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Make-up Monday: Misterwives – Reflections

Released in January, this title track off Misterwives' debut EP gets a track-of-the-year nominee for sure. For more info on the band check out my girl Jessie's extensive coverage over at MJF. Otherwise, just watch the acoustic session they did for The Wild Honey Pie...

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VERITE – HEARTBEAT

We don't know much about VERITE. But I know that I love this song. As soon as that chorus kicks in you melt. I'm completely hooked and I know nothing about her, other than she's an NYC based artist and I'm in love. FIND ME...

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Brain Tan – Relapse

Right now, Rob Arbelo is deep in the woods of Maine writing songs and reinventing the band fromerly known as Future Screens. I'm a big believer in what they've been doing. We had them play our sold out show with Betty Who back in September...

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Local H – Team (Lorde cover)

It's covers like this that make me wonder who really drives the ship? Songwriters or producers? How can one of last year's top pop songs translate so well to the rock world. Leave it up to Chicago based Local H for having the right vision...

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X Priest X – Isn’t It So

Congrats to X Priest X on releasing their debut Samurai EP yesterday; a compilation pleasantly fit to score the next Ryan Gosling film.  Isn't it fitting that a Florida based duo would drop these poolside DJ set bookends at just the right time.  Have a listen to the full EP...

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Chad Valley – Your Love (Frankie Knuckles Cover)

On March 31, 2014 Frankie Knuckles passed away. There was an immediate outpouring of love, respect and tributes to the man responsible for modern house music. After a few days the dust settled and people carried on with their lives, as they do. But yesterday,...

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Twin Shadow – To The Top

Who wants to hear some new Twin Shadow? Everyone does, that's who! This cut is one of my new favorites. I really enjoy the ensemble vocals, layered like the most delicious treat. It builds slowly to an anthemic climax and really punches it up during the...

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[VIDEO] The Green Room @ SXSW

If you've been keeping up with us as of late, you know we kind of threw down a party for the ages at SXSW with our SF homies at Beautiful Buzzz. On the final day of SXSW, we also teamed up with Vitalic Noise to...

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Make-up Monday: Asgeir & Prinze George

Sometimes my favorite tracks go unblogged because they're already so well-hyped. So I created Make-up Mondays, a 24-hour license, once per week, to blog whatever I want with no second guessing. Here are two well established buzz-bands that are very high on my daily rotation...

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Beautiful Buzzz Mixtape Vol. 3 – Kauf

This BUZZMIX mixtape series is getting out of hand. First was Touch Sensitive, then SOTRW and the third installment dropped this morning from one of my favorite SXSW discoveries, Kauf. Fresh off an Aussie tour in support of Cut Copy, LA based Kauf is one...

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