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Steffaloo Q&A  Steffaloo first emerged on the indie music scene with notable releases in two distinct genres. Seemingly overnight, her lo-fi bedroom folk tracks and guest vocal spots for electronic producers were inescapable. Now, with a new solo album, Would You Stay, and an electronic album in the works, Steffaloo is set to break through in a big way. |
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| 06-19-2013 | Pressed And | Salt Lake City, UT, US | Kilby Court |
| 06-21-2013 | Vuurwerk | Amsterdam, NL | TBD |
| 06-21-2013 | Pressed And | Nampa, ID, US | Flying M Coffee Garage |
| 06-22-2013 | Pressed And | Missoula, MT, US | Monk's |
| 06-23-2013 | Pressed And | Seattle, WA, US | Rendezvous |
| 06-24-2013 | Pressed And | Davis, CA, US | The Womb |
| 06-25-2013 | Pressed And | Oakland, CA, US | The Night Light |
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| 05/2013 - No Fear Of Pop Post Pressed And Track | ||
No Fear Of Pop have featured Pressed And and posted "Decision Made" - a new track from their new LP, Stone Candles.  | ||
| 05/2013 - Free Track From City Light (For Limited Time) | ||
For a short time, the track "Sweet Death" from City Light's new full-length, Memory Guide is available as a free download from our Soundcloud page. | ||
| 05/2013 - Decoder Magazine Premiers New Track From Pressed And | ||
Pressed And’s hazy approach to R&B is stronger than ever in the eight-minute doozy that is "Bored On A Lam" - from their highly anticipated album, Stone Candles and just premiered by Decoder Magazine.  | ||
| 05/2013 - Está Vivo Performs "Smile Back" | ||
| Está Vivo turned in a stripped down performances for "Smile Back" and "Excuse Yourself" during a session for DZ Records. | ||
| 05/2013 - New Music From Dying Machines | ||
| With influces including Brian Eno, Cliff Martinez, Stars Of The Lid and Arvo Part, Dying Machines employs a strict no-synthesizer approach to create epic walls of cinematic drone and beauty. Ambient and Neo-Classical fans should check out the latest Dying Machines release, What Have I Not Forgotten. The track, "So We Lived" is available as a free download via Soundcloud. The EP can be purchased on the Mush online store or iTunes and streamed via Spotify. | ||
| 05/2013 - Pressed And To Tour US | ||
Pressed And will be hitting the road in support of thier new album, Stone Candles. To get an idea of what a Pressed And show is like, check last year's live video from Terroreyes.tv. | ||
| 04/2013 - City Light Lead Single "Devil In The Dark" | ||
City Light has turned in a great package for the lead single, "Devil In The Dark" with a great remix from Andy Fitts, and remixes of album tracks "Wrecking Ball" by Her Space Holiday and "Rewind Replay Repeat" by Ayumu Haitani of 4 Bonjour's Parties. | ||
| 04/2013 - Pressed And Makes Impose's Week In Pop | ||
Each week Impose Magazine brings the "brightening, beatification of beats, bliss, & endless arrays of encouragement" in their Week In Pop. This week, Pressed And makes the cut along with Nissim, Solar Year and Turnip King. | ||
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| MH-085 Dying Machines - What I Have Not Forgotten Texura |
| New Orleans multi-instrumentalist Thomas Buschbach has a particularly interesting way of generating the neo-classical-electronic music he issues under the Dying Machines name. Employing a strict ‘no synthesizers' rule, Buschbach uses guitar to produce blurry washes of ambient design, which are then merged with piano as well as orchestral elements (usually viola and cello) played by real musicians for the final mix. What results on What I Have Not Forgotten, the follow-up EP to Dying Machines' debut, Nicht Spreche, are transporting, five-minute epics that play like heady fusions of Arvo Part and Stars Of The Lid. |
| MH-090 City Light - Devil In The Dark Surviving the Golden Age |
| San Francisco-based City Light is preparing to release the single for “Devil In The Dark” on May 21st. One of the single’s b-sides is Her Space Holiday‘s remix of “Wrecking Ball.” Her Space Holiday and City Light seem like a perfect match; both bands mix elements of pop, electronica, rock and hip-hop. Her Space Holidays remix of “Wrecking Ball” eliminates the acoustic guitar of the original and replaces it with strong staccato strings and layered synths. - Surviving the Golden Age |
| MH-280 Brothertiger - Golden Years The Real Music |
| Back at the beginning of this year, I was extremely skeptical about the direction music would take after 2011's less than flattering assortment of music. It might just have been my fault after having high expectations coming off 2010, which was a fantastic year in music. In 2010, the albums that got a lot of attention and were considered the 'best' of the year lived up to the expectations set. A similar thing happened for 2011, even if the majority of the best music went under the radar. Anyway, as time went on this year, something different happened. Every hyped album, every 'great' album, every 'hot new artist' failed to impress me in the slightest. I decided the only thing I could do was to really look for good music, because it surely wasn't going to come to me. That's how I happened upon Brothertiger's debut record Golden Years. |
| MH-280 Brothertiger - Golden Years Album Articulate |
