After getting unduly rejected from the cast of True Blood (and Vampire Diaries, but to be clear, beating Ian Somerhalder for the role of Damon Salvatore was never realistic :-/), the Dutchman Nick Rotteveel transformed his hopes and dreams of being a TV vampire and became...
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Back in the 2000's Bubba Sparxxx gave us country-rap before his fall to opiates and disappearance from the Billboard charts. Then came Sam Hunt, a college college football playin' Georgia boy trying to be the R. Kelly of country music with his talk-singing (see "Break Up In...
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My mother always said "nothing good happens after midnight" as a way to keep me home on the weekends playing gin rummy and watching TGIF instead out clubbing like a regular 17 year old. Thankfully for all current teens out there, Bear Hands has amended...
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This Indie/New wave/Disco duo from Sweden (which could abbreviate as "INDi" duo, but then it'd be really misleading) (although SwINDi Duo sounds amazing), Tundran, are just two dudes, Felix and Jakob, blending sounds from bands like, Lemaitre, LCD Soundsystem, Chromeo, 1975, etc...
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Out with her first solo EP is the 22 year-old Aussie volcanist (I mean vocalist), Nicole Millar (you may recognize her voice from Peking Duk's tripled platinum song "High"). I coulda sworn a volcanist was the same as a volcanologist...
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Hailing from Exeter, not the prep school Phillips Exeter, but the Cathedral city in southwest England best known for being a wool trade hub in the late 19th century and then destroyed in WW2, Shit Present (ya...
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Virginia Beach rockers turned quasi-indie-shoegazers, Turnover, put out a super chill and well done album last year: Peripheral Vision. Maybe I was just tired and stressed and needed something easy while cooking the other night, but it was exactly what I needed (been on repeat since). Their...
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Confusingly not from Boston but Blackpool, Boston Manor are also not named after the London tube station in Ealing, but just a working song title they stole from a friend's band (not as cool). This quintet is another welcome addition to the sweet UK rock...
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Philly is a pretty cool town, and despite the naysayers, some real strong stuff comes outta the City of Brotherly Love (I didn't know Philadelphia literally meant that :-/, I thought they called it that cuz ppl high-fived a lot, or they had a sweet...
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As a way to honor their Colorado roots, the humble foursome named their band "Elway" - a word so commonly used in the everyday vernacular of the Rockies. So you can imagine their shock, when the band that [at the time] "routinely plays in front...
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