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The past several weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the utility of music blogs as we throttle into the digital age. And, I just no longer feel the standard blog post, containing an embed and a slew of compelling words, is the best way for us to feature independent music at this point in space and time.

We feel we’ve been caught up in a vicious cycle.

From time to time I stumble upon a beautiful post that seems to bloom like a morning daffodil, and illustrates a particular track perfectly, but then again, these are few and far between, and how many people actually read these, and listen to the embeds within said post, are even fewer.

It’s sad but true. Music blogs have evolved into a sort of plastic legitimacy badge for the artist. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Example: Artist sends blog their track. If the blog digs it, they post track. Artist shares blog post with fans. A few fans skim the article. And that’s about it. Exposure is minimal. But, we think we can change this. However, we must evolve in order to do so.

The better blogs out there (you know who you are) also post a link to their social media, and if they’re really good, add track to a Spotify playlist. But sadly, most blogs are not this cordial, and do the absolute bare minimum. But hey, that’s okay. Most of us do this for free.

Anyway, all I’m really trying to say is that this will be our last standard blog post, ever. That’s right, in the future, we’ll be packaging tracks into a radio show that will be made available just about everywhere. So please, stay tuned my friends. I think you will all enjoy the new way we’re going to be featuring indie music.

Jon Campbell

Jon Campbell is an american singer-songwriter, and visual artist based out of Berlin.

His music fuses indie-folk and alt-country with a powerfully raw expression of his homosexuality and love for roots music.

Facets of “Work Boy” are brilliant. A vivid manifestation of Jon’s evolution as an artist.

“Two years ago I hoisted my bed onto 2-meter “stilts“, built a recording booth underneath it, and was stowed away in that hull every single night. Black Widow was filmed there; it represents the darkest moment in that journey. It’s my Land of the Lotus Eaters and the Sirens wailing from the shore. It’s Francis’ self-destructive little sister. It’s realizing that after all those years of fearing the monster under the bed, that it was you all along.” – Jon Campbell

Ryan Melone

Ryan Melone is an alternative rock musician and producer based out of Nashville.

Inspired by both classic and modern psych music, Ryan takes an organic approach to the recording process. And lets the cosmos do the dancing.

Over the course of his career, Ryan has performed with various alternative outfits in addition to serving as a multi-instrumentalist for a slew of recording artists.

“Diamonds” is a waxing track of psychedelic significance. Just as one drifts off to sleep, another wave breaks upon the shore, and opens up a brand new world.

Mother Mariposa

Mother Mariposa is a new project from the underground experimentalist, Jason Atoms (The Upsidedown) – an unprecedented sound from the niche record label, Little Cloud Records.

Mother Mariposa channels elements of contemporaries like Spiritualized and The Flaming Lips.

Having toured with bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mother Mariposa has made close friendships with heavy-weights in their genre.

FYI, the band will join the Warhols on tour this Winter. So please stay tuned.

Australian-based Dope Lemon (Angus Stone) brings to us a drug-fueled sound of authentic indie and arid desert nights. And to honor the release, Dope Lemon bestows us with a catatonic video for the new single “Give Me Honey”.

The track is an iridescent slow dance glowing with grit and an authentic swagger fit for the Wild West. It’s a nostalgic mirage in the vast, toilsome wasteland of plastic indie and empty pop music.

Now watch as drag queen Callum Lawson hypnotizes the limelight and brings space and time to a standstill.

Dope Lemon’s unique psychedelic folk encapsulates the emotion of the weary wasteland — both desolate and lonely, yet beautiful and majestic.

In fact, the Australian-based artist is already a creative force to be reckoned with.

“Dope & Smoke” is also off Dope Lemon’s new album. The video was directed by Angus Stone, the man behind Dope Lemon, and edited by Kate Howard. Take a listen:

This track “Dope & Smoke” is squeezed and distilled into a sweet nectar fit for the gods and is then infused with an indica dominant hybrid. It’s a sound fit for a blurry moonlit night.

Dope Lemon is not just a melting pot of artistic experimentation, but an iconic psychedelic phenomenon. Give the man behind the curtain, Angus Stone, a follow on Instagram. And prepare yourself for more dope music.

And don’t forget to follow Dope Lemon on streaming platforms, here: https://Dope-Lemon.lnk.to/FollowID

Casey Chandler, an artist from the small hippie town of Woodstock, NY, is the humanoid behind Galapaghost. Chandler produces all his music himself. And when he can afford it, flies to Italy to record with his Italian brother from another mother, Federico.

Chandler now lives in Austin, TX where he continues to write music and play frequent shows around town.

