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Rainlights - Brand New Sneakers

Rachel Chevat aka Rainlights wants to “take you away for a moment, wherever you are.” The singer, songwriter, producer, and sound engineer achieves that with lyrics that capture the essence of the moment and a production that is simple at first but then reveals more layers with every listen. Her

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Savannah Conley Q&A

Come Friday, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Savannah Conley releases her debut album Playing the Part of You is Me. Here at glamglare, we’re already in love with the record: each song has a different vibe and shines a light on relationships from a different angle. Savannah was so kind to

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Arny Margret & Júníus Meyvant - Spring

Iceland knows no shortage of fantastic singer-songwriters who create mesmerizing music, and Arny Margret and Júníus Meyvant are two of my favorites for quite some time.  They also got just featured in glamglare’s weekly newsletter, focusing on Iceland. To be fair, I am a huge fan of soulful indie-pop

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VIDEO PICKS: Freya Beer, Hourglass, Nanna, Wombuï

Freya Beer – Fantasy West-London singer-songwriter Freya Beer released a double single, “Fantasy” and “Galore,” and we focus on the track with the video, the lush and dreamy yet with dark undertones “Fantasy.” asked about the track, Freya says: “Fantasy is an unfiltered exploration of self-discovery and expressing your thoughts in

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VEiiLA - Push The Pedal [Video]

Vif Nüte and Bes Eirid started making music in Russia as VEiiLA in 2015 after they played around with vintage synthesizers. From there, they developed an elegant, sophisticated brand of trip-hop. Now based in Armenia, they released their latest single, “Push the Pedal,” a slow-burning song that evolves around Vif’

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Last Planet - Seaglass

Californian alt-rock sextet Last Planet delights with the lush, laid-back, and ultra-alluring “Seaglass.” The song combines themes of love and loss with the sounds of spending a day at the beach, complete with a refreshing sea breeze, the call of seagulls, and the sun glittering at the relentlessly rolling waves.

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Love You Later - Long Sleeves

Love can be as mercurial as the weather, and sometimes stretches of sunshine are short and rare. In “Long Sleeves,” the Nashville-based singer/songwriter Lexi Aviles, aka Love You Later takes stock of a relationship that does not seem to work. The song is on Lexi’s just released EP

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Barbara - Ride the Wave

Leaving her DJ desk for a moment, DJ Babs, respectively Barbara, releases the  gorgeous and ultra-catchy “Ride the Wave” following her debut single “Ghosted.” The lush “Ride the Wave” oozes an infectious sunny, carefree vibe, which I happily enjoy now but will also add to my anti-winter-blues playlist. When I

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Tiger Silko - Feeler

The Brooklyn duo of singer/songwriter Lisa Jaeggi and composer and producer Jonathon Wright have worked together on film scores. Under the name Tiger Solko, they now let their fantasy soar unrestricted from production budgets and “create a soundtrack for a non-existent film.” Their new song, “Feeler,” is an atmospheric

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Sparks - Veronica Lake

If you don’t know Californian duo Sparks yet, then you’re in for a treat because you’ll have a substantial back catalog to explore, with some gems and personal favs like Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins and Kimono My House to just mention two of their 25 full-length

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VIDEO PICKS: Avalon Emerson, dné, PJ Harvey, WVVE

Avalon Emerson – Astrology Poisoning We have been talking a lot about Avalon Emerson lately, and more to come in our newsletter. “Astrology Poisoning” is the latest single off her brilliant album  & the Charm, out now. The video blurs virtual and actual reality into a futuristic decaying desert world. Avalon

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Junodef - She Wants To Win

“She Wants To Win” takes cues from multiple genres and fuses guitars and electronic together effortlessly into a perfect 2020s pop song. Junodef, the trio of Karin Grönkvist (guitar and vocals), Norea Persson (drums and electronics) and Tyra Örnberg (Bass and vocals), met in their home country Sweden and moved

