Category: Taste Test
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Taste Test: The Dead Century recount the mystery around ‘Bombay Beach’
The indie-rock band recount the deterioration of Bombay Beach in the '70s.
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Taste Test: Stonestreet nearly drowns in a mental swamp with new song, ‘Blue Soldier’
The indie singer-songwriter chronicles his journey with mental health through a jazz/hip-hop hybrid.
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Taste Test: Raynes let their unease boil over on a new song, ‘Second Thought’
The LA pop band notch a satisfying second single.
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Taste Test: A R I Z O N A perfectly capture the thrill to live with ‘Still Alive’
The dance-pop trio embrace what it means to live and thrive in dazzling clip.
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Taste Test: Hirsh succumb to distressing late night reveries on new song, ‘Fall’
The alt-pop band struggle with their feelings in the midnight hour.
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Taste Test: Zayde Wรธlf is ‘Still Fighting for It’
The pop-rock performer gives it his all on one of his most explosive entries yet.
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Taste Test: Anthony da Costa feels the end coming ‘Sooner Than Later’
The Nashville indie-rocker revisits a former relationship and its severe ending.
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Taste Test: Arson Daily upend the American Dream as nothing more than a ‘Pipe Dream’
The indie-pop band remind that the true and real things in life are about doing what you love.
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Taste Test: Jane Holiday juggles love & adulthood on new song, ‘Pocket Dial’
The indie-rock man embraces the '60s in both aesthetic and groove.
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Taste Test: Dante Mazzetti is ‘Breaking in the Sun’
The indie-folk singer-songwriter chronicles a story of an ex-convict returning to a life that's no longer his.
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Taste Test: Ellen Krauss braids bitter & sweet with new song, ‘The Wedding’
The indie-pop storyteller wrote a love song for a real life wedding, and it underscores dark secrets.
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Taste Test: lostboycrow bathes in ‘Moonlight’
The alt-pop man cherishes the good and simpler things in life with his new song.
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Freshly Squeezed, Vol. 119: Myylo, Misty River, Fly By Midnight & more
Welcome to Freshly Squeezed, a weekly new music playlist: spanning country, pop, EDM and urban, mainstream and other. Indie-pop firestarter Myylo is positioned for big things. 2020 is gonna be his year, and that’s further evidenced with the JORDY-starring “Tuck Your Head Under the Covers.” It’s plaintive, playful and posh. Their voices dances around like…
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Taste Test: Christine Renner is on the hunt for ‘Decency.’
The Austin musician arrives with an excellent new EP, containing a fuzzy-headed new song.
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Taste Test: Daniel Pearson grabs a lover’s hand to steal away ‘Down the Tracks’
The singer-songwriter rediscovers a sense of hope in trying times.
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