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SONG PICK: Sandmoon - Angels (Video)

The year is just six weeks old and we already have our second Song Pick of the Day from Lebanon after Japan, Man. “Angel” is a beautifully haunting track about love by Sandmoon, a band around singer Sandra Arslanian. In her own words: “Angels” is about absoluteness. It’s listening

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NEW EP: Katie Burden - Edge of Sleep

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NEW TRACK: Fassine - Bloom

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SONG PICK: annelieElina - Veins

annelieElina is originally from Sweden but currently lives in L.A. and her music fits perfectly between these two focal points of modern pop music. The five songs of her latest EP “Purity” (Apple Music | Spotify) use many elements of power pop productions, but are still grounded in restraint and

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SONG PICK: Ellis - Fall Apart (Video)

Canadian singer/songwriter Linnea Siggelkow aka Ellis is back with a quiet but gripping and very personal new song “Fall Apart”. She says about the track: This is really just an honest reflection of my struggle with anxiety and how I can’t hide it from the people closest to

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NEW TRACK: Detalji - Without You

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NEW ALBUM: BisonBison - Hover

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NEW TRACK: emzae - Waste Your Time

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SONG PICK: Half Waif - Ordinary Talk (Video)

“Ordinary Talk” is about coming to terms with life with all its twists and turns and accepting the fact that it is actually a common, ordinary experience. Who could wrap this sentiment into a song better than Nandi Rose aka Half Wife who is so good in crafting gripping and

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SONG PICK: Surrija - Barcelona

Singer/Songwriter Jane Lui aka Surrija is originally from Hong Kong and lives now in Los Angeles. Inspired by Picasso, she has also spent time in Barcelona, only to find out that the famous painter was a conflicted character in the way he treated his muses and lovers. Echoing Picasso’

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NEW TRACK: Cathedral Bells - Disconnected

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NEW TRACK: Cat Turner - I Need You

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NEW TRACK: JFDR - Shimmer

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NEW TRACK: Austra - Risk It

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SONG PICK: Forever - Blur (Video)

Here is an artist we are super excited to see live at the spring festivals SXSW in Austin and The New Colossus in NYC: Montreal-based singer/songwriter June Moon aka Forever is about to release a new EP “Close to the Flame” dealing with breakup on Cascine (paradoxically on Valentine’

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SONG PICK: Suzy & the Lifeguard - NOW

“NOW” is a psychedelic power pop anthem that could be a good candidate for your 2020 theme song. “Now, now, now,” sings L.A. musician Suzy & The Lifeguard and indeed, waiting for a better time is rarely a good decision to get ahead in life. The songs radiates bliss

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NEW ALBUM: Death Hags - BIG Grey SUN #1

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SONG PICK: Luna Shadows - millennia

Things are not ok here: the bass drones menacingly, the beat fidgets nervously and L.A. singer Luna Shadows sighs with frustration: “don’t say you’ve had enough fight for a better love”. Sometimes it is hard to get on the same page in on a relationship. Luna Shadows

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NEW TRACK: Little Dragon - Hold On

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SONG PICK: Warpaint - The Brakes

It has been almost four years since the last album of Los Angeles indie rock veterans Warpaint, so it is good news that they are working on their fourth studio album to be (hopefully) released later this year. In the meantime we have “The Brakes” from the excellent soundtrack of

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NEW TRACK: Lux Lyall - Mad With The Moon

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SONG PICK: Rachel Beck - Warrior

Women as warriors for a better world – Canadian singer/songwriter Rachel Beck names a few as her inspiration: Amelia Earhart, Greta Thunberg, Rosa Parks and Malala. Aside from the title, “Warrior” is a not belligerent song – the music is rather warm, humble and makes you feel the force of good

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SONG PICK: Victoria Bigelow - To Everyone I've Loved Before

Listen and you can picture Victoria Bigelow sitting on her front porch on a hot Tennessee summer day and musing over past lovers and relationships. Her new song “To Everyone I’ve Loved Before” speaks of regret, but also of acceptance of the fact that you have to find to

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SONG PICK: May Rosa - Before I Knew (Summer)

“Before I Knew (Summer)” first takes you back to the careless times of childhood and then to the moment when that innocent life comes to an end. The new song by Belfast-based singer/songwriter May Rosa is a melancholic, 80s-inspired synth pop track, that makes you yearn these good old

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SONG PICK: Renay - Inspire Me (Video)

The muse is a double-edge sword for the artist as L.A.-based singer, songwriter and producer Renay reveals about her new song “Inspire Me”: “This song is about how the muse inspires, paradoxically propelling you to create (birth), yet through the intense obsession it devours you (death). An intensely