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Diplo Vs. Sunday Girl Four FloorsSunday Girl is a budding 21-year-old British singer from the suburbs of London. Her first single, Four Floors is an electropop love song. Enter Diplo, he comes in, works his magic, adds some much needed bass and tweaks here and there and the remix is complete. I don’t know how he does it, but Diplo [...]
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Low Sea : AlexThe unsigned duo known as Low Sea (currently based in Ireland) just released their album Las Olas in Feb of 2010 and there is definitely something to be said about their unique indie-psychedelic sound. They are relatively new on the scene but evidently have had no problem finding their own niche and their own distinct [...]
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Fol Chen : Winter, That’s AllFol Chen is an eclectic pop-art group from the Highland Park area of Los Angeles, other than that, not much is known. Their identities are never revealed, they seem to all have nicknames and they have a very interesting narrative as a back story. What is known is that they released their first album, “Part [...]
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John Legend : Everybody Knows (RAC Remix)There aren’t many artists out there that have had a career as colorful as that of John Legend. The six times grammy winning R&B-soul phenom has definitely come a long way since his first appearance in the music world when he was hired to play piano for Lauren Hill’s “Everything Is Everything” on her album [...]
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The Radio Dept. : Heaven’s On FireThe Swedish indie-pop band that got their name from a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called “Radioavdelningen” (The Radio Dept.) has until recently been somewhat under the radar. The band was formed back in 1995 but since then has undergone quite a bit of transformation and at times even haitus with band members coming and going. Originally founded by [...]
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Devon Aoki by Sean & Seng for Pop S/S 2010Devon Aoki in ‘Allen Jones: Wearble Art‘ photographed by Sean & Seng, and styled by Tamara Rothstein for Pop magazine Spring/Summer 2010
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Sleigh Bells : Ring RingSleigh Bells are a hot new duo out of Brooklyn, NY. The product of Derek Miller, a 28-year-old “hardcore” musician(guitarist/songwriter) and Alexis Krauss, a 24-year-old schoolteacher with a pop singing background is definitely one to look out for in the years to come. The track “Sing Sing” off their EP 2HELLWU (release in 2009), not [...]
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The Generationals : When They Fight, They FightIt’s no wonder why when I first heard ‘When They Fight, They Fight’ by the Generationals I was perplexed as to what “generation” they were from. I was amazed to find that this duo made up of guitarists/songwriters, Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer was in fact not from the 50’s or the 60’s as I [...]
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Song of the Day : [11/28]Prince and the Revolution : Darling Nikki Prince, often known for his eroticism in music, came out with the highly sensual hit Darling Nikki whose lyrics are supposedly the reason Parental Advisory stickers on album covers were founded. The song is performed by Prince and the Revolution during a particularly emotionally climactic part in the epic [...]
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Pop Magazine Cover CollectionFor the relaunching of the new and fresh Pop Magazine under their new editor Dasha Zhukova – We reviewed on Paper Mode the (almost) full cover collection of the magazine since it started in 2000. We can’t wait to get our hands on the new issue, with the beautiful cover of Tavi and the artwork [...]