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Eleanor Jackson goes through a lot of hairspray. The frontwoman of electro duo La Roux estimates that she spends about 30 on product every week when she's on tour, and she's been on tour a lot lately -- for most of the past 18 months.
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The Golden Year will still be released following Charles Haddon's death last week at Belgium's Pukkelpop festival Charles Haddon, right, in a concert with Ou Est Le Swimming Pool.
English synthpop outfit La Roux are making the jump to the ol' USA. Kicking things off in Florida, the duo will be hitting dates up and down the East Coast until wrapping things up in New York, NY.
Fearless Records is back at another one of those Punk Goes compilations again. Sigh. The label rolled out plans to drop Punk Goes Pop 3 Nov.
La Roux are going to follow up their smash hit"Bulletproof" with a new single, and some fall tour dates.
And Elly Jackson and company were eager to prove that Kevlar strength Stateside this summer, but she was forced to cancel a handful of dates due to bronchitis and then pharyngitis.
I have heard La Roux here and there but never had a chance to write anything up until I heard this remix by Mad Decent and disco master DaTA .
Haddon, who fell to his death from a satellite mast backstage at the Pu kkelpop festival in Belgium, had formerly toured with La Roux.
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool frontman Charles Haddon has reportedly committed suicide.
Confused and sad news coming from Belguim this morning, with reports of the death of Charles Haddon .
The Glitch Mob graduated early this year to a heady catalog of original music with their recent debut album Drink The Sea , currently on an international tour, but havena t left their roots far behind.
Gear up, Juggalos: Insane Clown Posse performs Oct. 22 at the Webster Theatre; tickets go on sale Saturday for $26. OK Go is there Oct.
Meaning"red-haired one" in French, La Roux is the synth pop project of flame-haired singer/songwriter Elly Jackson and keyboardist/producer Ben Langmaid.
With hits such as 'Bulletproof,' the British duo fronted by Elly Jackson is being embraced in the U.S. It'll play sold-out Club Nokia in L.A. July 14, 2010 la-et-la-roux-20100714 Elly Jackson has never felt comfortable in girly clothing.
A lot of, though not nearly all, critics think her new record isn't so great , but everybody's talking about M.I.A. this week.
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PLAN A: Antibalas, The Sway Machinery, DJ SK @ The Casbah. If you missed Femi Kuti at the Belly Up earlier this month, then be sure to make it out for Brooklyn's Antibalas.
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For all the critical plaudits and acres of blog coverage, dubstep has thus far proved the kind of genre that defies the mainstream: its bass-heavy sound is too strange and experimental to be co-opted into the world of the top 40 rundown and the Chris Moyles show.
To say Diplo is a busy man is quite an understatement. When he's not recording as Major Lazer with producer Switch or producing acts like La Roux and ex-flame M.I.A ., the Philadelphia beatmaker is running his own label and working on a documentary about baile funk music .
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British dance rockers La Roux are the latest act to pull out of Lilith Fair, cancelling two of the shows they were to appear at during this year's installment of the travelling festival.
WEDNESDAY: Horse Feathers , a Portland, Ore. ensemble making chamber-flavored folk music to sublime effect, charms the pants off the Metro Gallery with Soon Clyde , Dan Isaacson , and Kelly Smith .
THREE years after her bland second album flopped, KT Tunstall finds herself in an awkward position.
