“Seraphese” which we’re guessing, especially by judging from the quality and feel of this track, is some sort of angelic lingua franca. The artist is MORLY, an unknown musician from the Twin Cities and “Seraphese” is her stellar introduction to the world/blogosphere.
MORLY 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.5
“The Night” is the sophomore single from Brighton UK’s Oslo Parks. The new track is dark modern rhythm pop in the style of Metronomy or “Golden Skans”-vintage Klaxons. The X Novo band will be making their live debut in their Brighton home hood October 2nd at the Green Door Store.
Oslo Parks 
(Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.8
“Goodbye Summer” is new from L.A. via D.C. pop band MISUN. The very good surf ballad-flavored farewell is yet another genre swerve from the stylistically-varied band.
Misun 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
Less than 100 likes on facebook, 20 followers on twitter – including the dope Bad Panda Records – with one tweet and one other release in 2013 is Cambio Sun. Either way “Weight of the World” seems appropriate of a title due the heaviness of this song. Pulsing bass, swooning guitar lines and haunting vocals make “Weight of the World” a very cool underground creepier. Listen below. Reviewed by Brian Litwin.
Cambio Sun (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.3
Johnny Marr returns this October with his second solo album Playland. He has said this effort will be a bit more raw. “Easy Money” is the first single and it’s killer! It starts with that signature Marr guitar sound and blasts into a rocker with a full-on bass grove and a chorus that just might be all over the radio in coming months. Following October dates in the UK, he returns to the US and will be hopefully be hitting a venue near you before year’s end.
Johnny Marr 
(Official)
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UK newcomers Zola Blood created a bit of a break-out earlier this summer with “Grace” which accumulated over 100k spins on Soundcloud and made a run at the upper reaches of the Hypem charts. “Meridian” is the sparse and minimal and quite strong follow-up to “Grace” that is outfitted with a similarly engaging set of cool electronic-flavored instrumentals and great far-off melodic phrasings.
Zola Blood (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.3
SoCal music aficionados mark your calendars for the anual ‘San Diego Music Thing’ conference to take place on September 11-13. The Thursday to Saturday of non-stop jams (and events) is held in the heart of gorgeous San Diego, CA at venues like Casbah, Bar Pink, Soda Bar, The Birch North Park Theatre, The Griffin and The Irenic (to name a few). This year the conference will host a variety of critically acclaimed and emerging talent including MOBY, LIARS, Barcelona, Fenech-Soler, Deap Vally, Dengue Fever, Moving Units, The Hood Internet, CULTS, WATERS, Zella Day, Cherry Glazerr, Slow Magic, Hunny, The Bilinda Butchers, Wild Ones, The Griswolds and many more!
B3SCI is giving away one pair passes for this event to one lucky reader! To win just email us here and let us know you’d like to go to the San Diego Music Thing conference, and we’ll enter you into our drawing to win! (one entry per person.) Our winner will be picked at random from the pool of submissions on Wednesday 9/10, so keep an eye on your inbox. You can get additional details, full line-up, schedules, on the show as well as purchase passes at the San Diego Music Thing website. Good luck!
The great Phil Beaudreau is back today with an airy and subtle (and gorgeous) cover of Jhene Aiko’s “Spotless Mind”. Welcome back, Mr. Beaudreau.
Phil Beaudreau 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.7
Neon Gold band CATHEDRALS announced today their self-titled debut EP out September 8th. The kinetic rhythm pop of “OOO AAA” is headlined by singer Brodie Jenkins’ star-level R&B-flavored vocal and is another high caliber feather in the consistent San Francisco band’s singles discography.
CATHEDRALS (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.6
Did you think summer was over? Well if you are a sour puss, listen to this new feel good, end of summer synth-explosion of a hit by the LA duo Golden Coast called “Dream and An MPC”. Following up their first blogo-buzz single “Break My Fall”, the boys are at it again, making sure that there is no summer bummers out there. Pool party playlist ready! By Brian Litwin
Golden Coast (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.4
“Indigo Puff” is a brand new track from UK buzz band Sundara Karma. The Chess Club alums are again outfitted on “Indigo Puff” with the same quality of soaring anthemic choruses and tinges of more obtuse UK indie as on breakout track “Cold Heaven”. Get yr hands on this one before Zane Lowe does.
Sundara Karma (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.3
