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SONG PICK: Joy Oladokun - Shelter

Listen to “Shelter”, a beautiful, slow-building song about unconditional love but L.A. singer/songwriter Joy Oladokun. Joy just released her debut album “Carry” (Apple Music | Spotify) with nine more deeply personal songs and will go on a world-wide tour later this year.

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NEW TRACK: Elizabritz - Falls

This is a beautiful, gripping track about a situation most people have to deal with at some point in their lives: Rachel Eff, singer of the new, bicoastal duo Elizabritz sings a about coping with loss and how hard it is to escape. Swelling violins add drama as she battles

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PHOTOS: Overcoats charm the audience at Mercury Lounge

It is actually hard not to be charmed by Hana and JJ, two young women who write and perform music together with extraordinary passion and enthusiasm. They have this kind of blind, effortless understanding on stage that you see rarely in a band (Warpaint comes to mind). And while their

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NEW TRACK: Dannika - Next To You

This track fools you: at first you believe Melbourne singer/songwriter Dannika sits there alone in her room with a guitar, but then drums set in and there are even down-pitched vocals, like a nod to contemporary production techniques. It is still a song about an intimate moment, but it

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SONG PICK: Few Bits - Summer Sun

Our Song Pick of the Day, is titled “Summer Sun” and it feels exactly like it. Singer Karolien van Ransbeeck’s of the Belgian band Few Bits relaxed vocals contras with the relentless beat and in between there are guitars that shimmer like sunlight on a lake. Here on the

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PHOTOS: Geographer live at High Line Ballroom

This was an event worth going all the way to Chelsea: San Francisco singer/songwriter Mike Deni, aka Geographer put on a wonderful show at the High Line Ballroom together with a 3-piece backing band, including an electric cello player. Opening was the U.K. four-piece The Crooks. Enjoy photos

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NEW TRACK: Danae - Actualized

There is a lot of indie pop music out there these days, but Danae’s second single “Actualized” stands out with gravity and restraint: While the song is about an unmitigated love story, it is one where the protagonist knows what she goes into.

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RELEASED TODAY: Oyinda - Flatline

Today, Oyinda releases another track from her upcoming EP “Restless Minds”, to be released on June 10th. Like the predecessor “Never Enough” it is an elegant and emotional track, which keeps you on the edge for its little over 3 minutes.

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SONG PICK: Joy Atlas - Drop Your Sword

Joy Atlas, a UK four-piece around singer/songwriter Beccy Owen just released their third single, “Drop Your Sword”, our Song Pick of the Day. It features driving intricate beats, a prominent baseline and minimalistic synths that complement Beccy’s expressive vocals. This is 2016 music at its best.

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NEW TRACK: ARI - Teachers

Chart-ready sing-along pop doesn’t get better than this: the vocals, the build and the message. Toronto singer ARI has a simple one for all “Teachers” who tell her how she is supposed to behave: “If it’s good for you it’s good for me”.

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NEW TRACK: Monopol - Somebody That I’ll Never Be

If somebody proposes “I can try to be somebody That I’ll Never be” to save a relationship, you know it is over. On the plus side, Christoph Andersson aka Monopol wraps his breakup in such a delightful, upbeat pop song that one hopes that the two stay at least

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SONG PICK: Feral Love - Like The Wind

“Like The Wind” is the perfect Song Pick of the Day on a Monday: it comes with a lot of energy and when singer Adele Emmas sings the chorus “He’s like the wind”, you feel like throwing your fist into the air. Feral Love is a duo from Liverpool

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PLAYLIST: Song Picks of the Day 16.18

1. Leitbur 2. Tusks 3. NGOD 4. Djustin 5. Boudoir Noir 6. BLAJK 7. Alex The Flipper/ADI’s

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VIDEO: Saint God - Narasvette

The shoegaze duo Saint God created this beautifully intense video after they met Italian dancer Giulia Piana in their home town of Tel Aviv. Together with the ambient light she turns the monuments at Edith Wolfson Park into a mythical place that complements the mood of the song “Narasvette” perfectly.

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NEW ALBUM: Badlands - Locus

Badlands can be beautiful and deadly and Catherina Jaunviksna conveys that feeling in her new album “Locus”. Dark, thick, 80s-inspired synth layers and deadpan vocals convey a mood of inevitability, but then you can also find beauty and hope when the songs soar with bright melodies. It is a record

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SONG PICK: Alex The Flipper vs. ADI - Was it You

This track grows on you. Is it dance music or a pop song? It starts out with piano and a dark bass line and gradually add more to it before it culminates with a bright, chiming synth line. And then there is Israeli producer ADI’s vocals, who you may

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PHOTOS: Danielle Cardona live at Black Bear Bar

We met singer/songwriter Danielle Cardona in a bar years ago, but sadly never managed to see a show of hers. Fortunately that streak was broken a couple of weeks ago at the Black Bear Bar when she took the stage with a full band. Recorded, she has relied mostly

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SONG PICK: Boudoir Noir - Wild Valentine

Boudoir Noir is a three-piece from Michigan and I already loved their first single “Endless Dawn”. Our Song Pick of the Day is the second track from their upcoming EP, also called “Endless Dawn”. It is a sensual love song that combines electronic and acoustic beats with oriental melodies. That

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VIDEO: Liana Bank$ - LVLUP

I love New York videos and this is a particularly good one. Upcoming artist Liana Bank$ has fun on a night out in Manhattan and she enjoys dancing on Times Square and the escalator on the World Trade Center Path station. The track “LVLUP” is also so good with its

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SONG PICK: Djustin - Tryst

I find it hard to resist 80s-style synth arpeggios and our Song Pick of the Day “Tryst” by the trans-continental duo Djustin is full of them. The two members Rose Suau and Johan Andergård found a high musical compatibility brought them together and they formed the band before they ever

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NEW TRACK: Elohim - Sensations

Listen to “Sensational”, an anthemic track about the singularly blissful moment of being in love. Elohim, a somewhat mysterious singer/songwriter from L.A. has already released a bunch of songs (like this one) and is now readying her debut LP, due on May 20.

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SONG PICK: Tusks - False

This is what I find currently the most exciting kind of music: an effortless blend of guitars and electronics, cool and emotional at the same time. “False” by Emily Undersell, who goes by the name Tusks, combines all this in a wonderfully slow-building track. “I still believe in you”, she

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PLAYLIST: Song Picks of the Day 16.17

Lost Woods Hunter as Horse Billy Doze Beyond Rare The Beautiful Fear JPNSGRLS Chelsea Lankes

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LATE NIGHT: Nerve Leak - DR34M5

This track by Brooklyn via Richmond, VA producer Sam Friedman aka Nerve Leak is indeed like a dream: it floats between bright and dark, with elevating and sometimes nightmarish moments, all kept together by a chilled beat. After you have heard it, you want to rewind to relive it and,

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SONG PICK: Chelsea Lankes - Paralyzed

Let’s end this somewhat L.A.-heavy week with Chelsea Lankes, whose new song “Paralyzed” is perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Her dreamy reflection about a relationship of the kind “Maybe it works out, and maybe it doesn’t”, could very well take place on a sunny beach