Oliver Bouchard

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SONG PICK: Darla And The Blonde - End of the Party

The new London band Darla And The Blonde , a five piece around songwriter Nina Lovelace, delivers our Song Pick of the Day. The End of the Party breathes new life in classic rock music, including a fine guitar solo, but tackles with the “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong a rather

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LATE NIGHT: Missio - Can I Exist

Can I Exist is a new slow-burning track by the Austin electronic duo Missio taking on the topics of depression and addiction. It starts full of melancholy with a simple piano line and builds up to an emotional finale.

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SONG PICK: Dog in the Snow - Plastic Body

Today’s Song Pick of the Day is from last year, but I cannot pass over Helen Ganya Brown’s hauntingly beautiful vocals in the track Plastic Body. She records under the name Dog In The Snow and is based in Brighton, England.

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Music to look forward to in 2016

I’m sure that in 2016 there will be much new exciting music to be discovered, but here are some of my all-time favorites who I hope will release something new this year. Warpaint’s third album Warpaint have announces that they are working on a followup to 2014’s

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SONG PICK: The Flavr Blue - Supply

This Song Pick of the Day has been released today by the Seattle three piece The Flavr Blue. The track Supply is like a sunrise in summer with its bright melodic guitar line and the relaxed beat. More of this on their upcoming EP Love Notes.

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VIDEO: Naadia - Omut

This is a new song Omut (Омут) by the electronic Russian band Naadia (Наадя). It is a slow, atmospheric track, which fits perfectly to the visuals that fall somewhere between Games of Throne and a Fever Ray video. Check out also this live video of an older song on s

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Song Picks of the Day 16.3

1. In Isolation 2. EXES 3. Georgia Mae 4. Philco Fiction 5. The Vagary 6. Leiik

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PHOTOS: Sofi Tukker heats up Baby’s All Right

It was a big night at our favorite venue, Baby’s All Right: The Knocks were headlining a bill together with Cardiknox and Sofi Tukker. We went to the show mostly for the latter: their first two songs Drinkee and Matadora are refreshingly new takes on dance-oriented electro-pop and we

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SONG PICK: Leiik - Words over Yours

Our Song Pick of the Day Words Over Yours comes from the London duo Leiik. It starts slow, just with minimal instrumentation and Amy Spencer’s haunting vocals and builds slowly up. Beautiful.

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LATE NIGHT: pr0files - Like a Knife

L.A. duo pr0files released a new single from their upcoming album Jurassic Technologie, due on February 23rd. Like a Knife gets you immediately with that bubbling bass line before Lauren Pardini’s dreamy vocals set it. Perfect for a Saturday night in the city.

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VIDEO: Letters to Nepal - Loosing Now

Booklyn electronic duo Letters to Nepal has just released a video for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Watch Anton Fadeev hammering the beats into his Maschine controller, while Evgeniya Kusnetzova is singing, playing the theremin and doing the special effects. It is all live and recorded in one take. We

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SONG PICK: Philco Fiction - Runimals

To get into the mood for the weekend, here is our Song Pick of the Day, the bouncy Runimals by the Norwegian duo Philco Fiction: it sounds like they have hired an entire brass orchestra. Their second album is coming out later this month.

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NEW ARTIST: L. $hamPain

I don’t know much more about L. $hamPain than that she is from Texas and records all her music alone in her bedroom. That narrative matches her music: listen for example to Take Me Out Tonight on her EP Turtles all the Way Down where she coos “Take me

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VIDEO: Vallés - Sorrow

You might ask where is the sorrow here? French artist Vallés seems to have a good time here, following a beautiful woman through a beautiful mediterranean landscape (the Spanish island of Ibiza, maybe, Vallés home). Wait a little and you’ll see that it doesn’t work out so well.

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PHOTOS: Lantrns bring their dark electro pop to Palisades

Last Saturday, a great lineup gathered for a daytime show at Bushwhick DIY venue Palisades. We arrived in time for a song by Exiles and the whole set of Dream Parrot, two bands we will look out for. But we were here for Lantrns, a Brooklyn three piece comprised of

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SONG PICK: Exes - Grey

Last week, we saw an episode of the TV show “Nashville” and and there a band consisting of two of the ex-boyfriends of the third band member named themselves “The Triple-Exes”. Our Song Pick of the Day comes from the real world EXES who are from L.A. and their

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NO WORDS: Jeztls - Should City

There are actually a lot of words in this releaxed instrumental by the young North English artist JEZTLS: beneath the track you can hear voices in a room full of people. That gives the track a very comforting vibe – something you may want to put on while dozing off into

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Song Picks of the Day 16.2

1. The Gloomies 2. Year of Glad 3. Cross Record 4. The Big Sun 5. Rel 6. TMPL 7. Tyto Alba

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SONG PICK: Tyto Alba - Between The Lines

Let’s end the week with the Denver, Colorado indie rock band Tyto Alba: our Song Pick of the Day Between the Lines features melodic guitar layers and and Melanie Steinway’s soaring voice. More music and a video is coming soon.

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SONG PICK: Rel - Before the Storm

Here’s something for the first (non-holiday) Friday of the Year: L.A. singer Rel with her last single Before The Storm, an up-to-date electro-pop song with a good deal of twists and turns – I like particularly the droning bass and the thundering beat beneath it. I’m looking forward

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RELEASED TODAY: Sofi Tukker - Matadora

New York dance music duo Sofi Tukker released their second track today, as crazy as the first one Drinkee. None of them is actually Brazilian, but that doesn’t keep Sophie Hawley-Weld from singing in Portuguese. Good for us here in the northern hemisphere: we can use a little summer

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SONG PICK: Cross Record - Basket

Here is Cross Record with the first new 2016 track. It is a dark, atmospheric track that can turn even sunny beach into a haunted, barren place. Believe me, I experienced it myself when I listened to Cross Record during the holiday break. The album will be out on January

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Song Picks of the Day 16.1

1. MODOC 2. Lantrns 3. We Are The Stars 4. Audrey Air 5. BLAJK 6. Michael McQuaid 7. Pixx

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SONG PICK: Pixx - Fall In

The holidays are over and that means the next bug thing to look forward to is SXSW 2016. A few hundred artists are already performed and one of them is Pixx from England, who released a beautiful four song EP last summer. She has been working on her debut album

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Song Pick of the Day: Audrey Air - Strawberry Syrup Sixteens

Let’s go out 2015 with a new artist Audrey Air, who is working on her debut EP for next year. Strawberry Syrup Sixteens is a track which turns out not as easy going as it might appear after the first few bars. Beautiful, our Song Pick of the Day!