Alice Gray is an up and coming indie-pop artist who debuted in 2017 with her single, “Pink Cadillac”, and has since continued to draw listeners into her world with successful singles including “Take Me to the Water” and “Lay Down.” Her defined message and aesthetic can be reflected in the previously released, “Hell With You” which
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Oso Oso is coming back with their new album, Basking in the Glow, set to release later on in August this year. Oso Oso is the solo project of songwriter Jade Lilitri who hails from Long Island, New York. Previously characterized by pessimism and darkness, the 2016 The Yunahon Mixtape focused on the “glass half
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Singer/songwriter Jasmine Ash began her musical career in college aiming for melodies that were catchy and uplifting and productions that were filled with warmth and energy. ASL was the artist’s first language and this likely lends a unique style of writing and way of thinking to her music. The end result is music that channels
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After recently ending a hiatus, American rock band, The Dangerous Summer, is coming back to life with “Bring Me Back to Life.” After ending a five-year hiatus last year, the band released their self-titled album and has been touring nonstop since. They rekindled their love and resolve for playing shows, being on the road, and
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“Orange Juice” is the latest, refreshing single from LA-based musician Lostboycrow. Hailing from New Mexico, the artist sought to go back to their roots for their debut album. “Orange Juice” is taken from the debut album, Santé Fe, appropriately named for the city and energies that inspired it—the endless desert, national treasures like the Puye
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Juniper Vale is kicking off the New Year with the electro anthem, “The Expanse.” Sarah Jane Wood is the Nashville based musician behind Juniper Vale—“a multimedia project that that combines EDM Banjo music with illustrations to explore the experience of home and belonging.” Together with illustrator Hein Zaayman as well as artist and producer Vian
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Ian McKellen publicly spoke about the distress he experienced from the amount of green-screen acting he had to do while playing Gandalf in the recent Hobbit trilogy. He noted, “It’s not what I do for a living. I act with other people, I don’t act on my own.” This truth extends beyond acting to life:
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Love is an interesting thing. In a sense, love can be likened to alcohol on a wound—it can sting painfully but is ultimately healing. Leo Buscaglia, who I am currently reading, wrote a series of lectures on it. I, as a graduate student/nerd, wrote a research paper about it. Whether they realize it or not,
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Banoffee, the Australian songwriter otherwise known as Martha Brown, has released a new track and accompanying video, “Muscle Memory.” Hailing from Melbourne, Banoffee has been producing experimental electronica since 2013 releasing the EP, “Do I Make You Nervous?” in 2015. After its release, Brown made the move to LA where Banoffee’s sound could evolve and
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Music collective Right the Stars is back with a new single, “Calfornia Sun” inspired by California and The Beach Boys. The inspiration goes even further than that, however, with Right the Stars being a sort of music co-op—“a constellation of writers, musicians and producers” headed by singer/songwriter/producer Rich Jacques. The project began in 2009 and
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Jeanne Vomit-Terror has released a debut album Empire Waste through the Lexington, Kentucky based collective, Desperate Spirits. Empire Waste mirrors the artist’s name with its unique brand of self-proclaimed “weirdness.” The eight tracks range from dystopian to groovy to synthetic to pop-y. Track Listing: 01. The Preening 02. Tiger Training 03. Lost In
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One of the most beautiful things about love is that it is a renewable resource — it can be used and felt repeatedly and replaced naturally. Its permanence reveals itself after the loss of a loved one or the amicable ending of a relationship. Even when the two people part, the love given to each
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Roskilde Festival should be on the radar of any adventurous indie music enthusiast. Long, sunny Scandinavian days welcomed 160,000 people to Roskilde, the medieval Viking town near Copenhagen. The 8-day non-profit festival, which is run by volunteers, attracted an eclectic mix of artists including a well-represented collection of indie artists. While its robust musical
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Noah Slee is a New Zealand-born singer and producer with Tonga roots currently based in Berlin. To accompany his recent tour announcement, Slee has released a video for the single, “Stayed”, from his debut album Otherland. Slee intertwined personal pivotal moments—coming out as gay, exploring the Berlin nightlife, pondering religion, paying homage to
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In Denmark, warm, sunny days are a rare commodity. Thus when they make an appearance, Copenhagen-dwellers take full advantage of the sun — donning shorts, eating ice cream, and jumping into the harbor, soaking up every drop of sunlight possible. One common way to take advantage is making the ten-mile journey to the east coast of
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A few years ago, I moved into a dormitory in Copenhagen, Denmark that housed 100 university students. 99 of them were Danish. And one was American (me!). Needless to say, we would have some differences. Or at least I thought we would. Regardless of how different our backgrounds and upbringings were, I could find a
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One lazy day last August, I found myself on the Northern coast of Denmark with one of my Danish friends. She wanted to go swimming in the sea. It was sunny and technically “summer,” but in Denmark summer can sometimes be around 60 degrees. My Floridian, warm-blooded self was not that enthused about getting into
