Social Media Managed by Audio Blood
Ok – so you know those “Best of” lists that start at the beginning of every December? Unless you’re living under a rock you know they are pretty much the go-to year-end content for every media outlet on the planet. Hey, I’m not knocking them because – well – we’ve jumped on that [...]
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TGIF, my friends! We hope you had a great week, whether you’re enjoying the quiet and the cold in the comfort of your family home or off gallivanting through the winter breeze! Regardless, we’re back with three new #FF artists to warm-up your weekend so listen, follow, and RT to your hearts content!
@FictionInMotion
@PaperMaps
@CarletonStone
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Evan Krauss, Vice President of Advertising Sales for music app Shazam, has had more than 15 years of experience in digital, internet and mobile media. Prior to Shazam, Krauss was responsible for building and managing some of the earliest and most successful Internet advertising teams at Excite, AOL, Looksmart and Yahoo! Most recently he was [...]
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This year I am Oak’s second indie/folk album ‘Oasem’ was released, following up melancholic debut album ‘On Claws’ that in 2010 received critical acclaim. The band formed around Dutch songwriter Thijs Kuijken have since played over 100 shows in tours and festivals through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, Luxemburg and Switzerland.
The slightly darker ‘Oasem’ [...]
CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award Winner Peter Katz was supposed to make a solo acoustic record… but, when the likes of Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, Once), Canadian Folk darlings The Good Lovelies, and steel-town siren Melissa McClelland agreed to sing along… plans changed.
Nevertheless, ‘First of the Last to Know’ marks the [...]
The notion that four Chapel Hill youngsters would play under the moniker Last Year’s Men is odd to say the least. The name refers to “Last Year’s Man,” one of the seminal numbers of ’60s songwriting icon Leonard Cohen, and it’s a safe bet that gravelly-voiced poets don’t turn up on many high school iPods [...]
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Since their early days as Australian folk darlings, brother-and-sister duo Tinpan Orange have evolved into a dizzyingly original musical force. Still evident is the lush songcraft and lyrical depth for which they are renowned, but the landscape in which the songs are set has shifted.
Six-foot frontwoman Emily Lubitz twirls her flaming red hair out across [...]
It took a quarter-life crisis, a Far North Queensland retreat, and a near-band break up, but in October 2011 The Vasco Era released their third studio album – and The Vasco Era captures them in their prime.
Melbourne rock band The Vasco Era features vocalist and guitarist Sid O’Neil, his brother and bassist Ted O’Neill, and [...]
Spoek Mathambo makes the Afro-futurists look old school. With the arrival of his second album, Father Creeper, he’s one man building up an army to make his creative visions reality, rewriting any artistic laws in his way.
The title Father Creeper is a reference to a classic in the world of sleazy South African tv jingles [...]
Comrades, let’s start this one off with a little talk about your feelings…
You know when you throw your arms up in the air in victory; yell a profanity closely followed by ‘YES!’ and the feeling that goes along with it? For me this move is typically combined with the watering of my eyes because, yes, [...]
