Fly Golden Eagle - Psyche's Dagger

Had the chance to see Fly Golden Eagle about a week ago with Dr. Dog, and woah. They had this jam quality that immediately had the crowds attention. A song like Psyche's Dagger is raw, with elements of funk and soul, which is exactly their vibe. There is something so sincere in the way this song is sung, like it's one you wouldn't mind getting stuck in your mind for the rest of the evening.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Marika Hackman - Cinnamon

Marika Hackman uses a low dark guitar melody and sugar-high vocals in Cinnamon, which is the perfect name for such a bittersweet song. It's monotoned at parts, in a jaded way, but the melody sweeps in randomly and takes the song to different places. It's both beautiful and harmful inside a quiet, subtle tone.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Swear and Shake - Marbles

Swear and Shake is a young, life loving folk band. Marbles is one of their more upbeat tunes, sounding almost circus-like with all the brass instruments, but it portrays their melodies and how perfectly matched their dueted vocals are. Then during the breakdown you get to see a whole new side, one of melancholy and longing. Their album "Maple Ridge" is full of songs that mirror this structure and Marbles, being its first track, is a great way to suck an audience in the first time they listen.

Glitter Pox rating: 86% contagious

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Dresses - The Duet Song

Last weekend we saw Dresses open for The Limousines and they made quite the impression. With a quiet kind of beauty to their singing and this subtle old-time vintage feel The Duet Song is the perfect way to describe their live sound. With vocals that match almost unfairly in this very hand-holding drive-in date kind of tune, they just have this way of being really damn charming.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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The Griswolds - Heart of a Lion

Heart of a Lion is upbeat like Oberhofer but in a more mild manner. Having oooos that are catchy, this song lightens up any place it touches. And the drum breakdown is the part of this song that really makes it stick. It's a song full of summertime snark.

Glitter Pox rating: 86% contagious

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The Dig - How Can You Trust A Feeling

How Can You Trust A Feeling is spacey and echoing, but it ends as quickly as the singer is worried his feelings will. It's a song all about an unclear future, but at least The Dig can promise some good music in that future for you. It's full of electric guitar and vocals that are higher than any notes in the song, and it works together in a way that clashes and syncs.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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Alice Boman - Waiting

The immediate tone of Waiting is lonely, but not the kind that can be fixed with a room full of people. It's the kind of lonely you find at the bottom of the bottle. The slow pace and the hums are intoxicating and the lyrics are reminiscent of a better time. It's a sad one but it's cathartic.

Glitter Pox rating: 68% contagious

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Terraplane Sun - Get Me Golden

The music in Get Me Golden is faster than the Foster The People-esque vocals and it gives the whole song this lingering effect. It's like it wraps a tie around your neck and pulls you head first into it, and the organ keeps dragging you through. The end brings out all the instruments, and they are played like they know they're close to dying, giving everything before the song breathes out.

Glitter Pox Rating: 70% contagious

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Deep Vally - Lies

Lies is raw, real, and rare when it comes to girl bands. It's like Jack White meets two bad ass rock and roll chicks. The static beginning turns heavy and dramatic, making it a solid song to start a night of demons and dancing.

Glitter Pox rating: 68% contagious

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The KickDrums - Atonement

Atonement has a heavy bass dub, but it's less rave-like and more mystery-novel. The vocals are kind of like The Postal Service but seemingly darker in verse like Alt-J. This song has that feeling of time running out, when you know something bad will happen if you don't make it on time. It's trippy and loud and something to get lost in.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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Islands - Hallways

This song is like an audio version of a crackly old film reel. It has this swing music feel but in slow motion, with a shoebop tone in the vocals. It's rare to find a modern song with such soul-heavy piano parts, and the harmonizing background vocals sound like an oldschool chorus, which makes the combo of the two show a lot of heart. It almost sounds like The Smiths with the breath tone but turns into an upbeat move-your-shoes kinda jam. It's all smiles and good feels.

Glitter Pox rating: 76% contagious

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Razorlight - Golden Touch

This song is old fashion in sound, like the Arctic Monkeys. It's also bass conscious in that it's upfront, even when the song's lyrics are singing about someone untouchable. It feels like it's a song that's in reach, easily accessible but artistic, too. It's consistent from the cheery guitar start to the somber-sounding finish.

Glitter Pox rating: 69% contagious

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Other Lives - As I Lay My Head Down

As I Lay My Head Down is just big. In content, in sound, in instrument, and emotion. It has that glossy Ramona Falls feel with the rawness of Low Roar. This song is both slow and quick in one motion and has almost a dancers grace. It's moving, but still. It's the perfect soundtrack to an indie art movie.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Temples - Keep In The Dark

Temples has a Beatles sound with their mellow vocals or a Tame Impala feel with it's breakdown like a herd of elephants. It's such a loud instrumental breakdown that the beat takes over the whole song. This song's just really capsulating and easy to get lost in.

Glitter Pox rating: 72% contagious

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Serena Ryder - Stompa

This song is for the ladies. Guys can like it too, yeah yeah yeah, but it has this badass girl power vibe that makes being a chick great. It has this deep drum beat and hard guitar with edgy vocals but a soft melody, something strong but sincere to it. It's entirely solid all the way through to the piano ending, which is such a shift that it almost feels like a new song is about to start. The whole thing is just full of fire and feist.

Glitter Pox rating: 77% contagious

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Fanfarlo - I'm A Pilot

I'm A Pilot starts off all military serious, but then it puts a piano overlay on top of the chain-rattling repetition and it's kind of gorgeous. The vocals are similar to Beirut or Arcade Fire, with this endearing Little Miss Sunshine quality. This whole song is like an optimistic pessimist, or a pessimistic optimist. Half the time it sounds gloomy and the other half of the time it sounds entirely hopeful and happy.

Glitter Pox rating: 88% contagious

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Tiger Milk Imports - Utah Highway Discotheque

This song has a dubstepped synthetic zipper noise that starts it out, and then the music fades into an acid-washed quality. It's like a good pair of jeans that have been put through the wash too many times. From the dark background to the monotone voice and the howling chorus, this song is creepy yet entirely unique and likeable.

