"sophisticated pop dressed up as indie music that actually doesn’t suck"
-from the 'About' section on her website
Who: Coco Morier
...aka Nicole Morier
...aka one half of the pop girl duo Electrocute.
Where: Los Angeles
Genre: Pop/ Electro-Pop
Listeners Also Bought: Lykke Li, Metric, Little Boots, La Roux
Nicknamed: the 'indie Britney Spears' (she wrote and performed on Britney's last three albums)
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Longtime I LISTEN TO EVERYTHING readers might remember them from the I ASK EVERYONE post I did with them a couple years back - for those of you just tuning in here's a link: I Ask Everyone: The Kills
Loving their latest record.
The Kills are literally- yup, you guessed it - KILLING IT (sorry, couldn't resist)
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I love Danger Mouse. How can you not? The Grey Album - awesome. Gnarls Barkley - awesome. Broken Bells - awesome.
Now he has a new project with Italian composer Daniele Luppi called Rome and yup, you guessed it - it's awesome.
So far they have released 2 songs - one with Jack White and the other with Norah Jones.
Need I say more?
Two Against One - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi (feat. Jack White)
Black - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi (feat. Norah Jones)
PS Here's another great song Danger Mouse did with Sparklehorse feat Julian Casablacas a few years ago
Little Girl - Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Feat. Julian Casablancas
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Who: Keren Ann
Where: Paris (lived in Israel and the Netherlands until the age of 11)
Genre: Pop/ Singer-Songwriter/ Neo-folk
Listeners Also Bought: Portishead, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Carla Bruni
She won me over years back when I first discovered this song...
Her new single is much more pop sounding.. I'm into it. Check it out:
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"My goal is to sound like I’m from 2050, but still feel really classic, like the music is an old friend"
Who: Nanna Øland Fabricius aka Oh Land
Where: Copenhagen
Genre: Pop/ Electro
Listeners Also Bought: Lykke Li, Bjork, Florence & the Machine
My Kinda Girl: Determined to catch the attention of a major label, she made her way to SXSW in 2009 on a tour she booked herself. It worked. She landed a deal with Epic Records.
Born This Way: Her mom is an opera singer, her dad a church organist her and her sister a clothing designer. “When I was younger, we didn’t think, ‘Let’s play with our Barbie dolls or a board game today.’ We were building our own universes. And nothing’s changed, except now I have an audience beyond my parents.”
Oh Land on 
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Who: Lissi Dancefloor Disaster
What: "An Electronic Dancepunk Band"
Where: Uppsala, Sweden
Genre: Electronic/ Pop
Listeners Also Bought: Justice, MGMT, MIA
They might not be for everyone, and to be completely honest I wasn't sure if they were for me when I first listened to them a few months back. But something about their song Oh My God stuck with me, and I recently found myself craving it. Now I can't stop listening. Check it out...
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Who: Josh Radin (aka one of my favorite people)
Where: Born in Ohio/ lives in NYC
Genre: Alternative/Indie/ Singer Songwriter
Listeners also bought: Bon Iver, Jason Mraz, Brett Dennen
I'm not his only super fan: Ellen DeGeneres loves Josh so much that she asked him to perform at her wedding!
True Story: I first met Josh when he made his TV debut on Last Call. We met again one night a few years later at a dinner arranged by mutual friends that were dating. I asked him for some tips on new artists I should consider booking on the show. He suggested I book a then unknown female singer named Ingrid Michaelson. Lucky for me I took his advice. Our friends have long been broken up, but since then he's become like a brother.
Whisper Rock: He recently released his third record The Rock and the Tide. It's different from his past two records. He added more energy, more rock, more fun -- but still kept the melodies and lyrics that give me goosebumps. Even though it doesn't include a cover of Dirty Diana per my suggestion/constant pleading, I absolutely love it.
He was in LA recently performing for his other BFF Ellen, and while we were hanging backstage he let Ask Him Anything...
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