If you’ve ever wanted to go on tour with your favorite band, here’s your chance — well, if your favorite band just happens to be MNDR, that is. The Beyond The DJ: Most Innovative Solo Performer winner recently came out with a new music video for the jam “C.L.U.B,” and it puts you right in the action.
If you thought the Fan Army game was exclusively reserved for boy bands and pop stars, you better rethink that think rapidly. Banjo-toting acoustic folk rockers can boast the screaming throngs as well, as evidenced by the existence of Team Mumford & Sons, a group hopefully devoted to scoring the prize for Fan Army FTW.
It’s pretty exciting when your friend posts a brand-new album of Facebook snaps, bursting with glossy images of your very own mug, right? We’re guessing you get a little tag-happy, no? Well, take the words “Facebook album” and replace them with “music video” and include the ability to tag. Are your ventricles freaking out all over the place yet? Yup, we thought so.
Claire Boucher is a pixie-like musician who falls somewhere between Enya and Mariah Carey — fully chilled-out and chillout-able, but with a poppy, vocal-twisting edge. She’s also an artist who most often performs all on her lonesome, looping her voice into echoing patterns and backing it all with sounds coaxed from a sea of boards and wires. While executing her solo stage show, she goes by the name of Grimes — a persona that has garnered her an O Music Awards nomination for Beyond The DJ: Most Innovative Solo Performer. Find out more about the girl behind Grimes after the jump.
In what could quite possibly be the slowest musical burn in history, YouTube phenomenon iamamiwhoami is out with yet another track/video from her upcoming album Kin, due out June 11. The song is titled “Rascal,” and features singer Jonna Lee frolicking in the desert sand.