Musical Pairings: Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
February 25th, 2013
It’s easy to forget that Lonesome Dreams is Lord Huron’s debut album. After all, the band’s birth was back in 2010 when Michigan-born/Los Angeles-based songwriter Ben Schneider wrote and recorded Lord Huron’s debut EP, more or less as a solo project. A true band was formed shortly thereafter and a second well-received EP followed later that [...]
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Single Serving: Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
February 22nd, 2013
This pair of tunes pulled from Ireland’s Mano Le Tough’s new album “Changing Days” will definitely serve as the soundtrack to my Friday. The glitchy, warm ambiance of “A Thing From Above” effortlessly calls to mind the driving and rhythmic groove of Radiohead’s “Everything In It’s Right Place.” Meanwhile, “Please” is set upon a repetitive [...]
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Single Serving Premiere: Stroik – One More Time
February 21st, 2013
Brightly textured and fresh-faced clean, the latest offering from North Carolina-based songwriter Stroik is the irresistibly upbeat pop jam “One More Time.” Built upon a bouncing Yamaha keyboard framed melody the tune is all sunshine and rainbows. But, as is often the case with a good pop jam, the lyrics are far less idealistic: “I remember [...]
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Single Serving: Misfit Mod – Islands & Islands
February 19th, 2013
Mark from Brooklyn label Stars & Letters recently reached out and introduced us to a number of the artists on his label. For now, let it suffice to say that there’s a lot of great stuff there (we included tracks by two of his artists for our last mixtape), but the debut by Misfit Mod [...]
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Single Serving: K H U S H I – When You Start
February 18th, 2013
You know when you hear a new song by a new artist and think, “Holy crap, this is damn good”? That’s how I felt when I heard “When You Start” by Hackney, London’s K H U S H I. I’ve been listening to his first four singles on near repeat for the past few days. [...]
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Single Serving: Kurt Vile – Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze
February 13th, 2013
It’s hard to wrap my head around just how deserving of extra superlatives Kurt Vile is becoming as a songwriter and musician. We’ve been loving his lackadaisical guitar riffs and free floating melodies since before we were called Turntable Kitchen, but my appreciation for his talent just continues to grow everyday. This first single from [...]
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Single Serving: 8th Grader – All The Sweetness
February 12th, 2013
San Francisco-based singer/songwriter 8th Grader brings us a new, soulful r&b jam. It’s an airy, effervescent groove that’s every bit as sultry as his debut single “Heavy Without You” which we shared back in November 2011. It’s also available as a free download, so get on it. You can find 8th Grader on Facebook here.
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Single Serving: The Budos Band – III
February 11th, 2013
The third LP by Staten Island’s The Budos Band is a psyched-out and funky Afro-pop jazz joint that sounds like it could have been hoisted from the soundtrack to a 1970′s blaxploitation film (or contemporary Tarantino flick for that matter). The album’s first single “Unbroken, Unshaken” is a grizzly, horn-fueled jam with a huge swing. [...]
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Single Serving: NO – Town On Fire
February 8th, 2013
Last April we were extremely proud to feature a remix of NO‘s “Town On Fire” on the single in our April Pairings Box. At the time, the track was labeled “top secret” and we described it as “darkly cinematic and as lush as anything that band has released to date … filled with a subtle [...]
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Single Serving: Mikal Cronin – MCII
February 8th, 2013
Mikal Cronin, who released one of our favorite albums of 2011, is back with a brand new album and we couldn’t be more excited. With it’s buoyant melody and jangle-pop acoustic guitar riffs, the album’s first single “Shout It Out” could easily prove to be the warmest, sunniest sounding pop rock jam we’ll hear all [...]
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