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NEW TRACK: Evalyn - Rather Be Dead

Evalyn – Rather Be Dead

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SONG PICK: Between Giants - Skies & Skin

With his solo project as Between Giants, Tyler John has released a five tracks EP a couple of months ago. “Skies & Skin” is on this EP and it is gorgeous! The electro-pop artist says about his sound: I wanted to create a sound that was fresh, unique, and dynamic

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PLAYLIST: Gordon Raphael's Top 10 - (solo debut album "I Sleep On The Radio" out 10/27/17)

Gordon Raphael is best known having produced The Strokes’ first demos and their debut album “Is This It”.  The rest is history… He also produced the music of “this unkown Russian girl” Regina Spektor. Another huge success. In addition, Gordon Raphael worked with acts ranging from Damon Albarn, Ian Brown,

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Mondo.NYC Day Three Roundup: Dimpker Brothers, Adée, Late Guest to the Party, Mt. Wolf, Sleep Thieves, Letters To Nepal

For Friday, the Lower East Side was again packed with excellent music and we would have needed to divide ourselves into pieces to see everybody we would have liked to. But then we stayed mostly at The Delancey, our unofficial home base where most of our own showcases take place.

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NEW TRACK: Trace - You Don't Know Me

Trace – You Don’t Know Me Los Angeles, California Q&A with Trace

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SONG PICK: Konrad & Brown - Ticket To Paradise

Your “Ticket To Paradise” comes in form of a cheerful, catchy electro pop song by duo Konrad & Brown from London. Infuse your Sunday afternoon with some energy and joy and listen to our Song Pick of the Day now:

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NEW MUSIC: Sgrow - Kismet (Video)

We have talked before about Sgrow, a Norwegian, electronic duo that does eclectic and gripping music maybe best suited for the twilight hours of the day. For the third single “Kismet” of their upcoming album, due out on November 10, they teamed up with director Linnea Syversen for a video

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SONG PICK: Sweetwood - Right Beside You

With my birthday coming up, I make myself an early present by featuring Sweetwood‘s new single “Right Beside You” as our Song Pick of the Day. The Amsterdam based writer/producer collective Voice Calling Radio, who creates their timeless feel good music under the name Sweetwood is not new

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Mondo.NYC Day Two Roundup: Grit, The Good Night Darlings, Holy Golden, Brass Phantoms, åMBe

On Thursday we saw old favorites and some new ones we discovered while working through the Mondo.NYC lineup. While it is difficult to carry some festival spirit to the streets in New York City with its countless events and distractions, inside the venues it felt clearly that something special

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NEW TRACK: Geneva White - Surface

Geneva White – Surface Los Angeles, California

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Mondo.NYC Round Up Day One: Shag Rock, The Settlement, Satelite Mode, Blak Emoji, HDLSS

It’s fall, it’s Mondo.NYC time! Mondo what? You may not have heard about the new festival in town that wants to take over the space that CMJ left vacated for two years. Mondo is still a good order of magnitude smaller, but features a great conference and

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SONG PICK: FKL - Temporary

FKL, short for Funktionslust, a German word I was not aware of until now, is the duo of Sage Redman and Joe Gillick, who recently moved to Seattle from London. Their new track “Temporary” is a meandering piece of electro-pop that touches many genres, but Is difficult to classify itself.

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SONG PICK: GREAT NEWS - Never Get My Love

“Never Get My Love” might very well be one of the most exciting and totally awesome songs I heard all year! Norwegian three-piece Great News has been on our radar with their previous single “Wonderfault” already but with “Never Get My Love” they make us want to listen to their

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NEW TRACK: Charlotte Carpenter - Shelter

Charlotte Carpenter – Shelter

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SONG PICK: Negative Gemini - You Weren’t There Anymore

Negative Gemini is back! As she hinted on social media, she has found use for a guitar again and departed somewhat from her dance-focused music of her last year’s debut LP “Body Works”. “You Weren’t There Anymore” is an excellent piece of weird pop, which layers synths over

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NEW MUSIC: Julietta - Runaway (Video)

What is it that makes vintage videos looks so comforting? Probably it suggests a better time, with, in hindsight, fewer worries and problems. NYC singer Julietta takes advantage of this effect and leads us through lush summer landscapes in her new video for “Runaway”. Definitely a treat, now that summer

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SONG PICK: WHITE ROOM - Cable-Built Dreamland

At a time when even presidents feel compelled to express themselves on social media, it does not come as a surprise that these platforms come under greater scrutiny and artists put their own take on things. “Cable-Built Dreamland” however is an especially gorgeous example of going to town with all

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SONG PICK: Cusi Coyllur - amivulnerable (Video)

Shannen Roberts aka Cusi Coyllur is a musician and a mental healthcare advocate. Her new song “amivulnerable”, an eclectic, skillful piece of electronic music, is about abuse and how difficult is is too escape: Rearrange my words So you hear what you like. Rearrange history Hide In time. The video

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glamglare’s MONDO.NYC must-see picks

Last year, MONDO.NYC hit the New York music scene for the very first time and is heading into round two, starting October 4th. While MONDO.NYC is still a fairly small festival with roughly 180 participating artists, they come from all over the United States, Europe and Australia and

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NEW TRACK: Ofelia K. - Killing Me (go sun come moon)

**Ofelia K.*** – Killing Me (go sun come moon) Los Angeles, California

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SONG PICK: Climbing Trees - Fall

Listening to “Fall”, the new single by Welsh four-piece Climbing Trees, it is not surprising to learn that the quartet has gained a lot of attention on their home turf, from radio to TV to festivals. “Fall” starts out on a mellow note and swells, gets bigger and bolder and

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NEW TRACK: King IV - We Can Get It

King IV – We Can Get It (ft. Rromarin) Melbourne, Australia

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EXCITED ABOUT: Tusks - Dissolve (and her playing Mondo.NYC)

Emily Underhill aka Tusks’ likes big, intense music and often lets her songs build into big cinematic soundscapes. She says: I’m a very visual person, I love being outdoors and surrounded by nature. I grew up by the sea and I’ve always tried to spend as much time

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SONG PICK: East of my Youth - Broken Glass (Video)

Herdís Stefánsdóttir and Thelma Marín Jónsdóttir from Reykjavík, Iceland do dreamy, electro-pop as East of my Youth. Glittering synths and soaring vocals make their lastest song “Broken Glass” feel as clear and bright as the sky over the empty pool in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, where Herdís and Thelma having fun

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SONG PICK: Jackie Venson - Flying

On the heel of her just released stellar EP “Transcends”, Austin-native Jackie Venson goes on tour with a stop in New York. From her blues inspired rock album, we chose the single “Flying” as our Song Pick of the Day. “Flying” not only showcases Jackie Venson’s thrilling guitar chops,