It's the Supersound

We first championed Your Twenties back in January in our hot tips for 2009 feature and now six months on we're thrilled to be bringing their sophomore single into the world on Neon Gold. Having cut his teeth in the London indie scene as the bassist and keyboardist in Metronomy, frontman Gabriel Stebbing has recently left to focus on the Twenties full time, and the results have been nothing short of brilliant. Debut single "Caught Wheel" dropped last fall to rapturous praise and quickly flew off the shelves and "Billionaires" - their next offering and first on Neon Gold - looks primed to do the same. Produced by the legendary Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths), "Billionaires" soars on the wings of sunny ooh-ooh-oohs and big, driving guitars and sounds like the perfect soundtrack to a classic American summer. Your Twenties have discovered the formula for the feelgood anthem of the year and this is it.

MP3: "Billionaires" - Your Twenties

This perfect slice of breezy indie pop will be coming at you on 7" vinyl July 27th and is available for preorder now from the Neon Gold Shop and London's Puregroove Records. Limited to 500 copies and featuring some of the best artwork we've had yet done by the band themselves, this is a hot ticket and should look mighty fine on the mantle where you no doubt proudly display all your other Neon Gold releases. We're pretty sure this is the perfect summer single and we hope you'll agree.

The world lost the greatest entertainer of all time while we were off at Glasto, and it's only just beginning to settle in now that we've returned to the real world. Glasto had it's fair share of ill advised MJ tributes, so it's nice to see a worthwhile celebration of the King of Pop back in London this week. Head down to Punk on Thursday for Wonky Pop's celebration of the man and his accomplishments, featuring a headlining DJ set from Ellie Goulding remix hero Jakwob. Free entry for anyone dressed as the Gloved One himself, all the info you need is here.

MP3: "Beat It" (Jakwob and Jestar's WakoWob) - Michael Jackson [exclusive]

I always wanted to name my first kid Otto. But if the wifey doesn't share my feelings for the name of my great grandfather, then this ace-looking instrument/beat-slicer/dicer will have to do.

OTTO ~ demo.01 from Luca De Rosso on Vimeo.

Alright, two artists to start off the week. First off is We Plants Are Happy Plants with Apollo from his forthcoming album Twilight of the Dawn. He's a one man show out of Budapest. The track is interesting to say the least, it's quite elegant in a melodic narrative fashion. It starts off with dialogue from The Man from Earth which really sets the tone for the rest of the song; philosophically high? I basically listened to this track for a whole day last week, had a lot of images and thoughts that went through my head. Binary described this track the best. I saw lots of images of space though, like a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I need more music like this.


We Plants Are Happy Plants - Apollo
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Second is Discovery, which includes the keyboardist from Vampire Weekend Rostam Batmanglij and the lead singer of Ra Ra Riot Wes Miles. I included the track So Insane from their debut album LP which will be released early July. I always liked Ra Ra Riot, this actually mixes the two pretty well.


Discovery - So Insane
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Crystal Fighters first came to my attention a year or two ago with the weird and wonderful 'I Love London' - hyper-active folktronica enocorporating everything from cowbells, fizzing synths and crazy vocal calls. It'll be receiving a re-release on Kitsune some time soon.

Art courtesy of yamenhazem

Seems like everyone under the sun has paid their respects, and told their stories about the man. And whether you will remember him as a music revolutionary, a king, or a troubled shell of a man... one thing is for certain, he will be remembered by all.

Celebrity always seems to dominate our news outlets at times like this... and we shouldn't forget some of the more pressing events in the world (Iran, dishonest governors, the plus 8, etc)... but Michael deserves a little corner of our thoughts if nothing more than because you've ever loved one of his songs.

Here are a few select tributes recently done by those inspired by the King of Pop.


Don Diablo - Song For MJ (Remember the Time) | download [320 kbs]


Discovery - I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover) | download [192 kbs] /bitchen highly recommended


Michael Jackson vs Bag Raiders - You Are Not Alone (VIKING & CJ Milli Shootings Stars Tribute) | download [320 kbs]