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“Jealous Enemies” is the opening track on Dark Captain Light Captain’s new Miracle Kicker album. The tune has a dreamy intricacy coupled with blissful folk harmonies. It could be the starry-eyed offspring of the Kings of Convenience and one of Radiohead’s quiet moments. If you like this song, check out the full-length album.
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Mississippi’s Randy Houser is a newcomer the country music world, the recording side of things, at least. He’s been working as a songwriter in Nashville the past few years (most famously co-writing “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” – the Trace Adkins smash). Now on his own, “Anything Goes” is country-rock barnstormer with a touch of New Orleans-creeping up through the keys. If you like the track, check out the album.
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The Puerto Rican DJ known as Dragon was worked as the man behind the decks and producer for artists like Alex y Wibal and Nestor Torres in the past. Now he steps up to the mic with his debut, The New Face. “Nada Sin Ti” nails down the sound of an echoing, cavernous club – pulsing with massive synths and auto-tuned vocals, but with a tight, reggaeton-inspired bounce carrying the melody. If you like the track, check out the album. For more info, visit Dragon’s MySpace Latino page.
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This is some soulful, sentimental pop that starts with a piano-driven lead and proceeds to tell a bittersweet love story. The trio’s frontman, Danny O’Donoghue, engages with a conversational delivery, before diving into well-timed harmonies and a booming chorus filled with vocal swells reminiscent of Coldplay’s Chris Martin.
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The cascading synths remind us of Kraftwerk, while the slow-paced drums exude hip-hop swagger. Paper Route’s MCs do their part, too — spitting clever braggadocio between choruses that call to mind Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em (“Ohhh!”). The result is something you can lean and rock with. If you like the track, check out a capella version.
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On this song, the opening track from Chilean artist Gonzalo Yañez’s self-titled album, Yañez makes the most of every nuance of stereo sound capabilities. Acoustic guitars pan across, outer-space synthesizers meld into sing-song choruses, and Yañez sounds like he’s singing just out of reach. The combined result is a Technicolor dream, part Beatles, and part Flaming Lips.
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“Mr. Hurricane” packs a beat that will be blowing speakers apart across all continents. That’s the hope, anyway. This track comes courtesy of Montreal-based duo Beatrice Bonifassi and Jean-Phi Goncalves. The group has created a song that has garage-rock’s fuzzed-out wallop, Jack White’s sneering, bluesy darkness, and a giant, space-age gospel chorus worth of the Flaming Lips. Get it now and thank us later.
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For those about to rock, we bring you . . . the Yelling. This North Hollywood quartet have arrived packing vintage gear, from pants to amps, and make a racket like the White Stripes, MC5, Mars Volta, and any other band who are at their best when they are at their loudest. Try the track “Blood on the Steps” today.
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This Glaswegian group have been together just two years and have already made frothing fans of critics back home thanks to two big singles – “Daddy’s Gone” and “Go Square Go!” – songs that swelled with feedback and honeyed melodies. Their sound calls to mind of early (read: pre-Oasis) Creation Records with touches of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s noise assault and much more up-front, emotive vocals. Try the track “Geraldine” and get ready for your new favorite band.
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“Charlie Darwin” is both the centerpiece and the leading track off of the Low Anthem’s newest, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The group creates sublime, windswept harmonies and put them over minimal folk arrangements. For all of it’s breezy trappings, the song carries an emotional, hymn-like weight.
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