Drowned in Sound have begun a series profiling their pick of the best new bands of 2009. For my money its a better roundup than the similar BBC's Sound of 2009, which is largely packed with synthy garbage or underwhelming "ghetto" princesses.
However both lists do feature Brooklyn's Passion Pit, who, i admit, have a synthy side too, but come over like a glammy-disco Avalanches meets Hot Chip with the detached coolness (and take-off appeal) of MGMT. Tunes from their UK debut EP, Chunk Of Change, are on myspace, with a video below...
Melbourne band Temper Trap join Empire of the Sun on the BBC list which i thought was an interesting couple of Antipodean choices. And the latter's record has been inching its way back up our local charts and popping up on UK radio too. I don't have a huge amount of time for Temper Trap's U2-lite indie-rock, but there's no doubt also they have the sound of "now"... if by now you mean the last 18 months rather than the next. Judge for yourself from the video for "Sweet Disposition" below:
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Thursday, 22 January 2009
Friday, 2 May 2008
The BBC Sound Index
Seems the BBC are trying their hand at creating a new kind of music chart, one which can track downloads, streams and buzz on an artist rather than measure units sold or shipped.
Its called the Sound Index and they're describing it thus:
"Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public."
You can filter the index for demographics and stuff, although as this is a beta test phase its a little limiting (only uk and us? pft.)
The main index is incredibly mainstream and foul so here's my filter for 27-39 year old males interested in indie and electronic music in the USA: "The Yankee Loner-Manchild Nerdo Indie-dex"
Its called the Sound Index and they're describing it thus:
"Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public."
You can filter the index for demographics and stuff, although as this is a beta test phase its a little limiting (only uk and us? pft.)
The main index is incredibly mainstream and foul so here's my filter for 27-39 year old males interested in indie and electronic music in the USA: "The Yankee Loner-Manchild Nerdo Indie-dex"
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