Glitter Pox rating: 89% contagious

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Olympic Ayres - Girl

The lyrics in Girl are safe but sexy, and the vocalist's voice has this soft tonality that is like a sing-talk. There's something damn sensual about this song, but we can't pinpoint what it is exactly. Maybe it's because it has a decent balance of modern and fresh, dancy and smooth, or maybe it's because of all the oh's in the background, but whatever it is - it's a good thing.

Glitter Pox rating: 74% contagious

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New Beat Fund - Scare Me

Scare Me goes from piano to punk in seconds, with a Cage the Elephant feel on top of a talkative melody. Even though the lyrics are about hiding under your sheets, the upbeat vibe of it makes you want to crawl out from under them. The whole song has a humor to it, and it doesn't take itself too seriously even though it's about anxiety and all kinds of deep meaningful stuff. It's a song you can actually listen to and think about or if you feel like it you can just listen to it on the surface. And the last few seconds are the best, when it TS Eliot's itself and ends with a whimper instead of a bang.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Golden Suits - You Can't Make Up Your Mind

The piano that starts off You Can't Make Up Your Mind is overly melancholic, so the handclaps-and-finger-snaps beat brings it out of a predictableness and into something a little more playful than its painful lyrics and bored monotony. That beat kind of overpowers the music with a fake smile layered on top of the instruments they actually use, which are hard to even hear in the song at times until you strip away its layers. It's a song that has a lot more to it than your first listen. "It always ends the same," is a great last lyric for this song full of repetitive confessions.

Glitter Pox rating: 58% contagious

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Welshly Arms

We saw Welshly Arms open for Gentlemen Hall at the House of Blues the other night having no idea they were a Cleveland band until halfway through their set. Again, more proof that Cleveland is home to some damn good bands. They have a Black Keys-ish sound, with sexy guitar riffs and a darker melody to their slower songs. They just emanate rock and roll.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Dillon - Thirteen Thirtyfive

This song has an old, corner-of-the-street, jazzy sound, with accented vocals and finger snaps. The singer sounds very much like CocoRosie, but with seemingly softer music, adding piano and harp as the song progresses. It's elegant and smooth, with a swing that keeps it catchy, and lyrics to match.

Glitter Pox rating: 88% contagious

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Broncho - Try Me Out Sometime

This song is energizing and everywhere, like a chaotic cup of coffee mixed with sound instead of sugar. It has a Delta Spirit feel, but more aggressive, like a punk version of Matthew Vasquez as the vocalist. The lyrics are daring and demanding, with a challenge in the chorus, and it makes you want to put on a leather jacket and hit play again.

Glitter Pox rating: 68% contagious

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Pickwick - Hacienda Motel

Hacienda Motel is a great Done-Wrong song, one to listen to when you've been scorned and torn. But it's one level up because people get shot in its lyrics. It has a slower Kings of Leon vibe but with a Fitz and the Tantrums soul feel, too. The vocals and guitar tones resonate and mesh in a really hell-yes kind of way, and the organ and tambourine rank it higher on our love list.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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Drop the Lime - Hot as Hell

Hot as Hell has an old rock and roll vibe with this weird modern electro twist. You get something that sounds like harmonica dubstep in the middle and it doesn't seem like it would fit but it does. It's different. There aren't a lot of rock songs you can play as party music, but this song hits that playlist spot on.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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Reignwolf - Are You Satisfied

Reignwolf sounds a lot like Dan Auerbach in this song, with a voice like he just swallowed an entire ashtray. That fire-y grit that comes out of his mouth is a little inhuman. And that guitar - it's a little bit of a big deal. Someone definitely sold their soul for talent like this, but it couldn't have been frontman Jordan Cook because there's a hell of a lot of soul in his music. We are very very satisfied.

Glitter Pox rating: 91% contagious

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Brick + Mortar - Bangs

The pacing of the vocals in Bangs is indifferent to orderly structure - it's fast and slow and everywhere in between and outside of those two. The music chooses to match its pace or construct its own rhythm, too, so that no point in the song is ever really predictable. That mismatched disorder doesn't always work, but in the case of Brick and Mortar it works really damn well, all the way to the spaced out ending.

Glitter Pox rating: 83% contagious

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Stereophonics - Violins and Tambourines

There's a Civil Wars vibe to this song, in its old western vibe and slide guitar. It's really mellow and has a similar sound throughout the first minute, but it picks up in the end with orchestral music that crescendos until it drops dead. There's a monotone boredom until that end hits, when there's suddenly an urgency and desperation to the whole song. When the drums and violin get more energetic in the progression to the climax, it gets filthily beautiful.

Glitter Pox rating: 74% contagious

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Bunbury - Day Three

Sunday's lineup was done brilliantly. We were all exhausted and on a bloodbuzz from the past two days, and Bunbury knew we would be. So they put all the chill musicians on the last day.

We started the day off by seeing Joe Purdy, whose set was like a living room show except with a sky. It was very mellow and chill and honestly felt less like he was playing to a crowd and more like he was playing to friends and family. "Does this start with the chorus? It does today." & "My guitar solo on the record was much better than that," are things he said in the middle of his set, which was sung melodically. Laughter and good music is always a great kickoff to any day, but especially in that heat.

We needed shade after, so we found a tree to chill in and sat in its crook while listening to Gringo Star. We love relaxing and listening to new-to-us music, so it was great.

Then we went to check out Savior Adore, who we just featured the week before. They sounded pretty damn gorgeous live, and they were smarter than every other band at that fest because they wore all white. They were really lively and just enjoyed being on stage, probably because they weren't as hot as the black-cad bands.

Next we caught Bethesda's set on the lawn stage, and even though it was the hottest day of the weekend, we got shivers from the vocals. They're pretty local to us and we were excited to see their festival set - and they had most of the lawn dancing. They have a really great family folksy vibe, but even though they sound decently mellow on their recordings, their live sound is huge.

Then we walked over to A Silent Film, who sounded and performed a lot like Fun. They have that mellow energy that's both calm and electric in a way.

After that, we saw Night Terrors of 1927, who was one of our favorite sets of the weekend. It was more upbeat than most of the other Sunday bands. There's something very...alive about their live sound, and we're now dying to see them at a venue in Cleveland.