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Hailing from the wast coast in Portland, Oregon, James Randolph Fouty is the man behind the one-man-show that is Sleeping Horses. Fouty has been passionate about music his entire life and is so devoted to the art that he took a custodial job at his former high school just so he could be allowed
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Death By Piano is a new darkwave project from Greywolf and Kalen Lister. They are set to release their debut five-song EP Countdown on March 30. It includes the duo’s reinvention of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” as well four original compositions. “DBP is an incredibly collaborative project, not only between Greywolf and I, but also
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At my dorm, there is always one themed party per semester. The theme always changes and is always a surprise. The party is thrown by the new group of students who moved in at the start of the semester. In the semester I moved in, we chose the theme “Animal Farm,” playing on George Orwell’s
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Annika Schmarsel was raised in Geelong, Australia, where she played guitar in soul-bands, moved to Melbourne where she began making beats, and now is based in Brunswick where she creates music under the persona of Alice Ivy. Her recent release, I’m Dreaming, is a chronicle of the first two years of that persona. I’m
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As a Floridian, I do not know that much about Wisconsin. My general impression of it is that people are nice there, it can get very cold, and they have nice cheddar cheese. And probably nice dairy in general. Initially, I didn’t consider their music scene. But Milwaukee, especially, has built a scene with
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Typically the best year to go on an exchange is the third year of undergrad, as it’s far enough into the degree that you have electives free to take and far enough away from graduation so that grades and credits can be transferred in time. Because of research opportunities, I ended up needing to spend
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Denmark’s Haven Festival will be back this year in Copenhagen from August 10 to 11. The experimental festival that is equal parts a beer festival, food festival, and music festival had its inaugural year last year and was full of ups and downs — but mainly ups. Haven Festival Crosses Disciplines Those downs included the incessant
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There are many ways to fall in love with a song. One way is by following your favorite artist and drinking up each release, already half in love with it before it has even released. Or it can happen the other way around — you can hear a song and be completely clueless about the
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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship, or train. There is almost a peculiar correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts,
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It has always been difficult for me to frame and define my tastes in music, leading me to be one of the many people who describe their taste in music as “eclectic.” Although it can be seen as a copout, I really can find myself embracing everything from the niche-ist corners of the music world
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During an autumn internship in London, I found myself one day taking an alternative walking tour centered on street-art in the East End. The tour was worth taking more than once because of the dynamic, ever-changing open and free canvases. Beautiful pieces could appear and disappear overnight giving them a fleeting, abstract quality rather than
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During a quarter-life crisis last year, I spontaneously decided to book a trip to Malaysia to visit a high-school friend completing an internship there. Next thing I knew, I was standing alone under a small tarp in an orangutan sanctuary in Sarawak waiting for a rainstorm to pass. As I was alone and as I
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The Yolngu are an aggregation of indigenous Australian people. In their mythology the Djanggawul, three Yolngu siblings, created the landscape of Australia and covered it with flora. The legend goes that they were from an island that lies to the east of Arnhem Land where Barnubirr, the creator-spirit who guided the Djanggawul siblings and rises
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“Indigeneity is not a monolith. There is not one way to be indigenous. It is utterly wrong to put us all under the same roof and be expected to somewhat magically get along, to interact and read each other’s minds.” Columbian-Canadian artist Lido Pimienta’s poignant comments perfectly encapsulate one dimension of the complexity that
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While I was on an exchange abroad, I took Islamic Archaeology as one of my electives. The elective turned out to be a graduate-level course with the class consisting of only one other exchange student and four graduate students of Near-Eastern Archaeology. I took the course as an Anthropology elective while my undergrad counterpart took
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German psychologist Carl Jung argued that the most important problems in life are insoluble — that they cannot be solved, only outgrown. And this “outgrowing” manifests itself as a new level of consciousness where “some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its
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A strange combination and turn of events meant I found myself in my friend’s room at our dorm in Copenhagen one night. He was playing the keyboard with headphones on so I couldn’t hear the tune. It was midnight. I was trying to book last-minute plane tickets with his credit card to Toronto. I
