The second Swedish duo to grace the blog today, Icona Pop are an exciting pop group from Stockholm that you probably already know and don’t realise. They’ve been sampled by Chiddy Bang and toured with Marina & The Diamonds, and they’re making some incredibly catchy music. Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo are specialists in catchy
Swedish indie pop duo Niki & The Dove have made their whole album available to stream a week before public release. Fronted by Malin Dahlstrom on vocals, Niki & The Dove have been nominated as one of the ones to watch in 2012 by the BBC’s Sound Of 2012 (along with Flux Pavilion) and are
Brooklyn based Dev Hynes, better known as Lightspeed Champion or Blood Orange, has been one of my favourite synth-pop artists for some time now. After recently working with Theophilus London, he looks set only to grow bigger with his future tracks, Forget It being one of them. Class Actress have just finished a European tour
Kanye has been a busy guy recently. He’s launched his own line of female fashion, he’s been out in Qatar filming a new long form video with Kid Cudi, and now this. Back in November 2010 Kanye released his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Partnered with the iconic Runaway video, the release caught
Update: The video has been set to private unfortunately. We will update it as soon as a new copy is available. Kid Cudi is one of the most talented rappers working today, due to his incredibly diverse sound and his introspective and thoughtful musical output. Recently he teamed up with Dot Da Genius and created
The highly anticipated follow up to Marina’s debut album, The Family Jewels, has finally been released. 2 years in the making, Marina explained a bit of background to the album: Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a whole concept around her is
Mainstream rapper, B.o.B, has made his new song “Bombs Away” available for streaming in anticipation of it’s release next week on May 1st. It’s the first release off his upcoming album, Strange Clouds, which is available for pre-order now (details at bottom of post). In a bizarre combination he has partnered up with Morgan Freeman
Chiddy Bang have long been a favourite of everyone here at Control The Riot, today they release in my opinion the best video they’ve ever made for the second single off of Breakfast tittled Mind Your Manners. Arguably one of the best producers in the game, Xaphoon comes up trumps with another inspired refix of
Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, performed 4 brand spanking new songs at a secret show in LA yesterday as part of “The Switch”, an event organised by La Blogotheque. Here’s a description from the event organisers: March 28 was the premiere of The Switch. You remember the principle: two concerts take place the same evening,
I’m happy to introduce you guys to New Zealand artist Janine and the Mixtape, with this being her first track it definitely shows scope for a future star. Making her own beats and with a punchy vocal that seems reminiscent of a slightly tamer Florence she’s sure to make big movements for the rest of
