• Quilty – “Strange Matter”

    Some new tunes from Brooklyn-based Quilty, a band QRO covered last Northside Festival at the Pop Tarts & NYC Taper Showcase. Good stuff, good band; they always seem to be on some pretty tight bills, so check them out live. We’re streaming all three tracks from the latest EP...
  • Diggs Duke – “Welcome”

    A little outside what I usually cover in MMMP3s, but Diggs Duke is such a smooth Mainer that I can’t say no. A nice mix of R&B vox, drum machine beats, samples & saxophone inhabit his latest release Gravity. That’s a title bound to induce pithy wit among album...
  • Dreampeter – “Mason Jar”

    Dreampeter is the brainchild collab of two outfits covered in the pages of QRO before, Matt Gilles of Mellows and Peter Wiley of Subvader. There’s a whole lot of dirty, filthy, unspeakable, abhorrent incest in Michigan….in a good way! It’s a tight community of electro musicians, from Kohwi to...
  • Savoir Adore : Dreamers

    Savoir Adore – “Dreamers”

    Some bands are just impossible not to like, and Brooklyn’s Savoir Adore is one of those bands – but they’re more than that.  They nicely combined the rising twin strains of indietronica & alt-country on debut full-length In the Wooded Forest (QRO review), and have been growing since then. ...
  • Miró Belle – “Tea Bean Bag”

    A lot of action in San Diego lately, including Miró Belle, a one man electro outfit by Jeff Tuyay. He’s just released Kiss This (Vol. 1) and it’s muthah effin tight. Perhaps even….tizzz-night? Think new school AnCo and old school US3, shaken & stirred in the sunny San Diego...
  • Catamaran – “Krokodil”

    Catamaran puts out the kind of clean club beats that could go wrong in a hurry if cheezy techno vocals were added. Fortunately, the techno stylings are kept free & clear of "What is love?" shenanigans, letting the listener focus on the abstract angles, the geometric rhythms, the oblong...
  • Mrs. Magician – “Prescription Vision”

    Grizzly Records has been killing it lately and they’ve got another sweet release on their hands with the latest 7" from Mrs. Magician. The San Diego-based foursome (including members of Drug Wars) has a pitch perfect, mid-20th century radio rock twang. Sources report Mrs. Magician played a recent Halloween...
  • Kerbivore – “From Now On”

    Staten Island is probably underrepresented in terms of music, or music press, compared to the other boroughs. So instead of featuring yet another Brooklyn band, QRO is going to switch it up with a couple of tracks from Shaolin’s Kerbivore. The band is mainly Sean Kuhl, with a studio...
  • Cool Runnings – “Fool Moon”

    If you don’t know Cool Runnings, get on that shit now homie. The Knoxville-based band is one of my favorite listens lately, as I eagerly await the Kickstarter-born vinyl release of the full length Dracula Is Only The Beginning. We’ve got a little post on it here to catch...
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