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Destroyer – Five Spanish Songs EP
Music | Max Freedman | December 11, 2013Dan Bejar is one of very few people who can claim to have spent the last fifteen or so years yelping and whining his way through a musical career. He’s also one of a much greater number of people...
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Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify: Arctic Monkeys, Haim, Arcade Fire & more
News | Megan Jung | December 10, 2013Each week we bring you the current Top 10 indie tracks streaming on Spotify to help you create the perfect workweek playlist. Arctic Monkeys have held onto the top spot for the past 4 weeks…wonder who will eventually take...
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Bird Courage -Māia Manu
Music | Max Freedman | December 5, 2013Welcome to the twenty-first century, a time when digital methods of acquiring, sharing, and creating files ensure that independent musicians will face extreme difficulty surviving off their art. It’s an odd contradiction – although computers, the Internet, and cyber-whatnot...
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The Retrospectives On Growing Up And Their Energetic Music
Interview | Manjot Jawa | December 4, 2013When I first read about the The Retrospectives, the one thing that popped out at me was their Twitter bio. “…determined to bring back real pop music…” An ambitious mission statement considering what pop music is considered now in...
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Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify: Arctic Monkeys, The Wire & More
News | Megan Jung | December 2, 2013Each week we bring you the current Top 10 indie tracks streaming on Spotify to help you create the perfect workweek playlist. Well, well, well. Artic Monkeys are still locked in this week with “Do I Wanna Know?” at...
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Arcade Fire – Reflektor
Music | Max Freedman | November 29, 2013Years down the line, critics and listeners alike might look back on 2013 as the year of mysterious, ridiculous pre-release promotion. Few eras have some of the biggest acts of the time teased their new music so extensively and...
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Holychild Shares The Inspirations Behind The Music
Interview | Manjot Jawa | November 28, 2013When I listen to a song from a electro-indie-pop band I normally wouldn’t think that it has such a profound message about our society, but when I thought about the lyrics in the song from Holychild, I got it....
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Caleb Ray – An Interesting Man With More Than Just An Interesting Project Name
Interview | Manjot Jawa | November 27, 2013We’ve been told that the most interesting man in the world can make orange juice out of apples, but that’s nothing compared how Caleb Ray can make beautiful music out of just a single thought. Music out of thoughts?...
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Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify: Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, & More
News | Megan Jung | November 25, 2013Each week we bring you the current Top 10 indie tracks streaming on Spotify to help you create the perfect workweek playlist. This week we still see Artic Monkeys’ “Do I Wanna Know” standing strong at number one, but...
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Weekly Top 10 Indie Tracks Streaming on Spotify: Arctic Monkeys, Haim, & More
News | Megan Jung | November 18, 2013Weekly top 10 indie music streaming on Spotify.
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Haim – Days Are Gone
Music | Max Freedman | November 16, 2013It’s understandable to have trouble taking a band seriously when its bassist uses the handle “@jizziemcguire” on Twitter. No, Este Haim, one of three sisters comprising Haim (hence the band name), hasn’t changed at all now that she’s in...
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Paper Lights talks about their upcoming album and the beautiful journey of questioning
Interview | Manjot Jawa | November 8, 2013On a cool summer or fall night, somewhere in the world, there is a small candle being placed into a paper lantern, a match is struck and lights the candle. Almost magically, the power of such a small flame...
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Sara Masterson explains the inspiration behind her new album and growing up in the Midwest
Interview | Manjot Jawa | November 4, 2013There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of genres of music. Once in a while you find that rare song or album that can’t be defined into a genre without hurting another genre’s feeling. Singer-songwriter Sara Masterson’s new album Always the...
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Ryan Courtney shares what the band name Trenton means and where he recorded his latest EP
Interview | Manjot Jawa | November 1, 2013Music has a way of carrying a message that the artist truly believes in. In a highly commercialized music industry like ours, that message is sometimes lost or even left out. That’s why we’re constantly searching for the artists...