Full Playlist:
Chad VanGaalen - Old Heads
Frankie Rose - Trouble
Beach Fossils - Sugar
Lo Tom - Covered Wagon
Poolside - Strange Overtones
Rosemary Fairweather - You Talk Too Much
Petite League - Sun Dogs
Grizzly Bear - Four Cypresses
Mellow Fellow - Dancing
Theo Verney - Letter Down
SZA - Drew Barrymore
Vince Staples ft. Kendrick Lamar - Yeah Right
Kintaro - Mk
Glitter Veils - Soft Touch
Swim Mountain - Wait For Me
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
DJDS ft. Amber Mark - Trees On Fire
Young Ejecta - Build A Fire
In Mirrors - Escape From Berlin
Rose Hotel - Honestly
Clairo - Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Tristen ft. Jenny Lewis - Glass Jar
Major Murphy - Oceans
Tearjerker - Flipped
Culte - It's Too Cold To Be Spring
Men I Trust - You Deserve This
Vivienxo - TTYN
Martha and the Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

MOKB Sirius XMU Blog Radio Playlist 6/27/17

Dance Party

Nowhere To Run

Figures in Sight due out via Flexible Records 2/10/17.

https://soundcloud.com/glitterveilsau

Bandcamp: http://po.st/figure-flexi
Spotify: http://po.st/soft-touch
Apple Music: http://po.st/soft-touch-apple

Figures in Sight

Glitter Veils - Soft Touch

Listen to my new single, Glass Jar featuring Jenny Lewis and pre-order a copy of my new record Sneaker Waves that comes out seven seven seventeen via Modern Outsider Records: http://modernoutsider.bigcartel.com/artist/tristen

Glass Jar (feat. Jenny Lewis)

Wait For Me

iTunes pre-order: http://smarturl.it/cagetropical
Bandcamp pre-order: https://frankierose.bandcamp.com/album/cage-tropical

After spending years as a major presence in Brooklyn’s thriving music scene, Frankie Rose relocated to her familial home of Los Angeles for 18 months with the intention of establishing yet another moment in her storied indie rock métier. Gradually, she found herself short on sleep, funds and optimism. "I moved to LA, drama ensued and I ended up on a catering truck. I was like, how can this be my life after being a touring musician and living off of music. I had really lost my way and I thought I was totally done."

Through sleepless nights of listening to broadcaster Art Bell’s paranormal-themed archives, Frankie’s thoughts had turned to "who am I, I’m not cut out for this business, it’s not for me." She continues, "I was literally in my room in L.A., not knowing how I was going to get out. But out of it all, I just decided to keep making music, because it is what I love and what I do – regardless of the outcome."

Towards the end of her time spent in Los Angeles, Frankie reached out to Jorge Elbrecht (Tamaryn, Gang Gang Dance, Violens) and began sketching what became the basic outline of what felt like a new album. Then, rather fortuitously, Frankie ended up back in Brooklyn with the realization that "in the end, I’m on my own. I have to do these things on my own."

The months that ensued meant basically working with no budget and finding ways to record in-between days. This time enabled Frankie to experiment musically with a variety of people that ultimately changed the way she worked. "I got a lot of input from people like Dave Harrington (Darkside), who was helpful reconstructing the songs, adding dynamics and changing up the rhythms."

The result of this existential odyssey is Cage Tropical, Frankie’s 4th album. It is awash with vintage synths, painterly effects pedals, upside down atmosphere and reverberating vocals. It evokes a new wave paranormality of sorts that drifts beyond the songs themselves. "My references aren’t just music," says Frankie, "I love old sci-fi. They Live is one of my favorite movies ever, same with Suspiria. 80’s sci-fi movies with a John Carpenter soundtrack, with silly synths – that makes it into my file, to the point that I’ll write lyrics incorporating that kind of stuff. It’s in there."

Beginning with the shimmery, cinematic and percussive sparkling of the album’s opening track "Love in Rockets," the song’s refrain of "a wheel, a wheel of wasting my life: a wheel, a wheel of wasting my time" immediately alludes to those darker circumstances that led to the creative origins of Cage Tropical."It’s all essentially based on what happened to me in Los Angeles and then a return to Brooklyn," says Frankie. "Misery turned into something good. The whole record to me is a redemption record and it is the most positive one I’ve made"

 "I feel like I am finally free from worrying about an outcome. I don’t care. I already lost everything. I already had the worst-case scenario. When that happens, you do become free. In the end, it’s about me rescuing myself via having this record."

