NYC’s versatile on-trend musical duo The Knocks (who last hit B3’s pages in 2014 with their superb dance friendly X-Ambassadors collaboration “Comfortable”) drop a transfixing bass-heavy extended house bootleg of melodic hip-hop gem “White Iverson” from Texan singer-rapper Post Malone which is off Part II of their Summer Bootleg Series. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
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The indomitable Greco-Roman announces new track from German artist Roosevelt. Roosevelt aka Marius Lauber released his “Elliot” EP back in 2013 too much blogosphere lauding; “Night Moves”, the Cologne resident’s first original material since then, is a euphoric melange of varying electronic styles (house) executed through a sharpened pop lens to “Elliot”‘s sound. Stream “Night Moves” below.
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DMV natives MISUN share second stream from forthcoming “Feel Better” EP. “Justice” blends clean,
vaguely yacht rock-y guitar with an urgent, up-front-in-the-mix vocal from Misun Wojick. Sample “Justice” below and stream too previous “Feel Better” track “After Me” here.
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Kuma, Tacoma’s own nineteen year-old Sonic Guru producer and Flow-Fi artist collaborator, goes deep on his stellar new percussion exalted Made in Heights cover of sublimely-romantic, beauty track “Panther”. Reviewed by Erin Shay.
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Chicago-based Peter Buys (aka P.M. Buys) brings a depth to solo folk songwriting that is not found a lot these days. Taking cues from the past (easy to go with Dylan), he creates a Midwestern dream-scape constructed first of plucking and strumming. P.M. will look to impress the masses on an upcoming tour of the Midwest and Mountain West with The Way Down Wanders. Check out highlights from new “Atop the Salt” EP; “All the Hidden Bobby Pins”, “Presidents” and “Jester and the Queen”. Reviewed by Tony Perkis.
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HUNTAR today releases debut “Love I Know” EP. The South London newcomer has emerged in the last year as a blogosphere favorite with his Jai Paul/Ben Khan-styled inventive pop well praised and lauded by press on both sides of the Atlantic. “Loneliest Feeling” is the final track preview from “Love I Know”; the song features a kinetic, approaching danceable, rhythm track balanced by playful electronics and instrumental syncopations and topped by HUNTAR’s infectious seemingly stream-of-emotion/consciousness very immediate melody. Stream the B3 Premiere of “Loneliest Feeling” and look for HUNTAR’s “Love I Know” EP out today.
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World conqueror Lianne La Havas will release her sophomore LP Blood on July 31st and to mark that album release announcement Lianne’s new single “Unstoppable” gets a funk/soul from the 24th C./fourth dimension remix from the illustrious Jungle.
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Stream the warmly arranged bit of neo-soul, “Vinyl Skip”, new from Australian singer WALLACE. Featuring buttery smooth rhodes tones, hushed back drums, and a Jill & Erykah-inspired vocal, “Vinyl Skip” is a strong online debut from the Sydney-based WALLACE.
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Actor are the UK band of singer Louisa Osborn, producer Chris Mulligan, and drummer Ste Anderson. Debut song “Feline” constructs together varying elements of bliss-y/guitar effects-driven pop with just the right measure of movement in the track creating for a very compelling listen.
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Atlanta’s disco-leaning house producer/artist Treasure Fingers and LA-based producer mate Ghosts of Venice team up for a colorful collaboration on the extravagantly adorned club-edit of dance floor stomper “Moving On”. Reviewed by Erin Shay
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Vancouver’s jet-setting DJ/producer Pat Lok just dropped the new beautifully enhanced vivacious vocal edit of his smash hit remix of “Easy Come Easy Go”; the stunning 103bpm title track from April by Belgian-beauty and producer/vocalist Alice on the Roof, who debuted her first EP “Easy Come Easy Go” with its release). Reviewed by Erin Shay.
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