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Track: George Alice Releases New Track ‘Healed’
George Alice drops new track ‘Healed’ & heads out on national tour with King Stingray
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Premiere: New York’s Bandits on the Run are boxed in and listening to the ‘Radio’ on effervescent new single
What do you get when you mix together three lead singers, guitar, cello, a suitcase drum and various toy instruments? Nobody knows for sure but it’d probably sound something quite like Brooklyn trio Bandits on the Run, who are opening for Deer Tick and the Avett Brothers at Summerfest in Wisconsin this weekend. A good …
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Premiere: Pony Girl announce new album ‘Laff It Off’ and share title track
Well, this is a welcome surprise – not even a year since their last album, Ottawa’s Pony Girl are already back with news of a follow-up. Following October’s Enny One Wil Love You, you’d have expected the duo to take some time off, but it’s two albums on the trot for Pascol Huot and Yolande …
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Premiere: Alex Frenkel announces new album as Caicos and shares lead single ‘A Spade A Spade’
Formerly the vocalist for New York band Gospels, Alex Frenkel has since moved on to making music as Caicos. Last we heard from him, Frenkel released the Past Perfect EP in autumn of 2020, but he’s been at work on a new project, the first fruits of which we’re delighted to share with you today. …
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News: The Ramona Flowers release new EP ‘Hey You’
The Ramona Flowers are back with their brand-new EP, Hey You, out now via Distiller Records. Listen to Hey You here. The 5 track EP was produced by Dimitri Tikovoi and engineered by Drew Bang. It includes released singles Hey You and Enter The Room, plus the unheard Weapons. The track slides effortlessly into place …
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Premiere: KAZIMI is aflame with desire on ‘Fever Dream’
In a world where the typical route for an artist includes introductory singles and EPs en route to a debut album, it’s much less common for someone to make an album before stepping into the spotlight, but that’s exactly what New Yorker KAZIMI has done, in spite of herself. “I never sat down to make …
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Premiere: Alaskan duo maeve & quinn announce debut album for September, share ‘Jeweler’s Row’
It’s been a little bit since we’ve heard from twin sisters Maris and Bryce O’Tierney, otherwise known as maeve & quinn, but they’ve been busy. It’s coming up on two years since the Anchorage-based pair last released something, namely the Star-Crossed EP, but until now we’ve only been offered glimpses of what they were capable …
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Premiere: hunter & wolfe toast their ‘Famous Friends’ as they prep first album in almost a decade
It’s been quite a while since we’ve last heard from Brooklyn duo hunter & wolfe; longer still since they’ve put out a full-length album. With the impact of the pandemic on artists in general, it’s a relief to see they’re still kicking. Almost six whole years ago they released the Late Then Never EP, itself …
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Premiere: dayaway lament the one they can’t have on ‘i wish’ and announce new EP
You may know New Yorker Amber Renee as a member of CLAAVS, but she also makes music with Graham Marsh as dayaway, under which name they released a self-titled debut EP last August. it only makes sense they’d have another one coming this summer, right? The lead single from it is a gem – equal …
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Premiere: Sean McVerry’s TELECOMS take ‘Two Steps’ forward on exhilarating new single
The whole ‘deconstructed live performance as a music video’ idea lives and dies on how well you can pull it off, and pairing it with a song this good is half the battle. Which is to say we’re big fans of both the new song and video from Brooklyn’s Sean McVerry. The TELECOMS project only …