Stop the Music". The album was nominated for nine Grammy Awards, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Umbrella," which features Jay-Z. Her fourth studio album, Rated R (2009), peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. Its first three singles, "Russian Roulette", "Hard" and "Rude Boy" peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, while "Rude Boy" peaked at number one.

Loud (2010), her fifth studio album, spawned the number one hits, "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?" and "S&M".

Rihanna has sold more than 15 million albums and 45 million singles making her one of the best selling artists of all time. She has achieved ten number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since first appearing on the chart on June 11, 2005, which is the most by any artist during that time span. As of March 18, 2011, Rihanna has sold approximately 6 million album units and over 28 million digital singles in the US. She has sold over 10 million records in the UK. Billboard named Rihanna the Digital Songs Artist of the 2000s decade.

She has received several accolades, including the 2007 World Music Awards for World's Best-Selling Pop Female Artist and Female Entertainer of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Solo Artist. She has also amassed a total of four Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, and fifteen Billboard Music Awards.

"California King Bed" is a song from her fifth studio album, Loud (2010). Written by The Runners, Priscilla Renea and Alex Delicata, and produced by The Runners serves as the album's fourth international single.

Stacey Anderson of Spin commented on the song: " 'California King Bed' is a wrenching ballad about the waking death of a relationship, the stage of limbo before the final crash; it's so well-delivered, in fact, that it's hard to hear."[8] Ryan Dombell from Pitchfork Media said, "'California King Bed' is a 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'-type power ballad genetically engineered to soundtrack a bi-coastal Kate Hudson rom-com."

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Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), also known by her nickname J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, fashion designer and television producer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller Money Train.

Her first leading role was in the biographical film Selena (1997), in which she earned an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress. She earned her second ALMA Award for her performance in Out of Sight (1998). She has since starred in various films, including The Wedding Planner (2001), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), Monster-in-Law (2005), and The Back-up Plan (2010).

Lopez came to prominence within the music industry following the release of her debut studio album On the 6 (1999) which spawned the number one hit single "If You Had My Love". Her second studio album J.Lo (2001) was a commercial success, selling eight million copies worldwide. J to tha L-O!: The Remixes (2002) became her second consecutive album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 while her third and fourth studio albums – This Is Me... Then (2002) and Rebirth (2005) – peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.

In 2007, she released two albums including her first full Spanish-language album Como ama una Mujer, and her fifth English studio album Brave.
Returning to music with a new record label, Lopez released her seventh studio album, titled Love?, on April 19, 2011.

Its single "On the Floor" is currently impacting charts worldwide. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including two Grammy Award nominations; two Latin Grammy Award nominations; three American Music Awards, amongst six nominations; and the estimated sale of over 55 million records worldwide.

Billboard ranked her as the 27th Artist of the 2000s decade. Lending her musical knowledge to others, Lopez is currently a member of the judging panel of American reality television competition American Idol.
She led People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics" in February 2007. She has parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement. A fashion icon, several of her dresses have received considerable media attention, most notably the Jungle green Versace dress which she wore at the 23rd Grammy Awards in 2000 which has been voted the 5th most iconic dress of all time. Outside of her work in the entertainment industry, Lopez advocates human rights, vaccinations and is a supporter of Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

"On the Floor", features Latino rapper Pitbull, taken from Lopez's seventh studio album Love? (2011). Following "Fresh Out the Oven" (2009), a promotional single for Love?, it is the second time that Lopez and Pitbull have worked together. "On the Floor" is an up-tempo dance-pop song set in the common time signature of 130 beats per minute, combining electropop and electro house genres with elements of Latin beats. It also incorporates elements of the Los Kjarkas song "Llorando Se Fue" most commonly known for its use in Kaoma's 1989 hit single, "Lambada".

