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Mathien – Wurlitzer Crowley
Mathien is an indie funkish rockish band based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Their latest album, The Freedom Tapes, was quietly released earlier this year. (“Quietly” because you might expect a record this...
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Kaleo – Live @ KEXP
Kaleo is a bluesy folk rock band from Iceland. They haven’t released a full-length record here in the States yet, but according to the drummer, an album is forthcoming later this year. They recently...
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Son Little – O Mother / The River
Son Little is a bluesy/soul/rock artist from Philadelphia, PA. Some of his music sounds like an old-fashioned crooner à la Sam Cooke or Otis Redding, and some sounds like an avant-garde rocker like...
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Nathaniel Rateliff – Easy / I Need Never Get Old
Nathaniel Rateliff should be about 87 times more famous than he currently is. It’s inexplicable, really. He does great quiet, pensive folk like the first song below. And he also does great upbeat,...
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The Shuga Bees – Sea, This is It
The Shuga Bees are a brand spankin’ new indie-pop-soul band from Boston. They’re fronted by Sarah Berns, a young lady with a rich, full-throated vocal delivery that’s reminiscent of neo-soul stalwarts...
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Fantastic Negrito – Lost in a Crowd / New Beginning
Fantastic Negrito is the stage name of Oakland-based artist Xavier Dphrepaulezz. (Believe it or not, that last name is spelled correctly; it’s pronounced “dee-FREP-uh-lez”.) He has a fascinating...
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Moses Sumney – Seeds / Plastic
Moses Sumney is a bluesy, soulful singer-songwriter from Southern California by way of Ghana. His songs are either soul-infused folk tunes or folk-infused soul tunes – take your pick. Either way,...
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Featurecast & the Gaff – Ain’t Got Time (Marvin Gaye & Stevie Wonder “cover”)
“Too Busy Thinkin’ Bout My Baby” was written by a team of Motown songwriters, then recorded by The Temptations in 1965. Marvin Gaye covered it a year later, and the song became a hit. Stevie Wonder’s...
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Allen Stone – Where You’re At
Allen Stone is a soul / R&B singer from Chewelah, Washington. He has accurately been called “a hippie with soul”, and those brief words go a long way in describing both him and his music. There’s a...
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Portmanteau – Dig In
According to Google, a portmanteau is “a large trunk or suitcase, typically made of stiff leather and opening into two equal parts”. So they’re a suitcase band, then? But wait, there’s more: a second,...
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