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RetroTalk: New Young Pony Club’s Andy Spence Talks New Album, New Future

April 20th, 2010 No Comments

It’s been three years since New Young Pony Club broke onto the fledgling indie dance punk scene with Fantastic Playroom, the debut that yielded two hit singles, “Ice Cream” and “The Bomb,” as well a nomination for the prestigious UK Mercury Prize. But Andy Spence, guitarist and producer for NYPC who recently talked with The […]

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New Young Pony Club are a Bunch of Optimists

April 13th, 2010 1 Comment

A lot has changed since since New Young Pony Club’s debut album, Fantastic Playroom, was released on Australia’s Modular Records back in 2007. With New Rave exploding around bands like CSS and Klaxons, NYPC got swept up in the hype of a genre so ill-defined that three years later many people still don’t know what […]

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Twin Tigers “Gray Waves¨ is a Rendezvous In The Park

March 15th, 2010 No Comments

Photo Courtesy of Twin Tigers When a friend of mine told me about the band Twin Tigers and recommended I check them out, I was reminded of the awkwardness surrounding the average blind date. I´d never heard of the Athens, Georgia band and was nervous that after I listened to them my friend would ask […]

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FEISTY LITTLE BROWN GIRL – MPHO

July 20th, 2009 No Comments

Last month, my good friend Charlie shared a link on my Facebook wall. That link was to the music video for, “Box ‘n Locks”, by singer- songwriter, MPHO (pron. mm-poh). By the time the clip was over, I was left mesmerized and had become an instant fan. MPHO is a London based artist who has […]

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