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Janelle Kroll: Numb

It’s a good day when you stumble across such a soulful track as the downtempo-laced ‘Numb’ by Janelle Kroll via Soundcloud’s explore feature. New York based songwriter Kroll is apparently best known for providing vocals to house legend Dennis Ferrer’s…

Signal-to-Noise: Something to Say

Signal-to-Noise is the brand new project by Michael Downing, a talented electro-rock songwriter & producer based in Chicago who draws on influences from a diverse range of favorites (e.g. Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, and Supertramp, etc). Starting this past January,…

Star Tropics: Summer Rain

Chicago’s Star Tropics began as original members Scott (lead guitar) and Loren (bass, vocals) found themselves huddled around a drum machine. Searching for the sound that would eventually define the band, Star Tropics went on to become four musicians determined…

Early Worm: Water Colors

We again find ourselves on the Twitter search page, this time imagining a quarter drop and mechanical crane grabbing this beautiful EP and prized track out of the sea of million tweets. Well, we like to think it was something…

The Losers: She Was Bad

We recently fine-tuned our search parameters on Twitter to dive into the morass of loose tweets and find some quality songs. THE LOSERS are four purveyors of such fine music from Greenville, Illinois, close friends who have put out a…