Mona & Maria – My Sun

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Harmony-based folkpop duo Mona & Maria. Debut album ‘My Sun’ out at the end of October on Jansen Plateproduksjon.

Mona Andersen and Maria Knudsen have already written songs together for many years, and both were central parts of the band Bazooka Boppers, with which they released two albums. After the band’s break-up in 2010, Mona and Maria continued playing together, and it worked out so well that they decided to move forward as a duo. The album was recorded at Engfelt & Forsgren Studio with Christian Engfelt (Cato Salsa Experience, Apricot and Turns, and as a producer Lionheart Brothers, Cheaters and more) as a producer, along with the girls themselves. Engfelt also plays the bass on a few of the songs.

Juicy J Is Giving A $50,000 Scholarship For Twerking

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AllHipHop reports:

Shaking what her momma gave her could net a lucky woman $50,000 in college scholarship money from philanthropist/twerk enthusiast Juicy J. In another inventive promtional scheme, Juicy took to his personal Twitter account to somewhat announce his upcoming twerk contest:

im giving out a 50k scholarships to the best chick that can twerk

— juicy j (@therealjuicyj) August 22, 2013

Juicy J is truly maximizing the promotional potential of twerking as he recently made Stay Trippy available to be streamed early to those who completed a video game. In the game, fans unlock songs from Stay Trippy as they throw cash at strippers to pay them.

@BattleLines – Colonies; Upcoming Tour Dates

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Colonies is available on iTunes now; in addition, you can catch Battle Lines on the road through September….dates are included below.

23/08/13 – Leeds Festival
23/08/13 – Galtres Parklands Festival
25/08/13 – Reading Festival
16/09/13 – The Basement, York (w/JAWS)
19/09/13 – Holy Trinity, Leeds
23/09/13 – The Library, Leeds
04/10/13 – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
05/10/13 – The Hop, Wakefield
20/11/13 – Liquid Room, Edinburgh (w/COHEED AND CAMBRIA)
21/11/13 – Solus, Cardiff (w/COHEED AND CAMBRIA)

Banana Beach – Pelican Bay

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Banana Beach is an experimental pop quintet out of Stockholm, Sweden, just done independently recording their debut EP titled ‘Window Licking’ in an office on an abandoned floor inside a factory complex, situated in the industrial southern suburbs of the Swedish capital. Bananas and beaches not being very present around these parts, the yearning for change and happiness can certainly be heard through every track on the EP with the title deriving from a French expression for window shopping.

From back to front the band consists of a dynamic drumming-duo, where Niklas Eriksson maneuvers the old-school beat-machine and Mikael Goldberg the electrical one, creating a wide spectrum of rhythm led to shore by bass-guitarist Alexander Buultjens, who together with rhythm-guitarist Peter Berg also gives vocal support to the lead-singer and guitarist Björn Kaplan.