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If you were one of the lucky fans who were able to attend one of Kaskade's Redux tour stops, you might have been treated to the Late Night Alumni rework of "Raining." Late Night Alumni - which is Kaskade's side band project - receives a completely new set of piano lines from Kaskade himself (as he's the keyboardist of the group), transforming the track into a techy offshoot which went perfectly with the theme of the tour. The track is being offered as a free download on his SoundCloud page , and is definitely a welcomed rebirth to a [...]

• Kaskade - Raining (Late Night Alumni Redux Mix)

If you aren't aware, Kaskade has been crossing the country on his Its You Its Me Redux tour, a set of nine intimate, deep shows at small venues (the last of which is tonight in San Diego) to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his debut album of the same name back in 2003. LA's Shoe Scene Symphony , feeling nostalgic, decided to take the title track for a spin and ended up creating something truly amazing. They've really done it justice, mixing in a groovy percussion beat and adding light dashes of progressive melodies, [...]

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A talent as accomplished as Kaskade  can at times be burdened by their own success. Superstars like Tiësto, Steve Angello , or Deadmau5 , given the opportunity, would undoubtedly jump for the chance to return to their roots and play in a small and intimate environment for fans that have been along for the ride since the beginning. Peering through Kaskade’s release catalog exposes everything from drum and bass, to deep and tech house, to what the world knows him as today: the melodic, synth-laden progressive house maestro that has both touched and moved millions [...]

After previewing " Redux " back in early February, DubVision and Spinnin Records have officially released the track in full. Considering  their last original solo production, " All By Myself ," dropped just over a year ago, today is fitting for the release of "Redux." The track employs the duo's characteristic, uplifting big room chord progressions backed by major builds and breaks. Don't be shocked when you hear "Redux" echoing through the festival grounds at Bayfront Park during Ultra Music Festival. Purchase: Beatport You just finished reading [...]

Dutch domination abounds. Recent  Axis  guest mixers  and famed " Committed to Sparkle Motion " remixers DubVision are back with a preview of their latest original production "Redux," due out on Spinnin Records on March 8th - just in time for Miami. "Redux" holds the line with what DubVision has released so far: straightforward, uplifting big room chord progressions with major builds and breaks - perfect for a main stage type of feel. Take a listen to the preview below and look for the full release in a few weeks. [...]

e're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Here We Go Magic - Radiohead producer (and heralded "sixth member") Nigel Godrich is the guiding hand behind the eagerly-awaited third full length from the gifted rhythm-centric Brooklyn alt-pop band...headed up by frontman/songwriter and founder Luke Temple, HWGM manages to sound both densely layered and celestially spacious as ambient minimalism meets twisted, spiralling and spasmatic indie rock // Release : A Different Ship (May 8, Secretly Canadian) // Sounds like : the [...]

e're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: You might think someone who calls himself The Tallest Man On Earth might have enormous, umm, visibility, so to speak, but alas Swedish singer/songwriter Kristian Mattson remains revered by a relatively small if devoted base of admirers. That, of course, may change with the release of his third and most excellent long player There's No Leaving Now (June 12, Dead Oceans). On the echoing heels of two exquisite 2010 releases -- the full length [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Bowerbirds - Beth Tacular and Phil Moore are the creative epicenter of this North Carolina band melding ambitious art/pop edge with audacious strains of modern folk...Beth's mysterious debilitating illness and the pair's on-off-on relationship stress behind them, they retreated newly inspired to their hand-built cabin in the woods for reflection and writing songs for their third album // Release : The Clearing (March 6, Dead Oceans) // Sounds like : the stakes [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Bowerbirds - Beth Tacular and Phil Moore are the creative epicenter of this North Carolina band melding ambitious art/pop edge with audacious strains of modern folk...Beth's mysterious debilitating illness and the pair's on-off-on relationship stress behind them, they retreated newly inspired to their hand-built cabin in the woods for reflection and writing songs for their third album // Release : The Clearing (March 6, Dead Oceans) // Sounds like : the stakes [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Six years after breaking through with his acclaimed '06 debut Makers , Seattle's Rocky Votolato returns with his fourth album of unpretentious, tuneful folk/pop on the fan-funded, self-released Television of Saints (April 3). Votolato called upon long time friend and producer Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens) and some accomplished player support -- including his brothers Sonny (Slender Means) and Cody (The Blood Brothers, Telekinesis) -- for an assured celebration of harmonied songcraft. Acoustic [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Simone White 's intimate and ethereal chamber/folk acousticism gets a major makeover on her third full length Silver Silver (May 8, Honest Jon's), her wispy, whispered vocals intact but now augmented with an equally delicate, occasionally intense array of cool electronic textures, tapping beats and an atmosphere lifted from some shadowy dreamscape. From the opening seconds you realize that there's a subtle whiff of dark, arty theatricality wafting thoughout her elegant songs, the strains of [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: A pair of classically-trained brothers -- Andrew and Dan Callaway-- and their musician father Liam form the familial nucleus of England in 1819, a Baton Rouge band that weaves distinctive chamber pop with muted post-rock drama. From swirling, densely layered melodies built on a grand symphonic scale to exquisitely-detailed piano and voice quietude, this is modern progressive music that wisely steers clear of pompous excess. Producer Mark Bingham and the Callaways keep the arrangements loosely restrained and, [...]

