Jack White - 'Machine Gun Silhouette'
Jack White has always channeled the spirit of the blues. And while the White Stripes featured a heavy blues influence, it never really felt like White reached his true potential as a bluesman in that band. Sure, they did excellent covers of Son House's "Death Letter Blues" and Blind Willie McTell's "Your Southern Can Is Mine" on De Stijl (the album was also...
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Doc Holliday Takes The Shotgun - "Boot Hill"
Doc Holliday Takes The Shotgun are a new garage rock band that are making waves in their native Australia - they sit at number one on the Triple J Unearthed Independent Chart at the time of writing - and are just on the verge of releasing their debut Boot Hill EP.
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In 2011, trans-atlantic quartet Yuck turned heads with a magnetic self-titled debut and a full schedule of live dates, including yesterday's first leg of Laneway 2012. A couple of months ago, MusicHype briefly caught up with singer/guitarist Daniel Blumberg to reflect on the year that had been
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It’s only January and the “debate” around streaming music services is quite heated. Currently, I am enjoying some old school Hall and Oates. A few days ago I was streaming this exact song and was quite pleased, happy, and shared it across multiple networks and generated re-discovery of an artist that most only hear on the radio.
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The Men - 'Bataille'
Cut Off Your Hands - 'You Should Do Better'
We've been working hard on a new and improved blog that makes full use of MusicHype's Appreciation Engine and track record features. You've probably noticed the new design and layout, but here's a few other things we hope you'll like:
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Check out the new track and video from indie electronic darling Santigold. This upbeat track number takes influence from Buraka Som Sistema's '(We Stay) Up All Night'.A match made in heaven.Watch the video here and download 'Big Mouth' for free at santigold.com
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Nicolas Jaar - 'Don't Break My Love'
Grimes - 'Genesis'
Braids - 'Peach Wedding'
Check out new and recently released music that has been rockin' MusicHype's collective socks off. Here's our top 5 tracks this week
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Influential post-hardcore band At The Drive-In have announced that they will reunite to play some shows in 2012. Yesterday their official website was updated with the following message: "¡ATTENTION! To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence THIS STATION IS .... NOW ....OPERATIONAL."The band have also created an official twitter account, which currently displays the same message.
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New Zealand Electronica producer Psyrok is releasing a brand new EP entitled Calculus on January 16th 2012. Featuring regular collaborator Li'l Sister Jen, the EP features 5 tracks and in keeping with their previous work, should be very very good indeed. In the meantime, grab a free download of opening track "Phoney" below.
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