Parlovr Local artist to: Montréal Canada RIYL: pop rocks in your mouth, tank tops, the color magenta cut with yellow. fun stuffs. just listen. A cheap Kmart guitar with its guts ripped out, a two-piece drum kit and a keyboard with a mind of its own would all be alone if they weren’t all thrown […]
Fenster Local artist to: Berlin Germany RIYL: Chamber Pop, Miranda Sykes, Sin Fang Fenster makes de-constructed pop music. Their lyrics are often carefully constructed dream narratives, finding inspiration in the world of ghosts, graveyards. trains, religious imagery, and broken machinery. In their music, they build songs around errors, blending melodic chords with broken beats or […]
Motopony Local artist to: Seattle Washington RIYL: José González, Iron & Wine, indie pop, folk rock, acoustic Often, the combination of two opposites makes for a harmony previously unknown, a sum greater than its parts. Motopony is the embodiment of this notion – a band built on a bedrock of contrasts and the gorgeous alchemy of […]
balthazar local artist to: ghent belgium riyl: millionaire, the van jets, das pop balthazar are an alternative pop band, with rock, electro and hiphop influences. they were formed in 2004 in kortrijk-belgium and anticipated their first album with gigs all over europe and a tour in south africa. their debut album “applause” was released march […]
calhoun local artist to: fort worth, texas riyl: blind pilot, pete yorn, doug burr, cataldo, alt-folk-rock calhoun’s music has been described as catchy, irresistible, gorgeous, melodic, sorta poppy, sorta rootsy, sorta rockin’, and, in general, really splendid music. you can call it what you will, but lead singer tim locke says, “we’re just a pop […]
walls local artist to: manchester, england & vasto, italy riyl: four tet, delorean, drum machines, synth! check out walls opening for battles this wednesday at neptune theatre in seattle. listen & like & love
cataldo local artist to: seattle washington riyl: indie folk rock, ben gibbard, hey marseilles, alexander cataldo is the recording project of eric anderson. an increasingly consistent though persistently shifty group of musician pals joins him live and in the studio. their music is generally of the “indie” variety–meaning pop/rock/folk which hopefully seems like it was […]
the robot heart local artist to: brighton uk riyl: tunng, low, tim and sam’s tim and the sam band, indie folk this video makes me want to visit brighton again. such a lovely seaside town! i just love colorful animated videos. pretty little song that reminds me of one of my fave bands, tunng. listen […]
pet local artist to: edinburgh uk riyl: dreamy guitar pop the single track ‘what you building?’ is easy to fall in love with with its dreamy sounds and vocals while other songs offer a more garage sound, which i like a lot. i hope to hear much more from this little uk band known as […]
syd matters local artist to: france riyl: midlake, the eels, french folk syd matters is jonathan morali from somewhere in france, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to his music. listening to the track, hi life, i thought it was new music from the denton band, midlake. i like the steady progression of his […]
skeleton$ local artist to: new york city riyl: avant-garde, afro-pop, jazz rock, animal collective, dirty projectors skeletons are a bit difficult to peg for a certain style of music. each song is different from the last but yet the ‘people’ album is oddly cohesive and well put together. i would love to see this band […]
oregon bike trails local artist to: santa monica california riyl: surf-pop, lo-fi, singer/songwriter zach yudin has not released a full album yet, but read about him and his plans to release cassette singles here. listening to him makes me think of bicycles, the west coast, warm skin and ice cream. ahhhhhh summer! listen & love
high highs local artist to: new york riyl: ambient, dream pop, beach house, tennis there is not much info floating around the interwebs about the high highs. i can say the band is my new dreamy obsession. i can easily get lost listening to them. so lovely! check out the only official video: listen & […]
sarah jarosz local artist to: austin texas riyl: americana, songwriter, markéta irglová, sarah jaffe last night my friend, leslie, in austin was texting me like crazy telling me to check out miss jarosz. while the attempts for me to listen over the phone did not work, i checked her out and immediately fell in love […]
errors local artist to: glasgow scotland uk riyl: post rock, experimental, electronica, holy fuck errors is currently on tour opening for mogwai. i saw them in seattle last week and they stole the show. check them out! listen & love
wackdelly 