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Check This: The Tallest Man On Earth – The Running Styles of New York

The Tallest Man On Earth has honed his cathedral-folk sound to a sharp edged weapon that can cut deep with lyrics and melodies. Such is the single from new record I Love You. It’s a Fever Dream. “The Running Styles of New York” is an expansive warm song whose vocals and piano melody blend beautifully.

The song develops the idea of redemption and the journey for it across time. There are lofty…

Check This: Bonfire Lakes - Don't Let the Light in Your Eyes Grow Dim A band we've seen before with a song we didn't mention.

As I press on through the sand storm of end of semester grading, feeling raw and numb giving all of my feedback and original thought to my students, I’ve got to phone this one in by recommending a song that fills me up a bit from a band we’ve featured a couple times before.

Bonfire Lakeswrite really pretty songs. They have one that speaks to me right now as the finish line is visible with but a…

Check This: @JTRevival - Who Hung the Moon @republicrecords New Americana ready to sweep you up in the mythos of the west

Stepping away from the digital down pour of advertising and social media in an era of constant communication, it is a pleasure to escape to the vast swaths of open space that most of the US is made up of. To let go of the city and its vice like grip on our time and energy is imperative to happiness and fulfillment. Those frequent sojourns need a soundtrack (digital, of course, but hear me out)…

Check This: Distant Mountains - On The Run Channeling an avant-garde indie style, Distant Mountains make a cool song.

Whimsical, classy music, like the light passing through the wisps of fog floating between here and the Distant Mountains, the band found their name. At least that should be the story they use.  It’s applicable at times but just a quickly they go more downtown- playful and electronic.  Percussion that can change tempos on the dot carries an experimental interplay between synths and folk…

Check This: @roopanes - Quiet Man @crcmusicgroup Roo Panes is releasing a deluxe version of his really good record "The Quiet Man". Our impression of a couple tracks. Read if you like models or music.

British Burberry model but more importantly if less interestingly singer-songwriter, Roo Panes taps the deep vein of atmospheric lush indie rock that Bon Iver, Novo Amor, and Sigur Ros have traveled before. His songs exude an earnest melancholia in formal homage to the dreary nights of self-reflection that the British climate (and international model stardom??) makes available.

From a deep…