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Movienite – Yippie!

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Swedish band Movienite merge 90’s disto-rock with modern melodic & rhythm structures and do so well on new one “Yippie!” while not coming off hokey/nostalgic by maintaining the rudder of strong and focused pop writing. A++.

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Rating 8.4

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05-29-14

Phoria – Undone

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Brighton’s best Phoria do well to standout from the UK Alt-R&B trend/scene with a strong follow-up to one of the year’s best tracks “Emanate” on the soothing and spare “Undone”. X Novo will release next month “Display”, Phoria’s new EP from which “Undone” is sampled.

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Rating 8.4

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05-28-14

Tijuana Panthers – NOBO

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The great Innovative Leisure will be releasing next week Wayne Interest, the new LP from SoCal band Tijuana Panthers. Debuted on KCRW last week is “NOBO” a reverb-washed, drop-out sort of track that mixes well surf rock elements and classic R&B and is Wayne Interest’s current focus track.

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Rating 8.6

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05-28-14

Bruce Rave Interviews Temples

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Prior to Temples’ recent show at the High Noon Saloon in Madison, WI, Bruce Rave interviews Tom and Sam of the buzzing British psyche-rock collective at WSUM-FM studios. Have a listen to their hang below.

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* Links and playlists from Rave’s weekly new music show can be found on his blog and be sure follow Bruce on Twitter too!

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05-27-14

Premiere: City Tribe – Broken Arrow

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We’re very pleased to premiere “Broken Arrow” the latest track from San Francisco band City Tribe. Excerpted from the band’s new LP Undertow, “Broken Arrow” blends the West Coast easy harmonies of a Fleet Foxes with the chaotic beauty/tempest in a tea-cup quality of Neil Young’s noisier records. Undertow, the LP recorded by former Manchester Orchestra drummer Andy Freeman is out July 29. Sample the B3 Premiere of “Broken Arrow” below.

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Rating 8.4

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05-21-14

SALES – Vow

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Orlando FL duo SALES invoke the ghost of Broken Social Scene on the soulfully spare and excellent indie pop of “Vow”.

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Rating 8.3

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05-13-14

SLAVVE – Pity Party

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New label, new band. Hailing from West Palm Beach but now calling Brooklyn home, gritty and daring punk outfit SLAVVE throw down on first single “Pity Party”. SLAVVE’s debut EP is due June 24th on the new Portland, OR label Bloodmoss Records – and if “Pity Party” is even the tiniest window into the whole of the EP, we are stoked. Reviewed by Brian Litwin

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Rating: 8.3

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05-09-14

KHUSHI – In The Sun

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London UK-based KHUSHI, author of in the last twelve months of two of indie pop’s most dynamic and unique singles “Magpie” and “Phantoms”, previews a new track from his forthcoming “Phantoms” EP in the form of the romantic spiraling sounds of “In The Sun”.

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Rating 8.3

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05-03-14

COMPNY – Begging Me To Come Back

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COMPNY are a new collective out of the UK. The band offers up the cleverly-constructed, feel good indie pop on their track “Begging Me To Come Back”. Have a listen below.

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Rating 8.2

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04-29-14