Big buzz around Toronto’s Young Empires. The band will release their album “The Gates” via Pirates Blend. The band has released album tracks, So Cruel, title track The Gates, which is currently charting Top 10 at Modern Rock radio, and Sunshine, which has garnered one million streams on Spotify. The band’s singles have received lots of blog love. The video for The Gates can be viewed here.
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The title track The Gates has a big hook, a big sound. One cannot take Young Empires lightly.

Jack Ventimiglia is a 25-year-old songwriter hailing from Minneapolis, MN. His latest single, “Plastic Ocean” has already garnered 15,000 SoundCloud streams. It’s infectious authentic and has a simple memorable melody. Ventimiglia wrote, produced, mixed and engineered the track himself, a telltale sign of a true craftsman.
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I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it…Microsoft Bill Gates

CLAVVS has released their second single “Throat” from the forthcoming ‘halfblood’ EP. The band will continue to release new songs until the release, slated for Spring of 2016. The alt-pop duo from Atlanta says ‘Throats’ is a song about itself, but its also about freedom, like all of the songs on halfblood. There’s real beauty in breaking free from yourself and from the expectations of the world around you.” Big things are on the horizon for CLAVVS.
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Loren, a 15 year-old indie pop singer/songwriter from Walloon Lake, Michigan has premiered her new song ‘Love Birds‘ that comes off her debut EP “The Dare” which is available on October 23rd. Loren is a young female who is finding her voice quickly in the populated indie scene & ‘Love Birds‘ proves she can perform alongside with the indie greats. Loren notes “Love birds” captures the feeling of nostalgia when you think back to times with someone you loved, both the good and the bad. The feeling you get when you want to relive those moments together even if it hurt. Even though things went wrong you still feel connected to that person because of all you went through together.”
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