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So here is some new music I am listening to. If you give my box a listen to (over to the RIGHT on the side bar) you will basically experience what I do every morning on my walk into work.

Secret Sunday Lover and Tourist are some of those songs that you find almost by accident. Free London gay mag BOYZ had an article on artists to look out for and these two caught my eye. I bought the tracks and it has been love love love.

Athlete is an indie rock band formed in Deptford, London. Their second album, Tourist, reached Number One in the UK Album Charts in its first week, following the huge success of single "Wires", the song was brought around when the lead singer's newborn baby was rushed to intensive care after a premature birth, which in 2006, won them the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Contemporary Song". In the UK charts, the band has frequently been frustrated by singles just missing out on top 40 placings, due to inconsistent support by music television channels and radio stations. For instance, certain songs, such as "Wires" was played up to 10 times a day on larger UK radio stations, yet other singles such as "Tourist" received little to no radio play whatsoever, fueling talk of radio stations deciding who becomes a major player in the pop music franchise something that has happened to many many artists before and since.

Ali Love is one of London’s best kept secrets. Everyone has that major club experience the first time it really made your blood pump. For Ali Love this came relatively late: he was 23. He'd flirted before of course, with drum'n'bass nights in his mid-teens. But the first club he really loved was Secret Sundaze, a summer party that ran from noon to midnight in various venues in London's East End.
You all may know Ali as he was invited to collaborate with the Chemical Brothers first single from their new album, the wilfully mischievous “Do It Again”.

Next up we have Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Oh yes we do! These guys are the funk/soul band. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the Dap-Kings are the house band.
Sharon Jones used to make her living with a combination of sporadic session work as a mostly anonymous voice on various dance records (sometimes credited as Lafaye Jones). She joined with the Dap Kings in 2000 and started small, but now watch out! They are widely thought to be spearheads of a revivalist movement that aims to capture the essence of funk/soul music as it was at its height in the mid nineteen sixties to mid nineteen seventies. Part of the way this is achieved is to shun modern digital recording methods in favour of using traditional analogue recording equipment. The type of instruments used by the band may also be considered limited to those that would have been available up until the mid seventies.
You Tube has loads of live performances of these guys. Check ‘em out to see how a Diva is born.

Feist is a Canadian singer-songwriter.and is some one I stumbled on in a way I never thought possible. She is climbing the U.S. charts with her wonderful song “1234”. Someone like this on the U.S. charts….perhaps it isn’t all Timberland, Timberlake and Fergie afterall!
Feist's single "Mushaboom" (video is at the bottom) is featured in advertisements for Lacoste perfume. Before this, McDonald's had offered one million dollars for the rights to use "Mushaboom" in their commercials which Feist flatly refused. Love her even more! Not sure if I would have been that strong. Anyway here is another of her songs called “I Fell it All” which I love love love.

Feist’s “Mushaboom”