We're reviewing some of our favorite (and mostly undiscovered) releases of 2012: Annie Lynch, the namesake, frontwoman and songwriter for this Boston-to-Brooklyn folk/Americana band, has one of those special voices: lilting and lovely but with an effortlessly natural tone. The same goes for Lynch's songwriting and her band as well. The ten new songs that make up Annie and The Beekeepers ' My Bonneville (August 28) are as straightforward and direct as an unwrapped gift, an album beautiful and confident in its own unadorned simplicity. Which isn't to [...]

We're counting down 2012 with 20 of our favorite albums of the year: Wesley Schultz, Jeremiah Fraites and Neyla Pekarek are The Lumineers , a Denver-based trio of modern acoustic Americana self-described as "born out of sorrow, powered by passion, ripened by hard work." The sorrow of note came from the loss to a drug overdose of Jeremiah's brother who was also the best friend of Schultz. Writing songs together in New York, the pair moved to Colorado and expanded their sound, smoothing some of their frayed edges with the [...]

Get to know more about up and coming Seattle rapper, J. Pinder and his musical philosophy in this making of the mixtape video at DJ Skee studios. J. Pinder gets in depth with DJ Skee sharing his inspiration and vision behind the newly released Careless Redux . J. Pinder’s refreshing contribution to hip-hop is beyond his years in his heralded Careless Redux mixtape featuring Musiq Soulchild , Marsha Ambrosius , Rapper Big Pooh , and Thurz , and producers [...]

Embarking on a concept album comprising a vague top ten rundown of spectral pop numbers channelled from deceased, fictitious stars post-apocalypse is unreservedly weird. Though with us here having conjured the above – an intrinsically outré concept in itself – that is of course what Paw Tracks -signed sibling pairing Prince Rama recently unleashed in Top 10 Hits Of The End Of The World . The record, however, transpired to be a by and large triumphantly good weird, as opposed to bad weird or purely weird [...]

• Paw Tracks - So Destroyed (Mark McGuire's Road Chief Destroyed Soul Mix)

For those of us who have been quietly pining for a new album from the legendary Scottish trio The Blue Nile, hearts were gladdened when word came that frontman and songwriter Paul Buchanan was self-releasing a solo album Mid Air in the U.K. Even better news came last week when we learned that Mid Air will be released in the U.S. October 30 with the bonus second disc of rarities, demos and remixes. Formed in 1981 and releasing only four albums between 1984 and 2004, The Blue Nile became as beloved as [...]

We tipped you last November to Arthur Beatrice , a London-based, rather secretive ( sm )art/pop quartet fronted by dual vocalists Orlando Leopard and Ella Girardot and, yes, monikered on a twist on the name of the late actress Bea Arthur. A Facebook blurb refers to the low-profile band's "heart aching mini-epics of brutal beauty, pitching harsh lyrical hooks against a glorious expanse of piano and melting vocals" [...]

The Parson Red Heads - Infinitely more irenic than ironic, this nine-year-old Portland, OR band led by Evan Parsons (and wife Brette) is sort of a graceful, laid-back 70's Laurel Canyon version of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros...trimmed to a quartet and no longer dressed all in white (cool!) when on stage, the band's second project was produced by occasional band member Raymond Richards and mixed by the legendary Chris Stamey of The dB's... // Release : Yearling Expanded Version (November 6) (Released a year ago and now out [...]

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Can't Quit , the title of My Silent Bravery 's masterful 2011 album, could also easily serve as the ongoing DIY philosophy of MSB's founder -- and sole musical proprietor -- Matthew Wade. The sharply etched and deeply personal tracks that inhabit his sophomore project speak to the willingness and desire of a person to make that major leap (and leap of faith) from songwriter to performer, from bedroom composing to, in Wade's case, opening for Howie Day and Rusted Root and collaborating with New [...]