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GRACIE and RACHEL – ” Tiptoe “

Posted: June 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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Gracie and Rachel are a study in duality: light and dark, classical training with a pop sensibility, Californians in Brooklyn New York. Their music pits anxiety and tension against an almost serene self-assurance. The result is a compelling juxtaposition of Gracie’s piano and lead vocals and Rachel’s violin and voice, augmented with stark percussion. Though they make music as a duo, Gracie and Rachel together far exceed the sum of their parts. Like their stylized color palette of black and white, their instrumentation appears simple and spare at first glance, but there’s a powerful prism effect at work that brings us back to the concept of duality: their songs are intimate and expansive, questioning and confident.
The nine orchestral-pop songs on Gracie and Rachel tell a story that’s rooted in the truth —their truth — but retain an enigmatic air that makes them relatable to anyone who has ever found their heart racing with doubt and pushed forward regardless. Their journey through adventurous youth and cohabitation is evident on their self-titled debut full length set for release on June 23rd.

GRACIE and RACHEL – ” Don’t Know “

Posted: June 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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Gracie and Rachel are a study in duality: light and dark, classical training with a pop sensibility, Californians in New York. Their music pits anxiety and tension against an almost serene self-assurance on their self-titled debut, and their live show is equal parts fierce drama and delicate intimacy. In case you missed it, we recently released a music video for the last song on our record, “Don’t Know,” a piece that asks us to put down our phones and wake up to the surveillance state, making our first encounter with color as we escape to mother nature. The artists describe the track as “a song of empowerment and an urgency to fight back from being controlled,” sentiments that have never been more front-and-center than they are now. With “Don’t Know”, Gracie and Rachel voice concerns relevant to an entire generation.

Their music is a compelling juxtaposition of Gracie’s piano and lead vocals and Rachel’s violin and voice, augmented with stark percussion. The nine orchestral-pop songs on Gracie and Rachel tell a story that’s rooted in the truth —their truth — but retain an enigmatic air that makes them relatable to anyone who has ever found their heart racing with doubt and pushed forward regardless, or triumphed in subverting expectations imposed from without.

“I think that’s representative of how I feel as a human being, of how Rachel feels,” Gracie says. “It is our story, but we’re working to express a duality that’s open to everyone.”

“Innovative beautiful music. Passionate devotion to honest storytelling. Eminently stimulating to listen to.”

OVERCOATS – ” Leave The Light On “

Posted: June 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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Overcoats is a Brooklyn-based duo that mixes traditional folk, soul, and gospel with the forward-thinking electronic production of Sylvan Esso and Little Dragon. Their debut album “Young” is built on the themes of family, love, and concepts of womanhood. “Totally rad ladies with smart lyrics, sweet vocals, and powerful, sometimes-gritty backing music that’s kind of dark but very danceable.”

Produced by Nicolas Vernhes (Daughter, Dirty Projectors) and experimental R&B artist Autre Ne Veut, the album was released on April 21st, 2017 by Arts & Crafts.

The LONE BELLOW – ” Time’s Always Leaving “

Posted: June 27, 2017 in MUSIC
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New York based band The Lone Bellow have announced plans to released their third studio album, Walk Into A Storm due out on the 15th September.

The album was produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell) and recorded in Nashville.

The first taster from Walk Into A Storm is the rocking single single “Time’s Always Leaving” 

Band Members
Zach Williams, Kanene Pipkin, Brian Elmquist, Jason Pipkin

B BOYS – ” Dada “

Posted: June 22, 2017 in MUSIC
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This is among the best and most vital sounding post-punk albums that I’ve heard this year, Themes: no-nonsense, something to say, business suits and beanies, mental states, working class.  You could be convinced that Brooklyn band B Boys are really Parquet Courts in disguise. but I’m also a sucker for this kind of Devo meets Wire meets Tubway Army stuff and Dada rocks it like it’s 1979.Essential listening for Parquet Courts fans,  Abstraction takes a triangular form: vibrant guitar melodies, undulating bass lines, deep swirling grooves. Sounds that transcend a linear timeline, splintering out across multiple spectrums. Interlocking vocals skillfully bob and weave overtop, their mantras resounding.