The song was written by Bilal Hajji, Kinda Hamid, Gonzalo Hermosa, Ulises Hermosa, AJ Junior, Pitbull, Teddy Sky and RedOne, who also produced the song.
Commercially, "On the Floor" is one of Lopez's highest charting singles. It has topped eighteen national single charts, mainly in Europe. It has been certified double-platinum in Australia and platinum in Italy, Switzerland and the United States, as well as earning six other gold certifications.

A music video, for "On the Floor", was directed by TAJ Stansberry and choreographed by Frank Gatson Jr., in February 2011. Fans were given the opportunity to vote for their preferred ending for the video, from a choice of three. The video debuted simultaneously on Vevo and American Idol. In the video, Lopez is seen as the queen of a LA nightclub.

Scenes depict an underground club culture and with the styling, choreography and fashion paying homage to the dance-beginnings of Lopez's career. It received critical acclaim for the styling and for overshadowing the episode of American Idol it debuted on. The video received praise for Lopez's dancing, calling the sex-appeal similar to her 2002 single "I'm Gonna Be Alright", and for paying homage to Lopez's career beginnings as a dancer.

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Katy Perry - E.T. , Firework

Katy Perry (born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson; October 25, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her freshman year of high school, she began to pursue a career in music.

As Katy Hudson, she released a self-titled gospel album in 2001, which due to the closing of her record label, was deemed unsuccessful. She later recorded an album with production team The Matrix and completed the majority of a solo album from 2004–5, neither of which were released.

After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry and released her first Internet single "Ur So Gay" that November, which garnered public attention but failed to chart. She rose to fame with the release of her second single "I Kissed a Girl" in 2008, which went on to top international charts.

Perry's first mainstream studio album One of the Boys followed later that year and subsequently, became the thirty third-best selling album worldwide of 2008. It was accredited platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, while "I Kissed a Girl" and her second single "Hot n Cold" both received multi-platinum certifications.

Her sophomore studio album Teenage Dream was released in August 2010 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album included hit singles "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework" and "E.T." , all of which topped the charts on the Billboard Hot 100, making the Teenage Dream album one of only nine albums to ever produce four or more Hot 100 number ones.

"E.T." is an electronic ballad that tells of "falling in love with a foreigner". Extraterrestrial metaphors are used throughout, and West continues these metaphors in his two verses, making heavy use of Auto-Tune at times. Though the song was widely noted for its darker and more mature theme, in contrast to Perry's conventional works, critics were overall mixed in response.

West's presence on the single also received divided opinions. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100—the fourth from Teenage Dream to do so—for five non-consecutive weeks and is Perry's fifth number one on the chart.

"Firework" is a self-empowerment anthem with inspirational lyrics, and was considered by Perry as the most important song for her on Teenage Dream.

"Firework" received good reviews from music critics, with some noticing its catchy melody and danceable beat and comparing it to songs by English band Coldplay.

The song was commercially successful, reaching the top spot on Billboard Hot 100 and the top 5 on twenty charts around the world.

An accompanying music video, directed by Dave Meyers, was released on October 28, 2010. It portrayed Perry singing and dancing around Budapest, with intercalating scenes of shy teenagers become confident in themselves.

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Lady Gaga - Born This Way , Alejandro , Bad Romance

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter.Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which was a commercial success and achieved international popularity with the singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face".

The album reached number one on the record charts of six countries, accomplished positions within the top-ten worldwide, and topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart while simultaneously peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.

Achieving similar worldwide success, The Fame Monster (2009), its follow-up, produced a further two global chart-topping singles "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" and allowed her to embark on a second global headlining concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just months after having finished her first, The Fame Ball Tour.

Her second studio album, Born This Way, is scheduled for release on May 23, 2011 after the arrival of its eponymous lead single "Born This Way", which achieved the number-one spot in countries worldwide and was the fastest-selling single in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days.

Inspired by glam rock artists like David Bowie, Elton John and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Amy Winehouse, Gaga is well-recognized for her outré sense of style in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous achievements including five Grammy Awards, among twelve nominations; two Guinness World Records; and the estimated sale of fifteen million albums and fifty-one million singles worldwide.