Here is a winsome song from Galapaghost about the world’s collective failure to implement any serious changes due to the crisis of climate change. People all over the world are protesting because they want a better future for the next generation, but they just keep getting stonewalled by the man.

This is the overarching theme of Galapaghost’s latest album ‘A Planet Without An Atmosphere’, and will be sure to send shivers down your spine.

Joe Kaplow, an alternative folk artist from the underground scene of Santa Cruz, brings to us an intimately sad tune from the murky depths of his broken heart.

It is a breakup song called “Cassette”, and will be on Kaplow’s next record scheduled sometime for the summer of 2020.

The video was shot by Noah Rowlett for Tread Softly in San Francisco, CA.

Raw acoustic instrumentation, and wearisome vocal melodies that seem to burn a hole through your heart, sums up the latest from Kaplow, perfectly.

Simon Linsteadt dishes up another experimental alt-folk beauty entitled “No Hangovers in Heaven” from his second solo album ‘Fixing My Head’.

The music video stars Emma Rubinowitz and Linsteadt, and was choreographed by Rubinowitz.

Beauty and grace seems to encompass both the sonic and visual tone of this riveting work of art. And glows of a nostalgic resonance that seems to infect the mind in all its sublime glory.

And now sit back and soak in the eclectic charm of Linsteadt. You’ll not regret it.

Stevie Zita kicks off the autumn season with a brand new shiny track dubbed “The Bat Signal”. The track is an iridescent yearning for more. For the truth. It’s a cold, psychedelic track about allegiance, and the growing pains of the last man — in low-fidelity mind you.

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.” ― Hemingway

And now here is the magical monkey man, the fantastic myth of sonic illusion, the lo-fi bedroom legend himself, Stevie Zita.

Harry Nathan

Harry Nathan is a revolutionary Australian producer, singer and songwriter who has continued to evolve, just as much as he has inspired those around him.

His sound resides somewhere between lo-fi disco and indie dream pop — a nostalgic place that sits along the fringe of reality and the dreamworld.

Nathan is inspired by a desire to explore the ornate intricacies of modern love, and the human connection that seems to be fading as we delve deeper onto the digital age.

Odeya Rush and Nathan team up (yet again) on their 3rd music video, “Alright” — a DIY, low budget love story between a sandwich and a croissant. The music video (which they made in Harry’s kitchen) is colorful and entertaining, yet provides the perfect backdrop for Nathan’s “Alright EP”.

“It started off with a simple idea to have Harry make a delicious sandwich. I pitched it as ‘something super easy to make.’ Though, as we got closer to shooting, the idea grew and I knew we couldn’t make something that didn’t excite or challenge us.” – Odeya

The visual and sonic aesthetic is unconventionally eclectic, a bit crowded, yet somehow seems to alleviate the listener with it’s creative charm and warm lo-fi vibrations.

Yaehsun x Jose

Canadian artists Jason Haberman (Yaehsun) and Jose Contreras (By Divine Right) dish up a hazy, bedroom psych-rock gem from the eclectic underbelly of the Canadian scene of independent music.

Jason Haberman (aka) Yaehsun is a Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist. He has been a part of many different collaborations over the years and is now starting to release his own music.

The new track “La De Ba” is the second collaboration between Yaehsun and Jose Contreras, and is an ode to summer, the warm sun, coffee, and waiting for it to return, again and again.

She’s an absolute beauty my friends. Listen with care.

Maye

“Tú” was written by Maye Osorio (born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Miami) alongside Fernando Osorio, Fernando Belisario, and Patrick Howard.

“Tú” is the second single from the emerging independent artist, maye, and is the first track she’s released that’s exclusively in the tongue of love — Spanish.

Music has no borders, it’s the universal language, and just might unite us all, despite the chaotic culture of exclusivity and mass produced drivel that seems to infect us all.

Producers Pat Howard and Fernando Belisario, both of Miami’s Magic City Hippies, have been integral forces in the creative development of maye, and look to collaborate more as she prepares to release her debut album.

Now sit back, light one up, and receive the radical vibrations of maye with utmost grace and humility. This one’s a dandy.

As the long hot summer days fade into a smoky gray landscape, the radical tunes just keep on coming. And one of our latest late night favorites comes from Lion’s Den, an eclectic lo-fi project out of the Netherlands.

Their poignant soundscape of vivid vocals and shimmering synthesizers cuts right through the inner mind’s eye, and seems to remind the listener of brighter days, and warmer nights.

Lion’s Den’s latest track “Long Goodbye” is a fuzzy journey through the empty caverns of space and time, and is the second single leading towards their highly anticipated cassette release in December. Listen and dig my friends. This one’s a dandy.