They may hail from Sydney, but this elusive band relocated to London and have been holed away in the Welsh mountains with Bat for Lashes producer David Kosten to record their highly anticipated, upcoming album, to be released in early 2010.

Over the past few weeks, Phoenix’s friends have teamed up with them to remix a couple of their tracks from their album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

We have been spinning Relation non-stop the past few months and it never fails to invite inquisition from the crowd whenever it gets played.

Vampire Weekend infected the music world virally with an image of a girl staring blankly into the camera, linking to a website ithinkyouarecontra.com which then led to an enlarged image of the girl.

“Poison Lips” is the second single and a stormer of a track that perfectly encapsulates a new phase for Vitalic.

It is from their lastest LP Flashmob.

Follow Ladyhawke’s journey as a beautiful, dark, sorceress with magical powers.

Check out the video for “Magic”, directed by the talented Shelly Love.

Mayer Hawthorne has such a smooth, soulful voice, and it is no surprise given that he counts Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Mike Terry, and Barry White among his influences.

We were utterly disappointed when Florence + The Machine did not win the Mercury, losing out to Speech Debelle instead.

After all, her album was such a howler and more than deserving. We are hoping sales manage to make up for her disappointment!

Victoria Bergsman took a different path this time round with her new album East Of Eden, under the name Taken By Trees, without forgetting the essence of her recordings.

Dayve Hawk.

What a name, and he doesn’t use it at all, being more comfortable hiding behind the guise of various monikers such as Memory Cassette, Weird Tapes and now Memory Tapes for a full length album.