Billboard named her both the Artist of the Year in 2010 and the top selling artist of 2010; ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. Gaga has been included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as Forbes' list of the 100 Most Powerful and Influential celebrities in the world. Forbes also placed her at number seven on their annual list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

"Born This Way" is a song from her second studio album of the same name. It was inspired by the '90s empowering music for women and the gay community, with Gaga explaining that "Born This Way" was her freedom song. "Born This Way" is an electropop song, backed by rumbling synth sounds and a humming bass, with a percussion added in the chorus. It also includes Gaga singing a capella near the end with an organ added. The lyrics of the song talk about empowerment with the chorus lyrics talking about making no apologies and being who you are. It features the names of communities like the gay, lesbian as well as transgender.

The song reached number one in 19 countries. In the United States, it became her third single to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Additionally, "Born This Way" became the 1000th number-one song on the Hot 100, spending a total of six weeks atop the Hot 100. It became the fastest-selling song in iTunes history, selling one million copies in five days.

The music video for the song was directed by Nick Knight and by Gaga herself. It premiered on Monday, February 28, 2011 and was inspired by painters like Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon, and their surrealistic images. The main idea behind the video is Gaga giving birth to a new race. The video commences with a prologue, in which Gaga talks about the new race who are born without prejudices and concludes with the view of a city populated by this race.

"Alejandro" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga. It was released as the third and final single from her third extended play (EP) and second major release The Fame Monster (2009). Co-written and produced by RedOne and inspired by her "Fear of Sex Monster", the lyrics portray Gaga bidding farewell to her lovers.
Musically, it is composed as a mid-tempo Europop song with an uplifting melody.

Contemporary critics predominantly gave positive reviews for it and noted its heavy influence from pop groups like ABBA and Ace of Base. "Alejandro" became Gaga's seventh successive single to reach the top-ten of the US Billboard Hot 100.

"Bad Romance" was released as the lead single from her third extended play (EP), and second major release The Fame Monster (2009). Written by Lady Gaga and produced by RedOne, the track was inspired by the paranoia that Gaga experienced while touring the globe from 2008 to 2009.

Musically, "Bad Romance" features a spoken bridge, a full-throated chorus and sung
lyrics that address the situation of being in love with one's best friend. The song, containing elements of the music from the 1980s and the 1990s and influences of German house-techno music, has been described by Gaga as a pop experimental record.

"Bad Romance" was a commercial success and was also ranked the ninth best song by Rolling Stone in its list of "25 Best Songs of 2009" and received the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The accompanying music video features Gaga inside a surreal white bathhouse. There, she gets kidnapped by a group of supermodels who drug her and sell her to the Russian Mafia for sexual slavery. The music video ends with Gaga killing the man who bought her.

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Li Lykke - Get Some

Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (born 18 March 1986), better known by her stage name Lykke Li, is a Swedish indie singer. She released her debut album, Youth Novels, in 2008 and her follow up album, Wounded Rhymes, in 2011. Li was born in Ystad, Skåne in 1986; her mother, Kärsti Stiege, had been a member of an all-girl punk band called Tant Strul before settling into photography. Her father, Johan, played guitar for Swedish punk band turned reggae outfit Dag Vag.

The family moved to Stockholm when Li was a toddler and later moved to a mountaintop in Portugal when she was six, where they lived for five years. The family also spent time in Lisbon and Morocco and spent winters in Nepal and India.

She moved to the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York for three months when she was 19. She returned when she was 21 to record her album.
Lykke Li had some success with the EP "Little Bit" in 2007. Stereogum named her an artist to watch in October 2007 and described her music as a mix of soul, electro and "powdered-sugar pop".

She released her first album, Youth Novels on LL Recordings in the Nordic region on 4 February 2008 and it received a wider European release in June, 2008.
Lykke has become increasingly popular with indie music fans and she has received a great deal of notoriety for her cover of "Knocked Up", originally recorded by Kings of Leon who had approached Lykke to cover a song of her choice, and "Gifted" in which she performs with Kanye West.

