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  Stream Katy B's Exuberant 'What Love Is Made of'

  May 10, 2013 – Singer Katy B is one of the best things England has going for it. She burst onto the British pop scene as one of the first singers to mold the sounds of U.K. bass into music that could appeal to the masses, and her 2011 debut album Katy B on a Mission — one of the best pop records from any country in the last few years — made her a genuine sensation in Europe. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Sufjan Stevens, Young Jeezy, Chairlift, and Katy B

  December 13, 2012 – Another week brings another crop of ready-to-stream albums, here for your listening pleasure.1) Sufjan Stevens, Chopped and Scrooged (Christmas Mixtape). "The set redoes Silver and Gold tracks like 'The Child with the Star on His Head' and 'Dream Catcher,' but adds boom bap beats, chopped vocal snippets and verses from the likes of now-extinct rap outfit Das Racist, Busdriver, Kitty Pryde, the Pro Letarians, and more."&nb …
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  Katy B's Free 'Danger' EP Mixes 'Aaliyah' R&B With Modern Beats

  December 7, 2012 – She may not be the most famous Katy in music, but her approach to reinventing '90s-style R&B is about as impressively colorful as Miss Perry's fashion sense. …
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  Mosca and Katy B Revisit 'Bax' On New Rinse Single

  August 31, 2012 – Mosca's "Done Me Wrong" and "Bax," released last summer on Glasgow's Numbers imprint, were highlights of the ongoing U.K. garage revival. Reviving the plucky organ bass and fidgety, swinging drums of Groove Chronicles, Zed Bias, and the style of 2-step known briefly as "nu dark swing," Mosca's tunes were dead ringers for the rough-cut, spit-and-chewing-gum anthems of yore. …
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  Hear Katy B's Bass-Wobbling 'Witches Brew (Diplo Remix)'

  February 28, 2012 – What if all of the grooming products marketed to insecure young men actually had the irresistible effect portrayed in advertisements? The results might be something like Diplo's remix of Katy B's "Witches Brew." The original, from the British singer's On a Mission (one of SPIN's 20 Best Pop Albums of 2011), is a winsome dubstep-pop take on a musical tradition that dates back to Lieber-Stoller's "Love Potion No. …
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  Hear Arctic Monkeys' Sly Katy B Cover

  January 25, 2012 – Britain's finest rock'n'roll sophisticates took on one of last year's finest U.K. pop sensations earlier today in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. That's right, Arctic Monkeys covered Katy B's sinuously bass-dropping "Katy on a Mission" (rip by the NJ Underground, via Some Kind of Awesome). On last year's Suck It and See, Alex Turner and the boys gave the impression they had outgrown the U.K. and U.S. …
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  Watch Katy B's New 'Movement' Video

  October 25, 2011 – In 2008, Kathleen Brien enrolled at London's prestigious Goldsmiths College to study music, following in the footsteps of alumni like Malcolm McLaren, Blur's Alex James, and Graham Coxon. Goldsmiths is famed for its avant-garde approach, but Brien, who had spent the previous four years alongside Adele at the performing-arts pop factory that is the Brit School, thought she knew what to expect. …
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  Dubstep Upstart Katy B Delivers in U.S. Live Debut

  September 14, 2011 – "I'm feeling very emotional," Katy B confessed Tuesday night from the cramped Studio at Webster Hall in NYC, where the 22-year-old U.K. native and burgeoning queen of dubstep celebrated the U.S. release of her debut album On A Mission with her first stateside concert. The feeling was also transmitted loud and clear in her music. Katy's presence is much like her art: unassumingly powerful. …
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  Katy B, 'On a Mission' (Columbia)

  September 13, 2011 – Katy b has been in the right place at the right time. The young London singer's 2010 collaborations with Magnetic Man ("Perfect Stranger") and Ms. Dynamite ("Lights On") emerged just as U.K. …
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  Dubstep 101: A U.S. Primer

  September 12, 2011 – "Who gon stop me," from Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne, begins with an orbiting, distorted vocal sample, then explodes into a rush of quaking bottom-end and pulsating, chunky mid-range. These are the blatant hallmarks of dubstep, the floor-shaking, multifaceted electronic music that began on South London pirate radio nearly a decade ago and now peppers U.S. pop radio. …
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