The videos of Factory Floor often contrast with their apocalyptic style of dance music: In “Ya” we see a young woman being busy with operating a non-functional machine in a bright room, which resembles a modular synthesizer (and is actually a piece of art by band member Nik Void). While[…]
Anticipation grew as Danny Rocco and Gerry Lange, who together form the New York pop duo Secret Weapons, played more and more live shows to happy crowds, a record was due! And here it is, Secret Weapons’ self-titled debut EP, featuring four pop-anthems. Listening to the EP it is almost impossible to stay in any[…]
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Early June, Seattle quartet Moon Darling have released their debut EP “Dreams”, and it has been on repeat rotation on our player ever since. Written by Seattle-native Michael Julian Escobar on a six-month road trip across the United States, that ended with with his van on fire, somewhere in middle[…]
Jealousy can be a powerful, destructive force and British singer Jazz Morley tries to overcome it: “You’re Not gonna take me down” she sings in this elegantly restrained pop song.
Our Song Pick of the day is an uncompromising, driving rock song, barely over 2:30 minutes long, that can get any party started. VanDeRocker is a five piece around singer around guitarist Adrienne VanDeRocker, who has been playing since she was 12 and checked off all the music hotspots of[…]
East London quartet MassMatiks have released a video accompanying their second stunning single “4AM” and it couldn’t be any better. It follows a proven formula that works so well for emerging bands and is especially appealing: take a great song, tell a story, visualize the song’s meaning and throw in snippets of the band[…]
“I will love you more every day / I can see no other way” sings Dani in our Song Pick of the Day, but the ominous bass line suggests that there is not a happy ending to this story. The singer from Vancouver, Canada reflects a personal experience in “Love[…]
It was March, when I first came across Lightcliffe and loved their single “Please Leave” so much, that I made it Song Pick of the Day. During that time and there after, I also had the nicest email conversations with Ben McDowell, Lightcliffe’s guitarist and it was only a matter of[…]
Still working on overcoming what has caused the “Bruise”, there is a shimmer of hope and so the track starts out on an optimistic, instantly catchy note. There is a soothing flow to it, thanks to the steady beats and joyful guitar lines, contrasting with the lyrical loss, humming along, hitting rougher[…]
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