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Band Members
Andrew Kerr, Brendon Avalos, Britton Walker

CHARLY BLISS – ” Guppy ” Best Albums Of 2017

Posted: June 14, 2017 in MUSIC
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Three years after releasing their three-track Soft Serve EP, Charly Bliss have expanded their crunchy, very ’90s power pop sound into a delectable full-length debut that spans 10 enjoyable tracks. It’s their new album called “Guppy” there’s a big fishy swimming on the front with some smaller fishy pals — but it might as well have been called Sundae LP, as it’s sugary, summery, and doused with all sorts of sweet choclately distortion.

Charly Bliss is having the best time at summer camp. Andrew Costa directs this video for the New York band’s soaringly saccharine power-pop song “Westermarck” — there’s face painting, skateboarding in the dining hall, taking a guitar solo on a ropes course, sparklers. What if we all just lived at camp and the members of Charly Bliss were the camp directors? .

Some may be put off by Eva Hendricks’ vocals, and for good reason: At times, she can sound a little too mawkish, as if she’s just inhaled a tank of helium and rubbed her teeth with the powdery sugar that comes from pixie sticks. But, give the songs a couple of spins — or, you know, just let Guppy swim along and mawkish turns to punchy and punchy turns to addicting and addicting turns to love. And when that happens, poppy ditties like “Percolator”, “Black Hole”, “Ruby”, and “Gatorade” start sounding like all the ’90s college rock you once skipped over for Savage Garden and Everclear. Sigh.

BIG THIEF – ” Breathe in My Lungs “

Posted: June 10, 2017 in MUSIC
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The trails that Brooklyn’s Big Thief — Adrianne Lenker (guitar, vocals), Buck Meek (guitar), Max Oleartchik (bass), and James Krivchenia (drums) — take us down on “Capacity”, the band’s highly anticipated second record out on Saddle Creek Records, are overgrown with the wilderness of pumping souls.

After last year’s stunning Masterpiece, Capacity was recorded in a snowy winter nest in upstate New York at Outlier Studio with producer Andrew Sarlo. The album jumps right into lives marked up and nipped in surprisingly swift fashion. They are peopled and unpeopled, spooked and soothed, regenerating back into a state where they can once again be vulnerable. Lenker’s songs introduce us to a gallery of multi-facted women and deal with the complicated matters of identity — at once dangerous and curious, though never unbelievable. Lenker shows us the gentle side of being ripped open. Tricked into love, done in and then witnessing the second act of pulling oneself back together to prepare for it to all happen again, but this time to a sturdier soul, one who is going to take the punches better than ever before and deal some jabs and roundhouses of their own.

The album is thick with raw, un-doctored beauty: most of the songs on Capacity were played for the first time in the studio and were recorded the same day. “There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album,” Lenker explains. “The songs search for a deeper level of self-acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a reaction from inside the pain, whereas I feel Capacity examines the pain from the outside.”

The b-side to Big Thief’s  7-inch, “Mythological Beauty,” “Breathe In My Lungs” is a sparse one-off that slowly but surely expands from a fireside strum to a lush almost-anthem.

“Big Thief’s quiet power propels songs of the flesh and soul. These are timeless songs, memorable and momentous.” – NPR Music’s Bob Boilen

Big Thief’s sophomore album beautifully excavates family history and trauma into a delicate, intricately built folk rock record, showcasing the gorgeous style of singer Adrianne Lenker. – Pitchfork

“their new album is a huge leap forward in just about every possible way, a record made with enormous confidence and intuition and empathy.” – Stereogum

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From the Mythological Beauty 7″ – Out Now!