A remixed version of her song "I'm Good, I'm Gone" was featured in the film Sorority Row (2009). The song "Possibility" was written for the film New Moon (2009). Li had been asked to write a song to the film soundtrack but she was reluctant to commit to the project. It was after she had seen an early screening of the movie that she decided she wanted to contribute to the soundtrack. The soundtrack was released on 16 October 2009.
Her song Until We Bleed,which she sang with singer Kleerup was featured on an episode of UK TV series Misfits.

Lykke Li's second album, Wounded Rhymes, was released in 2011 ."Get Some" is a song from this album. Produced by Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John, it was released in Sweden on 22 October 2010 as the album's lead single. Li said of the song: "A lot of people think it's about sex. [...] But it's about power. I was reading the Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, where she goes into this guy's mind by making him fantasise about her, so it's kind of like powerplay. As soon as a woman does anything, they seem to hit a nerve and it's back to sex. At least men seem to think that."

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie pop band from New York City.
The band members are Kip Berman(vocals and guitar), Peggy Wang (keyboards and vocals), Alex Naidus (bass), Kurt Feldman (drums), Christoph Hochheim (guitar).

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart built up a pretty rabid fan base in the indie pop community prior to the release of their self-titled debut record in early 2009.
For this, they could thank a string of excellent singles and EPs that began in 2007 (songs from which appear on the album) but more than that they can put it down to the fact that their sound melds together the trademarked sounds of many beloved indie and noise pop bands into one shiny ball of sound and melancholy.

The band name comes from an unpublished children's story of the same title that a friend of singer Kip Berman wrote. The group's self-titled album peaked at #9 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.On September 22, 2009, they released Higher Than the Stars, their second EP. The band released their second album, Belong, on March 29, 2011.

Belong and Heart In Your Heartbreak are two songs from that album.

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The Kills – DNA & Satellite

The bluesy punk duo the Kills consist of vocalist/guitarist VV, aka Alison Mosshart, formerly of the Florida punk band Discount, and drummer/guitarist/vocalist Hotel, aka Jamie Hince. After Discount ended in 2000, VV began exchanging tapes with the London-based Hotel through the mail, but both of them felt hindered by this method, so VV crossed the Atlantic so the duo could write faster.

In spring of 2001, they issued a self-released demo that showcased their gritty, sexy sound and earned favorable reviews. They also contributed a song, "Restaurant Blouse," to «If the Twenty-First Century Did Not Exist It Would Be Necessary to Invent It» compilation early in 2002, before their debut EP, Black Rooster, arrived that summer.

Along with gigs at the London and Glasgow, the Kills also toured the U.S. for eight weeks before returning to London to finish their first full-length album, Keep on Your Mean Side, which was released by Rough Trade in spring 2003. A second album, No Wow, arrived in 2005 and was an even dirtier, leaner collection of songs. The Kills retooled their sound for 2008's Midnight Boom, mixing more electronic beats and pop hooks into their punky bedrock.

While touring alongside the Raconteurs in support of Midnight Boom, Mosshart struck up a friendship with frontman Jack White, prompting the two to form a supergroup, the Dead Weather, in 2009. The Kills took a short break while the Dead Weather worked feverishly, issuing two albums in ten months and touring behind both.
Blood Pressures brought the hiatus to an end in 2011.Blood Pressures is the fourth studio album by indie rock band The Kills. It is scheduled for release in April 2011.

The first single 'Satellite' was released on iTunes on 31st January 2011 and its video debuted on YouTube on 9th February. The song 'DNA' is currently available from their website as a free download if you sign up to the bands mailing list.

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Monahan – Criminals

Singer-songwriter Ryan Monahan conceived Monahan out of the ashes of two successful CT-based indie-rock outfits, Eschellon, and Shadowgraphs. And while previous groups focused on balls-to-the wall atmospherics, Monahan’s solo effort has chosen to forgo theatrics in favor of carefully thought out, studio-constructed soundscapes.