| Brothertiger is a champion of chillwave. While I’m fairly new to the genre (meaning I finally discovered what genre I’d been listening to for two months was) I can already see the musicians that make chillwave music, and those who have simply jumped on the bandwagon, employing the typical lo-fi 80’s synths with a sickening abrasiveness. Brothertiger certainly uses that 80’s aesthetic, but melds it with modern sensibilities and catchy tunes. While many chillwave albums adhere to a similar emotion or rhythm, Golden Years is refreshingly varied in these areas. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t flow together; the ten tracks share different ideas and emotions, but are all consistently light and easy-going. The songs refrain from the typical lo-fi sound of the genre, and even the 80’s synth sounds are muted. They exist, but avoid the harsh over-retro-ifying noise that fills much of chillwave. I enjoy that sort of sound, but it’s hard to show it to anyone without them thinking it’s just gimmicky. I wouldn’t call it an evolution of the genre, but I enjoy the depth of a more varied sound. While some might say chillwave is a fad, Golden Years is evidence that it’s far more than that. |
| MH-289 Pressed And - Stone Candles No Fear Of Pop |
| Ever since their excellent Imbue Up in 2011, the Brooklyn/Chapel Hill duo Pressed And have worked on refining their sound, leaving bits and pieces of their electronically leaning imprint behind, something many artists rarely tend to do these days. The duo's distinctive strenght — their ability explore a sound beyond its origin, and allow each other's strongest sides to shine through in perfect harmony, leaves the duo's brains, Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones, in a unique position as music makers. On Stone Candles, the concretized sounds and compositions from Imbue Up are almost vanished, rather opening the physical room for experimentation way beyond the structure set to their previous material. On the other hand, the duo clearly show that they master both aspects of these soundcrafting skills, surprisingly of which has mostly (only) been covered within our little 'blog community'. It might just be about time for someone else to pick this up, I sincerely believe. - No Fear Of Pop |
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NME Golden Glow The Buzz Manchester native Golden Glow celebrate the release of debut album 'Tender Is The Night' by giving away their Felt-infected single 'Adore Me'. |
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Electronic Musician Lymbyc Systym Brothers In Audio If you saw Mike and Jared Bell at a party, you could easily tell them apart. Mike has shaggy hair and is the techno whiz. He's an "Ableton master," raised on Radiohead and Boards of Canada, who records spoons clanking on metal bowl just for fun. Jared is the "creative master" and songwriter with close cropped hair who devises the song structures. |
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NME K-The-I???, Thavius Beck Radar Who the hell are Kiki Ceac and Thavius Beck??? Hip-hop's most abstract architects. |
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Ghetto Blaster Bigg Jus Profile Bigg Jus describes Poor People's Day as '"economic terrorism." Musically, it is an album that not only pushes the envelope, but breaks entirely through for performance by an emcee. From the opening verse, Jus just keeps coming and coming, packing a punch that does not allow him or the listener an opportunity to catch their breath. It is tough to think of another emcee that could pull off this style; filling every line of every song until it is saturated, but without any wasted words. |
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CMJ Her Space Holiday Tough Love Marc Bianchi knows a thing or two about heartbreak - he once released a record called Home Is Where You Hang Yourself, for chrissakes. His new The Young Machines turns down the symphonic leanings of last year's Manic Expressive and turns up the signature clicky-beat weirdness of his new label Mush, but retains all that endearingly sappy miserablism. It's for your own good: |
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XLR8R Mush Records America's 20 Best Underground Labels Essential listening for Summer '03 and beyond. Bubblecore, Carpark, Chocolate Industries, Def Jux, DFA, Emperor Norton, Ersatz Audio, Ghostly International, Hefty/Eastern Deveopments, M3rck, Mush, Orthlorng Musork, Planet E, Plug Research, Quannum, Schematic, Stones Throw, Temporary Residence, thrill Jockey, Tigerbeat 6, Ubiquity. |
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Fader Steffaloo Music Steffaloo, the LA singer featured on woozy electronic productions by Sun Glitters and others, prefers simple folk instrumentation for her own music. But thanks to her calming voice, always sounding the way color-changing leaves look in the fall, Steffaloo’s gorgeous but modest new album is as soothing as the collaborations where she first made her name. |
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MTV Hive Brothertiger Weird Vibes Twin Sister host the show, with special guests Marnie Stern, Bear in Heaven, Oberhofer and more. Videos by Real Estate, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Porcelain Raft, Perfume Genius, Twin Sister and Brothertiger. |
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Impose Pregnant Brilliant Shit Daniel Trudea, a.k.a. Pregnant, organized what we assume to be the first ever parade in the name of a singular musical note. in the name of "G". The "G" Hum Parade is not your typical lawn chair along the boulevard. Videographer Robert Mull documented the excursion. |
