The Meat Street Beat – PNAU

Congratulations to Lima A, the winner of last Friday’s hot ticket giveaway here on Up Your Alley. She’ll be heading to the opening night of Agokwe tonight at The Cultch.

Have you heard PNAU’s new song “The Truth”? The electronic duo is describing it as “a bit Bowie, a bit Bono and a bit Burt Bacharach”… and a smidge of Vampire Weekend if you ask me.

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