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While many bands of this persuasion would be happy to settle for party-boy rock with country infusion, Deer Tick strips past this template and wanders straight out into the wilderness.

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TweetShare Remember when Animal Collective was shiny and new? Remember how you felt… confused, intrigued, but ultimately starving for more? This is the kind of tingly feeling I got when I listened to Old Arc. Old Arc is Austin Lee and Stefan Lazer of Santa Cruz, California. These guys are a duo of another world; [...]

TweetShare Sometimes your day starts in a normal fashion, alarm clock, breakfast, journey to work, humdrum day…  Sometimes though something happens to break up the monotony and today that something happened.  Herr Styler arrived. I have to admit that when a band describes itself as “…an enigmatic and rather secretive duo (originally from Italy but [...]

TweetShare You’re gonna like this one, I guarantee it. Ok, I don’t really guarantee it, but I can say you’ll love it if you loved their astounding debut EP.  As you’d expect from the song, the video follows suit with some trippy visuals, cold electronic synthetics, and a slightly creepy vibe with some hooded entity [...]

TweetShare New song from NY’s finest synth-pop dreamers. ‘ Heart in your Heartbreak’ continues just where “Say No To Love“ left off and just adds to my excitement over their March release ‘Belong’. It’ll be released digitally and physically as a 7″ on December 14th via Slumberland and for now you can stream it below.  Go [...]

TweetShare I’d say my ratio for PR companies sending me half-decent music is maybe one out of ten (sometimes two), and I don’t get a whole lot of PR releases.  That either says something about the state of music, or about PR, or about both, but those one or two times that they nail it [...]

TweetShare Imagine space crickets in a time warp. A crystalline synthesis and what I would characterize, at times, as intelligent wonk for all of the readers who don’t see the logical inconsistency between the two. As the anticlimactic arrival of the apocalypse passes us, we’re forced to reevaluate the archaic electronic methods spread unevenly amongst [...]

TweetShare You’ll likely not go for long without reading a feature of Kisses without them being compared to Jens Lekman. It’s true, singer Jesse Kivel does sound similar to Jens Lekman, but not in the same sense as Owl City sound like Postal Service.  Jesse doesn’t comprise Kisses as a whole (he’s joined by Zinzi [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware, the Gymnopedies are three compositions by Erik Satie, a 19th-20th century French composer.  They’re by far his most famous works and if you’ve never heard them before I urge you to seek them out (in this day and age it shouldn’t take you much more than three minutes). MillionYoung has just [...]