Following that, Belle & Sebastian had the whole crowd dancing, from people as young as 3-4 to 50-60. They had about 13 members on stage playing, but the lead singer brought his Scottish curse on the crowd and it started storming after their set. Bunbury did hella good with that rainstorm, though, and they put everything back together fast for The National's set as soon as the sun came out.

The National closed the weekend out, and hearing Bloodbuzz Ohio while sitting on the stairs by the Ohio river, watching people swim (and then get yelled at by the cops) was one of the coolest experiences of the festival. It closed out a perfect weekend and we can't wait to see who is playing next year, because we'll be there.

Wet - U Da Best

Wet has this vintage sound, kind of like Jazz Mills or Zooey Deschanel, but there's that new-aged dubbed feel that makes it grittier. It has a flow of old-school lullaby ambiance, but it's more modernized than that. It's full of something raw, even as it's sung gorgeously. And "I think we better quit while we're ahead," is a perfect, powerful way to end it.

Glitter Pox rating: 89% contagious

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Sleepy Sun - Open Eyes

There's some cult shit going on in this song and video, but we can understand why someone would join it because its lies sound damn good. The Sleep Party People echo-vocals in the beginning are paced with percussion that doesn't stop until a minute in, and then the song changes vibes. There's a slowed-down acoustic feel that flows in and out of clarity when that moment hits, and it's something you want to pocket. It's like a morning full of pressed snooze buttons, moments where your brain comes in and out of wakefulness. And the random guitar riffs are electrically awake in the song's sleepiness. It's just a genuinely unique non-genre-based song.

Glitter Pox Rating: 70% contagious

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Gem Club - 252

252 is simple: a piano and some haunting vocals. Though there are multiple voices in this song, they add to make one very powerful sound. Gem Club has this intentionally hollow sense to their music that makes it emotional, but not in the way that turns you off from listening. This song moves in slow motion like some metamorphosis is taking place, and in the end you are left with a feeling utterly different from when the music started.

Glitter Pox rating: 60% contagious

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Bunbury - Saturday, Day Two

Day two of Bunbury was beautiful.

Civil Twilight opened for themselves Saturday morning because X Ambassadors had the infamous band van breakdown that all artists dread, and which all fans dread more. Having a double set from CT, though, and hearing new songs started off our morning hella well.

Then we lawn-hopped over to Robert DeLong, who's great live. He loops everything and makes electronic music off of game controllers like he's playing the crowd. And he goes just a little insane on a drum set. His crowds bring in some of the craziest dance moves we've ever seen, and it was a good time even with all the sun sweat on us as we danced.

Then we sat on a hill and watched Chairlift. This girl has the vocals of an opera queen but twists and turns them. It was one of the most unexpected sets of the fest. Not knowing a lot of their music made it especially fun to watch them perform and they had a lot of band chemistry.

Twenty One Pilots played on the main stage and they're kind of just nuts. The lead singer climbs rafters and does back flips off of his piano but somehow isn't out of breath for his singing or rapping. It's like it's effortless for them, but you can tell they have a hell of a good time at every show they play. Their crowd participation is great, too - they always have everyone singing and jumping, and when they tell you to jump there isn't a person out there who doesn't because they're that gripping.

Then we ran (literally, we were the dorks that ran) to see Oberhofer. They took their set out into the lawn at one point, playing guitar in the grass as people rushed over to get pictures. We've seen them a couple times before in our hometown but never at a festival, so we weren't sure how their live set would be, but it was just as good. A lot of people who had never seen them before said that was their favorite set of the weekend. They ust have a way of pulling you into their musical madness.

Then we were hungry after all of our dancing so we went and saw Cake as we ate our pretzel dinner, because it was kind of fitting. They sound exactly like their studio recordings, and it's cool to be able to hear a mix of modern music and bands you've listened to for decades at the same festival.

Divine Fits was up right after Cake. They're very guitar-focused live, so their set sounds a lot different than listening to them on CD, but they have a really good presence. Because they're members of other bands(Spoon and Wolf Parade) they know the ins and out of how to sound good and it really shows.

MGMT headlined on night two and their visual set was fantastic. It was candyland on acid, basically, and since it was nighttime all you could really see was this giant moving block of color behind the band and it was really transfixing, especially with their music in front of it. Bunbury's headlining bands are always good and make you excited for the next morning.

Bunbury - Friday, Day One

We started off our first day of Bunbury listening to Beat Club in the hot hot sun. There's something about the first band to play a festival. It either promises a good weekend or leaves you bitter, but Beat Club played really really well. Their bass lines were kind of ridiculous; it felt like every song was ruled by bass in the best kind of way. They were upbeat so it made us excited for the whole rest of the day.

After Beat Club, we headed across the way to see The Features. It was actually really easy to get around Bunbury. We went to Coachella and Gov Ball this summer, too, but Bunbury was by far the easiest to get around. The walk from one stage to the next at most festivals usually destroys your feet but the walk from the main stage to one of the other biggest stages at Bunbury was literally just across a lawn. So we just walked over the grass and listened to The Features from Nashville. They had this accordion coming from their key player on the opening song which had this sound like a gypsy wedding. The vocals were clear but with this Frank Turner kind of angry energy in the middle of the soft parts. So our afternoon was already sounding beautiful.

Then we went to see American Authors, who were entirely energetic and woke us way up. Rockstar had a tent at Bunbury that was giving away free energy drinks but after a couple of these performances we decided we didn't really need them. American Authors sound and act a lot like Imagine Dragons live, with radio-ready vocals with a lot of lightning behind them. It reminded us of when we were standing at the bud light stage last year dancing and singing to Imagine Dragons and they definitely owned the Bud Light stage with their crowd interaction and their set, captivating the audience with their lyrics and then surprising them with a harmonious slow song in the end that sounded damn near perfect.

Next, we made our way to the main stage to catch Tegan and Sara who were just entirely badass. Even though we were pretty far back, you could still get a really good view and they had screens on both sides of the stage that aided in the close ups so you didn't miss any of the action. And they are a band you kind of want to SEE, because they sound and look hella good. They just know their music and how to please a crowd playing a mix of new and old songs.

Again, we headed across the lawn from the main stage to the rockstar stage to see Youngblood Hawke, who might have been our favorite performance on Friday. They just went halfway to insane on their drums. Almost all the members were playing a drumset like it was the last thing they were gonna do in life. And not only was their life in the music, The lead singer literally didn't stop moving the entire set. He was everywhere and the crowd loved it.