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Nylon A Lull Free Music We can't put our finger on it, but there's just something about Chicago's A Lull that grabs your attention. Maybe it's the number of members- the band has had between 5 and 8 people at a time. Or maybe it's the thumping drum beats and booming choruses that explode from your headphones. Whatever the reason, these guys have become our new go-to for hypnotically emphatic tunes. |
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MH-285 Steffaloo - Would You Stay MH285.php
Masterwork of heart-rending realism and poignant optimism - Altsounds / When I hear Steffaloo’s music I can’t help but feel the love - Deftune / This just may be the quintessential fall album all of you indie folk enthusiasts have been looking for - Indie Shuffle / If you were or are a fan of chicks with guitars: i,e,: Cat Power, Feist, even a dash of St. Vincent, then Steffaloo is the musician for you - In Your Speakers |
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MH-040 Blue Sky Black Death - Rebel To The Grain/Slapbox With Jesus
A couple of deep, groovy tunes. The sound is assembled, but it's also so organic that it's not hard to imagine a band back there. There isn't one, of course, but that only deepens my admiration. - Aiding & Abetting |
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MH-044 Thavius Beck - Go!/Away
The City Of Angels is a relentless musical force, and today’s track of the day unites two of Los Angele’s finest purveyors of skewed electronica, as Thavius Beck’s ‘Away’ gets a once-over from Flying Lotus. - Clash / Seriously, this Offshore remix is something special. - Fact / Distinctive remixes by UK producer Offshore and one of the Los Angeles beat scene’s brightest, Flying Lotus. - UGS Mag |
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MH-078 Pressed And - Hyper Thistle EP
Genre-defiant goodness—encompassing elements of glitch and hip-hop, among a number of other things - XLR8R / Sounds like: Changing colours on a mood ring - Alan Cross / Blissful yet unpredictable stuff that evades easy categorisation - Cyclic Defrost / Pressed And will reinvent the EDM playbook and stake their claim as one of the genre's most important bands - Absolute Punk |
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MH-079 Sunglasses - Swim/Namesake
Two years ago, we made the Savannah sunburst-pop duo Sunglasses a Band To Watch - Stereogum / Swim is a summer-ready beach-worthy fuzzy surf song while Namesake is a more rocking, hip-hop beat sampling, equally fuzzy mix of dance psych - Booming Music Scene / Give "Swim" a listen i promise you will not regret it, its 7 minutes of pure awesomeness and when its over it still feels too short! I love it! - Meleke Music |
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MH-221 Omid - Monolith
Beats that you'd kill for - Vice / Rife with both sick beats and rhymes of conviction - Synthesis / Modern, bold, and uplifting. - Harvard Independent / Los Angeles' best-kept secret - San Francisco Weekly / Sick, progressive hip-hop - XLR8R / Don't make the mistake of missing Monolith. - Hip-Hop DX |
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MH-240 Pedro - Pedro [2006 Edition]
Wonderful stuff - NME / A resplendent sound collage - Remix / A knob-twiddler extrordinaire - Under The Radar / IDM that never loses the listener in its tangents - BPM / A genre-confounding tale of the unexpected from the deftest of techno artisans - Mojo / There will be few better soundtracks to this summer - Stylus |
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MH-260 Her Space Holiday - XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival
Guitar pop songs that are as charming as they are simple - Rolling Stone / That he can switch up styles so frequently and make solid records says something special about Bianchi - Pop Matters / Melodies have that wonderful undefinable quality that makes you want to hear them over and over... Killer indie pop cuts - Babysue |
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MH-263 Bibio - Vignetting The Compost
Some of Bibio's most varied and immediate work - All Music Guide / A beautiful, crackling bricolage of vintage sounds - Evil Monito / Bibio’s best record - PopMatters / Quite perfect - Losing Today / Bibio should have no problem calling his greatest - Urb / Beautiful, expressive pools of sound - The Agit Reader |
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MH-267 Lymbyc Systym - Shutter Release
Haunting post-rock instrumentals seep into your soul - AP / Draws you in and makes its world the only one there is - Houston Press / Lymbyc Systym emerge clean, pure, triumphant. Rejoice, a noble birth - Strangeglue / It's beautiful, it's moving - East Bay Express |
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MH-276 A Lull - Confetti
A Lull is like the current crop of Blitzen Trappers and Fleet Foxes all playing at once. - The Village Voice / A Lull stand eerily and mightily apart from their contemporaries. - MP3 Hugger / Think about every time you’ve wanted to immerse yourself in the sheer energy and force of an album, now take a look at Confetti and give yourself an experience. - The Line Of Best Fit |
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MH-280 Brothertiger - Golden Years
Much of Golden Years should be filed under the electro-pop heading, especially the title track which is one of the stand out's (think M83 having a wrestle with MGMT). - Altsounds / This is a beautiful and catchy record that proves one man can do it all and do it well. - Pop Stereo / A dance record, of sorts. It’s electronic lo-fi hipswaysynth. - Berkeley Place |
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MH-283 Bigg Jus - Machines That Make Civilization Fun
