Here's some sweet Scotland dreampop for your case-of-the-Mondays. The Machine Room's latest EP Love From A Distance is a sweet reverb'd shoegaze gem with some killer vibes, due out March 5th. If you're newdustin' out in the UK, check them out at The Wee Red Bar @ Edinburgh College of Art, Saturday March 3rd. Camino de [...]
Carly Maicher's latest, Hiding, is one of those albums that leaves me speechless; it speaks for itself. Her chillingly beautiful voice cuts through these light & airy acoustic melodies throughout the entire record, making for a soft, yet gripping album from start to finish. Each song deserves the attention of your ears, via headphones [...]
A little love for our DC blog broz over at All Things Go. ATG recently launched a record label titled appropriately, ATG Records. Running a label is a tough business, and I give these guys a nod for bringing another label to DC. The Mausi single "sol." is breezy and cathcy as hell. [...]
New video for the single "Lovers" from chillwaver and Athens, Ohio native Brothertiger, aka John Jagos. "Lovers"' is off the upcoming album "Golden Years", set to release on March 27 via Mush Records. We are big fans of BT, and if this single is any indicator, we have a lot to look forward [...]
Best Friends hails from Chicago, and specializes in pop-dance gems. The production duo/band's self-titled EP has been on repeat for days and some tracks have already made it on to my party/workout list. Check out the "video" for "So Far Away" above (my personal favorite off the EP), and the BANGER "Body Rock". [...]
I don't always appreciate folk tunes nowadays...But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Wait, no. Let me start over. The Tinder Box has got this genuinely fresh, worthy-of-playback sound that is rare in the folk industry these days. "These Winds" brings together a lone kick drum with banjo & trumpet, alongside unique, harmony-laden melodies [...]
New stuff from Evan Voytas off the soon to be released "Feel Me" EP (January 24 Dovecote Records.) The song has a mysterious and sexy vibe with a driving beat and catchy falsetto hook. Get intimate and enjoy... Evan Voytas | Can't Let Anybody Know Who You Are
The year just started, and I am already excited for what it has in store for us music nerds. Right now, I am absolutely in love with Alec Feld, aka Expensive Looks, a young producer out of NY who makes self-proclaimed "polar acid garagewave discohouse, bombastic balearic beasts." After listening to the first single off [...]
Here's a sweet little collection of lo-fi, sample-heavy beat tracks from Miró Belle, Kiss This (Vol. 01). The tunes are all fairly short and seem to end abruptly, so they seem more like unfinished ideas than full songs. That only seems to add to the character and charm of each song, and to my enjoyment [...]
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Check out this eerie yet very spot on cover of David Essex's 1974 glam-rock hit "Rock On." The track comes from Austin based trio Love Inks. I am just getting into their album "E.S.P." (buy the album here) so expect alot more tunes from the band very soon. Happy Friday dudes! Love Inks [...]
New band out of Ottawa, Canada called Fevers. Cut from the same cloth as M83 and The Postal Service, the band does well by mixing electronic dance music with indie rock hooks. Download their EP "Passion Is Dead" here. Looking forward to hearing more from this band very soon. Enjoy! Fevers| Passion [...]
Another gem from Austin TX! The once solo efforts of Martin Crane has bloomed into a 3-piece live act, with Crane's lyrically creative, acoustical & piano-driven songs flourishing in Brazos' first LP Phosphorescent Blues. The LP's ruby is definitely "The Observer," Crane's musical vision of mid-century poet Adrienne Rich's The Observer. This album evokes a [...]
I've been itchin' for some good folk dittys on ol' Newdust. And wouldn't you know it, the freshly formed duet Mahoney & The Moment found their way to my inbox, and they're just what my ears have been longing for. With clean & simple, melodic folk tunes, their debut self-titled is fantastic from start to [...]
I listened to this song two nights ago after seeing Lindsay Lohan tweet it (full disclosure: I follow Lindsay Lohan), and it blew my mind. Everything about the video is oddly bizarre, yet oddly captivating. It begins with the camera panning the deck and passages of an abandoned ship. The footage is slightly reminiscent of [...]

" Switching gears to discuss the band's long-gestating LP, Cargill reveals that financial difficulties and the adjustment to working primarily as a duo contributed to the protracted delay of Broadcast's follow-up to 2005's Tender Buttons. He hints that it will embrace the pensive soft-focus side of the band, chartering dramatically different sonic territory than the cacophonous, braying 2009 EP collaboration with the The Focus Group, Investigate Witch Cults off the Radio Age. "Trish's vocals are really great," Cargill enthuses. [...]