Shiny Toy Guns, You Are The One

Shiny Toy Guns are a North-American rock band created in 2002 and currently composed by Carah Faye Charnow (vocals, synthesizer), Chad Petree (vocals, guitars), Jeremy Dawson (synthesizer, bass), Daniel Johansson (guitars, synthesizer, bass) and Mikey Martin (drums).

They are known for songs like Le Disko, Rainy Monday, Ghost Town and Major Tom.

The band has released two albums so far: We Are Pilots in 2006 and Season Of Poison in 2008. The third album simply named III has been postponed since May/June 2011, the first date released by Shiny Toy Guns on several interviews. Recently they've announced the third album is set to be released on July 2012 with a single released in May.

Shiny Toy Guns debut album - We Are Pilots was released on October 2006 by Universal Motown. The album was nominated for the Grammy award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Most songs that appear on this album are influenced by Chad and Jeremy previous bands.

We Are Pilots had two album versions before the final and known one - the first released in January 2005 and the second in November 2005 - including two different covers for each edition.

You Are The One has he same basis has another song released by Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson under Slyder.
The song appeared on video games like Grand Theft Auto III and FIFA 07 and on TV shows like Hell's Kitchen and Private Practice.

Calvin Harris, Feel So Close

Calvin Harris is the artistic name for Adam Richard Wiles - who is a Scottish producer, musician and DJ.

He joined the music world with 15 years old, three years later he released two singles Da Bongos and Brighter Days through Prima Facie label using the name Stoufler.

After while, he caught EMI's attention via Myspace and signed with that same label.

In 2007, he released his first album I Created Disco - mixing different genres like electroclash, disco music, pop and new wave.

His name also "grew up" when he worked as a producer with artists like Dizzee Rascal, Kylie Minogue or Rihanna.

With two released albums - I Created Disco (2007) and Ready For The Weekend (2009) - and one predicted album probably named Hypermobility for February 2012.

Calvin Harris got really known after doing a song with Rihanna, check here, and making the introducing shows on Rihanna's tour.

Feel So Close is the first single taken from his unreleased third album. Feel So Close is sang by Harris after he stated he would quite on singing live.

"I feel so close to you right now
It's a force field
I wear my heart upon my sleeve, like a big deal
Your love bows down, I mean surround me like
a waterfall"

Nouvelle Vague - Love will tear us apart

Nouvelle Vague ("new wave" in French) is a French project led by Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux.
Their songs are all covers of different genres of songs, including, rock, new wave, pop, etc.

Members and contributors include many well known French artists like for example Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste, Gerald Toto, etc.

In their first album, Nouvelle Vague released in 2004, the band covered classics from the New Wave music era and reinterpreted them in a bossa nova style.
This song was the first one I heard a few years ago and it is from their 1st album and it was originally released by the band Joy Division, in 1979, link here.

Interesting fact: the various female singers on this album only performed songs they've never heard before, to garanty that each cover would have an unique quality.

When the routine bites hard

And ambitions are lo

And the resentment rides high

But emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways,

Taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again

A.


P.S: Bossa Nova is a style of Brazilian Music. Bossa was used to refer any new "trend" or "fashionable wave" within the artistic beach-culture. This expression became known and widely used to refer a new music style, a fusion of Samba and Jazz.