New York’s City of the Sun is a worldly, genre-bending acoustic band based out in Brooklyn. But you wouldn’t know that from listening to their music. It’s instrumental music with a language of its own. A language that speaks of the desert and finds it soul in Latin America. I first came across the band…
Monsieur Mellow is the new solo-project from London-based, Australian songwriter and producer: Callum MacDonald. His debut single, “Paris Strut” glides into the scene like a soft-focus daydream. The track weaves in a sun-kissed vibe into a low-key disco funk groove.…
Fizzy Legs, also known as Jason from Ai Records, is a designer by trade and a music lover at heart. All of these mixes are performed live, with no premixing and no picking tracks just because they’re easy to blend. It’s all about…
Here’s another round-up of our favorite electronic music sent to the blog recently. This is all the music that has been on heavy rotation here at TNLF HQ. Gkat – Over Seas Let’s kick things off with a bit of…
This month we’re getting back to what The New LoFi Mixtape started as: a meandering mix of genres from indie house to jazz to psychedelic rock. There’s a little bit of everything in this mix. Look out for new music…
I’m always impressed by the amount of great music coming out of Switzerland. For a relatively small country, there is a surprising amount of house, jazz, and indie being produced in the shadows of the Alps. But one genre I’ve…
Our favorite Australian producer living in New York, Nick Marks, is back with a new single called “OUI CHEF! — a groove-forward instrumental that blends funk, soul, and swagger. Is “oui chef” a reference to the hit TV show: The…
Sled Island 2023 took over Calgary like a hurricane this past week and we’ve got a round-up or artists you gotta check out.
Alvvays’ sound is every bit as fresh and contemporary as their first release nearly a decade previous. Read our full live review now.
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…