Easily navigating between NYC-era Lennon, Crowded House, Air Supply, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, XTC, Ben Folds, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd and maybe even Snow Patrol, Swedish indie act Dynamo Bliss starts to sound like something all its own – something very fresh and exciting. We strongly recommend a listen, or five.

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Problemaddicts from Massachusetts are MusicZeitgeist.com’s September 2009 Indie Artist of the Month. Check out their track Freedom in our free streaming indie jukebox.

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Having been raised on these kinds of records, James Sudakow, an electric violoinist based out of Long Beach, California felt like a sort of soothing blanket. He mixes synths with electro-loops and recycled breaks with live drums, percussion, electric guitar and bass and of course his whining, squealing, soaring electric violin played through a Marshall stack.

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