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NEW MUSIC: Abi Wade - Beautifully Astray (album)

The cello is the main instrument of Brighton-based singer/songwriter Abi Wade, but there is a lot more going on on her debut album. Her song feel like miniature worlds in itself, brimming with ideas. Like her new single “Reasonable Doubt”, which she describes as follows: I imagine a twisted

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SONG PICK: Ralph - September Fades [Video]

“September Fades” is a bright, nostalgic pop song by Toronto-based artist Ralph that will stick in your head for at least the rest of the day. Director Gemma Warren created the matching visuals for the track: follow RALPH and several other characters on an evening in a motel from the

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SONG PICK: Alexandra Lost - Towers

Alexandra Lost are Jane Ehrhardt and Simon Paradis from Quebec City, Canada. That is all we know for now, but their first release, “Towers” speaks for itself with an ominous bass line, chilling synths and androgynous vocals. Turn the volume up and enjoy! Listen to “Towers”, our Song Pick of

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NEW MUSIC: Young Galaxy - Down Time album & Frontier video

Young Galaxy was responsible for two of my favorite songs last year and tomorrow finally their new album “Down Time” comes out. While the Montreal-based duo has been around for a while, “Down Time” is a new start of making music independently on their own label. To celebrate the occasion,

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SONG PREMIERE: Spaces Of Disappearance - Mr. Nobody

Spaces of Disappearance is the project of Chicago-based singer/producer Elaine HD and at glamglare we have been following her work since the show at the 2015 CMJ festival. That is why we are particularly delighted to premiere the first single of her upcoming EP  “The Eye”, to be released

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SONG PICK: Hydrah - Fire

“Fire”, a new piece by L.A. based singer/producer Hydrah is a track that continuously induces growing heat over its five minutes, with a steady house beat and Katie Kramarczuk’s rich and soulful vocals. And there is some other ingredient, which turns out to be a recording of

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PHOTOS: glamglare presents: The Loud Soft Loud, Statues of Liberty, The Nectars, FlirtClub

When New York’s rock legends Statues of Liberty took the stage of The Delancey on February 24, things went full circle for us at glamglare: the band of John Law, Prince Hal and Hitomi was among the first local acts we followed through the live clubs of Downtown Manhattan,

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NEW MUSIC: Sera Eke - White Room (EP Announcement)

Here at glamglare we have been excited about everything that London-based singer/songwriter Sera Eke has released so far, but her latest track “White Room” might be my favorite. She does quote the German synth pioneers Kraftwerk as an inspiration, so the nod towards their 1983 masterpiece “Tour De France”

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SONG PICK: Strangers On The Internet - Good Problems

strangers on the internet is the electro-pop duo of Lilly Wolfson and Alex Neuhausen from New York. We know them already from their previous project Lilly Wolf and are happy to report they are back with a new name and a new track “Good Problems”, which is about the good

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SONG PICK: SDH - Tell Them

SDH stands for Semiotics Department of Heteronyms, which stands for… well I don’t know. But that is fitting for a dark wave electronic pop track with a somewhat disturbing aesthetic: an air of mystery belongs to the genre as much as the steady beats and the wailing synths. SDH

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SONG PICK: Saltwater Sun - The Wire

I marveled already in our 2016 Song Pick about the band’s name, Saltwater Sun: pleasure and danger could not be better expressed in two words. The U.K. five-piece tackles another kind of antithesis in their new song: the same wire that connects us more than ever can also

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SONG PICK: Aurelia - Chest

Aurelia is a singer/songwriter from Brisbane, Australia, who is involved in many things, inside and outside the music industry. “Chest” is the second song she releases under her own name, recorded in L.A. with a group of A-list musicians. It is a richly layered love declaration that slowly

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SONG PICK: Emma Elisabeth - Soul Traveller

Back from SXSW, the first show we saw seems like a distant memory, but Berlin resident Emma Elisabeth’s performance at the German Haus is still vivid in my mind. Her brand of music clearly nods to classics in the past without sounding dated. Case in point: “Soul Traveller”, the

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SONG PICK: Foxtrap - Kontrol

Dark, hypnotic and full of energy – that is the debut track “Kontrol” by the U.K. three-piece Foxtrap. As the electro beats and singer Helen Morrisson’s vocals swell up and down, it is hard to escape the song’s allure: you want to jump up and just be carried

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SONG PICK: Mission Jupiter - Will You Be Loved? (Video)

This Song Pick of the Day comes from Minsk, Belarus: “Will You Be Loved?” is a cinematic, melancholic track by the band Mission Jupiter about the dark sides of relationships. There is a heavy guitar, a saxophone and Shevtsova Nastya’s chills-inducing vocals. The band is working on their debut

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SXSW 2018 Day 5 Roundup

Follow us along for more impressions on Twitter or Instagram under @glamglare.

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SONG PICK: Bleach Baby - Turn Around

It is Saturday and when you’re ready to go out and about in town tonight, this is the track to put on. “Turn Around” by the U.K. band Bleach Baby is a high energy house track that turns every space into a night club. Listen to our Song

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PHOTOS: SXSW Day 4 Roundup

At every SXSW there comes the point where it is hard to keep up with the daily posts. But here they are, with a little delay, the photos of day 4. Follow us along for more impressions on Twitter or Instagram under @glamglare.

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PHOTOS: SXSW 2018 Roundup Day 3 - glamglare showcase

Countless hours of preparation, but on Wednesday the day of our showcase has finally arrived. We had a blast! Big thanks to everybody who could come out. Check out a few photos below – our full coverage will be up soon. Follow us along for more impressions on Twitter or Instagram

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SONG PICK: Cat Turner - Waster

“Waster” is an electronic pop piece, probably unlike anything else you’ve heard: Irish singer/producer Cat Turner lets a brooding arrangement of classic chiming synth sounds compete with a rough, unsettling vocal delivery, which you would rather expect for a blues song. The conflict she describes is sonically obvious

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PHOTOS: SXSW 2018 Day 2 Roundup

Tuesday was a day that felt like it had 100 hours. That Austrian lunch with Leyya, wasn’t it a week ago? That’s SXSW, so do more things on a day than usually in a week and still miss most of the festival. We’re still lagging on seeing

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NEW MUSIC: Mellow Gang - Temps

“Temps” is a song that floats around you like a warm stream of air: the U.K. four piece Mellow Gang creates a lush sonic backdrop for a story of the sometimes temporary nature of relationships. Singer/guitarist Harriet Joseph explains: We’ve actually tried to steer away from writing

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PHOTOS: SXSW 2018 Day 1 Roundup

Coming from the North East Coast, experiencing a few days of early spring in Texas has almost as much allure as the some 2,000 we can see here at SXSW. The Austin weather doesn’t make it easy though: we were greeted with chilly wind albeit under a glorious

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SONG PICK: iyamah - Cryptic Love

“Cryptic Love” is a great metaphor for the stage of a relationship where everybody is afraid to play their cards open, avoiding to get potentially hurt. The young U.K.-based singer/songwriter iyamah sees herself a victim of that behavior and set her complaint into a R&B

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SONG PICK: TT - Love Leaks

TT is the solo project of Theresa Wayman, singer and guitarist in Warpaint, my favorite band. So I’m highly biased here and she probably could play “All My Little Ducklings” on a banjo for a glamglare Song Pick. But fortunately and not surprisingly “Love Leaks” is much better than