Synthpop R&B Dance Soul Chill Downtempo – A New Music Playlist by Indie30
An Indie30 curated new music playlist on Spotify containing 30 brand new independently released regularly updated tracks in synthpop, R&B, “indie” dance, soul, chill downtempo, electro, funk, lounge, rap, jazz etc). 2021 companion here.
Tracks of 2020 Series: Electronic – Pop R&B Soul Dance Downtempo Chill
Home to the more sensitive, softer and more accessible side of groove laced electronic music, this Tracks of 2020 Series playlist using the Spotify streaming platform covers every independently released track featured in the 30 track New Electronic Pop R&B Soul Dance Downtempo and Chill Playlist during 2020. A total of 870 A Grade tracks […]
FRED P RETURNS AS BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM
Photo: Marie Stagatt “Can you listen to this piece of music over and over and not get tired of it? Can you come back to it five or even ten years from now, and will it still be fresh? Will it still excite you? Will it still inspire you? I know the music I love […]
RINA MUSHONGA’S AFFIRMING NEW SINGLE OF RESISTANCE
Despite the protestations of those, usually on the Right, who never got the memo some forty years ago, or simply don’t understand what either concept means, being an independent artist is in itself a political act. And whether expressed in abstract ways or directly, the powerful role that independent music and other forms of art […]
COEO REWORK JAPANESE CITY POP FOR TONIC EDITS SERIES
Munich based House duo Florian Vietz & Andreas Höpfl aka Coeo have just released the latest edition of Toy Tonic’s Tonic Edits series. For volume six they chose to explore their passion for city pop, Japan’s unique and urban interpretation of American disco during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rekindling their love of the […]
NEW & NOTABLE: CHRISTELLE BOFALE (USA) – SWIM TEAM EP
Austin artist Christelle Bofale today released her superb five track EP called Swim Team. A work of perfect understatement, across its ultra consistent five tracks and 25 minutes, Bofale is able to conjure a mood that is both an airy and weighty. Also a work of great consistency, her expansive guitar style is immediate and […]
NEW & NOTABLE: ARLO PARKS (USA) – SUPER SAD GENERATION EP
London artist Arlo Parks today released her debut EP Super Sad Generation, a musically rich, diverse and socially aware sonic document of self discovery that is suggestive the music world has an emerging talent of lasting significance on its hands. Three of its four tracks surfaced over the past few months and each were indicative […]
NEW & NOTABLE: KOKOROKO (ENG) – KOKOROKO EP
London eight piece Afrobeat, soul and jazz inspired outfit KOKOROKO led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, released their debut self titled EP a couple of weeks back through globally inclusive label Brownswood Recordings, Influenced by but by no means limited to the music of West Africa and the politics of resistance, it sports the whirlwind, catch […]
ALBUM OF THE WEEK #1: HELADO NEGRO (USA) – THIS IS HOW YOU SMILE
April 20, 2019 This Is How You Smile Helado Negro (USA) RNVG International Our Mini-review, tracklist, album stream and links to buy at our Album of the Week Page here. ALBUM VIDEOS Please Won’t Please Helado Negro (USA) From the album, ‘This Is How You Smile’, RVNG International. Audio Stream This Is How […]
BARRIE ANNOUNCE THEY ARE HAPPY TO BE HERE
Brooklyn pop quintet Barrie are set to release their debut album this coming May titled Happy To Be Here. With a string of sensational, über cool singles released last year behind them including the amazing ‘Canyons’ which parked itself in the Number 43 spot in our Top tracks of 2018, we’re happy to report that […]