FOXTRAX - Underwater

I can’t tell the time
When I’m working on my grind sometimes
And my worries are waving with the wind
And I don’t mind if I feel blue
If I’m staring at the moon
And the stars are staring at me with a grin

I first heard this song last week when it was featured on Alt Nation's Advanced Placement program, and made a note to re-listen. Then I saw that Underwater was also featured on iTunes in the #1 spot for New Artists. Come to find out this is the debut single from the first EP by a basically brand new (formed in 2015) band. Somehow these just-graduated-from-college-and-moved-to-L.A. dudes are already attracting huge buzz: FOXTRAX even got written up in a UK blog saying, "They are guilty of producing an extremely fun live performance... tighter than a hipster's jeans." So. Guess I'll be looking for them to pop up in Austin sometime soon.

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The Naked and Famous - Higher

But we can seperate
To form these hearts in stone
Rewrite this pain we own
Caught here in the wake
Nothing but genuine
Built on a skeleton
Of fractured parts
That only raise our voices
Higher, higher

The first new music from T/N/A/F in years! Co-bandleaders Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith ended their 8-yr relationship during the interim, making this (forthcoming) album and tour a bit of a Fleetwood Mac situation, or perhaps No Doubt is a closer comparison. Either way, this track sounds more like their first album than their last and that's a good thing to my ears.
I last saw T/N/A/F on tour with Imagine Dragons 3 years ago. They were able to fill the stadium with their passionate synth sound then, so I'm excited to see how their outdoor set goes at ACL this fall, and how many new songs we'll get to hear in advance of the full album release.

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Bastille - Laura Palmer (RAC remix)

Summer evening breezes blue
Drawing voices deep from you
Lead by a beating heart
What's the air and what's the night
What terrifying final sights
Put out your beating heart

Happy Bastille Day, France and happy birthday to Dan Smith, lead singer/songwriter for Bastille!! The band has a new single out you may have heard by now, Good Grief, but I chose this track for TMIS because the lyrics really drew me in, 3+ years ago when almost no one in the U.S. had heard of Bastille, and then I found out it was about Twin Peaks, and then they came out with this chilled out remix by a fairly small time producer/musician, RAC, whom I was already a fan of. So, hope this suits your mid-week, mid-summer, non-U.S.-holiday mood this evening as well as it does mine.

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