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Excited for Chaos Chaos // Plastic Waves // Blak Emoji // Painted Zeros @ Knitting Factory for #NSIDE

Summer in the city and Northside Festival in full swing! So many great bands and interesting showcases to choose from, yet here’s one we’re particularly excited about. Granted, we’re also a bit biased but even if these exciting indie rock acts wouldn’t perform at our and

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Q&A with OTHERKIN

OTHERKIN hailing from Dublin, Ireland have an EP coming up later this month, and recently released the infectious “Yeah, I know”. It’s an amazing power track, so we made it Song Pick of the Day. Wanting to know more about the four from Dublin, we asked them to be

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SONG PICK: Water District - Supernova

There’s just one word that comes immediately to mind when listening to “Supernova”, the new single by Los Angeles indie rock band Water District –beautiful! The meaning behind the track in Water District’s own words: “Supernova is a song about what occurs when people explore new things in

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More Acts Not to Be Missed at Northside 2016

A few days ago, we collected the artists we’ve seen before and would love to see again, any time, hence “glamglare’s Top Picks for Northside 2016“. With Northside Festival just having started, we got a bit more time to look through the line-up more closely, listen to dozens

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NEW TRACK: Johnny Kills - Maybe Next Year

Right in time for the warmer days of the year – here’s talking to you, SUMMER!- comes “Maybe Next Year” by Brighton three-piece Johnny Kills. Should the sun not shine for you today, fear not, because “Maybe Next Year” boasts a sheer endless amount of infectious cheerfulness you can’

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3 Is A Band: Joseph

Sometimes, I don’t even need to actually listen to a band to know that I’m intrigued. Gimme siblings, gimme sisters, gimme my second favorite state (after New York, and  to make it easy, it is Oregon) and then a really cool album title like “I’m Alone, No

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SONG PICK: Kit Trigg - Thrasher

Fans of the heavier version of electric blues rock rejoice because here come Kit Trigg with their debut EP “Thrasher”. While all four tracks are equally exciting, we chose the title track “Thrasher” as our Song Pick of the Day, and the reason for this is simple: there is just

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MUSIC QUOTES: Play, Play, Play and Play

My Chemical Romance, December 2010 at Roseland Ballroom

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NEW ALBUM: Various - Alternative Spirit [PIAS]

This is the perfect album for everyone who wants to get a great sonic overview of independent music of the last ~8 years. Some of the finest bands are on “Alternative Spirit”, the compilation album released on May 20th by PIAS. Some bands on “Alternative Spirit” provide their hit singles

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glamglare's Top Picks for Northside 2016

So many fantastic bands to choose from! Long time favorites, plenty of “must sees” and then those bands we’ve experienced putting on a great live show and whose music we simply love. Hard to select only a few but we decided to feature the bands we’ve seen before

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SONG PICK: Caro - Cold Comfort

“Cold Comfort”, the just released second single by Leeds three-piece Caro, is intelligent alt-pop at its best! The track effortlessly mixes a singer-songwriter waltz with the high-energy and harmonies of prog rock, yet without ever sounding pompous or too experimental. “Cold Comfort” is a rather mature piece of music with

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SONG PICK: Extra Texture - Take It All

There are songs, I come back to over and over again because I really dig them, for their easy flow and pleasant vibe and “Take It All” by New York’s Extra Texture is one of them. It is a classic indie-rock song, with really cool vocals, great guitar work,

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LATE NIGHT: Titanics - Close Enough

Imagine at the end of a hectic day with only little to no time for slowing down, to start listening to “Close Enough”: it’s easy to get lost in a positively refreshing bliss of sound and sheer beauty. It’s all I wish for in a song to help

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SONG PICK: PLAZA - Blood Orange

“Blood Orange”, the newest single by PLAZA, a young indie-rock band from the industrial seaside town of Hartlepool, surprises with its blend of opposites. While the track starts out blissfully, evoking images of a sun-filled day at the beach with its chill, contemporary surf rock vibe, it intermittently contrasts with

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Q&A with HEATH

End of April, HEATH released their new EP “JUNE” from which we featured the breathtakingly beautiful “Brambles” as Song Pick of the Day. All four tracks on “June” are amazing and so we wanted to learn a bit more about this Brighton three-piece. Thankfully, HEATH took some time out of

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MUSIC QUOTES: Guitar

Jonathan van Herik of Disappears @ Glasslands, April 2012

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SONG PICK: Pierce Fulton - False Proof

When “False Proof” landed in my inbox, I listened to the track without any prior knowledge or bias and loved what I heard: a smooth, alt-rock song, with an irresistible hook and intriguing song progression, charming vocals and an overall groovy vibe. After having listened to it for the third

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SONG PICK: Drew Vogelsang - Days

When I first listened to “Days” by Drew Vogelsang, I didn’t pay much attention to the lyrics but simply enjoyed the effortless flow of the song, enjoyed its chilled and laid-back vibe. Only now, listening to it again under different circumstances, the lyrics jump out when Drew Vogelsang softly

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Q&A with Mike Sal

When I came across “Beyond You And I” by Mike Sal earlier this year, I loved the track from the spot and featured it as one of glamglare’s Late Night picks. The song got stuck in my head for weeks and became an integral part of my favorites playlists.

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SONG PICK: Bakers Eddy - Wallbreaker

“I won’t stop until I won” sing Bakers Eddy and we are happy to believe them so much urgency but also earnestness is in the latest track by this Wellington, Australia four-piece. “Wallbreaker” is unapologetically indie-rock, with driving beats, chiming guitars and an anthem like chorus – and our Song

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VIDEO: The King's Parade - Gathering the Pieces of a Broken Heart

Last year, The King’s Parade have not only released a stellar EP with “Vagabond” but also two highly interesting videos. Now, they put out a video for “Gathering The Pieces of a Broken Heart” which is equally artistic like the previous ones. It looks like they can’t do

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SONG PICK: ADVANCE - The One [EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE]

“A Sign of Things to Come” is the title of the upcoming EP by ADVANCE, the Glasgow based dystopian electronica project of Tom Perrett and Kimberly Copland, and we’re thrilled to exclusively premiere one track from the EP ahead of time (June 10). While we dig all four tracks,

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NEW ALBUM: Shady Groves - Bitzer

“Bitzer” is the debut album of Michigan based Shady Groves, a collective of singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists. While Adam Fitzgerald (vocals, guitar), Dylan Caron (vocals, guitar) and Jeff Yateman (vocals, drums) each bring their own ideas to the table, together they create a round, unique and beautiful rock/pop/ambient

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MUSIC QUOTES: Electronic Music

Negative Gemini live at Palisades, February 6 2016

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PHOTOS: LANY Captivate Fans at Sold Out Knitting Factory

Having followed synth pop trio LANY for a while, I knew that Brooklyn’s rather intimate Knitting Factory would be the real deal and so I bought tickets as soon as the show got announced. Rightfully so, because the event was sold out in the blink of an eye! It’