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Two Decembers ago, one of my Danish friends came to spend Christmas with me in Florida. It was her first time not only in Florida but in the U.S. She wanted a “true Floridian” experience, to experience everything that was uniquely Floridian. It was difficult for me to articulate what I considered to be Floridian
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Fifteen years ago, my sister took a summer vacation to somewhere simultaneously foreign and familiar: Alaska. She described the unique environment and climate that was so different from our hometown in Florida. She described how the summer days were long and never-ending. There was something welcome about the constant light, but also something a bit
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Post-punk band Bootblacks released their new LP Fragments on September 14 via Manic Depression Records. BlackBook premiered the first single from the album, “Hold & Dissolve,” saying the band “could sit proudly amongst the trenchant, doomy psychedelia of Echo & The Bunnymen’s potent classic ‘Heaven Up Here.” The band’s Panther MacDonald explains that the track is about “knowing you have to leave
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If there is one thing Danes know, it is how to party. Frenetic energy can be found at dorms, universities, Friday-bars, and housewarmings alike. Copenhagen natives off bloom transforms those frenetic, Danish party vibes into a soundtrack that would suit any occasion (preferably party-related). Nylon says of them, “They sound like a perfect love child between Flume
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“Complete greatness clothed in a simplistic, understated charm” – The Line of Best Fit “A breezy trip across indie-pop and something grander and more towards the shoegaze end of the scale.” – DIY “Sensational shoegaze” – Wonderland With praise as great as this, it is no wonder that Swimming Tapes wants to know “What’s On Your Mind.” The
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Hero Fisher’s enchanting imaginative world expands with the dreamy revery of ‘Push The Boat Out’, released 18th Aug, taken from sophomore LP ‘Glue Moon’ Out in Spring 2018. Conceived as a sister song to Glue Moon lead single ‘Sylvie’, ‘Push The Boat Out’ is inspired partly by scenes from Marilynne Robinson’s seminal novel ‘Housekeeping’. “Full
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Dent May premiered the video for his duet with Frankie Cosmos “Across the Multiverse” — also the title track to his just-released new album — via Pitchfork TV. The video, directed by Robbie Barnett, features two lovers, played by Dent and Greta Kline of Frankie Cosmos, pining for each other across space and time. “Don’t wanna
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“We all know what it is like to be at home, just laying in bed while our girl/boyfriend is out on the town and we are just waiting for their texts. It’s a drag, right?” Well, Taylor Grey and Spencer Kane have been there too but instead of being sad about it, they gave their duet “Miami” a little
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Los Angeles-based alternative pop duo ALKE announce the premiere of their infectious new single and video “All Night.” The bright indie-pop track premiered via The Line of Best Fit who beamed that the single was “…an infectious, listenable delight, with a video as lighthearted as the shimmering, sunny synth-pop.” The fun and irresistible track was written about love’s ability to
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Throughout the summer, Haven Festival became increasingly popular and surrounded by a lot of hype in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was to be an atypical festival taking place over two days in the city and was meant to not only be a music festival but a beer festival and a food festival as well. There would
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V Sparks is a Chicago-based band consisting of Alan Lewis (Vox, Keys), Prescott Kagan (Vox, Guitar), Zach Duran (Guitar), Sam Libretti (Bass), and Adam Long (Drums). Drawing from past luminaries like David Bowie, T.Rex, The Beatles and ELO to modern acts like Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and Vampire Weekend, they have brought to pass a
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Haven is a two-day festival taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 11th and 12th. It is the inaugural year of the festival and has been started by Aaron & Bryce Dessner (of The National) Mikkel Borg Bergsø (of Mikkeller beer) and Claus Meyer (the renowned chef). They “have teamed up to create new experiences from their own
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It’s all down to the Details. A stylish pop outlier with Afro-Caribbean soul, R&B swagger, London-born and Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and artist Taliwhoah immediately elicits a reaction any time she sings. That typical response can be found in her very moniker…whoa! Born in a big artistic family to a British born, Nigerian-Lebanese mom and
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Violet Days: Alternative pop stories from Sweden. And Lina Hansson is the author. Born in a small village in the countryside, Hansson was raised in a musical family, singing Swedish folk songs with her siblings and finding inspiration in the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Coldplay, and the Sounds. Hansson always wished her life to mirror
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The xx: minimal, intimate, and up-close. I wondered how they would translate their sound—seemingly suited for an underground club or intimate bar—to Roskilde Festival’s biggest stage and the open air. Spoiler alert: They fared quite well. The London-based trio comprised of Romy Madley Croft, James Thomas Smith, and Oliver Sim took to the stage
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Realizing the capacity for human error can be one of the most excruciating truths of adulthood. Or heartbreakingly, childhood. Unconditional love seems to be the “right” catch-all solution, but things are rarely, if ever, so simple. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, you have to accept that you cannot control another persons’ actions and
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