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Through the 2010s, London-based producer/vocalist Palmistry (Benjamin Keating) received acclaim for his innovative mixture of dancehall, alternative R&B, and grime. His airy, melancholy tracks combine components of modern Caribbean rhythms (with performers like Vybz Kartel and Popcaan becoming significant affects) and ambient synthesizer textures, along with Keating’s softly sung introspective …

Ego Ella Might classifies her audio as “long term spirit.” The self-taught songwriter, maker, guitarist, and vocalist, who comes from from South London, Britain, released her debut EP, The Tree, in March 2013. Spaced-out and sparse however stimulating — similar to narcotic option R&B albums such as for example Spacek’s …

Smith & Myers can be an acoustic side task from Shinedown frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers. The task was created when the Florida band’s advertising rep at Atlantic Information suggested they keep a contest on-line where followers would submit tunes they’d prefer to listen to the music group …

A collaboration between singer/songwriter Amelia Meath from the Appalachian indie folk trio Hill Man and digital producer Nick Sanborn, who performs beneath the moniker Manufactured from Oak and plays bass with rootsy psych-rockers Megafaun, Durham, North Carolina’s Sylvan Esso craft evocative, yet elusive electro folk-pop confections that encompass the very …

Most widely known for his 2013 monitor “German Whip,” North London rapper Meridian Dan (aka Dan London) began his music career in the fringes from the dirt community years before his chart achievement. Dabbling with careers differing from electrician to coded welder, he was a peripheral person in the infamous …

A guitar-bass-drums trio for the avant advantage of creative jazz, Thumbscrew is a genuine collaborative device, featuring veteran bassist Michael Formanek and two music artists who’ve been building considerable waves for the Brooklyn picture during the fresh millennium, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. ECM documenting artist Formanek gets …

Innovations began in 2013 being a cooperation between Eluvium’s Matthew Cooper and Tag T. Smith of instrumental post-rock music group Explosions in the Sky. Both had always been close friends and both acquired albums using their particular bands over the Brief Home Ltd. label when Innovations was conceived. Also notably, …

Byron Blum and Melissa Blue constitute the mysterious San Francisco-based garage-punk-with-synths clothing POW! After launching an individual in 2011 (“Pretend There”) for Afterlife Information, not much occurred on their behalf until these were uncovered by John Dwyer, the like-minded mind of Castle Encounter Records and head of Thee Oh Views. …

By age 16, Grace Mitchell broke with her downtempo, R&B-influenced cover of Hall & Oates’ “Maneater” for the soundtrack to THE TRICK Life of Walter Mitty. The Portland, Oregon-born Mitchell — who has tips, drums, and guitars — agreed upon with Casablanca/Republic in 2013 and relocated to LA. Her debut …

Boonlorm is among several monikers owned by Brooklyn-based DJ/manufacturer/electronic musician Skooby Laposky. Laposky started getting involved with music as an adolescent in Iowa functioning as a celebration promoter. These celebrations led him to utilize ’70s disco/deep home maven DJ Wolf and down the road with Detroit techno star Theo Parrish. …