Walk the Moon played in their home town to what they said was one of the biggest crowds they'd played in Cinci. We're never disappointed seeing them live because they always give us an excuse to dance.

Tokyo Police Club was a great band to play as the sun set because they were upbeat enough to keep you going but not too crazy. We sat and whistled on blades of grass, watching the fireflies and just really feeling the whole music fest thing while they were playing.

The headliner Friday night was Fun. and yeah, they were, with confetti and a crazy crowd, they played a pretty good set overall. It was a really really promising first day of Bunbury and we slept like babes after all the dancing we'd done.

Bunbury Week

This past weekend we went to Bunbury Festival in Cincinatti, Ohio- and this week, we're posting all about it. Tons of great bands and great times and interviews and contests to come for the rest of the week. Check back!

The Glitter Pox

NONONO - Like the Wind

The chain-rattlin' music in Like the Wind is kind of dead sexy, especially when you add the badass girl singer into it. Whatever she does with her vocals in the chorus, in the song in general, is a little unreal. She has twenty different flavors to her voice in this one song, and when you listen to their other stuff it's even easier to notice that this girl can do a lot with what she's got.

Glitter Pox rating: 68% contagious

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Savoir Adore - Bodies

This song feels like whispers between young tongues. It has an almost tinny underground sound alongside the guitar, and with the constant percussion, it's perfection. The back and forth of female and male vocals is less a duet and more of a musical discussion between lovers.

Glitter Pox rating: 62% contagious

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Peace - Bloodshake

The first lyric of this song being "from the belly of the jungle" is perfect because that's what the intro music sounds like. Like you're in a freaking overly happy jungle. But the shakiness in the vocals and the lyrics "spit blood in the sun / spit blood in the ocean" kind of mellow that happiness out. It's a perfect song to be happy during and be angry during and be everything during.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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Swim Deep - King City

The organ sound in the beginning mixes with the melancholic XX-like vocals in this song, and it all highlights the ooooo's in the background of the chorus. It makes it catchy as all hell, even though it's not an aggressively bright-tuned summer melody. But the fact that this band references a member of Warpaint makes it even more perfect. It's kind of a fuck-it, "sun on my back" go-with-the-day kind of song.

Glitter Pox rating: 67% contagious

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Matt Corby - Resolution

This song has an R&B feel to it, but also this folky vibe with gospel background singing. It's just all about the vocals the whole way through, runnin' all over the place. It's raw but it's gorgeous, and it makes you feel all the feels there are to feel.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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The Other Tribe - We Should Be Dancing

The wooden percussion and xylophone in this song are priceless. It has that whole rain dance thing going on in the background, and the lyrics don't deny you that, either. The Other Tribe sounds a lot like Gold Fields in this song, another overseas band being danced to in the states right now. They could just as easily be picked up here, or anywhere, because they have a really universal vibe in their music.

Glitter Pox rating: 69% contagious

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RDGLDGRN - I Love Lamp

RDGLDGRN has their own flavor, a mix of vocals and rap like AWOLNATION's Knights of Shame. It's more about the story than the music, but it's still damn catchy with a great guitar melody post-chorus. It's relative to different generations and genres, one of those songs you know could get picked up easily for radio and take off.

Glitter Pox rating: 83% contagious

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Akron/Family - Until the Morning

The intro to this song puts you in a completely different mindset than what you'd expect from the vocals, but when you hear it, it fits. It's a very folksy melody, vocal-wise, and the lyrics are phenomenal, but the music starts off like an episode of American Horror Story, full of creepy ominous vibes. It takes a pretty good, musical mind to match the music and vocals that Akron/Family does in this song.

Glitter Pox rating: 72% contagious

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Holy Ghost - Dumb Disco Ideas

Holy Ghost has a really solid 70s funk feel, with vocals that sound like Spoon - but this song also has this weird David Bowie vibe going on. It's an eight minute song, but it's very music based - halfway through, there's a switch in lyrics and melody that gives off a totally different feel. And then it ends in pure vocals, which is interesting for such a music-focused song. It's different in a way that isn't too obtuse; it's just refreshing and great-sounding.

Glitter Pox rating: 81% contagious

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Is Tropical - Dancing Anymore

Is Tropical's female vocals sound like Wild Belle and the male vocals sound like Shiny Toy Guns' male lead; the match of them, though, sounds like heaven. The music is subtly techno, not full of in-your-face synthesizing, and it's pretty in a raw way that a lot of electric songs don't give you. There are minimal lyrics, but the song is still genuinely good, catchy, and passion-filled.

Glitter Pox rating: 79% contagious

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Andy Bell - Keep On Running

This song starts off with a vibe the goes from ominous to fun in two beats flat. The music and the vocals split off and go back and forth, and the almost-silence in between those two makes them sound even better. It's a song full of breakdowns and overlaps, and something new is added every few seconds. It's the classy mix-up of melody that makes this song stick.

Glitter Pox rating: 87% contagious

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Vance Joy - Riptide

The ukulele melody at the beginning sounds like something Beirut would give you, but the vocals are way different than you'd expect. The lyrics are entirely genuine and they tell a story that makes you feel like you know the people the vocalist is singing about. It's just a really...real song.

Glitter Pox rating: 72% contagious

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DAVIDS - Dead Walkie

The beginning of Dead Walkie is like a sonic silence, like the ringing quiet after an explosion. It's kind of like that when the song ends, too, in this abrupt way that leaves your ears making up ghost notes that aren't there anymore. The slow, lazy vocals mixed with the electronics make this a chill, hands-out-the-window song.

Glitter Pox rating: 65% contagious

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Brazos - Charm

Brazos' new album Saltwater just came out today and this song off of it is like pure brain stimulation. The vocals are comforting and consistent, the softness in them matching the descriptive lyrics of a gorgeous gal in summer sun. It has a grounded feel in its bass and drums, but there are so many different sounds going on in the breakdown that it sounds like controlled experimentation. Some of the layers you don't actually notice until the third or fourth time you listen to it, so it's built for repeats instead of casual listens.

