It’s so refreshing to listen to a love song that’s just genuinely happy. Living in times when dark pop rules, and everything seems at least tinted with melancholia, Betty Who crashes onto the scene with massive sing-a-long choruses that defy the moody and pining. Having raved about the Sydney songstress here …
Smothering themselves in a musical aesthetic somewhere between old-world spiritualism and the sci-fi gloss of a not-so-distant future, Austin four-piece Feathers are the brainchild of New York transplant Anastasia Dimou. Forging a path somewhere between the Internet-enabled, alt-electro of Grimes and the grittier, more mechanised side of synth-pop, Feathers’ forthcoming …
As the Great British summer begins to gradually – make that very gradually – creep into view and festival season begins to raise its hazy, hungover head, we here at PlanetNotion have found ourselves longing for the sort of monumental musical moments that have you shouting along into the wee …
Founded in 2003, the Japanese brand UNIQLO has provided millions around the globe with top-notch clothing articles for both men and women. The upcoming Spring/Summer ’13 collection features a new line of t-shirts, designed in collaboration with MTV and inspired by the likes of David Bowie, Madonna, AC/DC, Kiss, Sex …
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 …
For the forthcoming third entry in their Bangers & Ash series – which explores the dichotomous nature of musicians – New York-based electronic label Styles Upon Styles asked the infinitely versatile Zach Cooper to contribute a selection of tracks that represent the flip sides of his musical imagination. Representing the …
We caught up with our current BOTW – London production duo The Flight – for a chat about the grisly folk ballad that forms the thematic core of their debut Hangman EP, and writing for some of the biggest names in the music business.
PlanetNotion: How did the two …
With an experimental approach and an imitable sound, Jamie Lidell has always been a leftfield musician. After fifteen years in the biz, and with a new album about to drop, is this the time he makes it big? Not likely, says our Online Ed Seb Law, but that’s exactly the …
On first inspection, everything about Anxiety – the sophomore full-length from New York’s Arthur Ashin, aka Autre Ne Veut – feels rife with the uneasiness and tension of its titular emotion. Born out of a year of psychoanalysis and with artwork that originally featured Edvard Munch’s The Scream – what …
Notion’s online editor Seb Law recently caught up with the rather dazzling MC Gaff E for a chat about her globetrotting lifestyle, rich visual style and the influences that make her so, well, colourful…
Planet Notion: Your live shows are very visual. When you’re writing music, do you think about …
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