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Eric Born & Varvara

The enchanting music of Eric Born & Varvara takes listeners on a tranquil journey with its captivating vocals and meditative melodies. It enhances the listener’s day by creating moments of serenity, offering a soothing escape from the clamor of a busy city, and breaking the dullness of routine through imaginative odyssey.

Recommended songs: Set Your Heart on Fire, Japan Post II, Midnight II, Under Water II, Love Song

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Katie O'Malley

Katie O'Malley’s distinctive voice draws the listener into an enchanted forest of bluesy folklore where her band performs in a lodge surrounded by mist. Hopeful lyrics makes one look out the window to see slivers of sunlight.

Recommended songs: Taste the Dirt, Devil’s Got a Hold, Feeling It, Traveller, Got A Love, Never Be the Same

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Lamb of God

Lamb of God’s music attaches heavy machinery to your body to aid you to become a monster mentally and physically in the gym while you aim rocket launchers in your mind’s eye towards every tyrant. After an hour on the treadmill’s highest incline, you control the beast within to avoid throwing dumbbells at the mirror and choking every walking dead in line of sight.

Recommended songs: Memento Mori, Gears, Reality Bath, New Colossal Hate, Bloodshot Eyes

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Bob Cider

Bob Cider’s music is like partying with a rubber shark with a lit cigarette in its mouth. Fun and amusing nibbles for the genuine, lasting burn marks for the fake and pretentious. Dig deeper into its belly and find metaphorical tentacles and other deep sea creatures.

Recommended songs: Put It in Your Mouth, Poke Bowls, New Sarah, Yoga Balls, I’m a Mexican

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Trevor Hall

Trevor Hall slows down the pace of raindrops falling intensely from a grey monsoon sky and lights up the heart, mind and soul with rainbow colors of soothing emotions. Layers of sweet-toned instruments create a warm atmosphere while his husky tenor voice makes you breath deep and easy.

Recommended songs: without expectation, i remember you, great storm clouds, monsoon cloud, never gonna break your heart

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Tim Lim

Tim Lim’s music feels light and airy while carrying a message of faith and hope. A day of rest and reflection on the seventh day of the week when the heavy-hearted walks towards the steeple for spiritual rejuvenation.

Recommended songs: This Road, My Life, Creating Miracles, Lost In Love

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Mermaid From The Stars

Mermaid From The Stars brings you to a concert in the old crater of a meteor surrounded by snowy pine trees. Surreal quarter tone vocals and piano melodies weaved from stardust thaw the permafrost as drums and bass hypnotize the earthlings.

Recommended songs: The Dream, The Star, Under the Sea, By the Pool, Keys of the Seas

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Tribes of Asaph

Tribes of Asaph is medicine prescribed by a renegade doctor to be consumed aurally. An array of remedies from chill pills, soothing syrups, potent awakening herbs and spiritually enlightening lozenges to be taken daily for higher consciousness.

Recommended songs: Sweet Poison, Warm, You Should Have Been By My Side, Citadels, Salt And Ashes, From Above

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James Hawken

James Hawken’s music combined with noise-cancelling headphones makes crossing a busy street a ballet on water. Ivory keys remove chaos replacing it with a fountain of tranquility. You start feeling recharged as the piano sounds morph into synths that question the imbalance of the human psyche in modern times.

Recommended songs: Dream Away; 4 Musical Notes; Pause for Thought; Hold on!

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Monsters Who Sleep

Monsters Who Sleep takes you to a dimly lit room and makes you befriend shadows on the walls pasted with pictures of people you once knew and places you’ve been to. The light from the crescent Moon outside seems to remind you that time heals all wounds and everything will be alright.

Recommended songs: If Someone Was Ever There, Not Anymore; You Know Who You Are; Gravity; I Don’t Care; Ravens; Jane Doe

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Useless ID

Useless ID reminds you of punk rock concerts and youthful days. The anticipation building up while waiting in line to enter the venue with a bottle of hooch hidden in your pocket for skanking energy. Mohawks and faded Ramones T-Shirts aplenty.

Recommended songs: Pink Stars and Magazines, Kiss Me. Kill Me, Drinkage, Redemption, Dying Love, Same Old Revolution

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Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers makes you remember the time when you partied with friends on that island that receives ocean energy from southern hemisphere storms. A loud night of beer buckets and jumping into the swimming pool repetitively. Bar hopping and roaming the streets with reckless abandon until dawn.

Recommended songs: How To Fly, Australia Street, Bootleg Rascal, Kiss the Breeze, Sleep Alone, Cool & Calm

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Makua Rothman

Makua Rothman’s music transforms closed hearts into open hearts and small waves into big waves. Honest vibes that make you weep tears of joy and smile at the same time underwater after the ride of your life.

Recommended songs: Fight the Sun, Lean On Me, Lost In Translation, Under the Covers, Beautiful Life

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Rogue Valley

Rogue Valley’s music resonates like the great outdoors if the hills sang and the valleys echoed back in harmony. Melodies that inspire going on an adventure of a lifetime with good friends under the open sky.

Recommended songs: False Floors, Bay of Pigs, Orion, The Wolves and the Ravens

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Adam Stone

Adam Stone tells haunting catchy stories that make the listener ask questions talking heads on the television wouldn’t. Listen closely for thought-provoking messages lifted by bouncy beats and sweet instrumentation.

Recommended songs: Stay for Me, Everyday, Puzzle Piece, Bright, More Than Friends

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Redi Hasa

Redi Hasa’s music vacuums the clutter in one’s mind and redecorates it with a cello that emits an awakening breeze. Melodies and textures that connect the mind to heart making one feel light and transcendent.

Recommended songs: Dajti Mountain, Wave, Seasons Going By, Shadows Drown on the Streets, Butterfly

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Francis and the Lights

Francis and the Lights sets up synthesizers and drum machines next to the piano in a dreamy cathedral. Soulful vocals filter through the stained glass windows out onto the streets lighting up the day of everyone passing by.

Recommended songs: Just for Us, Like a Dream, Morning, May I Have This Dance

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