Juss plants bombs in leftfield and comes up with funk-rotting blooms snapping heads back. - Clash / Hip-hop still has a vital voice to act as the social conscience of the nation. - DJ Mag / Bigg Jus returns in true futuristic fashion speaking on today’s political issues with tomorrow’s sound. - NME / A paranoid glitch-dub masterpiece - Stevie Chick |
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Danger Mouse
Mush is blessed to have two guest appearances from Grammy winning musician, songwriter and producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse. He can be found on Busdriver's Fear Of A Black Tangent album producing the song "Cool Band Buzz" and remixing Pedro's "Fear & Resilience" into an abstract sound collage. |
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Four Tet
At the vanguard of what became known as the folktronica movement, Kieran Hebden's production as Four Tet has grown and evolved, as he has proven to be one of electronic music's most engaging and enduring artists. Four Tet reworks Pedro's source material into a 20+ minute free-jazz epic on the Fear & Resilience EP. |
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Prefuse 73
Prefuse 73 is Scott Herren. Herren melds break beats, glitchy-IDM electronic, ambient jazz and creates a true hip hop style that is all his own. His work can be heard on 3 Mush releases. A remix of Avantcore from Busdriver, on the song Welcome Home from Daedelus on the Exquisite Corpse album and a Fear & Resilience remix for Pedro. |
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Blu
Blu is one of the most prolific underground artists in Los Angeles, releasing six full-length albums, and countless other projects and mixtapes since his emergence on the rap scene. He traveled to Hotlanta to "stop at JR Crickets for hot wings" and had DJ Gman "hit him with some hot beats" for the limited edition seven-inch release The Almost Lost Tape. |
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Teen Daze
Vancouver's electronic artist Teen Daze operates in that nebulous area between dream-pop, ambient, shoegaze and chillwave. He can be found on the singles "I've Been Waiting" by Brothertiger and "Hello" by Command V. |
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Javelin
Brooklyn-based electronic duo Javelin contribute a remix on Pregnant's single for "Letter To A Friend". On "Another Day" they maintain all of the subdued songwriting strength of the original without sacrificing the off-kilter kitchen-sink style for which the duo has become known. |
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Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus has his familial roots in jazz and his current, ever-expanding roots buried deep in the fertile soil that is Los Angeles beat making. Breaking onto the scene in the subtlest of ways by hypnotizing the insomniacs among us via cartoon network Adult Swim's late night bump music, he has since released three critically acclaimed albums that draw comparisons to J Dilla and Madlib while simultaneously presenting an obviously new spin on the idea of composition itself. Get a peek into the robotic orchestra through the remix he did for Thavius Beck on Go! Away. |
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Boards Of Canada
Boards of Canada's music is reminiscent of the warm, analogue sounds of 1970s media and contains themes of childhood, nostalgia and the natural world. The Boards of Canada remix for the cLOUDDEAD song Dead Dogs Two is surely not to be missed. |
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Diplo
One thing of which Diplo cannot be accused is being afraid to experiment with new music. He's created a sound where '80s pop, electronica, favella, Dirty South hip-hop, and his major influence, Miami bass intersect. This is perfectly clear on his remix for "Sundown" the single from Daedelus’ Denies The Day’s Demise. |
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Saul Williams
After coming to fame as a poet and award-winning screenwriter/actor, Saul Williams has established himself as one of the world's most important lyricists. His guest appearance on Thavius Beck's 2008 album, Thru is a hip-hop tour-de-force. |
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Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart has been pushing boundaries in music and art for over a decade, requiring entirely new genre labels to be coined in an attempt to describe his otherwise impossible-to-categorize stylings. Be it under the umbrella of psych, avant or freak folk, New Weird America or just guitar-fueled lovliness, Devendra is adept at making beauty from mystery, a skill he lent to Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory when he reinterpreted their song "The Seed" on the single Broaden a New Sound. |
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Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals are a critically acclaimed Welsh alternative rock band, with leanings towards psychedelic rock, punk, britpop and electronic experimentation. Their remix of "Sleepy California" is one of the highlights on Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines Remixed. |
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Cedric Bixler-Zavala
Cedric Bixler-Zavala is a Grammy Award-winning musician known for his work as frontman and lyricist of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Cedric contributes to the must hear intoxicating track "Amongst The Shadows" on the Thavius Beck record Decomposition. |
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