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“Overflows with emotion… spectacular” The Guardian “Heart-flipping” Pitchfork “Extraordinary” PopJustice “Cathartic pop for when you’re feeling abandoned” The FADER “Dark and beautiful” This Is Fake DIY “A formidabl…

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Ricky Young, Joel King, Taylor Burns and Preston Wimberly, grew up steeped in music; playing solo gigs, touring with local bands and working at venues. The four guys came together in Austin in 2010 through coincidence, …

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We express our experiences as a shared unit , through music and an agreement of sound. No one always gets along, but with lows come highs and fighting always has an end. we accept struggle and are passionate about the li…

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Sometime in the spring of 2012 the musicians that would go on to form the Chicago & Minneapolis based trio ON AN ON found themselves at a tipping point. The three of them—Nate Eiesland, Alissa Ricci, and Ryne Estwing—had…

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Stagnant Pools are Bryan and Douglass Enas, two brothers (21 and 22) from Bloomington, Indiana. With just one guitar and a drum kit, they make music which the Chicago Reader described as "Drone-heavy, slate-gray art-roc…

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Dusted (Brian Borcherdt from Holy Fuck & Leon Taheny) Debut LP 'Total Dust' Out July 10th On Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula *** After six years of constant Holy Fuck touring, Brian Borcherdt emerged from the tangl…

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Harouki Zombi, the brainchild of Nina Barnes (of Montreal) and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray), is a self-described "entertainment for the fallen empire." The duo is set to release their first collaboration, Objet Petit A, on…

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Shugo Tokumaru has wowed critics and fans the world over with a sound that draws as much from classic Beatles-esque melodies as his own unique spin on Japanese pop. A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, To…

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After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It makes sense, th…

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Generationals are a duo from New Orleans that write short tight pop and rock tunes generally intended for dancing. Their third full length record will come out in 2013.……

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Tulsa is the world´s capital of petroleum but it is also the world´s capital of the lack of love and/or affection. Tha band, having as front woman Miren Iza proved with their previous album "Solo me has rozado" (Subterfu…

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Track Dogs - Rock with a box and a bugle! Named after the maintenance teams that work the NYC subway system Track Dogs are a four piece acoustic act based in Madrid, Spain. Made up of two Irishmen; Garrett Wall (V…

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Pájaro Andrés Herrera, AKA Pájaro, is a mythical figure in the musical world of Seville in Southern Spain. One of the city’s legendary characters, at a very young age he joined one of Seville’s most celebrated bands, …

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Supersubmarina is a Spanish band created back in 2007. From the begining it had a really good acceptance in the local indie scene, from both, media and audience. Since then they have played over 250 gigs in venues and t…

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Cuchillo were formed in 2005 by Israel Marco and Daniel Dominguez in the city of Barcelona. Following their acclaimed debut ("Cuchillo" Sinnamon, 2008), voted best national album of 2008 by Go Mag magazine and among the…

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I am Dive are not precisely a rock band, and no one is pretty sure of how possible it is to exactly describe the music these two fellows make. I am Dive is the name Esteban Ruiz (Seville, 1979) and José A. Pérez (Sev…

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It’s not easy to stand out in the proliferating indie rock cliché – a cesspool of mediocrity and forced emulation. Turtle Giant gives any reference of cliché a roundhouse kick to the face. Formed in 2009, Turtle Gian…

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Neon Lion is a rock & roll band formed in the year 2010, in Mexico City. The band’s main objective has always been clear: To create quality rock & roll to be enjoyed throughout the world. The band has released the…

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The Harlequins are a psychedelic garage-pop trio formed in 2007 in Cincinnati, OH. Since that time they have released three albums independently and played hundreds of shows in the Midwest and South. Their roots lie in C…

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Boiling up from the independent musical cauldron Hotlanta has become, here comes Gringo Star with its follow up to 2008's critically acclaimed debut,  “All Y’all.  The band now comes into its own with “Count Yer Lucky St…

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Levek is the multifaceted project bearing the surname of front man, songwriter and musical jack-of-all-trades, David Levesque. After bouncing around the Florida peninsula, spending time in Orlando and St. Augustine, Leve…