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SONG PICK: Thayer Sarrano - Grace Goes On

Thayer Sarrano is a singer/songwriter from Athens, Georgia and her new song “Grace Goes On” moves along an effect-heavy guitar line that keeps you on the edge for the entire song. But what is the chiming sound in the beginning? Thayer explains: That instrument is a Chimeatron, It was

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SONG PICK: Sylvie Kreusch - Please To Devon

Belgian singer/songwriter Sylvie Kreusch goes full throttle into this relationship, no prisoners taken. A heavy piano line and an ominously screeching saxophone add serious drama to Sylvie’s second single “Please To Devon”: “I’m no a person to cross to, baby,” she chants and you know she means

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SONG PICK : Car Astor - Don't Stop, Don't Speak

When you put on “Don’t Stop, Don’t Speak” you are greeted by a mean bass line, which keeps you on the edge for most of the song. The new high-energy track by New York musician Car Astor is something to throw your hand in the air and tackle

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SONG PICK: Blu DeTiger - In My Head

The beat that is in Blu DeTiger’s head starts slowly, almost as a distraction but not before long it turns into a full-fledged high-energy disco party. The message is simple: music can be the best medicine and a good rhythm can indeed drive you forward. Blu is based in

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PHOTOS: glamglare presents: HOLDN, Glitch Cake, Grandeur, Katie Skare, Tishmal

HOLDN Glitch Cake Grandeur Katie Skare Tishmal == All concert photos by glamglare.com – Elke Nominikat and Oliver Bouchard ==

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SONG PICK: Stella Donnelly - Old Man (Video)

Australian singer/songwriter Stella Donnelly is a cheerful, charismatic young woman as we could witness first hand at her Iceland Airwaves show where she was interviewed for The Current. It fits that her new song and video “Old Man” feels upbeat and light-hearted on the surface, but in fact it

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Five 2018 Albums (Made by Women) You Should Add to Your Library Now

2018 is in the rearview and after all best-of-the-year lists have been published, we are looking forward to what kind of new music 2019 will bring us. But why not have a look back to what you might have missed last year? Music does not age that fast, a good

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SONG PICK: She's Excited! - Drowning (ft. Mimiko)

Our Song Pick of the Day “Drowning” is an elegantly produced future pop track, which builds suspense around every corner. It is the latest single by She’s Excited!, a singer & producer from Brooklyn via Munich, Germany and for this song she worked together with Japanese-American musician Mimiko. This

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SONG PICK: E.Parker - Girl

London-via-Australia singer/songwriter E.Parker has a special way to tell her stories, with gravitas and poise. Add the sleek, never intrusive production to it and you have perfect, modern pop gems at had. Her latest song “Girl” is somewhat more abstract than her previous work, but comes with a

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SONG PICK: Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen

New York or in this case Brooklyn is a fast changing city. Sharon Van Etten arrived here in 2005 and in her moving new video “Seventeen” she shows us some of the venues or remains of venues that helped launching her career, juxtaposing it with growing up and changing herself

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SONG PICK: Someone - Pull It Together

Tessa Rose Jackson aka Someone is back with big plans in 2019. First up is the power pop single “Pull It Together” with an infectious chorus. “I don’t know why I can’t pull it together. I don’t know why it’s so hard to remember when it

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SONG PICK: novelties - TBD

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SONG PICK: Emmeline - Superheroes

“We gonna be superheroes,” is the hopeful message of Dallas-based singer/songwriter Emmeline. “Let the villains make their headlines,” she sings, but in the end the good forces will prevail. To make its point, the song starts with a piano, but then swells to a grand, cinematic finale and it

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SONG PICK: TRACE - Anxiety (VIDEO)

L.A.-based singer/songwriter TRACE does restrained, unpretentious pop songs that are hard to push out of your head. Her musical interpretation of “Anxiety” does not hit you frontal, but sneaks up to you, just like those anxious feelings usually do. Even in the video, anxiety is personified by

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SONG PICK: Sophie Strauss - Aphids (from new album Hard Study)

“You cover me in aphids” – it is not pleasant image that Sophie Strauss invokes in her song “Aphids”. The track is about being fed up that women are expected to play the second fiddle and serve as an inspiration and muses for male “geniuses”, something that is clearly still prevalent

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SONG PICK: Moon Panda - Gun

“You don’t know what you want, but you know it’s not this” is the core line of the new song by Californian duo Moon Panda. The song unfolds with a soft guitar line like a daydream on a hot summer afternoon, reminiscent of the work of Air on

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SONG PICK: EZI - Family Tree

L.A.-based musician Esther Zyskind aka EZI is 23, independent, but married, but not a “spinster” as a narrator in her song “Family Tree” lets us know. But still, reconciling modern life with traditional expectations can be a challenge and that is what this extremely catchy pop song is

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SONG PICK: Betta Lemme - Give It (Video)

“Give It” is a futuristic pop song and a sharp left turn from Betta Lemme‘s previous music. “Bambola” was a big hit around the world and you probably know it well, but apparently the singer/songwriter from Montreal did not feel like standing still and kicks off her 2019

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SONG PICK: Leyya - Donnie

“Donnie” is just a b-side – whatever that means in 2019 – by Austrian duo Leyya, but it is so good that is has to be a Song Pick of the Day. The band agrees: ‚Donnie‘ is one of those tracks we continued working on although we knew it won‘t make

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SONG PICK: Emma Charles - Comfort In The Chaos (VIDEO)

Happy New Year, everybody! Here is a great idea by L.A.-based singer/songwriter Emma Charles wrapped in a gorgeous song: battle the everyday stress levels by setting your mind to find “Comfort In The Chaos”. Emma also delivers some fitting visuals (with horses!), so you can practice right

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SONG PICK: Dramaglider - The Future Is A Parody

As 2018 comes to an end and we ask ourselves what 2019 will hold for us, here is a song by Chicago brainy rock six-piece Dramaglider about wrestling with the future. Singer Emily Anderson tries to “stare her down” – not a bad idea, if you think of it. Happy New

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SONG PICK: Dorine Levy & Roy Sela - Troubled Faith

Give me steel drums and I’m happy, in particular when they come in so unexpected as in “Troubled Faith,” the new track by singer/songwriter Dorine Levy, who splits her time between Canada and Tel Aviv. For the song she turned to her long time friend Roy Sela for

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SONG PICK: Christinna O - Shelter

“Do I be shelter?” ask singer/songwriter Christinna O in her first single “Shelter”, after she realizes that she is taken advantage of with little in return. The song is an exciting mix of classic R&B and future pop with refreshing restraint in vocals and production. Christinna is

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SONG PICK: Telepathy Ultra - Pillows

Telepathy Ultra is a duo from Park City, Utah, masterminded by singer/songwriter Nicole Paradiso, which does edgy, “ultra modern” rock with lots of electronics. “Pillows” is the first cut of their new self-titled album, which is very much worth to listen to in its entirety – if possible on headphones

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SONG PICK: TEEN - Only Water (Video)

TEEN is the New-York-based trio of Teeny, Lizzie and Katherine Lieberson who are preparing the release of their new album “Good Fruit” on March 1. The lead single “Only Water” is a reflection of death and loss, but music and particularly the visuals give the topic a hopeful spin. Watch