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This blog is dedicated to my fellow indie, underground, and local music lovers. If you like this blog, check out my official indie music blog/personal blog, youngdisposition.blogspot.com, for a more updated, professional version of this site. Young Disposition features indie music news, reviews of up-and-coming artists, and much more.

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Control You - Movement

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Like Lust - Movement

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This band is all I have been looking for and more. I don't know what you Australians eat, drink, or do to continuously create such fantastic music, but whatever you're doing keep it up. I could listen to this guy's voice all day.

If you're a fan of James Blake, The Weekend, or Ta-Ku, check Movement out. They're on the rise.

Control You - Movement

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Life Round Here (Remix) featuring Chance the Rapper - James Blake And I thought this song couldn't get any better.

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Artist Spotlight: High Tyde

Hailing from the UK town of Brighton, the indie foursome formally known as High Tyde have received lots of attention as of late. Whether they're selling out headline shows at Brighton venues The Haunt and Corncorde 2, being labeled as a "Band to Watch in 2013" by the BBC, headlining the Arundel Festival, or simply creating lovable, upbeat alt-rock tunes, it would be safe to say that these young rockers have a bright future ahead of them.

For the rest of this Artist Spotlight, check out my blog here.

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Sex - The 1975

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How to find new indie music

Hey there, music lovers! I'm back again with some more tips to help you discover some new artists that are usually hidden right under your nose but are often overlooked. If you didn't see Version 1.0 of this post last year, check it out here. This list focuses on the ways to discover new music via the web.

To read more on this blog post, click here or the link above!

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No Grey - The Neighbouhood

Artist Spotlight: The Neighbourhood

Remember last summer when I was obsessed with The Neighbourhood and their single Sweater Weather? (Only people who follow my Tumblr would actually know this, but whatever) After their first two singles dropped, I spent tireless hours scouring the web for information to use in an Artist Spotlight about the once clandestine band but only found few leads and the logo of an upside-down house. Soon thereafter, emerged the California-based band The Neighbourhood who took the world by storm with infectious hooks, Hip-Hop beats, and mellow Indie vibes with their number one alt-rock single Sweater Weather.

To read more of this Artist Spotlight, see some awesome pics, and preview my favorite The Neighbourhood tracks, click here.

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Middle of Things, Beautiful Wife featuring SPZRKT - Sango

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An opinion piece on the Hip-Hop game in 2013: Undeniably, the biggest waves in the music industry this year have been made by Hip-Hop artists. Even with the return of Pop artists like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus (who have each managed to create their own splashes with chart topping summer releases), the blogosphere and social media buzz have all been centered around Hip-Hop releases, even if individual artist record sales will never amass that of Lady Gaga and Ms. Perry. From the rival summer album release date between Yeezy, J. Cole, and Mac Miller, Jay-Z's mass-marketed Magna Carta... Holy Grail record, Big Sean's recent album release with his track Control featuring Kendrick Lamar and the most talked about verse of the year, mega-producer Mike WiLL getting signed to Interscope Records and producing Miley Cyrus' up-coming release Bangerz, and Drake's highly anticipated album release, it would seem that this year Hip-Hop's major breadwinners are expected to rake in some serious dinero (I'm sure we'll get some specifics on their financials in their rhymes from their future albums).

Check out the rest of this opinion piece here.

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I've been searching far and wide for a refreshing style of music that would bring me back to my Chillwave days when I would lay under the window in my Boston brownstone during the summer feeling the breeze and relaxing in the moonlight  while I listened to the blanketed sounds of Washed Out and Toro Y Moi circa 2009 tracks. Musical artist Atu delivers those feelings and offers comfort to my 90s and 00s R&B nostalgia with his soulful samples, futuristic sound, melodic Hip-Hop beats, and Alt-R&B compositions. His latest 10-track album, Pictures on Silence, has served as the soundtrack for the better part of my summer and I've found it entertaining to recall which of my favorite R&B artists' lyrics he samples in his tracks (i.e., he samples Alicia Keys' song Diary, also known as one of my all time favorite songs, in his single The Duo featuring Sango).

Atu, whose name is commonly stylized as αtu, is set to release his new Least Said EP soon and offers a preview clip on the EP site that is sure to leave you wanting more. Whether you're an Alt-Indie Pop fan, Soul/R&B enthusiast, or just a sucker for sexy piano melodies and smooth beats, Atu's music is sure to satisfy all of your musical needs. Check out Atu's SoundCloud stream to hear more of his music and purchase a digital copy of his Pictures on Silence album whose proceeds will go to the EveryChild organization. Also, follow him on Twitter to keep informed about his up-coming EP release.

For more artist spotlights and posts about music, check out my blog: youngdisposition.blogspot.com. 

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My thoughts on the mainstream music industry today and how we can change it for the better.

We’ve all become quite familiar with certain household names in music such as Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Jay-Z, Rihanna, etc. and sometimes we feel a bit too familiar as some of these artists have become the signature artists of our generation. Throughout the years of their long, fruitful careers we can solemnly think back to all of the one-hit wonders and could-have-beens who’ve graced us with their talents but couldn’t firmly plant themselves into the music industry as well as the artists we have come to know and love who survived the takeover of technology and adjusted their marketing strategies in accordance with the age of social media. But have you actually stopped to think how long we’ve been listening to these artists? For instance, Rihanna has now enjoyed life in the mainstream for eight years, Katy Perry worked her way into the mainstream world in 2008, and Jay-Z has been blasting from my father’s boombox in my house since I was a young child. Undeniably, these artists have talent, charisma, and fantastic brand strategists, but sometimes I wonder why the mainstream market (mainstream radio in particular) only plays out the same artists for an entire generation…

For a full view of my recent blog post, click the link above.

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Brand new Active Child track off of his upcoming EP!

She Cut Me - Active Child

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Check out this stream of Washed Out's latest album Paracosm. It’s forty-one minutes of fantastic music

If you really love the album, make sure you support Washed Out by purchasing his record. After this preview, I'm definitely picking up a copy

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New MGMT video!

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Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Tame Impala

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Demon to Lean On - Wavves

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