The jazz guitar/3 A.M. beats sound of “Sanctuary” featuring emcee Que Hampton is the title track from Maths Time Joy’s upcoming EP True Colours Records out on May 25.
Maths Time Joy 
(Soundcloud)
The jazz guitar/3 A.M. beats sound of “Sanctuary” featuring emcee Que Hampton is the title track from Maths Time Joy’s upcoming EP True Colours Records out on May 25.
Maths Time Joy (Soundcloud)
The unstoppable UK R&B act HONNE impress again with their new expansive, deeply thoughtful multidimensional track “Top to Toe” which features a unique-dynamic twisty mix of instrumentals artfully woven with the duo’s signature straightforward velvety vocals. HONNE, one of our very favorite new artists at B3, made it to the top of the B3SCI Best Tracks of 2014 list and also hit our Artists to Watch in 2015 compilation. Stay tuned for more from this rising-star-talent who recently released “Top To Toe” as a part of their new “Coastal Love” EP which is out on Tatemae Recordings. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Honne 
(Soundcloud)
“Seeds” is the A-side of an upcoming 7″ for Terror Records by L.A. songwriter Moses Sumney. Recorded by Sumney on a 4-track cassette while holed at cabin in California’s Big Bear, “Seeds” is a spare and beautiful work of art of tune. Listen.
Moses Sumney 
(Soundcloud)
Lose yourself in the expressive groove and blissful-downcast atmosphere of awesome new sentimental lo-fi track “The Hedonist” which is the latest retro-vibing single from unsigned Melbourne, AU psych-rock band Foreign/National who’s self-titled debut EP B3 premiered in 2014. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Foreign/National
(Soundcloud
Zella Day will release her debut Kicker LP on June 2 and is now streaming “High”, the LP’s latest preview. Kicker which will also feature favorites “Sweet Ophelia”, “Compass” & “East of Eden”. Stream the anthemic big sound of “High” below.
Zella Day 
(Facebook)
“I Want More” is the first stream from Maine band Old Soul’s upcoming LP Omnipresent. Recorded in a ramshackle old barn overlooking an Atlantic Coast farm, Omnipresent‘s roomy spacious sound embraces both the environment that it was recorded in and the band’s low touch approach to songwriter pop. “I Want More”, with its references of influence ranging from AA Bondy to Vetiver, is molded around carefree acoustic strums woven into neatly crafted sing-a-long melodies. Stream the B3 Premiere of Old Soul’s “I Want More” below and look for details on Omnipresent here.
Old Soul 
(Bandcamp)
Get caught up in the big guitar-riffs, absorbing vocal hook, and sugary-sweet hum of the strings on new track “Happy in the Sorrow Key” which is the new first single off upcoming album, One Lost Day, from American legend act, Indigo Girls, the female folk-rock musical duo who are best known for their loaded lyrics and classic acoustic-guitar driven music from the 80’s and 90’s. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Indigo Girls 
(Facebook)
Get into the impeccable, melodic reverb-laced vocals and irresistible guitar groove of Auckland, NZ collective Leisure on their soulful organ-tinged track “Got It Bad” which the mysterious new artist created in a makeshift sun-room studio in a holiday house on the West Coast. Reviewed by Erin Shay
Leisure 
(Soundcloud)
Anthony Ferraro’s (Toro y Moi) Astronauts, Etc. releases the soulfully plaintive new track “No Justice”. On the track, a stunning set of double-tracked vocal melodies highlight “No Justice’s” twilight pop rhodes-aided feel. Give “No Justice” your attention below and look for an LP from Astronauts, Etc. this fall.
Astronauts, Etc. (Facebook)
Spainish band The Parrots garner our attention with their gritty primitive vocals and hazy garage instrumentals on excellent new indie rock song “I’m Not Alone” which is from the trio’s new “Weed for The Parrots” EP that is slated to release in June. Reviewed by Erin Shay
The Parrots 
(Official)
Maya Jane Coles’ Nocturnal Sunshine project, the author of the break from Nicki Minaj’s “Truffle Butter”, teams with band Chelou for an anxious new bit of grimy-edged dark pop on “Believe”. MJC’s debut LP as Nocturnal Sunshine is out May 25.
Nocturnal Sunshine (Soundcloud)
