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Currently Listening To: Braeves

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LA/NY quartet BRAEVES began with childhood best friends Ryan Colt Levy and Derek Tramont, who’ve been together before the dawn of social media. Having experimented with a wide range of styles and sounds over the years, it wasn’t until the addition of Thomas Killian McPhillips VII in late 2012 that things fell into place and BRAEVES was born. From there the music grew organically into its own unique blend of soulful Indie Rock and Pop that it is today. They are now joined by LA born-and-raised singer/guitarist, Scott Goldbaum, whose beautifully textured vocal sound and dynamic guitar playing has elevated them to uncharted territory that they are just beginning to explore.

BRAEVES released “Pull Me In,” the first single with Goldbaum as lead vocalist and new collaborator, longtime friend and producer, Grayson Sanders (Snowmine) at the helm.

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VIDEO: “Your Love” by HAERTS

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Nini Fabi and Benjamin Gebert (aka HAERTS) bring us their new song “Your Love”, featured in the forthcoming season two of Netflix’s hit show 13 Reasons Why, joining Selena Gomez, Logic, Billie Eilish, Lord Huron, and others on the soundtrack. The Brooklyn-based band are also excited to announce they’re headed to Toronto for Field Trip Festival on June 3 alongside Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alvvays, Metric, Allan Rayman, Japandroids, and more.

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LISTEN: “Too Close To Love” by Yukon Blonde

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Yukon Blonde today shares a fourth single “Too Close To Love” from their forthcoming album. Opening with nostalgic ’80s tinged, pulsating synths, “Too Close To Love” epitomizes the feeling of the record and sits comfortably between a guitar heavy post-punk and club ready dance music aesthetic. Inspired by Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being the track ruminates about the heaviness of decisions when dealing with matters of love.

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LISTEN: “Ray Of Love” by Bravestation

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Here’s single #2 from Toronto duo Bravestation from their upcoming debut record, Goddess​: out June 22, 2018​.    Equal parts brooding and upbeat, the band says “Ray Of Love”​ is “an ode to mental health awareness and the notion that giving a little love to those around us can go a long way for our collective well-being in this sometimes cruel and calculated world.”

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LISTEN: “WAIT” by FOXTROTT

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Montreal’s Marie-Hélène L. Delorme, aka FOXTROTT, will release the first in a series of EPs on June 15th via One Little Indian Records, and today shares the first cut from the record – pulsing alt-RnB-flecked single “Wait”.

Talking about the track, Delorme said: “Wait is a movement forward towards a brighter place, an urgency to follow the tingling feeling one gets when something or someone rings true to them, calls them. It’s a commitment to make oneself available to this renewal, and being willing to leave things behind by doing so. It’s a feeling of love so strong that one cannot ignore it or deny it.”

“Musically, it is a warm pulse, a grounded but expansive energy. It’s drums and bass that pull you forward by your stomach, and shimmering synths and percussions that tickle you in this march forward, like the feeling of a new love. Vocally, it is intimate and upfront, with no “vocal makeup”, like the voice of a loved one murmuring in your ear…”

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