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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The Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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 Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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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The Glitter Pox

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. :)