Monahan’s melancholy-tinged pop songs have garnered comparisons as wide as Roy Orbison, Andrew Bird, Beck, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, and Travis.
In 2008, Monahan packed up his successes and failures and set his sights for small-town music Mecca - Athens, GA - to begin working on his solo debut,Stop Saying I.

In Nov of 2008, Monahan’s cinematic folk-composition, “The Sound That Never Dies”, appeared on the season finale of Lifetime’s Army Wives, to be followed in 2009 by Eschellon’s post-Beatles groove “I Know You’re Tired” appearing in the feature film Crossing Over (Harrison Ford, Sean Penn, Ashley Judd). In 2010, "I Know You're Tired" would make an encore appearance on Fox Network's Lie To Me.

"Stop Saying I" finally released in 2011 and is a unique and multi-layered dark jazz, alt-pop gem. Monahan notes that although Damon Albarn, Paul Simon, Arcade Fire and '80s Britpop are some of his top influences for the album, each song is purposefully distinct for the purpose of storytelling—ultimately sharing a tale of personal growth.

KillMatriarch - Monotone

KillMatriarch is an electro-industrial band formed in early 2010 by Matriarch, Ontronik (former vocalist of The Apex Theory & drummer of System of a Down), and Drew K.

The band has quickly surged onto the L.A. music scene since the steady release of songs from their debut EP ::Order through Chaos.

KillMatriarch fans have positively compared the overall style and energy of the band to such inventive groups as Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Prodigy and Shiny Toy Guns.

Their music has received industry buzz as well as being featured on the A&R websiteDailyUnsigned.com. They have received front page features onPurevolume.com, Buzznet.com, AbsolutePunk.net, & VampireFreaks.com.

KillMatriarch is focused on taking their energetic live performance worldwide; their first show was to a packed house at L.A.’s famous Viper Room.

She Wants Revenge - Take The World

"She Wants Revenge" is an American musical duo, based in San Fernando Valley, California. Justin Warfield – vocals, guitar, keyboards and Adam Bravin (aka Adam 12) – bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, drum machine, percussion, programming, vocals.
Due to a broad array of musical influences, and a reluctance to stick to a single genre of music, She Wants Revenge's genre is often disputed.

Considered part of the post-punk revival movement of the 00s,the group have been compared to Joy Division or Interpol in the music press because both vocalists (Paul Banks and Justin Warfield) have similarities to the baritone vocal range of Ian Curtis. However, Justin Warfield has stated many times his band is more electronically based often referring to She Wants Revenge as "Dance Music."

Musically, their influences range from the dance of 1980s acts like New Order, Depeche Mode and The Psychedelic Furs to the alternative rock groups of the 1990s, such as Pulp, My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth to the darker rock bands of the New Wave and post-punk movements such as Bauhaus, Danse Society, and The Sisters of Mercy who helped create the aesthetics of the original gothic rock genre.

The group's debut album She Wants Revenge was released in early 2006, with three singles to follow ("These Things," a video for which features Shirley Manson from Garbage, "Out of Control," and "Tear You Apart" for which the video was directed by Joaquin Phoenix). The band has sold more than 300,000 records in the US.The band's second album, This Is Forever, was released on October 9, 2007.The band toured extensively through 2006 with synthpop band Depeche Mode and Placebo.

Their EP, Save Your Soul, was released to iTunes on May 13th, 2008. The EP contained four tracks: "Save Your Soul," "A Hundred Kisses," "Sugar," and "Sleep."
An EP titled Up and Down, was released via iTunes on September 22nd, 2009.

A new video titled "Take The World" was released February 7th 2011, prior to the release of their first single, "Must Be The One". The video was band member Adam Bravin's directorial debut. Filming for "Must Be The One" began on February 8th, and is due release in March. The tentative release date for their third album is slated for May 2011.

