Guardian Music — Like the musical progeny of Enya and Eno, Elena Tonra merges haunting melodies with moody atmosphericsHometown: London.The lineup: Elena Tonra (vocals), Igor Haefeli (guitar).The background: Daughter are Elena Tonra and her musical and life partner I... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Florence + The Machine - 'Shake It Out' Florence’s thought police are allowing us to call ‘Shake It Out’ a single. We had to call the first single from ‘Ceremonials’, the lugubrious ‘What The Water Gave Me’, a ‘teaser’ track, despit... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — NME's Rebecca Robinson reviews this week's singles Joe Goddard ft Valentina - 'Gabriel' Joe Goddard. He is in Hot Chip, apparently, but so what? It doesn’t excuse this deathly shallow chillwave for robots with no sense of humour. While Valentina m... more info

Pop Justice — » To be fair, this photograph of a marker pen-aided proclamation of Pixie Lott's Godliness could be incomplete. (OK!) (http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/view/39668/Pixie-Lott-created-man-apparently-in-the-beginning-/) An "-awful" could have been cr... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — It's a blessed relief to hear some new Florence after 'You Got The Love' attained the kind of blanket ubiquity that had us itching to hear something, anything, from her Flojesty other than the Candi Staton cover. But what's surprising is how bloody g... more info

XLR8R — Last week during a quick trip to Toronto for the city's 17th annual NXNE Festival, we managed to wrangle a few of our favorite artists to get their take on the city and chat about what they've been busy with musically. Here we catch a few m... more info

DrownedInSound — With her forthcoming album only a couple of weeks away, DiS asked Emmy The Great what her and her band were listening to and she made us this mixtape, playable on Spotify, as well as via the videos below. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.... more info

Guardian Music — Even the unbeatable Desert Island Discs format can struggle when the guest is as dull as Debbie HarryThe First Time With... (6 Music) | iPlayerPrivate Passions (Radio 3) | iPlayerThe Sub 2-Hour Marathon: Sport's Holy Grail (Radio 4) | iPlayerDesert ... more info

Guardian Music — (Asthmatic Kitty)What Joanna Newsom has done for harp music, Julianna Barwick is doing for the medieval craze of vocal polyphony – with a little help from a bit of gear called a loop station. The Lousiana-born singer's second album is serenely assu... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Cody B said... Simple Sunday:Grant Green - Idle Moments http://codyb3.blogspot.com Levin said... Enya - The Best Of Enya On Piano (2007) Celebration - The Best Of Reggae [2CD]... [Visit the blog for full posts, feed is temporarily restricted ... more info