BEACH FOSSILS – ” Social Jetlag “

Posted: June 4, 2017 in MUSIC
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The long-awaited return of Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils, “Somersault” showcases a band in bloom. Augmented with more complex instrumentation, including string arrangements, piano, harpsichord, flute, and sax, the new songs offer multi-layered pop guided by sharp, poignant, and honest lyrics.  These songs pulse and pull, capturing a blend of promise and heartache. It’s beautiful and layered, a refined, sweeping creation that threads together numerous styles, textures, and themes into a refreshing, singular vision. [Limited edition red color vinyl pressing also available.]

Launched in 2009 as the solo project of singer-songwriter Dustin Payseur, Beach Fossils has since expanded to become a full-on rock quartet. On previous albums Clash The Truth, released in 2013, and their self-titled 2010 debut, the band have fleshed out Payseur’s delicate, melodic compositions, amassing a solid catalogue of songs that toe the improbable line between dreamy and anthemic.

On their latest full-length, Somersault, Beach Fossils add even more nuance to their brand of melancholy guitar pop. While the music is bright and playful, the lyrics find Payseur struggling through loneliness, underscoring the impermanence of personal relationships.

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The heady, mid-tempo, piano-pop groover “Saint Ivy” combines a bouncy rhythm with dynamic classical strings, as Payseur’s lyrics touch on both cynicism and hopefulness. With its weaving bassline and the chorus’s gently-circling guitar, “Sugar” could be an outtake from a lost 4AD record. Underneath the gauzy instrumentation, Payseur’s vocal refrain—“On the outside, change your mind, feeling nothing”—hints at detachment and alienation.

The album closes with the softly-jangling “That’s All for Now,” which opens with sorrowful lyrics: “It’s new regret / Isn’t it funny how we forget?” Payseur sings. Eventually, the song’s mid-tempo groove gives way to tender, wilting slide guitar, as Payseur advises: “Keep moving on, keep moving on.” It’s a fitting end to an album that reconciles the immediacy of heartbreak with the transitory nature of life and love.

Beach Fossils “Social Jetlag” from their album “Somersault” out June 2, 2017.

CENDE – ” What I Want “

Posted: May 19, 2017 in MUSIC
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Indie rock quartet Cende formed in 2013 while living at Brooklyn house venue David Blaine’s The Steakhouse, and bonding over their mutual admiration for punk band The Marked Men. They had just graduated from SUNY Purchase, the college that was early home to Double Double Whammy—the label founded by LVL UP, a band in which members of Cende also play.

On their debut full-length, the group contrast the melodic and the offbeat, marrying “sunny power pop instrumentals to devastated breakup songs and existential freakouts for a confusing but exciting dissonance,” . It’s out on Double Double Whammy.

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Although short and sweet, this bands first EP captures the energy and solidity of a punk-rock band. Each track is strong and leaves me wanting more.

CENDE is: Cameron Wisch, Dave Medina, Bernard Casserly, Greg Rutkin.

The RUNGS – ” Whisper “

Posted: May 19, 2017 in MUSIC
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Is everyone in a bands in Brooklyn? ,At our best estimate everyone in the whole borough is already in a band, and yet somehow they still manage to produce something new most weeks, and this week, it’s The Rungs.

The alt-pop trio formed back in 2012, and have recently shared their new single, “Whispers”. From an intro of gentle, twinkling, electronic buzzes, the drums arrive to propel the song along and introduce singer Mandy’s, bright, emotive vocal. Whispers is a stunning blend of the college rock of bands like Karen Meat or Forth Wanderers, huge poppy choruses and unforgettable hooks. Future plans are currently under wraps, but here’s hoping this isn’t the last we hear of The Rungs.

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Recorded at Pyramid Sound Studios
Mike Parker – Drums, Engineering, Mixing, Super-hero powers
Phil Abbott – Mixing, Mastering, Whisker sours

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