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Warpaint - Shadows

Warpaint is an American experimental art rock group from Los Angeles, formed in 2004.A Los Angeles quartet dealing in sparse, atmospheric art rock, Warpaint originally consisted of sisters Jenny Lee Lindberg and Shannyn Sossamon (on bass and drums, respectively), as well as Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman on vocal and guitar. Sossamon left due to conflicts with her acting schedule and was replaced by Stella Mozgawa.

With a dedicated lineup, the band began to experiment with murky spaciousness and stripped-down arrangements, and gained the attention of former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. In 2009, they self-released their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse (which was mixed by Frusciante). After a successful showing at CMJ, they signed with Rough Trade and set to work recording their full-length debut for the label.

On 6 December 2010, the BBC announced that Warpaint had been nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll and they were the cover stars of Beat magazine's Winter 2010 launch issue.

«The Fool» the full-length debut was released on October 25, 2010. Its their first release since signing to UK-based record label, Rough Trade. Review Aggregator site AnyDecentMusic? has currently correlated 30 reviews, resulting in an ADM Rating of 7.7 and a score of 77 on review aggregator site Metacritic, indicating the album has been critically well received.

«Shadows» is included in their album while «Elephants» comes from their previous EP.

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PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land

Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Growing up, her parents were both fans of American blues music. Their record collection exposed Harvey not only to the blues but also to Captain Beefheart. Both the blues and Beefheart would become major influences on Harvey’s own musical style.

Harvey is primarily a vocalist and guitarist, but is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and autoharp.
She began her professional career in the early 1990s by forming a band she named PJ Harvey.

She recorded her first two albums with this trio, and when they broke up she continued as a solo artist. Since 1995 she has recorded her albums with various musicians including John Parish, Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman
Musically, Harvey dislikes repeating herself, resulting in albums that can sound different from one to the next.

She has experimented with such diverse musical styles as rock, pop, electronica, and folk. She is also known for changing her appearance from album to album by altering her mode of dress or hairstyle. Each look is then incorporated into the album's artwork, music videos, and live performances.

Among the accolades she has received have been the 2001 Mercury Prize (for 2000's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea), seven BRIT Award nominations, five Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. Rolling Stone named her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and placed two of her albums (Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love) on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

She was also rated the number one female rock artist by Q magazine in a 2002 reader poll and was awarded Outstanding Contribution To Music at the 2011 NME Awards.

Let England Shake is the eighth studio album by PJ Harvey. It was released on 14 February 2011 in the UK. The album was written over a period of two-and-a-half years, and recorded in a five-week period at a church in Dorset in April and May 2010. The album entered the UK album charts at #8, her second release to debut within the top ten in the United Kingdom, and the first since Rid of Me in 1993. The album also entered at #32 on the Billboard 200 with sales of around 18,000, making it her second highest-charting album in the US after Uh Huh Her peaked at #29 in 2004.

The album was released to widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 37 reviews, which indicates "Universal Acclaim".NME stated, "Francis Ford Coppola can lay claim to the war movie. Ernest Hemingway the war novel. Polly Jean Harvey, a 41-year-old from Dorset, has claimed the war album", and gave the record a very rare 10/10 rating. Spin rated 9/10 , praised its "bloody and forceful" sound, while Q praised its "remarkable lyrics" and "ethereal music" and gave it top marks. Mojo called it an "uncannily timely piece of work", with the artist at "her most powerful".

"The Glorious Land" is the second single from her eighth studio album, Let England Shake. Dealing with the United Kingdom's involvement in the Afghan War, its accompanying music video, directed by Seamus Murphy, is the fourth part of a twelve music-film project documenting Let England Shake.

The Raveonettes - War in Heaven

The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner (born 1973) on guitar, instruments, and vocals, and Sharin Foo (born 12 December 1979) on bass, guitar and vocals. Combining the noisy swells of the Jesus and Mary Chain with melodic elements of '50s rock & roll, the Raveonettes formed in Copenhagen during the early 2000s.

