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Queued Up: Nine December

Here is something you never read about music: caffeinated rock n’ roll. But, don’t use just a regular coffee. Queued Up is a 4-piece power pop group hailing from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They call their music Maximum Power Pop: it…

K-X-P: Melody

Here is the first single from the Finland trio K-X-P, off their new album titled “II” which will be out this coming February via Manimal and Melodic UK. Enjoy, and keep spreading the letters around. [Via Manimal] FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD…

Australasia: Antenna

AUSTRALASIA is a childhood spent listening to Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks; a youth on the sharp edge of the underground, extreme metal scene; a whole life sunk into the Post-rock molten wax with a strong fascination for the sound of vintage…

Meklit Hadero & Quinn DeVaux

A soul record, certainly. A project born of a shared feel for that idiom’s sounds. But not a suite of songs by its bold-faced names (well, maybe a couple – they couldn’t lay off that Sam classic, or from making…

Pinact: Into the One

Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great songs. They’ve gone out and released an EP called “Spill Your Guts,…