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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

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: TMPL - Keep Falling

Keep Falling is one of these darker electronic songs, filled with a lot of longing, accentuated rhythms, sensual vocals and exploding with desire. Our Song Pick of the Day comes from the Canadian duo TMPL who’s about to release a new EP in the upcoming weeks. Listen to Keep

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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

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: The Big Sun - Lonely Girl

Agh… I just have such soft spot for real life sound samples used in songs and Lonely Girl offers exactly that yet a few beats in, it gets sugar candy dreamy with a little edge – indie-pop at its best! The Big Sun, hailing from Oxford (UK), deliver one delicious upbeat

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3 Is A Band: Chain Wallet

When I listened to Shade for the very first time, a lot of different memories run through my mind, good memories, from the 80s… youthful, carefree, filled with joy. And nothing has changed. Even upon listening to Shade for the maybe 17th time, it’s still one beautiful little joyful

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 Pick of the Day: Year of Glad - Blythe

We often look across the pond for our Song Pick of the Day or keep it very local, here’s a compromise: let’s head up North, and stop at Montreal, where Year of Glad is from. They describe their sound as “Drone Folk” and this is as close as

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MUSIC QUOTES: Happy 2016!

Wolf Alice at SXSW 2015

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SONG PICK: The Gloomies - LSD

Listen to “LSD” the debut single of the San Diego trio The Gloomies and any gloomy feelings you might have won’t stand a chance with this sunny and upbeat track. With its fuzzy guitar sounds, warm beats, mellow vocals and overall surf-rock feel, it is sending out waves of

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: Michael McQuaid - Vibes

“Vibes” by Michael McQuaid is a dark R&B track, with quite an earthy, (blues)-guitar vibe to it, and that makes for one highly interesting and also sensual combination! Michael McQuaid, a Texas native, moved to Nashville to pursue music and that’s where he comes up with

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Song Pick of the Day: BLAJK - French Class

Intelligent synth-pop is alive and kicking and yet another proof for that statement are BLAJK, a five-piece from Toronto, Canada. We want to kick-off the New Year with something special, and French Class, the latest single by BLAJK, is just perfect! Stomping beats, catchy tunes and then these killer vocals

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!

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Song Pick of the Day: We Are The Stars - Flight

We Are The Stars, an identical twin brother duo from New York, recently released From The Sky, a six tracks EP featuring some of their most popular tracks. On it is for example Flight a vocoder-heavy, slightly trippy and slowly unfolding little gem of a synth-pop song – our Song Pick

Song Pick of the Day: Lantrns - Bonfire

This is the quiet time of the year and it is a good opportunity to catch up with what we missed in 2015. For example, this dark wave track Bonfire by New York band Lantrns, which has an intense haunting undertone beneath Kaitlyn Mills’ pretty vocals. There is more of

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Song Pick of the Day: MODOC - Make The World Wait

What a beautiful teaser Make The World Wait is! MODOC an alt-rock trio from Munice, IN are about to release their 2nd album titled Automatic + Voluntary on February 5th, 2016, and Make The World Wait will be the 2nd track on this new record. With killer hooks, driving beats and

Song Picks of the Day 15.52

1. Jesse Ruben 2. Swim 3. Sun Jun 4. Milky White 5. Blonde Maze 6. Space Shark 7. Natasha Kmeto

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Song Pick of the Day: Natasha Kmeto - I Thought You Had a Boyfriend

My Song Pick of the Day is also my favorite song of the year: Natasha Kmeto’s I Thought you Had a Boyfriend. It perfectly captures a moment when a friendship unexpectedly turned into something more. A moment when you probably feel like that swelling synth line: joyful, anxious and

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NEW ALBUM: Jennylee - Right On!

Jenny Lee Lindberg, the bassist of Warpaint, does not break free from her band with her debut solo album. First, Warpaint heavily promotes Jennylee’s album on their social media and made it very clear that, despite the solo efforts of its members, a new album is on the way

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Late Night: Mothica - No One (Dunn & Kayge Calypso Remix)

Let’s go into the last week of the year with Song Pick of the Day by an artist I’m very excited about: Brooklyn singer/producer Mothica. Kayge Calypso and Dunn remixed her song “No One” into a loungy, relaxed track that hopefully brightens up your New Year’s

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Song Pick of the Day: Space Shark - Now Is We

First there’s a bit of lonely, shimmering guitars yet when Steve Caster of Space Shark starts singing the lyrics to Now Is We one listens up: raspy, expressive and a tiny bit “dirty” vocals, on top of a quietly flowing melody, bringing this feeling of longing home. Listen to

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Song Pick of the Day: Blonde Maze - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Here’s our Song Pick of Christmas: New York producer Blonde Maze with a fresh take on a Christmas song, complete with sleigh and church bells. More of this please!