Cage Tropical

Buy LP/CD

Frankie Rose - Trouble

Men I Trust is Dragos, Jessy and Emma.

https://www.youtube.com/menitrust
https://www.facebook.com/menitrust
http://menitrust.tumblr.com/
https://www.instagram.com/menitrust/

Free Download:
https://menitrust.bandcamp.com/

Lyrics:
My feelings are true
With ease they allow
The flow of my will
And good sake for you
And good sake for you

This is your past
Before you’re born
For you to see
You deserve it

These things I won’t change
They keep me relaxed
It’s always my way
They keep me relaxed
It’s always my way

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Founded in 2014, Men I Trust (menitrust.com), is an indie-dance band from Montreal (Canada) who produces its own music videos. “We love smooth sounds, calm melodies and simple rhythms that relax, but make your right foot tap and your chin bounce on the beats. We are all in DYI: we record, mix, master and shoot our music videos ourselves, and we’re loving it!”

We recorded You Deserve This last summer. We weren’t supposed to do any music that afternoon, we were really chilled out and in a great mood. We were playing with some rhythms and started having fun with detuned and off-phase synths. We recorded the guitars and the final vocals last month following our initial idea: it’s all about relaxing, wishing good to oneself and others and the nostalgic joy of feeling part of the universe.

You Deserve This

Free Download

"Build A Fire" by Young Ejecta 

Preorder Vinyl at driftlessrecordings.com 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/076EAKHF4ILDNPOgY1AnrW

12" LP featuring remixes by Ellie Herring and Napolian + Young Ejecta's 'Your Planet' EP pressed to Vinyl for the first time.

Young Ejecta - Build A Fire

@culte666
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A lo-fi and intimate track from @culte666 reflecting on a winter that never seems to end. The single is the third and final taste from Vol. 1,  a compilation from Healthy Tapes in support of RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees).

The last six months have been incredibly busy for Yura supporting the likes of Yumi Zouma and Jarrow around Melbourne and releasing a collaborative EP with Rhysics.

It’s Too Cold To Be Spring continues a on tradition of loose and instantaneous recordings from Culte, with few distractions and a sound that’s likely to appeal to fans of Foxes in Fiction and Frankie Cosmos. Yura explains that;

“It's Too Cold to Be Spring is about October in 2016. It was a pretty intense & sad month - living off $3 every week and drinking mystery beers at the Tote. The spring time was only bearable thanks to my lovely friends which this song is dedicated to”

Vol. 1 will be released digitally and on limited turquoise cassette through @healthy-tapes on June 30th. The compilation also features Take Your Time, Stella Donnelly, Yeo, Allume, Bahasa Malay and many more.

Vol. 1

Buy Tape

Culte - It's Too Cold To Be Spring

'Flipped,' available everywhere now. 

Video + more here: http://smarturl.it/tearjerker-flipped

'Flipped' kicks off a string of singles coming out this summer, with details on a new album to be announced soon. ⚡️

Flipped

honestly

'Light Information' (Release date: September 8, 2017) 

Order Now - Sub Pop Mega Mart*  http://www.megamart.subpop.com/releases/chad_vangaalen/light_information

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All customers who pre-order the LP version of 'Light Information' from the Sub Pop Mega Mart will receive the album on Loser Edition colored vinyl, while supplies last.

Chad VanGaalen: http://www.subpop.com/artists/chad_vangaalen
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChadVangaalen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chadvangaalen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chadvangaalen/?hl=en
On Tour: https://www.subpop.com/artists/chad_vangaalen/tours


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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/subpop
MegaMart: https://megamart.subpop.com/
Podcast: http://subpop.fm/

Chad VanGaalen - Old Heads

Download: 
https://clairo.lnk.to/diary001
https://www.clairo.com
https://www.faderlabel.com

about a guy that sucks

sometimes i feel like i just wanna go back to my old ways
you’re telling me I’m silly it’s no fun in the old days

i’m such a romantic
i never remember
how things really happen
i guess you’re attractive

or something

live in the moment
thats what they tell me 
but what ever happened
to when you would hold me
and hold me
and hold me

girlfriend or girl thats a friend?
it’s easy just to pretend
we don’t have something real
its just how we feel

i'm feelin' something right x6

i wanna be the one you think about at night
and i wanna be the one that you would put up a fight 
for
you know that i adore
that even when you’re bored
i’d buy you anything and everything i can’t afford

Flaming Hot Cheetos

Big Fish Theory

Yeah Right

VINYL PRE-ORDER: https://petiteleague.bandcamp.com/ 
www.facebook.com/PetiteLeague

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/0hnaMEa4zJkLTtueFZw8V1

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/06/petite-league-announce-new-album-rips-one-into-the-night-share-single-sun-dogs-listen/

SUN DOGS

DJDS - Trees On Fire feat. Amber Mark and Marco McKinnis

Spotify: http://found.ee/DJDS_TreesOnFireSpotify
iTunes: http://found.ee/DJDS_TreesOnFireiTunes
Apple Music: http://found.ee/DJDS_TreesOnFireApple

Trees On Fire

Trees On Fire (feat. Amber Mark & Marco McKinnis)

Four Cypresses

mini-album soon

years ago when i had a chance
i couldve held your hand
but i was young and then i blew every circumstance
yet i still think
i dream of

dancing, dancing
ohh with you, with you
and maybe even share a drink or two while i tell you the truth
that i dont even care what this is for
as long as i get to share the floor
with you with you
with you

in my thoughts and dreams
i do a lil swayin away with you
even if i know it'll never realize

maybe one day i'll wake up
maybe someday it'll be true
maybe that day i'll be
i will be

dancing, dancing
ohh with you, with you
and maybe even love you a little more
while we tango across the floor
and i dont even know when i'll see you again
but i'll just keep living this dream til the end
with you with you
with you

dancing

Theo Verney - Letter Down

Written, produced and mixed by Theo Verney for Verney Recordings.
Recorded at Church Road Recording Company & Casa Celano. 
Drums performed by John Davies. 
Bass guitar performed by Joseph Stevens.
All other instruments by Theo Verney. 
Mastered by Mike Kalajian.

Artwork by Euan Roberts. Design by Zoë King

Pre-order the debut album here: bit.ly/2qVdNuO
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/74tfsVq36NBtE8VXpadr3b

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Twitter: twitter.com/TheoVerney1

One Small Piece

Letter Down

New single from the album "Ariadna" out Sept. 8th. Pre-order it on limited edition vinyl (comes with bonus 12"), CD (comes with January Sun EP) and cassette. 

Moscow's Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses "Synthesizers help me maximally feel the present moment." Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia.  The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematized because of reconstruction.  A sense of displacement drove Kedr to find herself.  She's escaped reality repeatedly in her explorations into the imagery and ideas of romanticism, mythical and fairytale themes which visibly bleed throughout her work and especially on her debut full-length 'Ariadna'.  The title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane, debuted via THUMP today who've described it "anchors its elegantly drifting shoegaze melodies with a knocking electro beat."

Kedr considers this album to be divided into a couple of different parts - like how one person can contain many different moods. The first half revolves around mythological thoughts and the second takes cues from the urban and suburban environments around her, all the while in the middle of everything is the hero who experiences real feelings and emotions. 

Kedr also channels the places in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Moscow (affectionately dubbed by her as "BORDER MOSCOW"). There's a river there where identical Soviet high-rises stand on both sides, with a bridge and garbage processing plant adjacent. Where nature and industry meet. The whole scene looks very apocalyptic, but also mystical and mysterious, especially at twilight.

Her inspiration for this record comes from the Izhevsk (sometimes referred to as "the capital of Russian electronic music") sound of the 80s, including groups like Stuk Bambuka V XI Chasov (Bamboo Crash at 11AM) and Samtsy Dronta. The movement in Russian experimental music is especially inspiring, with acts likes Valery Chkalov, Sergey Kuryokhin and Pop Mechanica; in general, the late-Soviet period was very inspiring with all its figures in music, cinema, their energy and their approach towards life and art.

'Ariadna' marks a change in her recording approach: her critically acclaimed breakthrough EP 'January Sun' was written and recorded completely in Ableton, while 'Ariadna' was written using the Roland SH-101, Roland Juno 106 and Korg Minilogue synthesizers, then mixed down in Ableton. According to Kedr, "This way, one gets into a flow of live interaction, here and now, with the instrument." 

To her, this interaction is more "raw and sacred" than actually mixing the track down, which seems like "mere formalism" in comparison. There is a definite leap in production values this time around, but Kedr manages to keep true to her sound despite the greater polish and depth. 

Kedr Livanskiy Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kedr_livanskiy
Kedr Livanskiy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQ-sEipCI_MiMYrR-4iopA
Kedr Livanskiy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kedr_livanskiy/
Kedr Livanskiy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kedr-livanskiy-1006510909393113/

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