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2017 Album of the Year Poll Results

We pushed them, you picked them. Our week-long poll of the top shoegaze and dream pop albums of 2017 has now effectively closed, and there was much disagreement as to what should take the top spot. Except for one. The grand return of Slowdive, with their self-titled album, bested all comers by a nearly three-to-one margin. And why should it not? Nobody could have predicted even three years ago that […]

todayDecember 8, 2017 711

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2017 Shoegaze & Dream Pop Albums Poll

It's been a watershed year for shoegaze and dream pop albums in 2017, only made bigger by the releases from the reunited Slowdive and Ride after decades of relative dormancy. We went wide and deep with this year's candidates, as there's a literal bounty to choose from. We tried to avoid "genre-adjacent" albums, as that would cause a further layer of unnecessary turmoil, easily avoided. Not much psych in our […]

todayDecember 1, 2017 1222

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Streaming Premiere: Crash City Saints – 'Are You Free?' LP

Before DKFM became a known name, we were familiar with Kalamazoo's Crash City Saints. 2010's epic LP, Glow In The Dark Music, presented a band in full throttle: sweeping, powerful, but always tuneful. Classic singles "A Life Worth Living" and "Cough Syrup" exemplified a band at the top of their game, and poised to take over the world. Bits of Astrobrite, with a sprinkling of Jesus and Mary Chain, Crash […]

todayAugust 4, 2017 55

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Special Preview: Summer of Shimmer 17

Releasing into the wild on 21 July, the first issue from Dut Dut Dut Dut LLC, the Summer of Shimmer 17 mixtape. A project months in the making, Mike Contreras and Co. wanted to simultaneously celebrate the scene that celebrates itself, promote new and emerging artists, and plant a flag to represent their new imprint. Half of these tracks are brand new, never before heard, and exclusive to this compilation. […]

todayJuly 20, 2017 46

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Special Programming: TBTCI Brazil Compilation

We're honored to trot out a number of world broadcast premieres from TBTCI Records. Renato Malizia has once again outdone himself, stitching together a new and exclusive compilation of dreamy, bendy tunes entitled, Come On Feel The NoiZe, BraZil Class '17, released on Bandcamp June 9th. If you listen to DKFM, you'll be well familiar with most of these artists: The Sorry Shop, Kid Foguete, Céus de Abril, Justine Never Knew […]

todayJune 8, 2017 57

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World Broadcast Premiere: The Daysleepers

24 June 2014. That's the last time we heard new music from Jeff Kandefer's The Daysleepers. The single, "Dream Within a Dreamworld" was big news then, and we wrote it up as such, saying, "Let’s hope this is the first of much new music to come." Fast forward nearly three years later, and it finally seems we have much to look forward to. The first hint: a classic Smiths cover is released […]

todayApril 5, 2017 48

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DKFM Broadcast Masters

Music for headphones. Premiering Wednesday night, January 11th, immediately following When The Sun Hits, the first in our irregular series, DKFM Broadcast Masters. What's all this then? Funny you should ask. Some quality bands in our space suffer from a mastering job that sounds like your favorite musicians were recorded from the outside of a shoebox they're playing in. To varying degrees, these lower-fi recordings are short on brightness and […]

todayJanuary 10, 2017 74

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Listener Poll – 2016 Shoegaze & Dream Pop Albums of the Year

Another bloody poll. But we've done it for years now, might as well subject you to at least something positive out of 2016. Albums of the Year, with much to choose from. You are limited to FIVE choices (up from three in previous years) of the LPs that moved you most. We expect some to try and game the system, it happens every year. Though we do have IP blocks […]

todayDecember 17, 2016 31

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Half and Wozniak Team Up for DKFM

In a surprise announcement, two of the UK's preeminent sonic sculptors are releasing a split single, with all proceeds to benefit DKFM station operations. Half, via Gateshead, burst on the scene with their first single "Mind Laps", and immediately caught attention around the globe. Awash in reverb, strummed rhythm and a slowly unfolding progression, "Mind Laps" broke enough genre molds to earn a permanent rotation space in the first month […]

todayAugust 16, 2016 46