Their songs juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of '50s and '60s rock with intense electric instrumentation, driving beats, and often dark lyrical content (e.g., crime, drugs, murder, suicide, love, lust, and betrayal), similar to another of the band's influences, The Velvet Underground.

Their first EP,released in 2002, was a fuzzy, dark, cinematic set of songs entitled "Whip It On", which fused classic garage rumblings with frenzied electronic bits
"The Chain Gang of Love" appeared in September 2003. The first single from the album, "That Great Love Sound," became a minor hit, due in part to a creepy video featuring Foo and Wagner dreaming up ways to kill each other.

Sessions for their next album began in late 2004, and Wagner cast aside all songwriting and recording rules (as well as guitar distortion) in favor of classic songcraft and lots of rich, lush reverb. The resulting album, 2005's "Pretty in Black", featured guest spots from Suicide's Martin Rev, Ronnie Spector, and the Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker.

In early 2008, the band returned to a minimalist sound with Lust Lust Lust, followed one year later by "In and Out of Control".

The band's fifth studio album, "Raven in the Grave", is set for release in April of 2011. "War in Heaven" comes from this album. With widescreen static, breathy vocals and dangerous guitars, the Danes have spat out the bubblegum pop and are tearing into horizon-filling rock.

Ex Libras - Teenage Eyes

Ex Libras are Amit Sharma, Kieran Hagi, and Ross Kenning who bonded over "alternative music with groove" whilst working at Hounslow Borough Library

Utilising piano, guitar and drums, they create a unique blend of post-rock, noise and rhythm in a sophisticated, deep, dark, emotional way.

The band released a debut album back in late 2009 called Suite.
A number of selected tracks were reworked for the subsequent Cuts EP.

‘Teenage Eyes’ comes from that EP and was released in February 2011. A haunting piano sets the scene, with guitar , bass and minimalistic drums only adding to the sinister, cinematic feel.

The vocal sits perfectly, capturing the scene one can almost imagine a strange tale of beautiful tragedy unfolding before you. Ruth Kelly from Ariel Up provides the cello, cutting in almost unnoticed as it slowly builds.

To commemorate this release, Ex Libras have teamed up with KIFilms' very own Beau Fowler, who has produced and directed a visually stunning music video that compliments the bands eerily cinematic sound perfectly.
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Arctic Monkeys - Brick by Brick

Arctic Monkeys are heralded as one of the first acts to come to the public attention via the Internet (fan-based sites rather than from the band), with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed.

Formed in 2002, they became one of the U.K.'s biggest bands of the new millennium. Their music style is a hybrid of swaggering indie rock and danceable neo-punk.

The band currently consists of Alex Turner on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Cook on guitar, Matt Helders on drums and backing vocals, and Nick O'Malley on bass guitar and backing vocals, a position formerly held by Andy Nicholson.

Arctic Monkeys achieved chart success with their first single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart.

Their first album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, released on 23 January 2006, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album in British music history. It received critical acclaim, winning both the 2006 Mercury Prize and the 2007 BRIT Awards for Best British Album.

The band's second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, was released on 23 April 2007, sold over 225,000 copies in its debut week, and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. The group also picked up the award for Best British Album and Best British Group at the BRIT Awards in 2008. Overall, the band has won five BRIT Awards, including "Best British Breakthrough Act" in 2006, "Best British Album" in 2007 for Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, and "Best British Group" in 2008.

At the NME Awards in 2006, they made history by becoming the first band to win both "Best New Band" and "Best British Band" in the same night. The band were also nominated for two Grammy awards in 2007. In total ,Arctic Monkeys have received 24 awards from 37 nominations.

Alex Turner briefly turned his attention to a side project, the Last Shadow Puppets, before the release of the their third studio album Humbug in 2009. This album also received major critical acclaim, with many praising the band's newfound maturity.

