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on Mar 2
Juani Mustard | the PROPAGANDA site
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Juani Mustard (aka Juan Ignacio Miranda) is a Chilean artist with a quirky style and a lo-fi sound that mixes a playful attitude with the rawness of garage folk. There is a clear DIY feel to his records. His songs tend to be fairly catchy in terms of their tunes, and he plays them in...
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Pelvis Wrestley | the PROPAGANDA site
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Pelvis Wrestley is a band led by Jammy (née Benjamin) Violet, who combines indie rock and pop with glam flavor and a touch of country. There is a strong dance-oriented edge to a lot of their songs, which occasionally veer into a semi-theatrical direction. Their music has a colorful and fun flow....
on Wed, 6PM
Man/Woman/Chainsaw | the PROPAGANDA site
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Man/Woman/Chainsaw is a band of versatility that navigates the terrain between explosive post-punk meets post-rock noise and quiet chamber pieces with equal deftness, sometimes in the span of a single song. In that regard, they appear to be on a similar path that bands like Black Country, New...
on Mon, 6PM
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Amaarae is the moniker for singer/songwriter Ama Serwah Genfi, who was born in the Bronx and grew up moving back and forth between Ghana and the US. Her music is a melting pot of Afrofusion, alternative R&B, and indie pop, with Latin influences integrated into the texture of her rhythms. She...
on Sun, 5PM
Lauren Lakis | the PROPAGANDA site
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Lauren Lakis is a singer-songwriter and a guitarist who plays in a dreamy shoegaze style that combines her floating, ethereal vocals with a relatively aggressive and fairly distorted fuzzy guitar attack. She started out playing these components in a smoother indie rock type context in her...
on Sep 26
Stella Rose | the PROPAGANDA site
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Stella Rose Gahan, who goes by minus her last name is an indie rock artist whose music builds on a fairly dark sound that inches ever so close to an almost gothic sense of dread at times. She wears her PJ Harvey influences proudly on her sleeves, not only in terms of her vocal styling but also...
on Sep 24
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Dabin is a Toronto based multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer who works mostly in the electronic music genre. He is just as likely to create ballads or showstopper pop tunes with expansive synth driven sound as dance-oriented club music. His songs have conventional song dynamics more often...
on Sep 22
Ella More | the PROPAGANDA site
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Ella More is an R&B vocalist and songwriter working mostly on the jazzy corners of neo soul in a smoky voice and a relaxed delivery. Her songs often tend to be on the understated side with romantic tones that evoke intimate settings, though she also has songs that bring out a more beat-driven...
on Sep 22
Colony House | the PROPAGANDA site
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Colony House is an indie rock band based in Nashville with a very strong indie pop thread in their music. They write big melodies that do most of the heavy lifting in their songs, and they avoid any uncomfortable or tense sounds that could disrupt their overall tone. They use a lot of rousing...
on Sep 21
Jane Weaver | the PROPAGANDA site
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Jane Weaver is a singer-songwriter with a career going back to the '90s that took her through a terrain of folk, electronic, psychedelic, and pop. She started her solo work in psychedelic folk in the mid '00s, then expanded into electronic music that brought her into the world of folktronica as...
on Sep 20
Leyla McCalla | the PROPAGANDA site
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Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla mixes a number of threads in her music, including jazz and folk drawn from Americana, various Louisiana traditions, Afro-Caribbean music, Haitian folk, and elements of classical music that she brings in through her cello work. She also plays...
on Sep 18
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Troker is a fusion jazz band from Guadalajara that combines elements of rock, metal, prog, funk, and hip-hop with jazz, very much in the spirit of '70s fusion bands. They are an ambitious group in many ways, and they have the chops to deliver on their promise (and then some). The band...
on Sep 17
Full Flower Moon Band | the PROPAGANDA site
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Full Flower Moon Band plays a dirty, at times almost swampy, gothic, bluesy style of rock that revives some of the classic, foundational elements of the genre. It is led by singer/guitarist Kate "Babyshakes" Dillon, who is also the main songwriting engine of the outfit. She comes across as a...
on Sep 16
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram | the PROPAGANDA site
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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram is a young blues guitarist from Clarksdale, Mississippi, a city often considered a holy place by blues fans. Ingram's music presents a mixture of Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. He is a highly skilled guitarist with clean and sharp tones, serious shredding...
on Sep 15
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Caamp is an Ohio based trio that plays songs with strong folk and old school country roots with some basic rock elements incorporated into their music just enough for additional flavor without changing the basic feel. They use mostly acoustic instruments including a banjo that adds a distinct...
on Sep 14
Preservation Hall Jazz Band | the PROPAGANDA site
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a New Orleans institution that started in the '60s as the house band for Preservation Hall, a music venue located in the French Quarter. Successive decades saw numerous changes in the roster, drawing from the city's local talent through generations. For the longest...
on Sep 14
Hamish Hawk | the PROPAGANDA site
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Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh based artist who works mostly in the indie pop/indie rock axis with his mature songwriting and a deep, compelling voice. His music has shifted stylistically a couple of times since he started in the late '10s and currently operates in the orbital proximity of The...
