Get entrenched in the bright and cozy vulnerable atmosphere of new indie rock track “Green Light” which is the passionately beautiful, artful brood of British 5-piece band Sahara who recorded the track earlier this year. Reviewed by Erin Shay
Sahara 
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Thom Green of indie rock World Champions alt-J throws a clattering menacing new remix for Wolf Alice’s “Moaning Lisa Smile” single. We’re spooking out with Mr. Green’s selections for dingy dark musical left turns, caterwauling bass, and an overall aesthetic of peril. Wolf Alice’s debut LP My Love Is Cool is out June 23 on Dirty Hit/RCA.
Wolf Alice 
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“Swim” is the second song online from UK act Cape Cub. “Swim”, quite simply, is a very accomplished piece of pop songwriting from its mid-career Coldplay-isms in the verse to its overwhelming anthemic and uplifting chorus hook (we can very easily hear 100,000 odd festival go’ers chanting back “if there’s something that you to know” at the top of their lungs). Stream “Swim” below.
Cape Cub (Soundcloud)
“Can’t Have Them” is new from Wollongong AU guitar duo Hockey Dad. “Can’t Have Them” with its big syncopated riffs, soaring melodic falsettos, and lo-fi but accessible aesthetic is a Radio 1 hit assuredly waiting to happen.
Hockey Dad 
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On new song “Heartbeat”, Australian band East of Here (the Sydney-based collaboration of Joel Spiteri and Mike Holm) tap into some pretty potent and universal lyrical themes of love and loss spun against the backing of a stunning wall of reverbed guitars, vocal loops/manipulations and a minimal driving beat. “Heartbeat” is a particularly powerful listen.
East of Here (Soundcloud
Polyvinyl-signed band from Louisville KY White Reaper share irreverent track “I Don’t Think She Cares” from forthcoming debut LP, White Reaper Does It Again. Clanging bass, protopunk half-time drums and the controlled chaos of neatly dynamic distorted guitars, “I Don’t Think She Cares” has our attention.
White Reaper 
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HAELOS are an extraordinary new act out of the UK, the band’s penchant for harnessing broad in scope sound and cinema in their tracks (reminding aesthetically a bit of Massive Attack) within the frame of minimalist engaging composition is outstanding. Each new track from HAELOS is an EVENT! for us as listeners and fans. The band have just signed to Matador to release their debut EP which will include this spectacular new cover of 1990 track “The Sun Rising” by The Beloved.
Montreal outfit Seoul readies new I Become a Shade LP with stream of dreamily textured new single “Haunt a Light”.
Seoul
Newcomer rock band Kid Wave (who B3 featured in January with the 10 out of 10 track “Wonderlust”) enthrall with another incredible indie single, the poppy, catchy-hooked jangly-guitar tinged “Best Friend”. Both tracks are off of the UK group’s new “Wonderlust” EP which is out June 1. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Kid Wave : (Official)
“Just Like Blood” is the dark and seductive, superbly melancholic, vocally stunning second single off the “I Don’t Want To Let You Down” EP from NY songstress Sharon Van Etten, which is out June 9th on Jagjaguwar Records. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Sharon Van Etten 
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The Rebel Kites are a London-based act that make as the band describes it, cinematic folk music. “Atlas Sky”, previewed from the band’s “The Witnessing” EP, very much fits that cinematic folk description with its sweeping symphonics and mastery of ebb and tension of mood (Think Pink Floyd meeting Townes Van Zant outside a rusted-out barn on the Moon). Rebel Kites’ “The Witnessing” EP is out now.
Rebel Kites (Soundcloud)
