March 2020

Title: Mixtape 1

Label: BROHOUSE

Swedish trio BROHUG is back with their newest release “Mixtape 1,” a four-track bundle that perfectly represents their signature bass house sound. The sonic style ranges from more tech influenced tracks like “Party Out“, which they’ve debuted in live sets earlier this year, and released as a single back in February, to the tribal infused “Detox” and the hard-hitting “Say My Name.” However, if you are ever in need of euphonious vocals, BROHUG has you covered with “Trouble,” which still kicks with a heavy drop and driving basslines. “Mixtape 1” follows BROHUG‘s “1990” with Kaskade and recently released “Preacher” with Loge21, out on Spinnin’ Records. “Mixtape 1” is out on their own BROHOUSE imprint.

Regardless of their satirical stage name, BROHUG is not here to play games. Since John Dahlbäck and the Lunde brothers formed BROHUG in 2016, the trio has worked with Ghastly, remixed Steve Angello, and released on labels such as Confession, Spinnin’ Records, Dim Mak, Musical Freedom, and their label BROHOUSE. In 2019, their release schedule was packed with relentless hit after hit. Virtually unrivaled, their touring has been intense since the start. BROHUG has really put their name out, with sets on festivals like Ultra Music Festival in Miami and Tomorrowland in Belgium, touring Australia and several tours in the US and Asia. A new decade brings with it new possibilities, so stay tuned to hear more from BROHUG coming soon.

Three composers of the Italian label INRI – Gian Marco Castro, Matthew S and Pietro Roffi joined their talent and creativity to compose a track, to give an important message: music never stops.

Daydream, combines different worlds and atmospheres but related to each other, it was spontaneously composed by three artists: the pianist Gian Marco Castro, the producer Matthew S and the accordionist Pietro Roffi.

From their home while self-isolating because of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the three composers combined their backgrounds and experience to make a track which part of the profit will be given to charity. The artists’ talent and expertise united to into a track that crosses Italy: Daydream (will be released on March 27th for INRI Classic) it came to life through some dreamy and melancholy atmospheres, carved into the piano, accordion and synth’s melody.

A mirror in our present but with a look for hope in the future, a belief that music might be a further cure for the tough times.

“The Daydream we’re living right now, a sad dream we want to wake up from but we end up in it every moment. But from the other side it is dreaming for hope, a bright dream we would like to be in.”

The single’s cover has a minimal impact: it represents the little and helpless man in his solitude and immersed in the chaos of the universe. A charming black and white video, directed by Luca Kudu Anello, shows the artists’s creative process, framments of the artists’s everyday life during the lockdown: creating a contrast of the inside and outside of their home, framed by the unaware progress of nature.

Montreal-based indie trio Braids are postponing the release of their new album Shadow Offering to June 19th. The record will be out via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. Produced by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie), the new album finds the band at their most personal, unabashedly flexing a new sense of confidence through songs that reach a higher level of artistry and collaboration. Today they shared a brand new video for the song ‘Snow Angel,’ a powerful opus that features singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston‘s most visceral performance to date as she leans passionately into her anger, diving deeper into frustrations and anxieties about her internal and external worlds.

Watch the “Snow Angel” video here.

Of the track, Braids said: “‘Snow Angel’ was written in the immediate wake of the 2016 US election, as our collective conscience took a sharp inhale. It’s a diary entry of sorts – a snapshot of the mind grappling with our era’s endless barrage of content and destruction, continents away and close to home. *This* moment, with our world in the midst of a pandemic, is admittedly a new context. But I can’t help but sense the song speaks to feelings many of us are experiencing – uncertainty, angst and a desperate desire to make sense of it all.

For me, it was deeply therapeutic to write and sing this song; saying things out loud can help us to not feel so alone, can help validate our natural fears about the future of our world, and can bring to light some of the hard questions that many of us are asking ourselves. I believe that art can change our relationship to fear. We hope this song can offer you a moment of catharsis and relief, in the same way writing and performing it has for us

‘Snow Angel’ first debuted on The Fader who stated “Producer Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) lets the band breathe throughout the epic track, letting the energy ebb and flow as Raphaelle Standell-Preston switches her vocals between singing and spoken-word. The whole thing builds to a frantic final third in which the chaos and confusion is palpable.”

A luscious and expansive release, Shadow Offering leads us through a sonic tapestry of narrative. With heartbreaking honesty and precision, listeners traverse a nuanced and complicated world: one full of beautiful contradictions. Although the album directs itself at the failures of people to love and be loved, it also seeks to restore justice and attain blissful union. It’s arc crests through the dark towards the light and learns how to dance with the dizzying rhythms of the heart. The songs bubble, sustain, dissolve, expand, and retract.

Lead single ‘Young Buck’ is also out now, an effervescent ode to impossible love that exudes an undeniable magnetism. It was praised by Pitchfork, The New York Times, The FADER, MTV, Stereogum, and Consequence of Sound who called it “a bouncy good time; in the tug-of-war between mind and matter, these pulsing synths are clearly on the side of the body.”

Last Spring they released ‘Eclipse (Ashley),’ a song dedicated to Standell-Preston’s best friend that sinks deep into a feeling of reverie for nature, the love found in friendship, and the vital essence of personal reflection. The New York Times raved “Raphaelle Standell-Preston sings with openhearted earnestness” while Stereogum named it “one of the best Braids songs ever, a power ballad built from cascading pianos, off-kilter rhythms, and a rising surge of atmospheric strings.”

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Punk rock supergroup Fake Names – which includes Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace, One Last Wish), Dennis Lyxzén (Refused), and Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys, Soulside) – will release their self-titled debut record on May 8 via Epitaph.

Fake Names first came to form in early 2016 when Brian Baker and Michael Hampton met up at Hampton’s Brooklyn home to play music together, with no intentions beyond possibly writing a song or two. Friends since first grade, the two guitarists ended up writing a handful of songs that day, and then closed out the session with a spontaneous decision to start a band. When it came to finding a bassist, Baker and Hampton looked to Johnny Temple, a fellow classmate from their elementary school. Later that year at Chicago’s Riot Fest, both Baker and Temple were struck with the sudden inspiration to recruit Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén as their singer.

On their self-titled debut, Fake Names bring their collective history to a 28-minute burst of unbridled energy. Co-produced by Hampton and Geoff Sanoff and recorded at Renegade Studios (a New York City facility owned by Little Steven Van Zandt), the album augments their bare-bones breed of punk with a heavy dose of power-pop, cleanly manifested in the band’s bittersweet melodies and abundant backup harmonies.

Today, Fake Names share their energetic single “Brick,” a classic punk anthem complete with chant-along chorus and revolution-minded lyrics.

LISTEN TO “BRICK” NOW”

Fake Names is Brian Baker (guitar/vocals), Michael Hampton (guitar/vocals), Dennis Lyxzén (vocals), and Johnny Temple (bass).

Fast growing Baltimore artist Lonely God today releases the music video for his breakthrough single “Marlboro Nights”. The “Marlboro Nights” video is the directorial debut from Kylie Jenner’s in-demand personal photographer Amber Asaly.

Writing, recording and releasing “Marlboro Nights” from his Baltimore bedroom, the 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter’s breakthrough came as the catchy indie pop anthem began circulating on the popular short-form video-sharing app TikTok, catapulting “Marlboro Nights” to one of the platforms biggest hits, landing in the top 10 in Spotify Viral 50 charts with over 33 million streams and counting, and transforming Lonely God from unknown bedroom artist to underground indie phenomenon.