Even with their first release in April 2017, Glare proved they were no fluke. When you think of Texas hotspots for shoegaze and churning guitar waves, the Rio Grande Valley doesn't pop immediately to mind. At the southernmost tip of South Texas, only the Rio Grande River separates it from Mexico. But you're not here for a geography lesson, you're here for great music. This is that. Into You EP […]
It's not that we're bad at keeping the website updated. Some may have noticed we've kept well current on New Tracks Weekend, but haven't posted any public-facing documentation of our efforts. It's not them, it's not you, it's us. Besides chasing My Bloody Valentine and Airiel up and down the state, we've been doing some battle with the database under the foundation of this website. You can have the loveliest, […]
We're not the only ones who've been waiting for new music from LA's XO. Their impressive Heart LP landed in early 2014, and the crew have been quiet since then, save for the teaser single, "TV You" last October. We've seen Twitter evidence of creative stirring for months, most recently at The Cave Studios in LA. And their "star turn" at Part Time Punks' annual My Bloody Valentine Night was […]
A music nerd is just a nerd with earbuds. Having been fans and boosters of Toronto's Iris since their first single "Fix Me" landed hard in our consciousness, we've been Iris nerds. Sure, there's been a bump or two along the road for the Iris squad, but they were always about the songs. And you could count on them to create and polish compelling new tunes, and press them into your […]
From Pia Fraus to Imandra Lake, from Picnic to She Bit Her Lip, Estonia's Seksound label has spent years with a carefully-curated roster of new releases and classic reissues in the shoegaze and dream pop vein. In the mid-nineties, the standard bearers of Slowdive sonic sweep in Estonia were inarguably Bizarre. Seksound reissued Bizarre's debut Beautica (1994), and the follow-up Café de Flor (1996) to a whole new generation of […]
Near to a month (give or take five days), and thousands of votes later, we're thrilled to present the Top 20 shoegaze and dream pop tracks for March, as voted by our listeners via the all-new DKFM App. As to the chart show itself, we could only cram 15 actual tunes into the hour allotted (and still slopped over), but each and every song in the top 20 got a […]
We snuck in a chart show while no one was looking. We're just sneaky like that. Thanks to several thousand votes via the new DKFM App, as well as social feedback via Twitter, we compiled the top charting tracks from January 18 through February 18, and built one happy broadcast. Now uploaded to the DKFM Mixcloud for future reference. Because it's never too early to start thinking about the top […]
The sparkling Bay Area trio Bellavista had a pretty big 2017, dropping their long-awaited album Sun and Skyway last June, to much critical acclaim. So it came as a bit of a shock that the lads already had a follow-up single waiting in the wings. If you've worn out the grooves on the LP, Bellavista is far from done. DKFM is well proud to present the streaming premiere of "Feline/Nocturnal", due […]
In advance of next week's release of Echodrone's fourth full album, Past, Preset and Future, the San Francisco quartet tease the effort with this exclusive streaming premiere of "The Past or the Present". The third track on the new LP is part post-punk, part cut-through-the-fog rhythm section, with accompaniment by spacey, plinking keyboard patterns. This electric journey culminates in layers of guitar churn and vocal layering, as each element adds […]
