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The Jungle Giants on Joy, Control and Saying What You Mean.

After years of hiding the most personal parts of his songs inside the production, Sam Hales made Experiencing Feelings of Joy by doing the opposite: writing more honestly, giving up some control and remembering that making music is supposed to be fun.

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VICTORYLAND, FINE AND WAISA PROJECT.

Victoryland turn bruised feelings into brilliantly crooked pop, Fine keeps pulling songwriting into stranger shapes, and Wasia Project expand piano-led intimacy into the widescreen world of Nocturne.

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World Famous Pets, Tokyo Tea Room, Jack White with support from Labels and Prospa

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The Dallas Music Office IS Thinking Bigger.

The Dallas Music Office is thinking beyond promotion. For director Kristina Kirkenaer-Hart, the bigger question is how Dallas builds the relationships, support and infrastructure that let artists turn momentum into lasting careers, and, how North Texas can grow stronger by working together.

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Dream Crease Makes Music for Places That Don’t Exist.

Marina Aguerre builds songs from recurring dreams, birdcalls, backyard percussion and memories stretched between California and Argentina, creating a world where landscape, language and imagination keep bleeding quietly into one another.

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Other Voices Keeps the Underground in Sight.

What started as a Google calendar between friends has become one of the best maps to the stranger, darker and more exciting corners of DFW music. Other Voices connects hardcore, darkwave, cumbia, DJs and everything in between, not by chasing an industry, but by making sure people know where to show up.

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Brody Price Is Building a Life He Can Stand Behind.

Leaf Miner’s Daughter grew alongside a garden, a difficult stretch of drinking and the decision to get sober. Brody Price talks about making demanding music, redefining ambition and why a life spent continuing to create may be the real measure of success.

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Improvement Movement Know Perfect Isn’t the Point.

On Your Perfect Real Life, Improvement Movement make warm, beautiful music about an increasingly strange way of living: disappearing third spaces, permanent visibility, fractured community and the effort required to keep something human inside it all.

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