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Interview: Anushka

Anushka is a relatively new, innovative house duo from Brighton. They’ve just recently dropped their debut EP Yes Guess, garnering interest from all over the place, including Planet Notion. We had the rare privilege of interviewing these creative artists about their unique sound, influences, musical process, and aspirations for

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Interview: Parquet Courts

With their re-released debut album, Light Up Gold, hitting the UK this week, we caught up with Austin Brown of New York post-punk quartet Parquet Courts for a quickfire chat about life on the road, their recent visits to the UK and the best vegetarian restaurant to head to

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News: Great Escape Lineup Confirmed

With just under a month until kickoff, Brighton’s Great Escape festival is really shaping up. Already featuring a grand total of over 350 performing acts, representatives of the festival just announced an additional one hundred artists joining the program, including Melody’s Echo Chamber, Mikill Pane, Natty, Nina

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Video Premiere: DrDr – ‘Ready for the World’

Last month on PlanetNotion, we introduced you to a hotly-tipped Brighton trio by the name of DrDr, and boy, were we right to do so. Over the course of the last four weeks, the three-piece’s garage-tinged, 2-step gem ‘Addicted‘ – taken from their recently released No Compromise

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Introducing: DrDr

2012 was, without doubt, a big year for Brighton’s DrDr. Across the last 12 months, the trio – comprised of producers Chris Campbell and Joe Woods, and vocalist Donna Curson – remixed some of the biggest names around in the form of Major Lazer, The xx and Kissy …

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Introducing: Fiction

It doesn’t feel quite right introducing you to a band like Fiction on a freezing British morning; the London quintet’s tropicalia and afrobeat-inspired indie pop takes the mind on a musical tour of more equatorial environs. With a debut album The Big Other out via the ever-reliable Moshi Moshi on …

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Guest Playlist: Blood Red Shoes

Ahead of their new EP Water dropping next week, we got Brighton garage rock duo Blood Red Shoes to compile a playlist of the tunes that sustained them – and got them riled up – while recording Water in Texas last year.

It’s an unsurprisingly stormy affair; one that veers …

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Interview: Lulu James

Lulu James has recently been blowing up the London sphere.  Hailing from North-East England, her music marries soul and tinges of dubstep to create a style entirely unique yet influenced by (and compared to) greats like Mary J Blige and Amy Winehouse.  She’ll be playing an acoustic show in London

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Video Premiere: Milk & Biscuits – ‘White Noise’

Today, we’re delighted to bring you the premiere of the video for ‘White Noise‘ – the new single from Brighton “drone pop” collective Milk & Biscuits, out via Big Salad Records on December 3.

The clip is a hazy, nostalgic affair, perfectly evoking those lazy days spent …

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Interview: Bat for Lashes

With her third album, The Haunted Man, out this week, Natasha Khan (better known to the Mercury Prize nominations committee as Bat For Lashes), is back with one of the year’s most anticipated new releases. In doing so, she is also giving that nasty artistic bacteria, writer’s block,

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