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NEW ALBUM: Avid Dancer - 1st Bath

I decided to listen to 1st Bath, the debut album of Avid Dancer, simply because I was intrigued by the band name as well as the album cover. Several beats into the opening track All The Other Girls, I was already hooked and listened through the entire album and then

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PHOTOS: Satorii live at Pianos

Spring has finally arrived in New York City, hand-in-hand with hundreds of people strolling down the busy streets of the Lower East Side, where doors and floor-to-ceiling-windows are being opened wide to welcome the long awaited warmer season. Everywhere something cool seems to be happening and those who were wandering

NEW MUSIC: Olya - Lift Me Up

Here’s a new song titled Lift Me Up by Brooklyn’s OLYA. It starts slow, and I like the hint of menace in the piano line. Then at 1:30 the song changes pace with a fierce beat. OLYA is preparing their debut album, which will be released later

FIRST LISTEN: Doldrums - The Air Conditioned Nightmare

Electronic music has changed a lot in the last decades and by now is splintered into numerous genres and sub-genres. In The Air Conditioned Nightmare Airick Woodhead, the man behind Doldrums, takes it back to a point before the various dance music styles began their raise to mainstream. In particular

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PHOTOS: Be Forest live at Valhalla, SXSW 2015

Be Forest are Costanza Delle Rose (bass, vocals), Erica Terenzi (drums, vocals) and Nicola Lampredi (guitar) a three piece from Pesaro, Italy. Their expansive tour also lead them to this year’s South By South West music festival, where they played several shows. I had the good fortune to catch

Song Picks of the Week

It’s because of this song, that I listened to the whole new album and will again, later… Listen to our Song Pick Of Monday Love, Texas by Marriages and tell us what you think: Song Pick of Tuesday: Northern Irish band Girls Names likes long slow building songs, like

MUSIC BUZZ: Empress Of // Ibeyi // Nothing More // Vinyl // More

Brooklyn singer/songwriter Empress Of finally moves ahead with her debut album, now expected to come out in late summer. She also released a single (do you still call it that?), which raises expectations. French duo Ibeyi, who released my so far favorite album of the year, come back to

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PHOTOS: Letters To Nepal live at Arlene's Grocery

Third time’s the charm, no? Last Saturday, at the Lower East Side’s long standing music venue Arlene’s Grocery, I saw Letters to Nepal for the third time. First time happened more or less accidentally at Spike Hill and then the second time at Bar Matchless  for CMJ

PHOTOS: The Snaz live at Trophy Bar, SXSW 2015

The Snaz is a young four-piece band from Vermont: They are remarkable, because Dharma, Mavis, Zach and Nina are neither siblings nor carefully selected by some cunning producer. They are just (?) four teenagers who have been working together creatively for about three years and that to great results. Their music

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THROWBACK: Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine

When thinking of a song for glamglare’s weekly segment “Life Soundtrack”, I instantly thought of Siouxsie, of Siouxsie And The Banshees, because I’ve been musing a lot about female voices this week and just yesterday compared Emma Ruth Rundle’s voice with Siousxie’s when reviewing the new

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NEW ALBUM: Marriages - Salome

When I decided to listen to Salome, Marriages first full length studio album (after the 2012 released EP Kitsune), I just went through the list of titles and picked the one that was at that very moment most appealing to me Love, Texas – just having come back from Austin, TX…

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The Wans live at The Studio At Webster Hall

The Wans are a three piece from Nashville, TN and ever since I listened to Never Wins, I was hooked and wanted to hear more! Luckily, there’s plenty of great material, yet listening at home is one thing, and live a whole different story! Browsing (and listening!) to all

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Music Quotes: The Poetry of Music

Hamish Anderson at Lucky Lounge for SXSW 2015

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FIRST LISTEN: Lower Dens - Escape from Evil

I’ve been following Baltimore band Lower Dens since their 2010 debut Twin-Hand Movement, which was quite a dark and obscure affair. Their third record Escape from Evil has evolved from that place into almost pop territory: many tracks, like lead single To Die in L.A add bright synth

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Ibeyi live at SXSW 2015

Ibeyi was one of the bands I listened to when the first announcements for SXSW 2015 came out in October 2015, and I was immediately fascinated by their story and music on a very personal level. However, the elements of their music, piano, traditional percussion and chants in Yoruba initially

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VIDEO: Torres - Sprinter

Here at glamglare we have a love affair with Brooklyn singer/songwriter Torres since we saw her live in Austin. We can’t wait for her second albume come out in May, but in the meantime, here’s a video of the title track Sprinter.

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Song Picks of the Week

Hannah Cohen – Keepsake I like this song more with every listen, so it’s my Song Pick of the Day. Hannah Cohen is a singer/songwriter from New York via San Francisco and she just released her second album ‘’Pleasure Boy”. Fransico The Man – You & I These days, I

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TORRES live at the Central Presbyterian Church, SXSW 2015

TORRES (Mackenzie Scott) was also on our list of “must-see” when in Austin for SXSW 2015, but I didn’t think we’d catch any of her shows, and most certainly not the one at 1:00 AM Saturday night, basically the SXSW “closing” show. And yet, shortly before Midnight,

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MUSIC BUZZ: Band names // Banks // Tidal // More

Paste Magazine has a nice piece about the request to change the band name throughout the music history. For example the Spanish band Hinds (fka Deers): “We received an email from a Canadian lawyer saying that our name created confusion with his band’s name. And that name is not

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Swervedriver live at Red 7, SXSW 2015

There are bands, who seem to have disappeared, yet never lost their fan base. Then they come back, and are (still) so incredibly good that it blows your mind. Swervedriver is one of these bands with not having released an album in 15 years and then putting out a gem

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THROWBACK: Saga - Wind Him Up

More from the early 80s: the Canadian Band Saga was extremely popular in Germany and I remember their ’81 album Worlds Apart, which Wind Him Up is from, was traded heavily on the school yard. Saga was also the second concert of my life. In the end, the drummer threw

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Music Quotes: Universal Language

NEW MUSIC: Sexores - Maceió

I so badly wanted to see the Spanish/Ecuadorian shoegaze band Sexores in Austin, but they had to cancel their SXSW trip. But here’s a new song and I hope they make it over the Atlantic again soon.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad Of The Mighty I

The new album of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds came out mid March and after only one rather skeptical round of listening, I am totally in love with Chasing Yesterday, their second studio album. As much as I like the entire album, Ballad Of The Mighty I is certainly

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Song Picks of the Week: Bully // La-Bas // Suzanne Vega // Amason // The Foreign Resort // PINS

PINS – Too Little Too Late The Manchester four piece PINS has a new album in the works. The video for “Too Little Too Late” is a 3:25 min enactment of two words that are never uttered. I find the song better than what I remember from their first album,