Glitter Pox rating: 67% contagious

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Sin Fang - Because Of The Blood

Because of the Blood is folky but distorted, a fast but mellow vibe taking over the whole song. The tin-drummer "bum-bum's" in the background fill in all the pauses of the first layer of vocals - and there's not a lack of layers in Sin Fang's Icelandic-influenced music. It's a chill but aurally discordant song.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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Max Frost - White Lies

Max Frost has a Fitz and the Tantrums thing going on in White Lies, the bluesy man-sass reminiscent of Fitz. This song just has this catchy chorus of suspicion that's sung in a jazzy voice you want to drink up. And the music is all slinky, too, like it's catching a cat with feathers in its mouth. It's just a song that makes you feel real saucy.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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New Politics interview

We sat down with New Politics after their show in Akron to ask about their new album and their new single Harlem. Here's David Boyd (lead vocals),Søren Hansen (guitar/vocals) and Louis Vecchio (drummer) answering some questions, break dancing, and shouting "Glitter!" in Danish, for your education.



So, about Harlem. It's a really really good song. And you can listen to it here before you buy it. We asked about their inspiration for the song and if it had to do with their move to NYC after being in Denmark.

Louis: “He [David] can tell the story about Harlem but it’s about to go for about twenty five minutes.”

Søren takes over in an attempt to shorten the epic story of Harlem.

Søren: “When we came back from tour and we started writing this album, the first month of that we tried to write the first album again and every time we wrote a song it was kinda like “it’s not there, it’s not there, it’s not there” and then so many things happened. The main thing was that there was this huge culture shock coming over here [from Denmark] where we didn’t know anyone - because we’d been on tour all the time. The important fact of how Harlem became Harlem is [that] the whole process of this album has been our culture shock, and every song that’s going on this album shows that period in our life. This album is very personal because it marks a certain time in the whole process of us settling in over here.”

Louis: “It’s genuine. That’s what Søren, in 3600 words, was trying to say.”

And it sounds like the rest of their album is genuine, too. From hearing them speak about it, you can tell they put a lot of their personal experiences into the new album.

Søren: “When we write songs we just write something, and then there’s a vibe in it and some of the words that become a part of the song are already being sung.”

David: “When we tried to do something like the first album, it wasn’t there because it was lacking that 10%, that thing there where we weren’t where we were three years ago when we wrote the first album in Denmark, in a basement, rebelling, being mad at everything, questioning things of society. Now we’re signed, living in America, living out a dream. We’re touring, we’ve experienced all these things. All those things were factors that we didn’t put in until later when it hit us that this is what we were, right now, and we’ve changed to this, and this is part of the challenge as an artist when you’re writing an album.”

After writing their new album, they toured with Twenty One Pilots - after being on tours with 30 Seconds to Mars, Neon Trees, and the Dirty Heads. We asked what was different about this tour and what made it fit with their own music.

David: “The good thing about Twenty One Pilots, that we’re out with, is that they have a similar thing. They’re just open to music. They put everything in their music, whatever they feel in their heart, that’s what it is. We have that thing as well with our music.”

You can tell, especially live, that they put everything into their music. And other people can tell, which is why they've become pretty successful after their first self-titled album was released, being featured on MTV and performing at SXSW. They got pretty deep while talking about success/fame/fortune, but their sense of humor was displayed in the fun-loving way they interact with each other.

David: “If you have a million dollars then it’s good for you, but if you don’t it’s also good for you."

Søren: “The moon’s blue on a summer night.”

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Louis was feeling left out after not sharing his own words of wisdom, so we asked about how tour was going. However, David and Soren didn't think his answer was lively enough.

Louis: “This tour has been a lot of fun, it’s been great so far –“

*snores* from Søren, *yawns* from David.

Louis: “I give up.”

Søren: “You teased me when I was answering about Harlem!”

David: “They asked about Harlem and you spoke about the River of Babylon.”

David, mimicking Søren: “Well, when I was in kindergarten my teacher told me –“

They're like their own little family, and you can tell that when they're on stage, too, because they work so well musically together- something that you only see in bands that still like each other. With the musical chemistry they have, their new album will be worthy of all four of The Glitter Pox thumbs up. We asked when their album would be released, which you now know to be tomorrow.

David: “We even have a title for it.”

David: “It’s called The Title.”

They played four songs off of "The Title," now "A Bad Girl in Harlem," at the show: Tonight You're Perfect, Die Together, Just Like Me, and Harlem. After hearing them live, we can tell you that you'll definitely want to catch them on their future tours and buy the album. And you can find that our for yourself when it hits iTunes tomorrow (or other non-digital forms on their website), or check a stream of it out at MTV's Buzzyworthy Blog now.

Julia Holter - Moni Mon Amie

The beginning of Moni Mon Amie is all lyrics and French-accented vocals until at some point in the song the music takes over in a slowly creeping way; it was always there, but it just builds up and takes control by the end. Both the vocals and the music make a certain romantic dream state appeal to this song, but a type that's lacking sleep. A surrealness that can only be shown through the soft encantationesque lyrics, but there's something eerily not right in the song as if the minor under tones have dark secrets. Not only is the music different and artistic, but this video is a beautiful translation of the childlike feel of the melody.

Glitter Pox rating: 92% contagious

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Pretty & Nice - Golden Rules for Golden People

Golden Rules for Golden People is full of high-priced lyrics, words of diamonds and gold and amethyst being sung to you like a bazaar full of gems. The imagery of the entire thing is damn shiny, but the whole theme of this midas-touched album is to break apart pretty exteriors and find something more worthy than money.

Comparing it to Pretty & Nice's other albums, it still has that aggressive guitar and soft vocals that we know them for, but it's more clear cut. It's hard to pull a favorite, since every song has something different to offer your ears. 

The album starts with "We are all instruments" and ends with "that's everything you need to get." However, that's not everything you need to get about Golden Rules for Golden People since knowing that it's not just good sound is something you should go into this album thinking. Because these lyrics are excellent.

"Most pretty shells chime like there's nothing inside," is the first lyric of Q_Q and it kind of contradicts itself because the album art for Golden Rules is very pretty and there's a hell of a lot inside of it.

