It’s 3am and I can’t sleep. I’m wading through submissions, we’re backed up. I am transfixed. The song is finished. I’m not ready for the next one. I immediately replay it. “All I ever wanted…
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Jeremy Bastard - Everyone is History, There is No Memory
I’m on the A heading home alone and nobody gives a rat’s dirty ass about me. Darkness and dancing. I’m slouching and on fire. Jeremy Bastard of Autodrone comes out…
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BackHome bring us skatepunk from Latin America
4 dudes from 4 different Latin American countries and a love for that Epi-Fat sound have put out a new single under the name BackHome. The standalone track is called "Visita" and addresses all your melodic skatepunk…
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THE RAFT: Summerheads And Winter Beds
The album starts off as abstract as the album art. It takes a few minutes for a song to come into focus. Track one and two could be completely different bands. I could…
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Christina Ward releases haunting debut EP “Rent”
Soft, picked out chords, a drum beat that teases and never comes in fully, discordant unexpected chord changes, all covered with angelic vocals that combine beauty and feelings of being haunted. That’s how “Ghost”, the first song from Christina Ward’s…
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Homem em Catarse brings us indiegaze from Portugal
A Portuguese, ambient, emo band you say? Yes, and that’s all true. Atmospheric, reverb guitar effects and hypnotic, mood-altering rhythms with psychedelic videos to boot. Reminiscent of bands like ‘Washed Out’…
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KITTYHAWK “MIKEY’S FAVORITE SONGS” REVIEW
Ok, so if you love Mates Of State, Belle & Sebastian, mixed in with early 2000’s stuff like The Anniversary or Discount, I just found you your new favorite band. It’s apparent a few songs in this has to be…
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Sean Thomas Gerard "Sail off in the Sunset" Video Premiere
If you haven’t heard of or seen Sean Thomas Gerard, you are robbing yourself of perhaps one of the more talented musicians in the indie game right now.
I had to get that out of the way. I am big…
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YOUTH RETIREMENT CLUB EP BY TENDER TONES REVIEW
From the first moments of Tender Tones new EP Youth Retirement Club the tones set a dark but hopeful mood. A dreamy synth tone starts that track that is very cinematic, in fact the…
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BloodMakesNoise Playlist: Mint 400 Records Spotlight (BLACK CAT REVUE, ROSEY BENGAL & THIS BLISS) 3/12/21
So full disclosure I run a record label and I’ve come to an agreement with Blood Makes Noise to let me promote releases every week. The idea is every week I will present a playlist with some new Mint 400…
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