So much to celebrate, so we'll dive right into this weekend's haul of new sounds to our airwaves. Headliners this weekend include Blushing, Spywell, Indoor Voices, Sakawa Boys, Outlander, Callière, Kid Tigrrr, and Soft Blue Shimmer (pictured above). That's a solid front line. But we're going so much deeper, with new sounds from Ultramarine, The Asteroid No.4, Standing Waves, Perpetual Void, HUMID, cool AF, delayed minds, Contour Waves, Hazelene (premiered […]
Bandcamp Friday, and the inbox is overstuffed. We're staffed and ready to sort the week's most impressive offerings. Headliners this weekend include Salt+, Blushing (pictured above), Red Sun 1981 (premiered on Drowned in a Sea of Sound on Wednesday night), Local Authority, Oliver Beardmore (also premiered on DISS Wednesday night), Kodaclips, somesurprises, and Dead Horse One. And there's so much more to add to the pile: new sounds from Kid […]
This albums chart is specific: rated only by number of total spins from an album on our air. It's an imperfect methodology, punishing those releases in the latter half of the year, but... it's also the easiest to prove, with a spin count to back it up. So, it's raw data that can be trusted, even if it does favor early-year releases. The only exception to the accuracy of this […]
This albums chart is specific: rated first by number of album tracks graduating to long-term rotation, second by total spins. And there's a methodology to that madness: many crucial albums unleashed in the latter half of the year. Those LPs, solid as they may be, would suffer under a "total spins" criteria, because there was less of a year to spin them in. This specific chart helps level the playing […]
They've been teasing it for over a month, but the unlocking is on the horizon: a special one-off concert performance, professionally captured in audio and video, by three bands at the peak of their powers: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Blushing, and EEP, performing live at Love Buzz in El Paso, Texas on April 28, 2022. The full concert will have its YouTube live premiere on the EEP YouTube channel […]
Returning with their sophomore album, Possessions, is Austin’s Blushing. Now mainstays in the shoegaze and dream pop landscape, I was ready for more of their dreamy brand of song smithery. I should add it’s not for no reason they find themselves synonymous with the term dream pop. They have crafted a sound built on the foundations of all that we loved about those 90’s acts. Lush, Ride even Ultra Vivid […]
A weekend where the new releases from Blushing, Beach House, and Basement Revolver (these are words with B this time) are all unleashed is a hectic weekend indeed. We're keen to also be promoting the newest sounds from Blush Always and Brothers In Law (in memoriam), as well as Catatonic Suns, heavenward, MONDO GROSSO, Whimsical, Heaven Slept, Day & Dream, Magic Wands, Glaze, No Suits in Miami, Dormition, gloomer, La […]
Headliners. We have them. Our topline frontline headliners include Blushing, Softcult, NewDad, Yndling, Sooner, Bolywool, NIIGHTS, Catatonic Suns, Pálida Tez (pictured above), and Young Prisms. And every one of them is gold. But wait, there's more. We're spinning up fresh material from Moon Pics, dreamcoaster (formerly Dreams of Empire), Pintandwefall, Colatura, Versari, Dozr, Under the Sun, Maida Rose, Darksoft, Sun June, No Suits in Miami and so much more. Frankly […]
It's not really supposed to happen this way. By the time the third single from a forthcoming album drops, you can often expect an attendant drop in quality. This is not that, in fact, far from it. We, like the rest of the shoegaze-loving world, have been waiting for the February 18th release of Blushing's Possessions LP on Kanine Records. The first two singles were understandably a cut above, reaching […]
