Earbuddy premieres Extravision’s “The Dark Where I Could Only Hear” music video

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Earbuddy premieres the new music video from Extravision!

With Extravision, Stier creates sprawling, psychedelic songs that utilize 12-string guitar, synthesized drone loops, drum machines, and warm electric guitar. Extravision recently released its debut album, Waking Up, where Stier explores themes of death, overcoming fears, and beautiful simplicities. Today, Earbuddy premieres the music video for the album’s longest song, “The Dark Where I Could Only Hear”. It’s a journey that lasts over seven minutes, but it’s definitely one worth taking.

Treble premieres Extravision’s “Heart is a Nest of Snakes” music video

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Treble premieres the new music video from Extravision, calling it “…a heady, disorienting haze of classic rock sounds and space-rock layers, somewhere between Spiritualized and The War on Drugs (and a touch of Phosphorescent), with some disembodied child voices and electronic drones.”

PopMatters premieres “Fear of Missing Out” by Extravision

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PopMatters premieres Extravision’s newest single “The Fear of Missing Out”!

I began to focus on big-picture realizations I was having…such as…recognizing and overcoming conditioned fears I had built up for my first 28 years. This song came from wanting to think about death in a pleasant way, what I imagine might happen when we die and realizing that everyone in my life, friend and enemy, is important in my growth as a human.

Extravision premieres first single from debut full length ‘Waking Up’

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Extravision is preparing to release their debut album Waking Up on February 16th!

Vents Magazine premiered the first single, “Moments of Clarity,” praising its “sweet classic textures…[and] haunting vocals.”

Like much of the album, ‘Moments of Clarity’ is about death. Biologically, it’s important to fear death and to dial in survival. Spiritually, I began to realize that death is a healthy thing to think about and that it will be okay to have been forgotten, “to become dirt and give back while there is time.” This song is an ode to letting my mind wonder what the hell is going on here, and to remind myself that everything will be okay, whatever it is. — Extravision

Glide Magazine premieres Cryptids After Dark’s debut album

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Glide Magazine premieres the new debut album from Cryptids After Dark!

“With ‘Some Distant Light’ Cryptids After Dark mix elements of synth pop, new wave and ‘shoegaze’ with 60s influenced jangle pop.”

Some Distant Light is out this Friday on Hibernator Gigs, but you can stream the whole album now!

Brightest Young Things premieres Cryptids After Dark’s music video “Nearly Perished Before”

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Brightest Young Things premieres the new single and music video for “Nearly Perished Before,” the lead single off Some Distant Light, the forthcoming debut album from Columbus, OH’s Cryptids After Dark, set for release from Charlottesville label Hibernator Gigs on December 8th!

“We like anything that reminds us of a Wes Anderson movie…[‘Nearly Perished Before’] features found objects, green screen adventures and old photos for the ultimate mind-blowingly DIY experience. It’s a fun one.”

Impose interviews Midnight Opera and premieres “Chromatose” music video

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Impose interviews Midnight Opera and premieres their new music video “Chromatose”:

…an ever-changing style & sound design that mixes the mysterious with vibrant & ambitious experimentations of audio & all out presentation… haunted art houses extend the energy & artifices held over from All Hallows’ Eve decorum where Midnight Opera gathers like enlightened specters to celebrate the emergences of a full new moon to light up their night.

Vents Magazine premieres Moon Palace s/t album stream

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Moon Palace premiere their s/t debut album today! Stream the full release over at Vents Magazine and pick it up tomorrow from Plume Records! Release show in Seattle at Chop Suey on October 24th.

“Filled with sulky and haunting vocals, every song feels as its own. A perfect record for those who enjoy Warpaint or Bat For Lashes.”

Treble Magazine premieres Gloom Balloon’s “The Shit You Put Me Through” music video

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Gloom Balloon premieres the music video for “The Shit You Put Me Through” today! Check it out over at Treble and pick up the new album, out now on Maximum Ames Records:

“…a string-laden pop tune that nods to ’70s era pop, with lots of orchestral grandeur”

Impose premieres The Sour Notes’ single “Stay Close – Free For the Taking”

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Impose gives the first glimpse of The Sour Notes‘ new single “Stay Close – Free For the Taking”:

“…The Sour Notes brightest pop melodies where a multitude of up-bubbling feelings rise up like a team of butterflies that spring out from the center of the human spirit in song.”

Stream the song and check out the interview with The Sour Notes’ Jared Boulanger on the song’s origins, the current Austin music scene, and forthcoming album Darkest Sour, coming November 24th.

Vents Magazine premieres Starover Blue’s new EP ‘Moneystealer’

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Vents Magazine is premiering Starover Blue‘s Moneystealer in full — stream the EP and catch them on tour now!

8/25 San Francisco: Neck of the Woods
8/26 Fresno: Tioga Sequoia Brewing Co.
8/27 San Diego: Soda Bar
8/29 LA: Silverlake Lounge
8/30 Santa Barbara: Mercury Lounge
8/31 Las Vegas: Artiface
9/01 Sacramento: Fox & Goose
9/02 Davis: Sudwerk Dock store
9/03 Portland: Bunk Bar

All Things Go premieres The Slowdown’s new single “Look Older”

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All Things Go premieres The Slowdown‘s new single “Look Older”:

Gorgeous, though drenched despair, ‘Look Older’ plunges into the solipsistic trench at the heart of the human condition. Guitars and synth dance in annular swirls as a voice skates across the frozen backdrop and breathily delivers the bad news: we’re all painfully and irrevocably lonely. Coolly delivered heartache has never sounded so sweet.

Music Defined premieres Gloom Balloon’s music video “Alone In My Head”

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Music Defined premieres Gloom Balloon‘s music video “Alone In My Head”:

A while back he was selling shirts that say ‘Pat Sounds,’ a play on The Beach Boys of course, but I think that DTEOTGOG,UTSATM is the closest to Brian Wilson any human deserves to get. The production is totally compelling, drawing your ear to sounds that have little to do with the melody, but help make up the whole. It’s an atmospheric record that can also be enjoyed purely on the surface-a rare treat for music lovers.

All Things Go premieres Gloom Balloon’s new music video “Saddest Story Ever”

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All Things Go premieres Gloom Balloon‘s new single and music video for “Saddest Story Ever”!

“Saddest Story Ever” depicts the momentary lapses in reason that often accompany drinking alone. Vocal patterns appear and disappear, pirouetting in the haze while Mellotron doom and the inevitability of the spoken word drag the listener into a downward spiral.

The track is off their forthcoming sophomore album Drying the Tears of the Goddess of Gloom, Underneath the Stars and the Moon out September 1st on Maximum Ames Records.