Dayglow

One Liner:  Great bubblegum rock from a UT student

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but this is pop rock and indie rock.
Home: Austin, originally from Aledo

Poster Position: Late Addition.

Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts: Always cool to find something fun and good down in the tiny print portion of the poster, especially a late addition like this.  Dude sounds kind of like he's the lead singer for Two Door Cinema Club ("False Direction") or maybe Franz Ferdinand, stepping out on his own to make bubble-gum rock party jams.  I also get a sniff of the fun Beck here, the party guy Beck making intentionally sunny tunes for fun.

Searching for this on Wikipedia takes you to a concert tour even thing thrown by an EDM event company, where the event is apparently a bunch of EDM music and people spraying paint all over you in the audience.  Now called the Life in Color Festival, and it sounds like fucking hell to me.  I mean, attending a music festival is already a tough gig in the first place, what with the exhaustion and dehydration and annoying people around you, but if you then add in a lineup of solely EDM, plus some jackass jetting paint all up in your face while you are trying to dance to the sweet electro drops, nothing about that sounds fun to me.

Anyway, this is not that festival.  This is a dude named Sloan Struble, who apparently just dropped out of UT to pursue his tunes full-time.  An article I just read says that he spent his childhood messing around with GarageBand making tunes, went through a Christian pop phase, and then got into Dubstep, before finding this pop rock niche he lives in now.

Just one album, 2018's Fuzzybrain, but with a shockingly large number of streams for an unknown (at least to me) dude making generally likeable pop rock.  His big hit is one called "Can I Call You Tonight," with just over 11 million streams.

Amazingly dorky video, but just a purely great, happy, bouncy piece of pop rock candy.  Love the drummer who looks like he was headed for marching band practice when Sloan grabbed him and asked if he would come play for a sweet video he was making in the access TV studio on campus.  Very Napoleon Dynamite vibe here.

"Dear Friend," (yes, the comma is included in the song name) sounds like when Jet tried to sound like Oasis when Oasis was trying to sound like the Beatles.

Second place track is "Hot Rod."  3.3 million streams.  Nothing else in the millions.

OK, not only are the tunes sunny and fun and good, but these videos are beautifully cheesy and ridiculous and endearing and amazing.  Gimme more.