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PHOTOS: Bandits On The Run live at The Loft at City Winery

New York-based trio Bandits On The Run are known for their joyful and vibrant live shows and kicked off their European tour at The Loft at City Winery. If their bon-voyage celebration is anything to measure the tour with, their fans on the other side of the Atlantic are in

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SONG PICK: Paper Beat Scissors - Gun Shy

Listening to “Gun Shy”, I feel reminded of the things that really matter in life, the honest and simple things. By any means, the track is not ‘simple’ per but it is beautifully pure and utterly mesmerizing. The latest single of Montreal- and UK-based experimental folk band Paper Beat Scissors

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SONG PICK: Jens Carelius - All I Know

A song as mesmerizing as “All I Know” is appealing without any knowledge about its inspiration or wider context. However, if your great-great-grandfather has documented over 50,000 specimens of fascinating butterflies in Eastern Siberia in the 1800s and you are an artist you might want to explore this a

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SONG PICK: UV - Wilt

In “Wilt”, composer Marina Elderton aka UV takes her listeners by the hand and leads them through her web of ethereal sounds, trippy beats, ambient vibes and intoxicating vocals. Since the musician is taking the lead though, we don’t get lost in the sheer overwhelming beauty of it all.

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SONG PICK: Bandits On The Run - Potted Plant

Brooklyn-based trio Bandits On The Run continue to care out their very own niche of sound and that alone already deserves our attention but it is also highly appealing! In addition, they take the idea of a band a little further, beyond the typical roles band members play and take

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SONG PICK: The Woods - Night Silk Threads

When the sun has set and the sky is colored in shades of dark blue and one by one windows become illuminated, that is when “Night Silk Threads”, the new single by The Woods, enters the scene. The Scottish producer, vocalist and multi-instrumental live-loop artist Johnny McFadzean makes music as

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VIDEO FRIDAY: Ora The Molecule - A Piece of Heaven

We are fans of Ora The Molecule ever since we heard (and featured) their fabulous single “Sugar” and have their EP with the same title on constant replay. Now we can even enjoy an incredibly charming and inspired video to “A Piece of Heaven”, the last track on the album.

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SONG PICK: Caamp - Wolf Song

“Wolf Song”, is a gorgeous single about love, what is and what could be. It might be as much an assurance for the person the song is dedicated to as it is for the singer himself when he muses “Always thinking I could love you more”. “Wolf Song” announces the

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SONG PICK: Digging for Apples - Empty Fool

Manchester is the home of many fantastic bands: famous and legendary ones but also new ones, who intent to find their place in the eclectic music scene of the city. Digging for Apples, whose members hail from New Zealand, France and the Netherlands, are about to join this illustrious club

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SONG PICK: Matias Malagardis - Hollywood

Brighton-based singer/songwriter Matias Malagardis delights with his new single “Hollywood”, featuring a beautifully moody guitar, so prevalent in West Coast surf sound and exquisitely contrasting with his Spanish roots. “Hollywood” touches on what is and what could be all the while exploring different sonic possibilities. The sparse and deliberate

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SONG PICK: Gazel - Rain Is Coming

With “Rain Is Coming”, British/Turkish songwriter and producer Gazel puts herself firmly on the map of artists to follow. The single is the fourth one plugged from her upcoming album “Book Of Souls” out in October. The track is magnificent in its built, with a highly alluring and hypnotic

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SONG PICK: Company Ink - Young Milk

Without context or knowing anything about Company Ink, one could easily place “Young Milk” as a song straight from late 70s Manchester, because it bursts with an undeniably catchy urgency, dark punk undertones and a remarkably infectious vibe. However, Company Ink are not calling the UK their home but Norway

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SONG PICK: Magic Wands - Cyan Blue

Dream pop duo Magic Wands create music that could equally originate from current day California as well as 80s England. Chris Valentine (guitar, vocals) and Dexy Valentine (guitar, keyboards, vocals) left their home in Nashville, TN and headed further West to build themselves a home in Los Angeles. Their latest

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PHOTOS: Adam Melchor @ Baby's All Right

The concert room was packed that night at Baby’s All Right, filled with friends and family but also new fans and old fans of Adam Melchor, the charming singer/songwriter who exchanged his old home grounds in New Jersey with the sunnier ones in California. I certainly don’t

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SONG PICK: Carter Reeves - Grey Area

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and producer Carter Reeves just released “Grey Area”, a lush, funky and highly infectious new single with a big dose of summer feeling and carefree vibes. When asked about the inspiration for the track, Carter Reeves says: “Being in the grey area is NO GOOD. If you’

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SONG PICK: Hēran Soun - Barricade

Even without knowing anything about the background of Hēran Soun about his childhood, how he grew up, I would be utterly fascinated by “Barricade”, the single he released today. I am ready to admit though, that when reading up on the California-based experimental indie-electronic musician, I was intrigued of course

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PHOTOS: Henry Jamison live at Rough Trade

Sometimes it is possible to catch the same artist at two very different occasions and locations, which can particularly highlight great songwriting and musicianship. While attending Welcome Campers festival in Massachussets over Memorial Day weekend, I was eagerly awaiting the closing act of the intimate event and when Henry Jamison

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SONG PICK: Dead Horse Beats - Easy Nothing

Since 2010, Montréal-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalit Patrick Wade has been putting out music under the moniker Dead Horse Beats and released his gorgeous new album “Inglaterra” in May this year. The most recent single from that album is “Easy Nothing” and the song is… everything! “Easy Nothing” maybe summarizes

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PHOTOS: Intimate Music Festival "Welcome Campers" presented by The Wild Honey Pie

On the first night we sat in an amphitheater across the campfire and Aisha Badru was playing acoustic guitar accompanied by soft keyboard sounds. The fire crackled while she filled us in on the remarkable story of her life and even the starting rain could not dampen the magic of

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SONG PREMIERE: Eulene - Megalomaniac

Born and raised in New York City and now based in Nashville, electro-pop artist Eulene hits the scene with the magnificent “Megalomaniac”, ahead of the release of her self-titled EP out on June 7. The pulsating beat in “Megalomaniac”, its brooding, forceful undertones and overall irresistible vibe make the song

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SONG PICK: LYYN - Our Place

When I played the beautifully wistful “Our Place” to Oliver, he immediately remarked that Kim Wilde comes to mind and we also agreed on totally digging the track. While New York-based singer/songwriter LYYN might remind some of us vocally of the 80s pop star, LYYN is very much involved

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SONG PICK - Savi Minds - Darling

The month of May came with a lot of rain in the New York Tri-state area and so I can not blame New Jersey-native singer/songwriter and producer SAVI MINDS to leave this grey and wet mess behind and exchange the East Coast with the West Coast. The dreamy music

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SONG PICK: Le Module - I've Lost Centre

When I tell you that “I’ve Lost Centre”, the new single by Le Module starts with a longing whistling, you might be inclined to think of Andrew Bird, who made the whistling his hallmark. Yet the opening whistling in “I’ve Lost Centre” reminds me more of the beginning

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SONG PICK: Deep Deep Water - Freedom

How would Warpaint sound if they added a flute to their music? This was the first thought I had when listening to the gorgeous “Freedom”, the new single by London-based quartet Deep Deep Water. The mysterious and mesmerizing track doesn’t give away that there’s so much more to

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SONG PICK: Pelicandy - White Sky

London-based duo Pelicandy deliver with “White Sky” a beautiful alt-pop single that is highly infectious thanks to its lightness and synth-laden smoothness. Listening to the song makes me think of the fizziness and the fine pearls of good champagne, the extra lovely sparkles. Vocalist TC Beecham says about the track: