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NEW ALBUM: Foals - What Went Down

With its uncompromising urgency, high tempo moving forward, pronounced bass lines and underlying menace cumulating in great suspense, What Went Down is easily among the best rock-pop songs of the year! Yet when first listening to What Went Down  the fourth studio album of The Foals, one is inclined to

No Words: VHVL - lthrgy

This is the inaugural post of our “No Words” series for showcasing electronic instrumentals. Lthgry by Harlem producer VHVL starts out as a serene, dreamy soundscape which is suddenly pierced by a dissonant bassline and frantic beats. Like when you try to sleep, but a sudden important thought keeps your

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Song Pick of the Day: Some Type Of Stereo - I Don't Remember

Where have all the classic rock bands gone? Is this type of sound truly passé? Well, let’s wander out West, way West to Los Angeles and collect some members along the way: a bassist from Florida, a guitarist and a drummer from North Carolina and a singer from L.

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Shopping brought Joy and Modern UK Punk to Palisades

“Billy Easter, she’s so rad. Don’t know how she’s doing it but she’s awesome! And I am a bass player too. Loved the show!” the woman next to me at Sky Town bar enthusiastically explained when I asked her about her favorite moment of the show

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Music Quotes: Good Rock Music

Empires live @ Pianos, May 2015

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Song Pick of the Day: Mothica - No One

It’s finally here: the first track of the upcoming debut EP by Brooklyn producer/singer Mothica. I’ve been a fan for quite a while, based on the demos and collaborations she has put out so far, but it’s even more exciting to hear her first proper single.

Released Today: Badlands - Caramisou

This is the first single of Badlands, the project of electronic producer Catherina Jaunviksna – not surprisingly – from Sweden, although she has also ties to Italy and Ireland. Caramisou is a lush, etheric track, think a less icy, warmer version of iamamiwhoami’s music. Badlands is working on a full-length expected

Song Picks of the Day 15.47

1. Hank Mittnacht 2. Ecca Vandal 3. Hidden Charms 4. Alohaha 5. Bad Sounds 6. Thyla 7. Sofi Tukker

Video: Cross Record - High Rise

Slightly on the creepy side is this video by Cross Record, which shows a masked Emily Cross operating a chain saw. Maybe this is what you come up with when you live on a ranch like Emily and her husband do. But the music is not country-side at all, so

Song Pick of the Day: Sofi Tukker - Drinkee

It’s Sunday, but in case you want to get a party started, here’s our Song Pick of the Day Drinkee by the New York duo Sofi Tukker. This track goes to so many places and makes me curious what else they are up to for their upcoming EP.

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Song Pick of the Day: Thyla - Us And Them

From the first few bars into “Us And Them” we’re already drawn in by the song’s uncompromising urgency, and when Millie Duthie’s pure yet also strong and occasionally gritty vocals kick in, we’re completely hocked! Our Song Pick of the Day “Us And them” is the

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NEW ALBUM: Grimes - Art Angels

Art Angels is already Grimes’ fourth album, which is proudly denoted on its cover: Claire Boucher, the woman behind Grimes, who rose to unexpected stardom after her 2012 album Visions has been releasing music since 2010, when she self-recorded and self-published two excellent full-length records: Geidi Primes and Halfaxa. And

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PHOTOS: Dilly Dally returns to Baby’s All Right

Not too long ago, we saw Dilly Dally at the Brooklyn Vegan CMJ day party, at a time when we could use the energy this Canadian band dispenses on stage. Last Saturday we went to the same location at night time to see them again at Baby’s All Right,

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Video: Vanessa Carlton - House of Seven Swords

Vanessa Carlton invites us in the video “House of Seven Swords” into her beautiful new home in Nashville. Nothing suggests the existence of seven swords in there, but it is of course meant metaphorical. In any case the song is beautiful and so is her fifth album Liberman, out now

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Song Pick of the Day: Bad Sounds - Avalanche

Despite the chaos a song titled Avalanche would imply, the track is decisively lo-fi, with a relaxed and 70s groovy vibe to it. Avalanche flows beautifully along and wiggles its way into your ears and stays right there, because it is that catchy yet in quite a subtle way! It’

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Song Pick of the Day: Aloha - Welcome to Your New Life

Our Song Pick of the Day comes from L.A. duo Alohaha. With the steel guitar in Welcome to your New Life sounds Hawaiian, but doesn’t really evoke the pretty pictures of a tropical island. Actually, the record cover visualizes the song perfectly.

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Song Pick of the Day: Hidden Charms - Love You Cause You're There

Unsure what to make with the song title Love You Cause You’re There, but then again, it probably fits right in with the band’s name Hidden Charms (nice ambiguity). The four young Londoners expand their usual rock tunes into the blues rock genre and successfully so. Our Song

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Video: Empress Of - Icon

This video shows off three things we love in New York: the beautiful landscape upstate, New York City and the great music that is created there, in this case by Lorely Rodriguez, aka Empress Of, who recently released her excellent debut Me. Watch and enjoy:

PHOTOS: The Snaz give their NYC debut at Rockwood Music Hall

We are big fans of the Vermont rock quartet The Snaz, since we saw them this spring at SXSW. They are all under 20 and not really touring yet, so we were delighted to see that they come down for their debut NYC show to Rockwood Music Hall. And they

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NEW ALBUM: Painted Zeros - Floriography

Floriography, the full length debut album of Painted Zeros starts right of with lush, woozy guitars on (X) Flatline reminiscent of the best songs of the Silversun Pickups or Smashing Pumpkins, when Katie Lau asks: Which worries you more: that I’ll leave you, or that I won’t? I

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Music Quotes: Breaking Through Fear

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Song Pick of the Day: Ecca Vandal - End of Time

I think I write the word “Melbourne” quite often lately, but here we go again with another artist from that Australian city: Ecca Vandal with the track End of Time, which turns me into an instant fan of hers. Just listen to our Song Pick of the Day!

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New Release: Sea Caves - Spanning the River

When the song starts with acoustic guitars and a flute, I was expecting a more mellow folk song, but Portland, Oregon quartet Sea Caves is up to something else here: their debut single Spanning the River soars into a quite big song, with a wonderfully melancholic edge. Their debut album

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Song Pick of the Day: Hank Mittnacht - Loosing Sleep

Mondays break the waves of the weekend sings Brooklyn based Hank Mittnacht in Loosing Sleep, the perfect song for easing into this Monday with its overall softness and sweet, comforting melody. Hank Mittnacht’s mellow vocals and playful guitar picks help Loosing Sleep truly shine, hence our Song Pick of

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Song Picks of the Day 15.46

1. Dahlia Sleeps 2. Rare Monk 3. Lauren Marsh 4. St. Tropez 5. Sabina Ddumba 6. TWINKIDS