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 […]
Melbourne's Lowtide are no strangers to DKFM listeners. And this lot have earned all the love they are due. To say that their new LP, Southern Mind, has been one of the most anticipated releases of the year is no understatement. While Neil Halstead was busy mining the sonic foundations of Beach House for the reunion album from Slowdive, Gabriel Lewis was actively deconstructing Slowdive’s Just For A Day LP. And […]
The new Lowtide album is finally out. So that's a celebration. The Ride EP is finally fully released, so that's a celebration. The new Dead Vibrations is in hand, and it's got glorious fuzz all over it. Brilliant new music from Dean Garcia's new side-piece, Blurred City Lights, and today's release of the debut LP of Daydream Cathedral. WARM, Night Flowers, VLMV, The Voices, Seventeen Years, epic bends from Prisms, […]
Bounty. So much new material, Among the stars we celebrate this weekend: the new EP from Collapse (pictured above), and striking new tunes we've somehow not been aware of 'til now from Toronto's Away Forward. New releases abound from All About Rockets, Sonder, Bolinas, Dama Scout, Frankenchrist, dreamswell, Daysee, Creature In The Spiral, Meringue, Nameless Dreampop (actual band name!), Nurse, Pale Shade, Relay Tapes, Tapeworms, Uniforms, Warm, Fuzzy Feeling, Vacations, […]
Packed in with all the new, all at once. Headliners include Lowtide, returning with a sparkling single, the rest of the new Softsurf debut EP makes it into rotation (finally!), new Knifeplay we've been buzzing about, pre-release music from the new Crash City Saints LP (previewed here), due next week. New treasures from The Sorry Shop, Wildhoney, Todavia, The Luxembourg Signal, Surf Rock is Dead, Lazy Legs, Widowspeak, Deerhoof, Soda […]
What began as a simple idea of a few shoegaze and dream pop bands coming together to do a tribute to The Cure (shortly after Robert Smith's birthday, no less) evolved as a premise. What had been a tribute show in a small venue became a much more ambitious festival, showcasing the talents of the genre's best bands. Jack from Contrast originally pitched the idea to like-minded musicians, and now […]
Perhaps not shockingly, Lowtide's "Blue Movie" climbed back into the top ten on the release of their excellent debut LP. A few surprises here, but not surprising when you consider the strength of the songs / albums that charted. As usual, thanks to all of you for letting us know what you love! Singles Chart 1. The History of Colour TV - Left 2. Lowtide - Blue Movie 3. Lightfoils […]
We've stuffed in a bunch of new, with a sprinkling of old. New music from Lowtide, Power Pyramid, The Bilinda Butchers, Whirr, The Raveonettes, Kindling, HYLA, and Blonde Tongues. Sprinkle in Bellavista, The Koniac Net, YUKI, Spiral Life, Miracle Falls, Plastic Girl in Closet, TYYNYT, UmbraSum and rayos y manchas. Press it all down, shake it up, pour over ice. Repeat, all weekend. 8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific, and […]
New Tracks Weekend this weekend brings you pre-release spendid from Lights That Change, plus new Tape Waves, Sleep Party People, Cult Classic, POLA, Penguin Airways, Lowtide, Lava Lite, The City, Craft Spells, Blonde Redhead, Bleak Boys, VANIISH, SoulSonic, Stagnant Pools, The Fresh & Onlys, Seasurfer, Bleak House, Cre•scen•do, plus not-so-new Tennis System (but new to us!). 8 pm Eastern, 5 pm Pacific, and continuing through Sunday at midnight Eastern, 9 […]
