Blip Blip Bleep: Freak You Out
Freak You Out, by the Brooklyn based band Blip Blip Bleep, is undoubtfully one of my favourite tracks of 2010, and one of the best I have ever had the oportunity to use in my podcasts. Like Track Stars is the…
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Oars: Karats
In the spring of 2008, the unassuming duo Oars (David Bratton and Earl Muehlenbach) began an intensive six months of recording, song crafting and experimentation in a closet-sized Greenpoint [Brooklyn] studio across the street from a fish-smoking plant. Relying on…
Bellevue’s Finest: Wannabe
Setting the record at four for the number of posts on the Daily Dose, the culmination of their Summer Of Singles project Back in June of this year, they released In My Dreams (ur txting me), followed by Echo on…
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Say No To Love
Being mainstream, doesn’t always mean major labels. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, featured here sometimes before, are one of those new independent artists that won a place at mainstream music audiences. They were very active in 2009 and…
Pearl and the Beard: Voice in My Throat
Pearl and the Beard is three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. Former strangers Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy Styles were united in the great city…