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Our very own Swedish vixen has gotten herself a Grammy nom for her self-titled smasher, in the category for "Best Electronic/Dance Album. The blonde bomb has exploded all over the world, with tracks like the #1 UK single "With Every Heartbeat" alongside the fiery and fierce "Konichiwa Bitches", Robyn has slapped the world upside the head with this absolutely bitching album. Good luck at The Grammy's.

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The duo's trophy room is looking pretty chocka these days, they've raked up an impressive bag of awards this year already and Friday night it was capped off in the most exemplary fashion imaginable with their winning of the 2008 J Award for Album Of The Year for the unstoppable second album, Apocalypso. The J Award is for an album of outstanding achievement as an Australian musical work of art - for its creativity, innovation, musicianship and contribution to Australian music, as judged by a panel at Triple J, Australia's nation-wide youth network. The Presets join the list of legends alongside previous winners Wolfmother, Blue King Brown and The Panics.

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Having delivered us party anthems "Lights & Music" and "Hearts On Fire", Aussie electro dreamboats Cut Copy show us their softer side with new single, "Far Away". Dan Whitford's heavenly voice will surely hit the heart, a song of prose to make any girl (or boy) weak from the waist down. From the cool calm and collected verse of synth driven disco, to the build up into fast paced, beatastic chorus, the track takes many a turn. A turning of the other cheek, a moody stripped back break down revelaing Cutter's sensitive side. A top notch number, from a top notch bunch of boys.

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For those who couldn't give work the flick a few Fridays back when The Presets played the Apple Store in Sydney, you can get your hands on the live recording of their mind-shredding set from iTunes right now. At this exclusive live set the duo body-rocked their way through slammers from their sophomore record Apocalypso, they kept the party pumping and now you can get a taste of the live experience.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fronted by the queen banshee herself, Karen O are almost done and dusted with their new album. Although the details are scarce, what we do know is the follow up to last years Is Is EP won't reach our ears until next year sometime and it's going to be an absolute ripper of a record, that sounds very much like the YYYs but nothing like what we've heard before. Here's what they had to say:

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Ladyhawke has had her debut in NME's annual cool list, coming in at number six. We've always known Pip is cooler than the other side of the pillow and NME have just confirmed it, saying:

Live she's so shy she can barely look at the audience, yet Pip Brown's limitations as a performer are an intrinsic part of her appeal, creating an enthralling disjunction between the euphoria of the music and the punishing self-doubt of its creator.

Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons also made the cut.