Greco-Roman artist Roosevelt reveals second stream from new AA-side single. “Hold On”, which follows the great “Night Moves” on the single, is a summery dance-ready track with just the right smattering of nu-disco tones to keep things moving. “Night Moves/Hold On”, the first release from Roosevelt in two years, is out on July 10.
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Montreal beat-smith producer Rivver captures a sensational electronic aesthetic with the help of fellow Canadian artists electric-pop duo Milk & Bone on new track “Am I Ok”; which aside from its raw display of emotion and tender expressive vocal beauty excels for its really cool psychedelic vibe dark-side-of-the-moon sonic divide towards the end of the song. Great track! Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Rivver 
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Freedom Fry the team of Marie Sayet and Bruce Driscoll, fresh from their month-long residency at L.A.’s Echo (elements of this recording were made during the shows!), channel the irreverence and hopeful optimism of young adulthood on expertly crafted new one “21”.
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Faves MISUN have a new EP out now titled “Feel Better”. You’ve heard “After Me” and “Justice” from the five song release already on B3, now stream summery piano-driven “Nobody Knows” available below for your listening pleasure.
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B3SCI recently premiered the career debut original track “Fast Lane” from talented new London-based producer Rationale which has since hit 475,000 plays on Soundcloud in about a month. The newcomer vocalist and producer Rationale just dropped a fresh lyrically expressive female-vocal-infused track “Re.Up” which features Rationale’s grounding and passionate vocal touches amidst a melodic brightly-lulling backdrop of electro style. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Rationale 
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Check out the dark-pop sensibilities and straightforward star-potential vocals of NY-born LA-based indie-pop songstress Ryder who’s new career debut single “Pretty Little Gangster” is a great introduction to her fresh potential as an unsigned talent. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
Ryder (Soundcloud)
Desta French, a new artist out of North London, runs the palette stylistically of the last 30+ years of R&B on debut “Take You For Dead”. Equal parts 80’s-esque fidelity in the instrumental and new wave Banks, Jessie Ware, Twigs in melody, “Take You For Dead” is most importantly a really great song and a worthwhile debut.
Desta French (Soundcloud)
B3’s Bruce Rave headed Brighton earlier this month to take in UK breaking artist festival The Great Escape. Sample below Bruce’s notes on some selected bands to keep tabs on the in nearest future.
The Bohicas are blistering live with huge guitar hooks.
Dutch Uncles are very precise with some songs hookier than others.
Aquilo have immense talent and played a pretty set that endured sound problems.
The girl band Pins reminds many of Best Coast (and they’ve toured together), but they do what they do well with good songs and tight playing.
Boxed In is a band that was unfamiliar to me and they nicely blend electro and rock.
Hippo Campus had only played live in Minnesota until this March, and this UK gig impressed the crowd.
Rat Boy attracted a bevy of high-end industry types. He’s considered hip hop but to me his high energy set was much more on the rock side.
Slaves was one of the most buzzed bands. If you like it hard, heavy, and humorous with some punk anger mixed in, this set would have been right up your alley.
On the other hand, Rhodes was equally effective in a soft and sweet way.
Spring King are a fun guitar band that plays fast with melody.
Blossoms matched their buzz with a good set in the very difficult Green Door Store venue.
The surprise closing set was by Maccabees. This was my first experience where most people in the hall were fans, since UK industry peeps know this band real well. While staid reactions were the norm, this set resulted in animated fans singing along.
Lots of bands I would have liked to see, time permitting, including The Vaccines, Alabama Shakes, Bully and The Strypes.
Check out Bruce’s “Go Deep” show on Fridays 1-3 pm Pacific, 4-6 pm Eastern, 9-11pm GMT. Also listen to past shows at Bruce’s blog and follow Bruce on Twitter.
Stockholm-based newcomer MIYNT sets Brit’s iconic hit to a dusty grey-chromatic stage on new dirge-styled cover of “Baby One More Time”.
MIYNT 
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Get into the mood setting late-night summertime chill-zone of lovely new “Heart Smile” the brightly-laced synth-driven R&B-vocaled house jam from Toronto artist, singer-songwriter JAHKOY. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
JAHKOY (Soundcloud)
Male-female artist duo Made in Heights, who recently hit B3SCI pages for their sultry superbly animated track “Slow Burn”, continue to excel at making catchy atmospheric electro-pop on their gorgeous flippant-vocaled synth-stylized new track “Pop It In 2”; which creatively combines the duo’s artistic penchant for mixing stellar vocals (both members sing) and a big-beat enhanced pop sound. Fresh fun-loving dance-based pop track “Pop It In 2” is off the recently released Made In Heights’ full-length album Without My Enemy What Would I Do. Reviewed by Erin Shay
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Warwickshire 18-year old and recent Hand in Hive-signee Keyes releases an expertly constructed and standout debut in the form of the perfect pop of “Veins”.
Keyes (Soundcloud)
