Do you know your State Birds?
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State Birds' debut album blends Midwest emo and folk rock, creating a nostalgic, introspective journey filled with warmth and raw authenticity. Timothy O’Brien gives the full album a review.
Look Up Records releases a 10-song album from folk-rock artist State Birds, produced by Darksoft and featuring a handful of New England based artists.
We present a haunting EP by a new masked artist, Andreas Schwarzwald. His songs on 'Liebe ist Tot' are of love, death, and wounded idealism, all sung in German.
Vocals can make or break a song. Here’s how to record vocals at home. We’ll review the gear you'll need and some techniques to get solid vocal takes.
Portland, Maine, is mostly known for lobsters and lighthouses. But it also has an active local music scene, making it a great stop for your next east coast tour. Here’s a review of all the small-to-medium music venues in the city.
Recording guitar direct-in (DI) is more than just plugging in. Here are some tips to help you get a superb DI input for your home recordings, including what outboard gear to use, playing styles, re-amping techniques, and tonality improvements.
Darksoft presents a new album, Grayscale, ten-song album that follows Darksoft’s Beigeification (2023). The album was released by Spirit Goth records on Friday, December 1st, 2023. Limited edition tapes are available.
Learn how to self-release your album. We'll walk you through everything you need to know to release a music album on your own, from using a digital distributor, licensing your music with royalty collectors, pitching your music to playlist curators, and printing physical copies of your album, like CDs, vinyl, or cassette tapes.
Darksoft will be on tour 5/24 through 5/30, playing shows on the west coast from Seattle down to the Bay Area.
Darksoft's latest album Beigeification (2023) is a masterful blend of ethereal dream pop and textured shoegaze. Timothy O’Brien reviews the new album on the blog.
Darksoft presents a 9-song album Beigeification, a dose of beigey moods and pastel phrases to match the disillusionment of our age.
Darksoft releases a new single Only Time Will Tell and an accompanying VHS music video. The song is off the upcoming album, Beigeification, released January 13, 2023.
Darksoft presents a new single, ‘It Is What It Is,’ and an accompanying VHS music video.
If you're a fan of dreamy, atmospheric music, you need to check out Everybody's Smiling, Nobody's Happy. It's one of the most captivating shoegaze albums to come out of Look Up Records.
Look Up presents the first full-length album by Elephants and Dogs, Everybody’s Smiling Nobody’s Happy. Elephants and Dogs deliver eight catchy melancholic dream pop tunes, with saturated guitars, whistful vocals, and chill synthy arrangements.
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