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SONG PICK: Kyosi - Negative Space

“Negative Space,” the title track of the new EP by NYC-based producer and singer Kyosi takes into its very own world. The piano and her voice want to make you comfortable, but then there is slowly something else breaking through that is raw and unsettling. Again, Dani DiCiaccio, the artist

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SONG PICK: Freeman - Get Me Started

London-based singer/songwriter, Charlie Freeman, who makes music as FREEMAN, released  his new single, “Get Me Started” ahead of his sophomore album, “Love”, due out September 27. The single offers a good taste of what we can expect: pleasing melodies, smooth vocals and guitar play with a lot of swagger

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SONG PICK: Chelsea Wolfe - The Mother Road

The Californian singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe is a master of dark, unsettling pop music for the last decade. Her latest song “The Mother Road,” an hommage to Route 66 is no exception, although it has deliberating feel to it: while the song starts slowly, it adds more and more layers

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SONG PICK: Ralph - Gravity [Video]

Toronto-based artist Ralph (née Raffa Weyman) enchants once more with her new single, the dance floor-ready and instantly catchy “Gravity.” I still have one of her previous hits, “Tables Have Turned,” in my ears. She knows how to bring joy and confidence into this world. More, please! Ralph’s latest

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Red Hearts White Ribbons feat. Barrie Rose - Show Me

“Show Me” is the mesmerizing result of two creative forces: Curt Barlage of shoegaze duo Red Hearts White Ribbons and singer/songwriter Barrie Rose.Taken from a short film called “Aeros: Or How I cheated Death” and directed by Steven A. Soria, “Show Me” is one of six videos. As

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SONG PREMIERE: Indi Rose - Lemon Tree

We all need a safe place, where we can retreat to and be ourselves. “Lemon Tree,” the new song by London-based singer/songwriter Indi Rose, leads you to such a place: carried by a gentle guitar line it slowly builds towards a cathartic finale, the moment when things fall into

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SONG PICK: HUNGER - Light It Up

“Light It Up” is an anthemic, joyful classic of the sort I was afraid they would not get made anymore. It is not often that I come across a band from Austria and a three-piece nonetheless (time to revive my #3IsABand column!) and I am excited that HUNGER had landed

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SONG PICK: Millie Turner - Swimming Pool

U.K. musician Millie Turner found her own style of pop music already at the very beginning of the career. Her airy voice and the edgy production create a special atmosphere in her songs, like that of a glistening swimming pool as an escape from the chaos around. „Swimming Pool“

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SONG PREMIERE: The Late Innings - Our Secret

Glistening synths waves, grounded by sonorous trumpets build the fundament of “Our Secret”, the new single by The Late Innings. We are excited to premiere the track today and asked Vincent Sinex, the artist behind this project, to tell us a bit more: “This song is about a guy who

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SONG PICK: Pinero|Serene - Dead Flowers

German/Philipino musician Cheryl Pinero and the multi-faceted artist and singer Neeq Serene are based in London and make dark, atmosperic dream pop as Pinero|Serene. “Dead Flowers” is their second song and will be on their upcoming 4-track EP “Dark Matter” to be released next Friday. The duo gives

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SONG PICK: Big Society - Marine Club Party

Manchester four-piece Big Society hit all the right spots with their new single “Marine Club Party”. The track is pleasingly fussy and upbeat, highly catchy and bursts with beautiful harmonies and a summer-sexy vibe. With such incredible songwriting talent, it comes as no surprise that Big Society are performing at

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SONG PICK: Saint Taint - I Got Lies (ft. Mïrändä)

We don’t know much about producer Saint Taint but we have been long-time fans of Mïrändä who they teamed up with for “I Got Lies”. She lends a summerly playfulness to the song about our on- and offline lives, while the production alternately reflects the shiny and the ugly

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VIDEO FRIDAY: HOST - Crying for Days