Brick by Brick is their new single released in 4th March of 2011 from their forthcoming album later this year

The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex

The Vaccines are a London-based indie rock band that formed in 2010. Members of the band are Justin Young (vocals, who previously worked under the name Jay Jay Pistolet, playing indie folk), Árni Hjörvar (bass), Freddie Cowan (guitar, younger brother of Tom from The Horrors) and Pete Robertson (drums).

They describe their influences as "'50s rock 'n' roll, '60s garage and girl groups, '70s punk, '80s American hardcore, C86 and good pop music".

The band released their debut single "Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)" on 29 November 2010 in the UK where it reached number 157 in the UK Singles Chart. Only one minute and 24 seconds long, it was named "Track of the Day" by Q magazine.

On 5 January 2011, the band were placed third in the BBC's Sound of 2011 best new name poll. The Vaccines were also nominated for an MTV Award for "Best New Band of 2011".

Having been signed to Columbia Records, the band released their second single "Post Break-Up Sex" on 24 January 2011 where it debuted at number 32 in the UK.

The song's melody borrows heavily from The Ramones 1981 hit, The KKK Took My Baby Away.

The band are due to release their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? on 14 March 2011 through Columbia Records and will be preceeded by the official release of single "If You Wanna" on 14 March.

Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes

Cat's Eyes are a duo formed by Rachel Zeffira, a Canadian opera soprano and classical multi-instrumentalist based in london, and Faris Badwan, the singer from British psychedelic-rockers the Horrors.

In the collision of their two very separate worlds, something magical has come into being.

Cat's Eyes first live appearance took place in December 2010, amid some secrecy, at St Peter's in the vatican, where they performed a reworked version of their song 'i knew it was over' during an afternoon mass attended by several high-ranking cardinals.

Cat's Eyes eponymous debut album is a romantic pop masterpiece fit to dine at the same table as mid-'60s productions by phil spector, joe meek or shadow morton, but with a fiercely modern, experimental premise, which constantly leaves you wondering just what you're listening to, and how on earth it was created.

Ahead of the album, the debut release from Cat's Eyes is the 'Broken Glass EP' which will be realesed on 27th of March 2011 and includes the self-titled single.




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White Lies - Bigger Than Us

White Lies are an English alternative rock band, formed in October 2007. The band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums).

Γheir debut album To Lose My Life... was released in January 2009, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

Their second album Ritual was recorded in 2010, and was released on 17 January 2011.

White Lies' musical style has been described as dark yet uplifting by the media, drawing comparisons to Joy Division, Editors and Interpol as well as Arcade Fire,The Killers, Echo & the Bunnymen,Tears for Fears and The Teardrop Explodes.

McVeigh's singing voice has been compared to that of Ian Curtis and Julian Cope.

When asked about the comparisons in an interview, McVeigh stated that "We weren't alive during that period of music...we've never really been that into Joy Division, especially not the Editors...or even Interpol really", adding "I don't think our music sounds a whole lot like those comparisons, I think we're a lot more euphoric and uplifting".

In 2009 they won the MOJO Breakthrough Award and Best New Band award by Q Magazine.

"Bigger Than Us" was released as the lead single on 3 January 2011 in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number 42.

The video of the song is a homage to Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T.

The video recreates elements of E.T.'s apparent death whilst he is quarantined alongside Elliott. The character of E.T. is played by a large "Bigger Than Us" candy bar which contains a young girl...

There are other intertextual references to the film featured in the video, the basketballs circling the band at 2:56, the bright red light within the bass drum at 3:08 and the images of the woods where the original film sees E.T. return home.

Erland And The Carnival - Map of an Englishman

Erland And The Carnival are a folk-rock group, formed by multi-instrumentalist Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad And The Queen) David Nock (The Orb, The Cult, The Fireman) and Orcadian singer Erland Cooper.

They mix traditional folk music with Americana, garage and psychedelia.
They are best known for their contemporary arrangements of traditional Scottish and English folk songs, including "Tramps and Hawkers", "Was You Ever See" and "Love Is a Killing Thing", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams.