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"We don't care whether you call us shoegaze or post-rock or ambient chill or progressive or alternative. We just want you to put on your headphones and get lost in the cinematic beauty of your everyday life. Appreciate the small things. Be nicer to people. Spend a few minutes laying in the grass staring at the clouds. Music is good for you." The Candlepark Stars is the pseudonym for composer Kerry Muzzey.The CPS encompass delicate piano riffs to warm fuzzy guitar backdrops that moves both the soul and the heart. First arriving at the scene with the release of their...

Welcome to the world of the Candle Thieves - a very wonderful, weird and whimsical place. Deep thinkers can lose themselves here in gentle, poppy pleasures, and enjoy soft-hearted sentiments with sinister undertows. The band that made this world together is the brainchild of two serious songwriters, who wear big, thick-framed glasses, walk out onto the stage to the sound of the Jaws theme tune, set off bubble machines, and play glockenspiels, toy pianos, shakers and snares. They summon up the spirits of Eels, Sufjan Stevens, and the Lucksmiths in their sounds, but make wonderful songs that are utterly their...

Paul McCandless is best known as the single-reed/double-reed/electronic winds player for Oregon, probably the most coherent and compositionally interesting, classically-influenced jazz group to have come up in the '70s (although 'classically-influenced jazz' is a label in danger of doing them a vast disservice). .

A couple hours away from Chicago you will find one of Americas finest post-dream pop bands; They are Milwaukee's brilliant band Brief Candles. Comprised of Jen and Kevin Dixon (Guitars/Vox), Drew Calvetti (bass), and Radish Beat (drums); they are known for making loud blissrock with slowly unfolding compositions. 2013 sees the release of the EP "Newhouse" named as a memorial to a friend that passed away. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brief-Candles/124942650115 https://briefcandlesus.bandcamp.com https://twitter.com/briefcandlesmke .