Like, every song has an entirely different approach. Mummy Jets is the song that consistently gets stuck in our ears, the "aww-ww-ww's" of the chorus serenading our minds all day. But then there's Critters, telling you to dance off your pain, and Yonkers making you feel like you're getting drunk on a yacht, and Kill the Beast being sung to you like a fantasy novel. The title song, Golden Rules, talks about building a ship that won't sink and then it hits a tide of music like chaos. The album is just everywhere with its thoughts and sound, but it ties into this concept of money and music while still sounding hella good.

Just buy it, please. If you're gonna get one album this month, it should be this one.

Wildcat! Wildcat! - Mr. Quiche

Mr.Quiche's intro sounds like this really happy, cheerful summer song until the bass and drums and cymbal on cymbal comes out to play. The vocals match that, too, going from The Limousines-like falsetto singing to monotone-voiced pauses. It's like the song is trying to fake a smile the entire time, but it's a pretty real, human song, even if the lead video star is wearing a giant cat mask.

Glitter Pox rating:
83% contagious

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Post War Years - All Eyes

The beginning of All Eyes sounds like steps through a dream and leads into a Purity Ring meets heavy bass breakdown. It has this really drawn out feeling that matches the chorus's lyrics perfectly: "You have all the time in the world." It's simplistic but obsessively interesting.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Josef Salvat - This Life

The chill beat and romantic voice behind Josef Salvat has made a lot of people compare him to Lana Del Rey. We can see it with her song Lolita, the "hey's" in both choruses asking you to come closer. The lyrics flow with alliteration and vibrato, the melody in the vocals more than in the music, all the way until the bass-heavy ending.

Glitter Pox rating: 93% contagious

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Joywave - Tongues (feat. KOPPS)

The beginning of Tongues has the uppity jazz of Kimbra, a skipped-vocals intro matched with male vocals that don't seem like they would fit together initially. But they fit in tone with the xylophone so that the high notes and low notes of the music and vocals give this mix-matched vibe that's perfect. It's kind of a great song to speed on the highway to.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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Night Beds - Lost Springs

The guitar at the beginning of Lost Springs is slow and seems reminiscent behind the vocals. There's something utterly comfortable about those vocals, too; they aren't demanding but affirming. There's also this sad Sufjan Stevens feel to the song, with the music alluding to the hearing version of a comfort cry.

Glitter Pox rating: 70% contagious

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Sara Jackson-Holman - Cellophane

The heart-breaker lyrics and vintage sound of Sara Jackson-Holman's vocals sound like they belong in a smoky bar. It's part of a genre of bad-ass chicks with feelings, like Lily Allen, Kate Nash, and Lindi Ortega. The piano adds this focal melody that classes up the song into a mix of sultry and sassy.

Glitter Pox rating: 75% contagious

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The Moxies Interview

The Moxies have only been a band since 2011, but they play like they've been working on music together for years. We sat down with the two members that make up The Moxies, Marco Ciofani and Kevin Werfield, and talked with them about their music.

Right now, they say they're working on new stuff "all the time," trying to get a sound together for their first album.

"To put out an album," Marco says, "especially your first album, you want it to be just, like, a brick. For example, you guys are familiar with Jet? "Get Born" was awesome, you had "Cold Hard Bitch," you had "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" - those two songs alone are just great. People just fell for that album, right? Once you get a good first album then people will be like "well, first album was great, let's get their second stuff" then you can kind of experiment and do different things."

"The first five years of your music career is to make a perfect album. You can't get recognized off of a good sixth album, you know?" says Kevin.

They definitely have this southern, bluesy, ice cream parlor kind of feel to their music, a mix of genres, and you can hear that they've listened to a lot as inspiration.

Marco says they listen to "motown, punk, blues, electric blues, chess records in chicago in the 50s. Classic rock when we were younger was like the greatest thing ever, but once you get older you start finding your niche. Soul, like James Brown, Otis Redding, Ray Charles. As far as country goes, it's just Johnny Cash." He says this while pointing to a huge Johnny Cash poster in their living room.

While on the subject of inspirations, they started talking about their "biggest inspiration," Jack White, who they saw at Third Man Records when they were recently in Nashville, where they played a show at 12th and Porter.

"We just turned our heads and he was three feet away," they said. They'd gone to visit Third Man Records, Jack White's label, not expecting him to actually be there.

Their own studio experience was recorded at The Jungle near Cleveland. "Playing a live show is one thing, and studio is completely different," says Marco.

"Yeah, it's about precision," adds Kevin.

Since they've recorded what they wrote there, though, they've been working on new stuff. "We'll just go down, and don't really even say anything to each other, we just start playing something until it forms," says Kevin about writing music.

"A great way to get inspired or start writing a song is to just jam and mess around until you find something that sounds good," adds Marco. "Once we get to that point we drop it and I just play it through my head, I'll just be nodding during work."

"Yeah," says Kevin, "We've worked on songs for like three months at a time, or we can start from scratch and have a song done by the end of the day."

If you want to hear some of what they've recorded and worked on, they have shows coming up over the next few months. You can find out dates and info on their Facebook.

Born Ruffians - Needle

Needle has a Fleet Foxes or Bastille vibe with the uppity-ness of Walk the Moon and the lyricist genius of Radiohead's Creep. It starts out calm and turns into yells of dance vibes, like the vocalist is happy about being sad. The background vocals repeat in echoes like crowd shouts, so you get the satisfaction of screaming lyrics back at a live band without actually being at a show.

Glitter Pox rating: 88% contagious

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Stealing Sheep - I Am the Rain

I Am the Rain has a really old sound, almost like an incantation or a biblical verse, but with this ancient rust to it. The guitar at one point sounds like old backwater blues but is overlaid with other guitar work. It has a lot of layers of harmony and instrumentation for how short the song is, and it sounds damn pretty.

Glitter Pox rating: 77% contagious

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Magic Man - Paris

The vocals of Paris have this euphoric flow to them, a weirdly calming frenetic vibe, while the music feels short and stuttered like a film in rewind. But the overall feel of the song is movement, from the piano in the beginning to the reverse-intro of the last notes. The song just fades out in this loudly anticlimactic ending, but it ends so unexpectedly different that it makes you want to hit play again.

