As a special holiday treat, Icelandic songwriter Ryan Karazija, a.k.a. Low Roar, wrapped up an old Grandaddy favorite in his own eerie dressing. "I'm On Standby", from 2003's Sumday, stood as a perfect instance of Jason Lytle's unmistakable pop-smoothed melancholy. Clean downstrokes, mechanical chirps, and charmingly metaphorical lyrics made the song a solid fixture of the Grandaddy catalog. Sapping out the crunch and buzz of the original, this Low Roar rendition opts for a minimal arrangement of gently swaying synth...
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Winter is coming. That much is certain. As we prepare for the oncoming chills and towering skeletons that haunt our yards and woodlands, it's important to stock up on uplifting, joyous tunes. Unless you aim to wallow in your misery, winter is no time for dark melodies. After the Holiday season, Winter takes a turn for the worse, handing us a solid few dreary months to endure before the flowers greet us with open arms come Spring. Not to drone on about the gloomy months ahead, or make too many Game of Thrones...
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Dayve Hawk's first two releases as Memory Tapes saw him rummaging through a farrago of childhood debris and adulthood anxieties. Broken toys and baby teeth lay scattered among empty appointment books and scuffed patent-leather dress shoes. On his third release, Grace/Confusion, the New Jersey...
Gliss is starting to get noticed again. While the band's next record Langsom Dans hasn't yet seen the light of day, its lead single has already crept onto the new ABC series 666 Park Avenue. And for good reason--the Copenhagen/Los Angeles trio have cultivated an iridescent brand of hook-friendly...
What was your favorite band up to yesterday? What did they eat for dinner, purchase at the store? Thanks to Facebook or Twitter (or insert any of the plethora of social media channels) it is possible to stay hyper-connected to the every move of the musicians we enjoy. Perhaps as a response to this,...
When tracks from Gobble Gobble initially went on the internet, everyone jumped on it. The Canada hyperactive pop project of Cecil Frena's set flames on the blogosphere to the music industry, and carried into our ears. Now with Gobble Gobble renamed to Born Gold, Frena is releasing another full...
Little Daylight, everyone's favorite dream-poppy remixers (and whose identities remain a mystery), have just released another one of their highly-sought after tracks. This time it's Queens indie-rockers Freelance Whales who get the Little Daylight treatment on the track "Spitting Image", off of...
AbdeCaf may not be widely known just yet, but the Ukrainian-born, Miami-raised producer has been causing quite a stir in the electronic music world. Unravel, his first EP, included Diplo favorite “Feed Your Brain”, which charted at #7 on Soundcloud's indie charts the day it was released. Since...
