Guardian Music — Never mind the grammar, here's a South African artist making music that is genuinely striking and – just possibly – uniqueHometown: Cape Town, South Africa.The lineup: Yannick Iluga (vocals, instruments, production).The background: As soo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Dev Hynes w/ CANT @ Mercury Lounge in 2011 (more) Blood Orange, aka the R&B-leaning solo project of Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion (ex-Test Icicles), was in Australia for a couple shows earlier this month, possibly losing some of his... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Testing musicians’ memories after a lifetime of abuse. This Week: Blood Orange's Dev Hynes You performed your debut Lightspeed Champion single ‘Galaxy Of The Lost’ dressed as Darth Vader at the NME Awards 2008. What colour lights... more info

Altsounds — CANT announced the new single yesterday called 'Believe' and out on September 26th. His debut album comes on WARP on September 12th called Dreams Comes True and we've just announced his live band which includes Blood Orange and Lightspeed Champion... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Chancing hipster, or inspired genre-dabbler? That's the question people have been asking about Dev Hynes ever since he first appeared as part of Test Icicles, and one you suspect folk will still be posing in years to come. After the pastoral strains ... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)To his admirers, Dev Hynes – previously one-third of electro-punks Test Icicles and still a country crooner called Lightspeed Champion – is a restless talent; to his critics, he's a well-connected pastiche artist. But his latest p... more info

Guardian Music — Lightspeed Champion was 'dorky' but new album Coastal Grooves is written from a female persepectiveDevonté Hynes is trying to tell a story but his words are muffled and he's struggling not to laugh. He's trying to explain how he ended up drunkenly si... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)Once Shoreditch's answer to Zelig, popping up in the background of every micro-trend, Dev Hynes has relocated to the States. His music has changed, too, the delicate folk of Lightspeed Champion shed in favour of the sound of the 80's British ... more info

Pop Justice — RCA have got some good things going on at the moment but letting Diana Vickers go has to rank as one of the most stupid decisions of the modern pop era. We all know the story so far*, but while most acts - especially most eX-Factor acts - are better... more info

Nialler9 — Lightspeed Champion frontman Dev Hynes went and packed himself off to Noo Yawk a couple of years ago where he’s probably been hanging out with loads of new hipster friends in Williamsburg resulting in collabs like this. The result of his own mu... more info