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Titanics – “Close Enough”

June 9, 2016

Albany electro-pop duo Titanics just released the beguiling single “Close Enough” a few weeks before their performance at Herd Fest, and it’s safe to say that we should start getting stoked for this show sooner rather than later. Consisting of Mark Lombardo and Derek Rogers, Titanics deal in a sub genre (dubbed by them) “tranquil pop,” and the description is accurate as “Close Enough” is a gorgeous slice of Washed Out by way of M83 electronica, all hazy vocals, sexy attitude, dreamy synths, and tastefully deployed guitars and sax that gets all in your ear to shives your timbres. Titanics will be part of Herd Fest 2016, playing at Dreamland Saturday,  June 18th with Brat’ya, Humble Braggers, and M.A.G.S..

17 Bands To See At Albany’s Move Music Festival

April 20, 2015

One of the goals we have as a blog is to expand our regional/state-wide influence/knowledge base. Once we received an e-mail from Move Music Festival, a three day festival taking place in the heart of Albany, NY, we knew we had to check out. Over 100 bands were announced as part of the festival, and trust me when we say we did our homework. Over the past week we listened to probably about 96 acts that we’ve never heard of before. Bands like Sheen and CONTACT were impossible to google so I have no idea what they sound like. Other bands totally disappeared from the lineup (C’mon Dead Leaf Echo, I was looking forward to catching your first show since I was super poor living in NYC and eating the complimentary apps as dinner at someone’s art show in Williamsburg). The following are 17 acts we are personally excited to check out[...]