on Sep 14
Elephant Gym | the PROPAGANDA site
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Taiwanese trio Elephant Gym (aka 大象體操) started out as a math rock band in the mid '10s and garnered recognition with their work. They soon turned to a jazz style with fusion tones, something that was always a part of their music going back to their debut album Angle (2015) that gradually became...
on Sep 10
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Kehlani Parrish is a singer/songwriter who makes highly polished, stadium show ready pop and R&B music with finely tuned arrangements and not-a-hair-out-of-place presentation. She is comfortable in a crooning role, with songs that are often in the range of slow jamming ballads and relaxed,...
on Sep 8
Population II | the PROPAGANDA site
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Population II is a Montreal based band that has carved out a fairly distinctive sound that combines post-rock, garage, and metal with psychedelic, prog rock, and to perhaps a lesser extent, fusion jazz. They put quite a bit of power into their power trio, with a strong attack that often pushes...
on Sep 8
Kaytranada | the PROPAGANDA site
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Kaytranada (aka Kaytra) is the stage name for Kevin Celestin, a Montreal based producer whose stylistic spectrum ranges from hip-hop to R&B to disco, as well as a conventional electronic dance elements. He brings these genres together to form a highly coherent and consistent sound as opposed to...
on Sep 7
Until the Ribbon Breaks | the PROPAGANDA site
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Until the Ribbon Breaks (aka UTRB) is the project of singer-songwriter Pete Lawrie Winfield, which started as his solo work in Cardiff, quickly accordioned into a trio with the addition of other multi-instrumentalists James Gordon and Elliot Wall, and then went back to being Winfield's solo work...
on Sep 7
Damaged Bug | the PROPAGANDA site
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When he is not busy creating a ruckus with his regular outfit Osees, singer-songwriter, and one of the prominent figures in the Southern California punk and garage scene, John Dwyer spends his time under the Damaged Bug moniker, creating a kind of music that is a tad more on the experimental...
on Sep 4
Heartworms | the PROPAGANDA site
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Heartworms is Jojo Orme, an artist who plays in the post-punk style with a goth edge. Her music appears to draw from a whole slew of distinct influences from artists aligned around that particular axis, whether it is The Cure of the goth era, Interpol, or Trent Reznor's later spin on the genre....
on Sep 2
Julia Jacklin | the PROPAGANDA site
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Julia Jacklin is a singer/songwriter based in Sydney, who works at the softer edges of indie rock that neighbors indie folk. There are also some hits of alt country that shows up occasionally. Her songs are often in the low to mid-tempo range, calm, and emotionally resonant. Her uptempo songs...
on Sep 1
JPEGMAFIA | the PROPAGANDA site
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Jpegmafia (or JPEGMAFIA, to be more exact) is the stage name for Barrington Hendricks, a hip-hop artist and rapper originally from Baltimore. He is an experimental artist who uses odd sounds, synthesized noise snippets, and found sound tapes, as he builds unique musical shapes and textures,...
on Aug 31
Bassekou Kouyaté | the PROPAGANDA site
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Virtuoso ngoni player Bassekou Kouyaté is a major musician in the Malian scene, whose typically upbeat and danceable music has found an audience in the west as well. He has been working with his band Ngoni Ba most of his career, frequently showcasing his family members, including his wife Amy...
on Aug 30
Holysseus Fly | the PROPAGANDA site
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Vocalist and keyboard player Holysseus Fly, known as Holly Wellington in civilian life, is originally one of the members of the Bristol based electronic jazz outfit Ishmael Ensemble. As a solo artist, she tends to lean more towards upscale pop ballads, delivered in that ethereal voice of hers,...
on Aug 28
Tea Eater | the PROPAGANDA site
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Tea Eater is the project of singer-songwriter and guitarist Tara Thiessen of the Sharkmuffin and Gustaf pedigree, where she creates music that is alternately comes from a fun branch of punk and light-hearted post-punk. Stylistically, the band's sound is a combination of garage punk, surf rock,...
on Aug 26
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Jessia, aka Jessika Harling (and stylized as JESSIA), started as a guest vocalist on other people's singles, mostly electronic oriented tracks, some EDM, some pop. In 2020, she began to put out her own work as a solo artist. Her music stylistically fits squarely in the mainstream of contemporary...
on Aug 25
Glass Animals | the PROPAGANDA site
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Glass Animals are an indie pop band led by guitarist, singer, songwriter Dave Bayley. The band works off of a synth pop type electronic sound, but the songs are put together with more of an indie mindset. Their music is warm and personable, but not too bouncy or sweet. They move drums and the...
on Aug 24
Water Damage | the PROPAGANDA site
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Water Damage is an Austin-based music collective that plays a relentlessly drone-driven instrumental post-rock with a strong percussive profile. The outfit sports two bass players, three drummers, and a small army of guitar, keyboard, and violin players, all of whom tend to be artists with...
on Aug 23
Still Corners | the PROPAGANDA site
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Still Corners are the multi-instrumentalist/vocalist duo of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray, whose music can be described in broad strokes as a cross between a Beach House style electronic dream pop and the western art pop of Chris Isaak and his ringing guitar sound. They moved around stylistically...