“Crying for Days” is the title of the new single by Irish singer/producer HOST, but it is also a good tagline for her entire work so far. There seems to be always going something wrong in her relationships which leads to extended unhappiness. This time, she copes by unleashing

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SONG PICK: a. harlana - If I'm A Bird

Brooklyn-based dream-folk trio a. harlana just released their beautifully mellow and utterly compelling “If I’m A Bird”. When asked about the new single, lead singer Juno Roome answered: “This tune began in 2009 [when I was a teenager], when I used to write sappy love songs. I would come

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VIDEO FRIDAY: ANIQO - Fake

Berlin-based artist Anita Goss aka ANIQO has put out a string of dark, enigmatic songs sice the beginning of 2018. The latest one, “Fake” is about reality and pretence in our lives. Anita explains: It is about hypocrisy and manipulation – in the larger social and political context, but also in

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SONG PICK: Bad Honey - Somewhere Blue

Bad Honey is the London-based duo of Lydia Clowes and Teresa Origone and they have a perfect song for dreaming away a lazy afternoon. “Somewhere Blue” is the place where you would rather be, where you belong. But warm synths and soft vocal harmonies take the edge out of the

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SONG PICK: ackerman - 84 Palms

Ahead of their EP “A Million Sunflowers” scheduled for later this year, Brooklyn-based experimental rock project ackerman released the ultra-gorgeous single “84 Palms”. The sunlight bright song swirls and sparkles and brings the catchy vibes of bands like Saint Lucia or Passion Pit to mind. Having started out as a

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PHOTOS: Bandits On The Run live at The Loft at City Winery

New York-based trio Bandits On The Run are known for their joyful and vibrant live shows and kicked off their European tour at The Loft at City Winery. If their bon-voyage celebration is anything to measure the tour with, their fans on the other side of the Atlantic are in

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SONG PICK: Katie Rose - Beginnings

“Beginnings,” the new track by Charlston-based singer/songwriter Katie Rose is meant as an antidote for hopelessness. It harnesses the power of music to show a way out of darkness by offering support of a community and “a soft place to land.” Katie Rose again shows her mastery of soaring,

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SONG PICK: Paper Beat Scissors - Gun Shy

Listening to “Gun Shy”, I feel reminded of the things that really matter in life, the honest and simple things. By any means, the track is not ‘simple’ per but it is beautifully pure and utterly mesmerizing. The latest single of Montreal- and UK-based experimental folk band Paper Beat Scissors

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SONG PICK: Wildes - True Love

It is Pride Weekend here in New York and everywhere in the world, so let’s celebrate with a message of love by London-based singer/songwriter Ella Walker aka Wildes. Her latest song “True Love” is a slow, calm song intended to carry you away on a bed of elevating

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SONG PICK: Jens Carelius - All I Know

A song as mesmerizing as “All I Know” is appealing without any knowledge about its inspiration or wider context. However, if your great-great-grandfather has documented over 50,000 specimens of fascinating butterflies in Eastern Siberia in the 1800s and you are an artist you might want to explore this a

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SONG PICK: Violetta Zironi - Lonely Window

Violetta Zironi, originally from Italy and now London-based, is a singer/songwriter who found her own musical style from the beginning: quiet, sparsely instrumented songs full of melancholy and yearning. She just released her second EP “Scenes From My Lonely Window” (Apple Music | Spotify) and the title alone sets you

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SONG PICK: UV - Wilt

In “Wilt”, composer Marina Elderton aka UV takes her listeners by the hand and leads them through her web of ethereal sounds, trippy beats, ambient vibes and intoxicating vocals. Since the musician is taking the lead though, we don’t get lost in the sheer overwhelming beauty of it all.

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SONG PICK: The Maya Spectra - Cursed Roots

There is a lot to discover in this brand new track “Cursed Roots” by the Arizona-based art pop trio The Maya Spectra. Defying the stream-count optimizing trend to shortness, they go all in with this seven minute song: led by singer Janel Blanco the musicians expose a sheer joy of