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The Horn - Another Way

British indie-rockers The Horn landed on our radar last year with the infectious “Do It Now” and continue their streak of melodic and beautifully catchy songs with “Another Way. It’s songwriter/bassist Nick True (Friends of Gavin) who founded The Horn and who can look back on experiences like

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Mega Bog - Cactus People [Video]

For her fifth album, End of Everything, Erin Birgy aka Mega Bog takes a turn from her indie folk roots into synth-pop territory. The latest single, “Cactus People,” contrasts bright synths with Erin’s voice. But it is not a light-hearted song: “Cactus People” as the entire album was written

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French Horn Rebellion ft. Siné - Versace Eros

“Versace Eros” is the new super catchy single by Brooklyn electronic brother duo French Horn Rebellion featuring soulful Danish pop singer Siné. While the track clocks in less than three minutes, it makes its time count and takes the listener under its spell immediately. Robert and David PM, aka French

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Circe - Riot of Sunlight

London singer/songwriter Circe goes for the bright side in her soaring new song “Riot of Sunlight.” The song came to life when she the play “Jerusalem” twice at different stages in her life. Today she calls it “a play and performance of such colossal, glorious, gigantic magic,” and “Riot

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Amelie Blake - Hunting Games

Already high in demand as a composer for film and TV (Netflix and others,) Amelie Blake now puts herself front and center. With “Hunting Games,” the British singer/songwriter is off to a great start as the enthralling song draws the listener immediately in and doesn’t let go, thanks

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Dead Leaf Echo - BOO [EP Premiere]

Brooklyn’s Dead Leaf Echo are a music/art collective that released their debut full-length album, Thought and Language, in 2013. Now, LG Galleon (vocals, guitar), Steve Schwadron (bass), and Kevin Kahawai (percussion, drums) are gearing up to release their third full-length album. But first, they dropped BOO, a five-track

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Hana McCartney - Dope

“Dope” is a track from the debut album Rust and Stardust by Nashville-based singer/songwriter Hana McCartney. In the earthy indie rock song, Hana recounts a story of pervasive drug use and abuse matter-of-factly. Hana says about the album: “The idea of each song having a drug reference or innuendo

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Arts Fishing Club - doug song

From Nashville, TN comes Arts Fishing Club, an indie-rock and folk band we became fans of since their beautiful “foster falls.” Today, they released a new offering from their upcoming album Rothko Sky (release date TBD,) the beautiful “doug song” showcasing Christopher Kessenich‘s alluring vocals. We got treated to

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Gillie - Llawn

The singer, songwriter, and producer Gillie sings “Llawn” in the Welsh language, which I do not speak, but musically the track hits it already home for me. Somewhere between synth- and dream-pop, the song evolves and shapeshifts over its 3:26 minutes. In other words, Gillie absolutely succeeds in “Sonically

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Slye - Here And Now

With Slye, I am completely in awe since the first time I heard the Liverpool-based singer/songwriter’s vocals and guitar chops. My admiration only grows after having listened to “Here And Now.” Here’s an artist, who not only knows how to write a compelling song with depth and

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Avalon Emerson - Karaoke Song

DJ and dance music producer Avalon Emerson is doing something new with her project & The Charm, out on April 28 on Avalon’s own label Another Dove. While the first single “Sandrail Silhouette,” had some surprising folky vibes, “Karaoke Songs” strikes closer to home with its glittering synths. Avalon

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The Poster Child - Garden

A fantastic new addition to the New York music scene is The Poster Child with his big, anthemic pop song “The Garden. I haven’t heard such bold, beautiful, bombastic pop in a long while and I love it! Growing up in the rural American South, Connor, the singer, songwriter,

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Dawn Cadence - Speaking in Tongues

Whenever a new song by Vanessa Richardson, aka Dawn Cadence, arrives in my inbox, I brace myself for something unique and exciting. Because the singer, songwriter, and producer does not follow conventions. Her latest song, “Speaking In Tongues,” features a 90s Depeche Mode guitar, Vanessa’s layered vocals, and many