on Aug 15
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus | the PROPAGANDA site
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A band that has been active on and off since 1987, The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus (aka RAIJ) fuses various styles of folk with elements of classical chamber music, western medieval music, and liturgical choral music to create something sublime. There is a transcendental quality to...
on Aug 13
Earl Sweatshirt | the PROPAGANDA site
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Earl Sweatshirt (born Thebe Kgositsile) is a hip-hop artist and rapper who was also a member of the Odd Future collective in Los Angeles. His first release, a self-titled mixtape drew a lot of attention with the dark gothic nature of his music, scaffolded by his with deep and resonating bass...
on Aug 11
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | the PROPAGANDA site
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Ed Schrader's Music Beat is a duo with Ed Schrader on drums and vocals, and Devlin Rice on bass. They typically have two gears: the frenetic garage punk gear where they furiously race through songs as if their lives depended on reaching the finish line first, and the slowburn gear where they...
on Aug 10
Daydream Twins | the PROPAGANDA site
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Daydream Twins are a band that started out much closer to dream pop with a light, misty, and melodic style in their early singles, but then shifted their center of gravity towards heavier, louder, and scuzzier tones, getting deep into the classic wall of distortion sound that was put up by bands...
on Aug 9
Flat Sun Society | the PROPAGANDA site
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Flat Sun Society is a Santa Cruz/Big Sur based band led by guitarist, singer-songwriter Jake Padorr, who takes its inspiration from the classic era psychedelic rock in terms of instrumentation and overall sound, keeping it mostly mid-tempo, introspective, and contemplative. They also pull...
on Aug 7
Pissed Jeans | the PROPAGANDA site
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Pissed Jeans is a band whose music attacks in waves of hardcore noise that goes back and forth between a manic punk feel and aggressive heavy rock riffing. They often operate on overdrive, at the verge of chaos. That said, their more recent work has been ever so slightly shifting towards a...
on Aug 5
Briston Maroney | the PROPAGANDA site
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Briston Maroney is an indie rock artist with '90s alt-rock tendencies mixed with an indie folk feel that lurks right under the surface that navigates through some of the more conventional pop idioms. His songs are built on vocal and guitar-driven hooks, rousing choruses, and an emphatic style...
on Aug 4
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Breland is a singer/rapper based in Atlanta who melds genres as diverse as hip-hop, trap, country, and R&B into a distinct and personal style. He has a knack for singing in a country style while accenting his rhymes as if he is rapping, inserting snippets of R&B style crooning, and laying all...
on Aug 3
Lambrini Girls | the PROPAGANDA site
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Lambrini Girls are a high-powered, ferocious punk band from Brighton whose aggressive tone is balanced with a good deal of musicality that permeates their songs. They are a feminist band with a fair amount of outrage and frustration to express, and they make that very clear from the get go....
on Aug 2
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B-ahwe is singer-songwriter Bethany Harrington who walks a delicate line between sultry jazz and neo soul tinged, smoky R&B in quiet and understated tones. Her songs are typically soft both on volume and texture, with melodic subtleties that blend into an atmosphere of moodiness. She sings in a...
on Jul 31
West 22nd | the PROPAGANDA site
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West 22nd is an Austin-based band that plays classic backyard party type rock with indie accents and a pop spirit that is focused on delivering catchy tunes. They are generally a laid-back bunch with an open and bright sound. Their songs are instantly accessible melodically, and they are built...
on Jul 29
Big Wild | the PROPAGANDA site
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Big Wild is singer, composer, and producer Jackson Stell, whose dance oriented electronic music is driven quite a bit by his indie instincts, though it also overlaps with synth pop to some extent. The result is a type of uptempo pop that is anchored to powerful grooves and catchy melodies. That...
on Jul 28
Big Something | the PROPAGANDA site
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Big Something is a six-piece band from North Carolina that plays rock music mostly along conventional lines but with a strong emphasis on jamming. They have a solid rhythm section, including a deliciously funky bass, two guitars, a keyboard and a saxophone, and a whole lot of passion that colors...
on Jul 28
Dirty Three | the PROPAGANDA site
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Dirty Three is a one of a kind ensemble comprised of a trio of drums (Jim White), guitar (Mick Turner), and violin (Warren Ellis), who create instrumental music that goes beyond the traditional concepts of rock in many ways. Their work effortlessly shifts between elegiac ballads, emotionally...
on Jul 27
Saint Levant | the PROPAGANDA site
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Saint Levant is Marwan Abdelhamid, a multi-lingual hip-hop artist who raps and sings in English, French, and Arabic. He was born in Gaza, grew up in Palestinian refugee camps, and currently works out of Los Angeles. His music is an amalgamation of traditional middle eastern and western music,...
on Jul 25
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Proper. (with a period) is an emo band from Brooklyn driven by singer/guitarist Eric Garlington's intensely personal songs dealing with alienation, how fits in with the society at large, and other topics that are near and dear to his heart. His songs have the dramatic ups and downs and the big...
on Jul 24