[Indie - Rock] Warships - Heater

Warships are an indie pop/rock band from Los Angeles. The quintet's mix of laid back pop grooves and earnest, playful song-craft is a contrast to many of their contemporaries. Soon after forming, they attracted the attention of producer Raymond Richards, and enlisted the help of mixing engineer Darrell Throp, to create their debut EP Shadows. "Heater" is full of undeniable hooks and a haunting chorus dressed in dreamy atmospherics.

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[Indie - Rock] Phoenix - Entertainment

Even though I'm still struggling to understand the artwork from the legendary french rockers I honestly couldn't care as long as they're still making music. So you may have heard, there's a new album on the way in April called Bankrupt and "Entertainment" is the lead single being premiered last night on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show. It starts off with some asian infused synths but soon enough Thomas Mars vocals reminds us what we've been missing for 4 years.

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[Hip - Hop] Hoodie Allen - Fame Is For Assholes (Ft. Chiddy)

It's Hoodie Allen baby! The only I reason I still listen to hip - hop is because of this man and I'm glad he's back. So he's got a new mixtape coming out in a couple of days but he's given us a preview with his release of "Cake Boy" and "Fame Is For Assholes", the latter staying true to the original Hoodie style. Featuring none other than Chiddy (from Chiddy Bang) this track delivers in every aspect - Clever lyricism, flowing verses and just a killer chorus.

Hoodie Allen - Fame Is For Assholes (Ft. Chiddy)

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[Synth - Pop] Chvrches - Recover

Our good Scottish friend Chvrches are back with their brand new single "Recover" following up the massive success of "The Mother We Share". It was always going to be a rather difficult ask to come up with something even remotely as good or better as the previous single but my word have they come close. Lauren's voice is heavenly, almost angelic and is just so well suited to those sparkly, heavy synths in this particular piece.

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[Indie - Pop] Banglade$h - Lean

New Zealand indie pop! Never heard of these guys before but I'm sure it won't be long till they're on the tip of everyone's tongue. "Lean" is their second single as far as I can see and it's your typical upbeat, jangly guitar driven pop piece - something very similar to New Navy. Probably one of the few New Zealand bands that have actually delved into this genre and hopefully we'll see more to come from our good neighbours.

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[Indie - Rock] Atlas Genius - If So

So you may or may not have heard the following track, it all depends on one thing - have you ever played FIFA 13? If not this is entirely new material from the Aussie indie rockers, if you have, you'll find that this was released on the soundtrack of the game. Either way it forms part of Atlas Genius's upcoming debut album When It Was Now featuring 7 brand "new" tracks. What do you guys think? It's pretty good honest rock and has a great pop sensibility.

Atlas Genius - If So

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