Song Pick of the Day

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SONG PICK: Jonathon Conant - Life IS Love Dancing

“Life IS Love Dancing” is love at first sight, respectively listen. It also is the new single by Jonathon Conant, an incredibly gifted human being, who packed up his things in California and build himself a new home in Costa Rica. Alone hearing about this, is reason enough to want

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SONG PICK: Kate Bollinger - Feel Like Doing Nothing (Video)

Do you “Feel Like Doing Nothing” during this upcoming summer weekend? Kate Bollinger from Charlotteville, VA has the perfect song for you: the music plays along like the glitter of the sun on a swimming pool and leads you instantly into a relaxed state of mind. And this is exactly

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SONG PICK: Odd Morris - Your Four Walls

Ireland’s music scene knows no shortage of exciting new bands, new to us anyway. We have seen live the band these indie-rockers from Dublin are friends with (Fontaines D.C.) and can not wait for our current dire times to end to get a taste of Odd Morris live

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SONG PICK: Circe - Ten Girls

London-based musician Circe does dark, chills-inducing pop music and looks to correlate fictional literary work with the times we are living in. For her new single “Ten Girls” she found inspiration in a particularly dark and unsettling story. Circe explains: Ten Girls was inspired by Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’

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SONG PICK: Psychic Shakes - Suddenly

Psychic Shakes, the solo project of Brighton-based artist Max McLellnm, knows how to mesmerize listeners with the help of hooks that are an enchanting blend of dreamy meets edgy. No different with his latest single “Suddenly” that features shimmering piano synths as the base for bright guitars and warm and

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SONG PICK: emzae - THRIVE

“This is what it feels like to be free.” In her latest song “THRIVE” Singer, songwriter and producer Emma Shaw aka emzae encourages you to shake free from the expectations of others and go your own way. That doesn’t mean not to party, though: the upbeat, super-catchy 80s dance-pop

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SONG PICK: SAVI MINDS - Comatose

It has been a while since we could treat ourselves to a new song by SAVI MINDS, the solo project of Los Angeles-based songwriter, singer, and producer Mikale D’Andrea. Luckily, D’Andrea was able to use the pandemic enforced slowdown and finished material he has been working on during

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SONG PICK: Ela Minus - megapunk (Video)

Born in Colombia and based in Brooklyn, Ela Minus is a synthesizer maven who does dark, electronic pop music without the help of computers. Her new song “megapunk” is a protest anthem which fits perfectly to the here and now. “you don’t want to understand / you’re choosing to

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SONG PICK: The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara - Atoms

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara or in short TCOMAS are a fascinating, creative duo based out of London. Andrea Papi (Manimal) and Daphne Ang (Samara), the artists behind TCOMAS, have just released their debut single “Atoms, which is part of an eleven tracks album called “Full Spectrum”, to be

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SONG PICK: Dream Wife - After The Rain (Video)

At glamglare, we have been fans of the music and live performances of British/Icelandic band Dream Wife ever since we saw them live during Iceland Airwaves 2016. They just released their excellent second full-length album (listen here) and while most tracks explode with energy, the closing track “After The

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SONG PICK: The Cuckoos - So Real, So Surreal (Video)

Austin-based psych-rockers The Cuckoos continue to release singles and videos simultaneously, with their new “So Real, So Surreal”. This latest installment is a beautifully woozy and summer-sensual song. What prompted the band to create a video featuring a blow-up doll? And how did they avoid to make this look all

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SONG PICK: Mïrändä - Holiday

We probably all need a holiday from solving problems, bad news and general stress. In her latest song “Holiday” Mïrändä proposes taking some time off to fix a relationship, but in the end she leaves us doubtful if this is going to work. “Maybe we don’t need to talk

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SONG PICK: Mildlife - Vapour

Some things luckily do not change, like analog synths still do sound as futuristic now as they did 50 years ago. They come with the promise of an exciting future ahead and lots of possibilities. A cosmic-tinged song like “Vapour” and its magnetic flute solo manages to envelop the listener

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SONG PICK: Young Saab - but i love you (ft. Chloe Lilac) (Video)

Young Saab is a brand new project, a Brooklyn super group, if you will, founded by Jon Sandler of Good Fine Ok and Eric Zeiler of Me Not You. Add their neighbor Chloe Lilac and you have all the ingredients for smart, engaging indie pop. The debut single “but I

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SONG PICK: Boy Willows - I Love It When You Talk

“I Love It When You Talk” by Boy Willows is an uncompromisingly soft, smooth, and sensual single that instantly mesmerizes. The glorious track evokes images of golden sun rays dancing on rippling waves. It is beautiful! Landon Fleischman, the artist behind the moniker Boy Willows, says the following about his

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SONG PICK: Ess See - Overdrive (Video)

There is this one moment when continuous romantic disappointment turns into new hope in its brightest colors. No matter on which side of this event you may be, the new song by Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Sarah Cobb aka Ess See is the perfect anthem to lift you up. She produced

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Q&A with Notelle

Notelle is a musician and songwriter, deeply involved in the sprawling pop music scene in Nashville, TN. In 2018, she started releasing a series of singles under her own name, crafting her signature sound which is darker and heavier than most contemporary pop music. We wanted to know more about

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SONG PICK: Man of Moon - Strangers (Video)

“Strangers”, the new single by Scottish duo Man of Moon, is as exhilarating as a fancy, fuzzy bubble bath squeezed into a four-minute song. It is as if Kraftwerk meets LCD Soundsystem, together they pick up Killing Joke along the way, and then they are going to party with Chemical

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SONG PICK: Marva Von Theo - Forever

The new song “Forever” by Marva Von Theo, the Athens, Greece based duo of Marva Voulgari and Theo Foinidis takes on big thoughts about life and eternity, but wraps them into an accessible synth pop gem that will stick in your head. Reminiscent of synthesizer pioneers like Jean-Michel Jarre the

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SONG PICK: Zach Benson - mischief!

The joie de vivre, the joy of life in “mischief!” is infectious, the good kind of contagious. The new single by New York-based pop artists Zach Benson and Gregory Dillon captures the carefreeness and sunshine fun of Summer in just one glorious pop-song. When asked about the inspiration for “mischief!

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SONG PICK: Jareth - Amber (ft. Gent Mason)

Amber can preserve a moment in for eternity, an idea that strikes close in the current situation, where time seems to be in a weird loop. This is the metaphor the new song by London-based singer/songwriter Jareth evolves around: “being in love feeling like you’re trapped in amber,

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SONG PICK: Family of Things - YKB

“YKB”, the new single by Canadian indie-pop duo Family of Things sends a heavy dose of brightness and optimism into the world that makes you look at things with newfound confidence. “YKB” swirls and swings and takes cues from different styles and genres and puts them all exquisitely together. The

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SONG PICK: Lennixx - Empty Room

Hanna Larsson and Andrea Kallström aka Lennixx from Sweden are back with a new track “Empty Room,” the “b-side” of “Bold Me,” released a few weeks ago. The song beautifully showcases their light-as-a-feather, sparse production style that puts their vocal harmonies front and center and lets the music float around

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SONG PICK: Homesick Hotel - All Love

Having toured the world as part of the Dutch electronic duo The Him, Jay Kersten settled down in Amsterdam for the time being and started working on his solo project. Under the moniker Homesick Hotel, Jay released his first single called “All Love”, which is a stunning debut not alone

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SONG PICK: Byland - Mine

This probably sounds familiar: too much is going on, everybody wants something from you and you scramble to get it all right. New Mexico-based singer/songwriter Alie Renee Byland, who records under her last name Byland turned that state of mind into a song like a wave that slowly builds