Glitter Pox rating: 89% contagious

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Wild Belle - Backslider

This song sounds like the whole band was thrown underwater, with distorted instrumentation and drowning background vocals. And after hearing the casual suggestion of graves in the pretty singsong of the lead vocalist, I wouldn't doubt she did. Her raspy voice has this sassy-ass soul to it that speaks of scorn; it sounds like crossing this gal would be a bad idea.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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Sir Sly - Gold

Sir Sly is part of this whole indie r&b thing that's been created for your ears so much in 2013. Gold sounds like The Neighbourhood, with really rhythm-based vocals and repetitive pulses of keyboard effects. It's a laid-back song, but it's sweeping, always flawlessly transitioning and always consistent.

Glitter Pox rating: 69% contagious

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Leagues - Spotlight

The drum and guitar own this song with a combo of high and low beats. The falsetto background vocals and flippant guitar riffs treat the song playfully, but there's something strong behind it to back it up. It's just a solidly written song that sounds damn good.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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The Zolas - Ancient Mars

Canada makes some good music, and The Zolas is now on our checklist of examples when we're trying to prove it (alongside Mother Mother and Wildlife and 500 other bands - Canada takes all the good ones.) Ancient Mars is one long analogy of a song. It's all full of nostalgia for a person on this grand aspect, but it's written in a way that's as catchy as it is smart. The lyrics belong to a lights-out song you play at night when you want to feel sorry for yourself, but there's something really really charming to it.

Glitter Pox rating: 91% contagious

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TRUST - Trinity

Trust opened for Starfucker a few nights ago in Cleveland, and they made a lot of sound. And fog. They basically used a fog machine as an instrument, smoking the front row out in a tangibly musical haze. They have this transient kind of feel, as if the music can travel anywhere and be comfortable with it. And the singer makes a vocal ombre with his songs, from low to high notes like it's nothing. Trinity especially has a really Sleep Party People feel, vocal-wise. They self-described TRUST on facebook as "speed, space, + tears" and that's what you get.

Glitter Pox rating: 67% contagious

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Spender - Never Again

This song starts with mostly percussion and fast vocals of insults, but then it has an intermission of fancy lounge music. It's everything you want to say to someone blatantly sung, but hidden in elegant notes, like it's laughing in brass instruments. It's the classiest revenge song you'll ever hear.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Favorite lyrics: I hope you conquer the world and turn it into your toy.

This song starts off like some ominous space battle is about to go down. It's synthesized theatrics at its finest; I mean, parts of the song basically make you check over your shoulder for Norman Bates. It's kind of badass, though, like a catchy fight anthem. It's just made for a movie. There are so many different emotions, just in the music alone, that make it perfect for a thousand different scenes. The fast, low vocals tell you some really good lyrics, too, almost like a well-sung short story.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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Little Daylight - Overdose

Favorite lyrics: Nights with you like tunnel vision

Overdose is one you fall into like a drug high; the drums are the backbone of the song and the bass and guitar also make themselves known, which sets this one apart from a lot of songs with electronic elements. Usually instruments are lost in a computerized background, but they're the focal point of Overdose. The vocals in the chorus are an earful, too - she goes through the first line without spaces in between words, just an effortless, casual change in consonants. Songs referencing people to drugs aren't uncommon, but this song's lyrics take it further into a kind of human-induced oblivion.

Glitter Pox rating: 79% contagious

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Robert DeLong - Global Concepts

So this song starts with some Ben Gibbard-like vocals before it lays a picnic blanket down of ingredients for a good indie song, with some tribal tin drumming and fake rainstorms and classy Owl-City sounds. And then it decides to prove you wrong on your expectations, drop some acid, and go bassackwards into an electric club request. But it's a genuine well-written song about life and music, which makes it even better. And it just makes you fucking dance.

Glitter Pox rating: 92% contagious

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The Districts - Telephone

The tags on Districts bandcamp go like this: blues, jazz, punk rock, soul. And that kind of makes sense when you listen to their stuff. Telephone starts off with the white-noise candy of electric communication, but in between beats of static, the vocals give the song a bluesy folk silkiness. There's a modern grittiness to it, but even though it has some rough edges, it's still smooth to your ears.

Glitter Pox rating: 65% contagious

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Night Terrors of 1927 - Dust and Bones

The intro to this song gives you a happy facade to play with until the lyrics start. The low vocal echoes drag the song into something darker, but is picked up by falsetto and explosive choruses. It would be hard to find a more alive song that talks so much about death, but Dust and Bones has breath in it.

Glitter Pox rating: 73% contagious

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Absofacto - Paper Crane

The music in this song steals you away like Bowie's Jareth, but it's the kind of poisoned peach you'd want to eat every bit of. It's like space spiders making webs in some paradox of a galaxy, and the vocals bounce around it like flies that don't stick. It's a weird journey of a song, but the digital sounds, the bass, and the vocals mix into something quirky and laid back. The Alice in Wonderland reference in this song is pretty spot on for the dreamlike trance it puts you in.

Glitter Pox rating: 78% contagious

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Kyla La Grange - Vampire Smile

Favorite lyrics: I'm gonna get so drunk on you and kill your friends and you'll need me and we can be obsessed

Vampire Smile begins with drums that eerily resemble a calm heart beat until other folk sounding instruments charge in and change the pace entirely. But apart from the music, which is an entire entity in itself, the lyrics are the true essence of this song. As a listener, you are lead through the paths of an unfortunate love. The music starts in slow stalk, glimmering you with its beauty and pain until its borderline personality threatens its own life if you ever try to leave. Like an overly clingy lover, this song consumes and drains you of every ounce of life you have left, but in the best kind of way.

Glitter Pox rating: 93% contagious

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MØ - Glass

Glass has a lot of digital instrumentation, but a Kimbra element that makes it more indie rock. There's a Japenese intro with some Oberhofer-sounding sharp-noted OOO's that make it seem upbeat, but it's dragged down by soft sexy vocals before moving into a playful chorus. The vocals go through these different accented riffs that puts the song in different moods, so it's inconsistent but brilliant.

Glitter Pox rating: 92% contagious
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The Neighborhood - Sweater Weather

This song should be played with shared earbuds. The music in Sweater Weather is as smooth as the cool-cat vibe of the vocals, laid back with an indie r&b mix. It's a new age telling of the old age love story without being cliche. It's diverse within itself, in that when you hit the woah's the whole song seems sleepy and somber, sexy and pretty: a perfect Valentine's day song.

