The Barometer: Kanye West; Matt Costa; Twin Shadow; Phantogram; The Ravonettes; Mona; T-Model Ford
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Friday 03 September 2010
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Love More
This gorgeous, slow-burning track has been around for a while, but it remains a stand out on the alt-folk singer's forthcoming 'Epic'.
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Monster
The web's alive with West's Justin Bieber remix, but we're more taken with this recent star-studded effort.
Matt Costa
Witchcraft
Channelling 1960s psychedelia, the California-based Costa's upcoming single recalls The Zombies with its tremolo-effect guitar riffs.
Twin Shadow
Slow
A melancholy dash of new- wave inflected art-pop from the one-man-band's debut LP.
Phantogram
Mouthful of Diamonds
About to tour the US, but relatively unknown here, Phantogram rock like a female-fronted Interpol with extra keys thrown in.
The Raveonettes
I Wanna Be Adored
The reverb-obsessed duo offer a fuzzy yet light and dreamy take on the Stone Roses classic. All in aid of Dr Martens, which is less dreamy.
Mona
Listen to Your Love
Memphis' latest buzz-band substitute the ubiquitous surf sound for brooding 1950s rock'n'roll.
T-Model Ford
Nobody Gets Me Down
Ragged delta blues from the 90-year-old Mississippi man who performs this weekend at the US branch of the ATP festivals, curated by Jim Jarmusch. Wish we were there.
Listen to this week's free playlist at Independent.co.uk/mixtape
- 1 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 2 BANNED: The most controversial films
- 3 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 4 Rich art collectors 'know the price of everything – and the value of nothing'
- 5 Trending: Multiple award winners
- 6 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 1 How Koscielny became prince of the Emirates
- 2 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 3 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 4 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 5 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 6 Police confiscate passport from Brooks' assistant
- 7 Nauru and Abkhazia: One is a destitute microstate marooned in the South Pacific, the other is a disputed former Soviet Republic 13,000km away, so why are they so keen to be friends?
- 8 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 9 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 10 Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
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