IGLU & Hartly
"Iglu & Hartly are the missing link between the boorish funk-rock of Red Hot Chili Peppers and the cosmic synth-pop of Flaming Lips: they're Flaming Chili Peppers, they're Red Hot Lips, they're five Kiedis-ripped hunks from Los Angeles who caused a bit of a commotion at this year's SXSW festival, and they still haven't got a long-term, worldwide record deal. Despite their on-paper jarring fusion of opposites, somehow their songs work: great big synthed-up rock anthems with nasal semi-sung, semi-rapped vocals that have been described as "like Wayne Coyne producing Van Halen and letting the Beastie Boys front the band". It's pop-rap or hip-pop - no, it's crunked-up MOR metal! - and somebody obviously believes in them because they're currently holed up in a recording studio working on their debut album with Mark Needham (the Killers, Bloc Party, Fleetwood Mac) trying to amass as many massive dance-rock anthems as they can before another somebody decides to invent the term "indie yacht-rock". It has already been said that Iglu & Hartly are really just one Jo Whiley play and/or well-received televised festival appearance away from becoming one of the summer's success stories."
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Past Featured Artists:
Sally Jaye, The Leo Project, Jason Reeves, Foreign Born, dios (malos), Kissing Tigers, Cartel, Inara George, Youth Group, Sufjan Stevens, The Exit, Cold War Kids, Ladytron, Eastern Conference Champions, Little Ones, Controlling the Famous, The Classic Crime, Spankrock, The Early November, The Outline, HelloGoodbye, ModularPeople, The Adored, To Live And Die In LA, The Hanks, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Answer, Take The Crown
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