Glitter Pox rating: 90% contagious

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Wild Party - When I Get Older

Wild Party definitely has a wild feel. When I Get Older has lazy lows and happy highs, with soft, controlled vocals all the way through. The hoooOOOooooOOOOoope vocal riff takes the center stage of genius and the fact that it matches the guitar makes this song even more cool. It's upbeat until a muted-down vocal breakdown, like a short above-water breath before it sinks back into the chorus and goes out running.

Glitter Pox rating: 85% contagious

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Banks - Before I Ever Met You

Banks - Before I Ever Met You by BANKS.

Before I Met You has a sultry action scene feel, like Angelina Jolie in a slow motion car chase - striking and beautiful. Banks sounds a lot like Garbage with the err of an English accent. With a blend of mystery and strong femininity, this song is particularly playable.

Glitter Pox rating: 79% contagious

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Crystal Fighters - At Home

The mandolin that carries this song is unique and gives a new age appeal without sounding like a generic new age song. The vocals are so strong that, at moments, it sounds like a choir singing even when it's just one voice. It's a running-through-forests-smearing-lightning-bugs-on-your-cheeks type of song, in the way it's a softly aggressive adventure. The "yeah's" pitted against the "no's" in the background sound like a happy war, like a water balloon fight, but it's more of a musically pretty mind-war than a physical one.

Glitter Pox rating: 90% contagious

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Trails and Ways - Mtn Tune

Favorite lyrics: I told you to fall for me / just to test the line

This song is bass heavy, so it definitely has its low notes, but it's hidden behind this cacophony of happy-tinged, ClifBar-fueled melody. It gives you a white-chalked image of climbing, with a nurtured liveliness to the beat. It's a park picnics and double rainbows kind of song, except it shows the sweat from the sun, too, so that it's not all fields of flowers, but something melodically personal.

Glitter Pox rating: 87% contagious

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Streets of Laredo - Girlfriend

This song is a straight summer daze. It's full of imagery, of nights spent drinking outside with torn jeans. It's one of those songs that paints a life in your head while you listen to it. With train-whistling whistles on top of tambourine, and echoed vocals for days, it's a song that's in your face with how tangibly vibrant it is.

Glitter Pox rating: 75% contagious

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Sea Oleena - Milk

Favorite lyrics: step one - wake up

This song starts out soft and pretty, with piano notes that are louder than the singer, but the melody gets feistier the longer it goes on. It has peculiar lyrics that are as poetic as they are strange, and the pleasantly appealing soft vocals make it soothing but stirring. It has that Azure Ray quiet beauty to it, but with a dark edge, too, like an arty Purity Ring.

Glitter Pox rating: 83% contagious

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Black Light Dinner Party

photo by MaKayla Brown

Black Light Dinner Party played a show at the Auricle in Canton this past weekend, and they made a vortex of live sound. There were at least three keyboards whose settings sounded like they dropped you off in space, a drummer that genuinely knew how to hit things, and vocals that sounded exactly like their recordings. They have the same vibe as Beat Connection, a mix of synth and mellow voice melody that makes a fast-paced song slow down into substance.

Foxygen - Shuggie

The band that comes to mind when first listening to Foxygen is Fitz and the Tantrums, with that kind of soul mixed with jazz you can hear on modern radio. But this song changes music as often as you blink. It'll be one step away from choir preaching soul before a heavy spider makes its way down a piano into a slowly sinister come-hither of notes. It's both lilting and talkative, so that you don't know whether you're overhearing a nursery rhyme or a bar conversation. It doesn't really transition, but just suddenly decides to become a different song. Somehow, though, the music crescendos and diminuendos its way under one title, Shuggie.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Snowmine - Beast in Air, Beast in Water

The percussion keeps pace this whole song, but the vocals start out drowsy, which makes the chorus like an Inception drop. The vocals completely change in range so that it sounds like two songs meshed together with a Gardens and Villa tribal background.

Glitter Pox rating: 80% contagious

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The Golden Filter - Kill Me

The beginning of this song is almost silent aside from the vocals, which are full of sinisterly sweet singing. When the music starts, it's straight echoes and helicopter blades and head static. It's like someone just got a new keyboard and used every sound option on it to create a quiet chaos, and it mixes with the sincerity of the vocals into something blurry and ghostly.

Glitter Pox rating: 82% contagious

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Silverclub - No Application

This is a song so catchy it's basically commercial bound. But even behind the pop beat and accented vocals, there's substance. There's something about an electric-sounding song telling the sins of technology - especially when you're listening on your laptop - that gives bite to the music.

Glitter Pox rating: 57% contagious

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Everything Everything - Kemosabe

This song sounds as if Everything Everything snuck into your house/car and rigged you up with a really good sound system; it just hits you from everywhere. The vocals are faster than the drumbeats, the bass randomly side-arms you, and voices speak in the background like they're giving commentary. It's a little like Awolnation, with that whole infectious energy thing they both have going on.

Glitter Pox rating: 87% contagious

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New Years Giveaway - signed Husky CD

So there's this band called Husky, who we featured in early 2012, and they sound real pretty. Here's a video of them so you'll believe us.



They made their way to Cleveland all the way from Australia to play at the Beachland Tavern recently, and guess who was there? We, of course, drove our little impala out to see them, and it comes back with a Husky sticker right under its break lights. There's rarely a band we see that makes us want to make it adhesive to our vehicles, but this was one of them. The tavern was a perfect place for them to play, too, since it's really laid back. Their music is like being homesick and then walking in your own door. Especially live. It was like a piano straight from heaven came bearing down on our ears, except the keys were played right in front of us in a bar, smoky vocals making our brains more drunk than any of the tavern's shots.

So we wanted to let one of you guys aurally walk through your front doors, too, and get wasted on them vocals and religious keys. We got a CD signed by the lead singer & keyboardist, and one of you will win it. Just fill out the form below (it may take a quick second to load, so get your patient-faces on) and you're golden.

Due to shipping costs, we can only send within the US, which is lame since Husky is FROM Australia, but if we win the lottery or something within the time this contest closes (January 15th) we promise we will change it. Love you Aussies and other non-USians with all your sexy accents.

If you have any questions/comments, shoot us an email at theglitterpox@gmail.com - we'd love to hear from you. :)