Finally available for streaming at your convenience: our top shoegaze and dream pop tracks of 2016. Published with ranked list and links, so that KEXP and KCRW can catch up, but more importantly, so that you can track them down and purchase a copy for your own library. Rankings derived from total spins, social feedback, and especially listener votes via the DKFM app. Thanks for your participation, and support of […]
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 […]
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 […]
The end times are upon us. Okay, that sounds a tad severe. But our final broadcast day on Live365, TuneIn and iTunes is December 31st. It's our party, and we'll cry if we want to. We'll spend over three hours celebrating our favorite discoveries in the genre, as well as our highs and lows of the last four years on Live365. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239381984" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="150" iframe="true" /] You […]
What's hot this month? Our Top Ten Singles, that's what! Not only that, four of the top ten broke on our air in the last week, and have already charted. Thanks to listener votes, tweets and email feedback, we couldn't do it without you all. 1. Lightfoils - "Diastolic" 2. Iris - "Fix Me" 3. The Enters - “Sweet Girl” 4. Seasurfer - “Stay” * 5. Wolf Alice - “Moaning […]
What do you give the smartest, most tasteful, most attractive listening audience on Earth? Sadly, we can't give you all a car. You'll have to call Oprah for that. But we do have stickers! We can't rightly sell them, as one features derivative parody work, but we can give them away (or charge for p&p). Stickers trace the evolution of DKFM over the last three years, including our first foray […]
THIS Wednesday night at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific, DKFM is extremely proud to present a World Premiere of the new single from Solar Powered People. The new album, The Scars We Own, releases imminently to Kickstarter contributors, with a wider release to follow. We've been waiting on this one for rather a long time now. Wanna know what our studio's been buzzing buy flagyl in the uk about for weeks […]
It's a dreamy sound. If you had to compare it to anything, you'd compare it to the sound of Portland rain. The intricate twin-guitar interplay sounds like getting caught in a small but refreshing rain shower. THIS is Soft Shadows. As they prepare for wide distribution of their new full-length disc, Reverb is for Lovers, we sat down with the members of Soft Shadows and asked them about music, philosophy, […]
Jordannah Elizabeth wraps up her second season of TPR Psych Nights with an interview from Weird Owl, freshly signed to Anton Newcombe's label and ready to take on the world. You'll get to hear some choice cuts from Weird Owl, both old and new, plus cheap metronidazole online treasures from The Warlocks, Apollo Heights, Gun/Her, 185668232, The Vandelles, Spice Mouse, The Dalai Lama Rama Fa Fa Fa, Jordanna Elizabeth and […]
