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Sounds like:
Holobody,
Wintercoats
By
David Peter Simon
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Aug 16, 2014
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New melancholic bedroom music by way of Crash Avenue. It's from a Montreal musician named Charlotte Oleena, now known as Sea Oleena. xoJane called it "the kind of music that makes you long for something greater in your life." I like to think of it li...
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2

Sounds like:
Jose Gonzalez,
Leo Stannard,
Nick Mulvey
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Aug 9, 2014
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Ben Howard's new track "End Of The Affair" takes nearly five minutes to build up, but when it hits the crescendo -- boy, is it worth it!
The song comes off the UK artist's upcoming (and yet untitled) sophomore album, hopefully due sometime this year...
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3

Sounds like:
Dashboard Confessional,
Hawthorne Heights,
Relient K
By
Chad L.A. Roberts
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Aug 9, 2014
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I absolutely love the sound of State Champs! If you're a fan of 90s rock, which includes emo rock, alternative, Canadian lead singers, and male vocalists that "whine" into the microphone, then you will be obsessed with State Champ's "Leave You In The...
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4

Sounds like:
Fossil Collective,
Kodaline,
Real Estate
By
Justin Lam
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Aug 6, 2014
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Can you believe that The Strokes' debut album Is This It turned 13 years old this year? I dare say that it was a record that had an influence on quite a few modern musical heavyweights, including Melbourne's Oh Mercy.
The group have put together a ...
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5

Sounds like:
London Grammar,
Jessie Ware,
Florence + The Machine
By
Justin Lam
on
Aug 1, 2014
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There are exactly 30 seconds of greatness in Kanye West's "Bound 2," and UK songstress Laura Welsh has captured them perfectly. I am serious when I say that the rest of the original song is pretty terrible, but I like to think that this cover is a ni...
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6

Sounds like:
Joni Mitchell,
Joanna Newsom,
Joan Baez
By
Chris Carter
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Jul 31, 2014
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Every so often, I come across a song that I'm amazed I haven't heard before. They're generally the timeless kind that could have been written yesterday or forty years ago. In this case, it's the latter.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of those stalwarts ...
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7

Sounds like:
Boy & Bear,
Local Natives,
Wilco,
Grizzly Bear
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Jul 14, 2014
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Granted, the Blue Ridge Mountains are in Tennessee, but given that I only just go back from the mountains of the Pacific North West yesterday, this song's hitting all the right notes.
"Blue Ridge Mountains" was released as the second-to-last track o...
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8

Sounds like:
Adele,
Feist,
PJ Harvey,
Bat For Lashes
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Jul 7, 2014
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Coldplay and Cat Power, together on the same track? Certainly anything's possible when you're talking the soundtrack for a Zach Braff movie.
According to NPR, the collaboration came about when Zach sent an early copy of the filmWish I Was Hereto Col...
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