March 2018 Roundup

Liam Doyle — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 09:29:05 +0000

Spring is doing it’s best to emerge (with varying degrees of success), which means that March has been and gone. We covered a lot of cool stuff last month, and if you happened to miss anything because of heavy snowfall or just plain bad luck, then we have just the thing. Check out the mix below for a track from every act we covered during March 2018, with the links in the tracklisting taking you to the relevant post. We’ve also started building Spotify versions of these mixes, or as close as we can according to their library.

Tracklisting:

The New Tusk – Tarmac
Lazy Legs – Gloss
Sam Moss – Flowers
Varsity – Must Be Nice
Falcon Jane – Go with the Flow
Desert Liminal – Heavy Heads
Jamison Isaak – Sharalee
Nilein – Central Park
Pendulum Girl – crying in the carwash
Freya – Breath and Chime
Malena Zavala – A Vision That’s Changed
Alex Bayly – Wade in the Water
James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band – Pushing Statues
Tiny Fireflies – Nothing
Boreen – Halley’s Comet
Jenno Snyder – Take Care
Normal State – Summertime
Clare – Loquats
Leathan Milne – Now I Say Goodnight
John Moods – Leap of Love
Guts Club – Mustard Tears
Brianna Kelly – To Behold You
Sympathy Pain – Bless This Ugly Heart
Lung Cycles – Smoke column (Jonathan)
Be Softly – My Hands End With You Fingertips
Hour – Still New To This

Spotify:

Playmoss:

You can find all of our monthly mixes here, and be sure to check back in May for whatever April brought by way of good music.

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Video Premiere: Tiny Fireflies – Nothing

Jon Doyle — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:15:14 +0000

Two Chicago musicians, one operating under the solo moniker Fireflies and the other Tiny Microphone, were asked to contribute to the collaborative mix, Between Two Waves, from Eardrums Pop. Their song proved popular, and, quite contrary to prior plans of Lisle and Kristine, Tiny Fireflies was born. After a debut single through Eardrums Pop, the band put out several more short releases before 2015’s full-length album, The Space Between.

A few weeks ago, Tiny Fireflies put out their first music since said album, with the single ‘Nothing’ released in December and b-side ‘2040’ in January. However, not content to stop there, the band are also releasing a 7″ vinyl edition, and have made a beautiful video for ‘Nothing’, directed by Greg Stephen Reigh and Ashley Thompson, to celebrate its release.

We’re lucky enough to share the video a few days early. Using the wistful energy of the song as inspiration, Samantha Jo and Morgan McNaught play people taking a road trip through small-town America, the neon nights and long rows of corn interspersed with strange symbols and encounters. As the track progresses, the signs seem to converge into an encounter of a different kind altogether, although with who or what is left up to interpretation.

‘Nothing’ is out now both digitally land as a 7″ vinyl, and you can pre-order it now from the Tiny Fireflies Bandcamp page.

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March 2018 Roundup

Video Premiere: Tiny Fireflies – Nothing