Shazam is really something I wouldn't have expected: just the sheer accuracy and speed. With possibly billions of data points to compare against, it's so impressive that somehow it happens sometimes in just a few seconds. But I digress. I have the ability to almost immediately identify any song that I am curious about that I encounter in the wild, and I do not take this gift lately. It's just a wonderful thing.

I haven't really gone through the list of matches that I accumulate over the weeks and months in quite some time. So, it makes sense to mention what a great blessing it is to have that sort of access. The only other option used to be to try to remember some of the lyrics, and talk to someone at your local record shop about it. It could take days or weeks sometimes to figure out the song you were trying to get details about. Now it can happen in under 60 seconds from initial impulse to resulting data. What a world. So it's quite a list.

Anyway, the idea is, for someone that doesn't know what Shazam is, it's an app you can install on your phone, & when you hear a song you like and you don't know who it is, you pull out your phone, & you open the app. You press the Shazam button, and as long as the song is still playing, and there isn't too much other ambient noise, and you have maybe 5 to 15 seconds for the match to be able to occur, most of the time you can get an accurate match on who the artist is, and what the name of the song is.

So here's my list for the last few months of artists I was curious about:

Shazam Searches

Phantogram - Happy Again
Katie Gavin - Aftertaste
Hozier - Jackie and Wilson
Alabama Shakes - This Feeling
Vintage Trouble - Nobody Told Me
Tame Impala - Borderline
Khruangbin - May Ninth
John Splithoff - All In
Leon Bridges - Sho Nuff
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - Still Out There Running
Bitran - Too Sweet (Slap House Remix)
Johnny Blue Skies - Right Kind of Dream
Andrea von Kampen - That Spell
HAIM - Los Angeles
Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under
The New Basement Tapes - When I Get My Hands on You
Clairo - Sexy to Someone
Devon Cole - I Got You
Bonny Light Horseman - I Know You Know

Other Tracks added to CHILLFILTR® Radio

Rosarrie - Compass
Neil Cassidy - Water From My Bottle
Lucy Clearwater - When You're Down
Delgres - Promis Le Ciel - 07 - Pou vou
Delgres - Promis Le Ciel - 02 - Walking Alone
Delgres - Promis Le Ciel - 04 - A la fin
Crowded House - Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House - Crowded House - Something So Strong
Crowded House - The Howl
Bottlemoth - Settle In
Bottlemoth - You’ll Always Have Us
Peter Fenn - Against Your Tide [Explicit]
Peter Fenn - Richest Man Alive
Peter Fenn - I Don't Know (w_ ELIO)
Land of Talk - Sixteen Asterisk
Land of Talk - Magnetic Hill
DUG - Jubilee - 01 Jubilee
Trixie Whitley - The Dragon of Everything - 04 - Cage
Trixie Whitley - The Dragon of Everything - 01 - High Wire
Trixie Whitley - The Dragon of Everything - 02 - Nanalou
Trixie Whitley - The Dragon of Everything - 03 - Which Side
cynthia catania - Sidelines
The Paper Kites - At the Roadhouse - 14 - Pocket Full of Rain
The Paper Kites - At the Roadhouse - 15 - Mercy
The Paper Kites - At the Roadhouse - 16 - Darkness at My Door

Other News

We'll be rolling out subscriptions very soon. Plus, we have consolidated all of our apparel offerings from years past, so head on over to the store and pick out a T-shirt for someone you are. Or love. Someone you love. :)

Keep those submissions coming!

The TuneIn Partnership is going well. I am hearing from other artists that the spins are showing up in their monthly reports, and the best thing about being on our playlist for CHILLFILTR® radio is that most of the rotations are more or less permanent. So, other stations will put you in rotation for a few weeks, or play during a certain show. What we do is insert you into the constant shuffling, which means you'll see slow but steady spin numbers for months and in most cases years to come. That's one of the many ways that we just do things slightly differently.

I mentioned it before, but it's worth saying it again: you may see that things look a bit differently around the site at chillfiltr.com over the last few months. I've rolled out a whole new version of this site and we are now hosted on webflow. We should be rolling at new features a bit more quickly now.

Happy Halloween to those of you who celebrate.