Each week we find a track from an artist or a band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. Monica Lionheart has built up a solid group of fans thanks to her, strong-yet-etherial work with bands like Zigmat and Pacha Massive. For her solo outing, she continues to blend the worlds of electro-pop and atmospheric torch ballads. For "Escape Strategy", she leans heavy on the former – finding a direct line between artists like Berlin and the Chromatics.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. There’s something about this cozy pop-rock ditty that keeps growing on us. The English quintet’s blend of melodic guitar interplay and pensive-yet-earnest vocals strikes a warming chord. It’s a sympathetic tale about people caught in flux.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canciòn de la Semana. You can hear cumbia and dancehall influences in this blazing track from Buenos Aires’ Mati Zundel. The swaying groove, stomping drums, and rumbling bass roll together to form a colorful pastiche we’d expect from a sonic scavenger like Diplo. This high-energy track is featured on Zundel’s debut album, Amazonico Gravitante.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. Complexity is what makes Alabama Shakes so intriguing. The Athens, Ga.–based Southern rock band has roots in the local punk rock scene but sounds steeped in the old-school traditions of Muscle Shoals. On their rollicking single “Hold On,” Brittany Howard belts lyrics with Joplinesque abandon to Heath Fogg’s Skynardian guitar riffs. If “Hold On” is any indication, patience really is a virtue.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canciòn de la Semana. Tecato, Baja California, native Carla Morrison played in bands at home and in Arizona before pursuing a solo loop-driven sound à la KT Tunstall or Joseph Arthur. On her latest album, Déjenme Llorar, one hears an autumnal, mostly acoustic modern folk sound that suits her comforting voice. “Me Encanta” features a dreamy wash of tuned and atonal percussion, a gentle bass line, and haunting accordion.
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. We Are the In Crowd is a five-piece power pop band from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., featuring boy-girl lead vocalists Tay Jardine and Jordan Eckes, respectively. “Kiss Me Again (feat. Alex Gaskarth)” displays this arrangement’s beauty, flaunting pretty melodies and yearning vocals about young love: “Can you feel my heart beat? Put your arms around me/And kiss me again.”
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Each week we find a track from an artist or band we’ve been enjoying and bring it to you, for free, as our Canciòn de la Semana. Produced by the much-respected Quique Rangel of Café Tacvba, Bella Época features the single “Lobo”—a song about change and loneliness. Frontman Juan Manuel Torreblanca describes the life of a werewolf who’s hunted rather than the hunter; it’s accompanied by an emotional percussion-and-piano pairing that evokes sounds of a running animal.
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