If you're looking at the graphic above and scratching your head, don't be concerned. There are few effective ways to promote what an unusual but crucial pairing this is, bringing some of the best in shoegaze and dream pop to the great Pacific Northwest. Two Festivals, One Dreamy Weekend This year marks a strong showing for dreamy, shoegaze-, and dreampop-oriented festivals on the West Coast. DreamGaze PDX in Portland, Oregon, […]
OVERPACKED. We've got so much new, and a limited time to shine (even though it's all weekend). Our largest haul of quality new music in recent memory, and we'll spool out the sparkle. Headliners: Nothing. The album we'd previewed here is everything that our reviewer said it was, and more. But there's so much more than just Nothing, and we've got it all batched and sorted. New albums from Holy […]
Packed! We've grabbed all the headline-makers of the past week, and we're ready to share the freshness. We're up-to-date as of an hour to airtime with the latest and greatest, including Flyying Colours, Away Forward, urbanation, The Day, Candace, The Churchhill Garden, Dottie, Indoor Voices (cover art above), Pour Over, Topographies (released last hour), Un.Real, Queridas, Juliper Sky, Warper, Octopus King, Meltway, Helicon, ENDZ, Dianas, chemical club, Deer Grove, Blume […]
It IS New Tracks Weekend, and 80% of the tracks we're spinning up are fresh in the last week, 90% in the last month or so. Of course we've got the latest from Tennis System, DIIV and Nothing. But our headliners this weekend, a band we'd criminally overlooked during debut album in January: Waterloo, Ontario's EDDYEVVY (pictured above). What began as a melodic folk duo expanded into an immensely tuneful […]
Topographies Balance Work, Touring While Writing New Songs By Deborah Sexton One of the biggest challenges any new band faces in today’s music scene is how to be heard. And yet, when the magic is there, somehow the word gets out. This has been the story of Topographies, one of the best new bands to emerge from the San Francisco Bay area scene in recent history. Self-described as “a band […]
It's got to be an embarrassment when the year is less than two weeks old, and the album of the year is released. Surely could have allowed others to catch up? No, Tallies dropped their self-titled debut album on Hand Drawn Dracula, and suddenly everyone else is on notice. This capable crew mines a vein of rich dream pop in the sweet spot between The Sundays and Innocence Mission, then […]
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 […]
All of the new music came out this week. All of it. Running gag in the DKFM Facebook group, everybody marked March 1 on calendar, and everybody of note released on the same day. And we've had to purge a great deal from the weekend rotation to make room for the sparkling additions from this week alone. Headliners: Topographies. If there's any such thing as a "shoegaze supergroup", this is […]
