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Breaking Waves: A Release Day Triple Threat // new brothel., vowl., & Klimeks

12Feb

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Music

Breaking Waves: A Release Day Triple Threat // new brothel., vowl., & Klimeks

Sometimes, I wake up on Fridays and honestly find myself a bit disappointed by my "Release Radar" on Spotify. However, this week was not one of those weeks, considering the fact that I found new music from brothel., vowl., and Klimeks all waiting for me. Lucky day! Are you ready the hear the latest from some of the greatest in wave? Let's dive in. brothel. reminds us of the good ol' days by releasing "Timmy Turner". Speaking on the track on Instagram, brothel. said, "Today, I dropped a classic brothel song that pushed the scene in a new direction. It’s wild seeing this one pop off recently. Today’s feeling like 2016 again and I’m happy." Check out the wavy classic on Spotify, below. https://open.spotify.com/album/3Qx5cUhz8k0M8GHEoyvyvy?si=E8mIKrvOTOK2t9yX...

Electric Realms is Bringing Wave to Dallas this February

6Apr

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Features, Interviews

Electric Realms is Bringing Wave to Dallas this February

Electric Realms announced their first show of 2023; turns out, you're going to want to head to Dallas this February if you want to catch the next great wave show... now featuring an insane B2B set that you won't want to miss. We caught up with Mercy, one of the co-owners of Electric Realms, and have all the details. If you want to get to know Electric Realms, or get the 411 on this Dallas show... Read on! Electric Realms Presents... As an organization, Electric Realms is "a multitude of things: a collective, label, artists agency, a platform for artists to showcase their talent and have a place to house their artwork," according to Mercy. She continued on to explain, "But overall, [Electric Realms] is a safe haven and community for music lovers [and artists] alike."...

Breaking Waves: Five Suns Drops New Skyward EP

1Feb

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Features, Music

Breaking Waves: Five Suns Drops New Skyward EP

Last week, Five Suns hit us with a new, out-of-this-world EP, Skyward. This project was released via The Wave Stage on January 27th and contains a collaboration with ITSHE. The whole thing clocks in under fifteen minutes, so you have no excuses. Go listen. Find Skyward on Spotify, below. Stream Skyward by Five Suns now: https://open.spotify.com/album/7HAbRBdj77mQpNWc8qTxsh?si=v4Tsi-TuRUWdIib4mMG5aQ Five Suns takes listeners on a mission through the upper atmosphere through his new EP, Skyward. We're talking about exploring the part of the sky where there's no air, but it's almost as if you could reach out, and the stars would be in your hands. With this EP, Five Suns provides the perfect score for a transformative sci-fi adventure story. The first track, "S...

Breaking Waves: Where’s Skeler?! [Spoiler: It’s Red Rocks!]

30Jan

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Features, Music

Breaking Waves: Where’s Skeler?! [Spoiler: It’s Red Rocks!]

Take a seat, Djedi– we’re all a “proud wavedad” today. https://twitter.com/brett_djedi/status/1619747980604751872 After all, this announcement from one of the scene's favorite artist-slash-managers is kind of a huge moment for all of us in the wave music community… because earlier today, it was revealed that Skeler will be making his Red Rocks debut! Read on to find all the details about this wavy edition of 'Rezz Rocks'. Skeler makes his Red Rocks debut: Full support for “Rezz Rocks V” has been unveiled… According to 9News in December of last year, originally, “Rezz Rocks V" was going to encompass just one day, September 1st. It featured a handful of the current support artists– Ivy Lab, Esseks, ROSSY, and isqa. This first date sold out...

Disco Donnie Presents & Third String Entertainment Announce New Partnership, Disco Punk, & More.

1Feb

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Features, Music

Disco Donnie Presents & Third String Entertainment Announce New Partnership, Disco Punk, & More.

Attention, fellow emo-to-EDM-pipeline kids: we have some news for you. Yesterday, Third String Entertainment and Disco Donnie Presents announced a new partnership company, Disco Punk. This partnership company will be in charge of curating Texas-based events Unsilent Night and So What?! Music Festival from here on out. Along with the announcement of the Disco Punk collaboration came the release of 2023's So What!? dates. Read on to find out more. Disco Donnie Presents & Third String Entertainment's So What?! Fest: So What?! Music Festival: So What?! music festival is going to take place on June 24-25 at Fair Park in Dallas. The festival was originally founded in 2008 by Mike Ziemer and Orlando Mendoza of Third String Entertainment, with the goal to blen...

Breaking Waves: Another Great Week for the Electronic Underground

24Jan

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Features, Music

Breaking Waves: Another Great Week for the Electronic Underground

2023 has been off to an incredible start, and it's all thanks to the electronic underground. On New Year's, we saw UFO.Wave drop their first mixtape; last weekend, we saw Cyberwave Collective's annual winter festival go live on Twitch. And now, we got some powerful new singles coming from the likes of MAYKO and Nick Neutronz. If only time could slow down a little so we can take it all in! Because trust me when I say that this is a pair of singles that you will want to take some time with. Let's dive in. A Week in Underground Hits: MAYKO & Nick Neutronz Getting new music this week from two of the artists who were part of what made 2022 so special was an incredible treat. MAYKO released his uplifting new single, "YOU GOT IT" on Wednesday, January 18th. The nex...

Time to Get Spooky with The Frst: stream “Scary Movie (ft. Ryan Prewett)”, out now!

13Jan

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Features, Interviews, Music

Time to Get Spooky with The Frst: stream “Scary Movie (ft. Ryan Prewett)”, out now!

There might be 291 days until Halloween, but we can never celebrate too early! This is something The Frst seems to agree with, given the content of their first single of 2023, "Scary Movie". It's perfectly timed, too, given the fact that the song dropped today--on Friday the Thirteenth. Oooh, how spooky. Stream the quirky genre-defiant indie rock bop on Spotify, below, and read on to find out a little more about the true story that inspired the horror-adjacent track. "Scary Movie" by The Frst on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/43ervLPvf2bymfHC3q2SZA?si=e76587efa27b42a3 "Scary Movie" by The Frst isn't so scary... The band describes this new single, which is a collaboration with keyboardist Ryan Prewett, as "an ode to scary teen movies, but wit...