KCRW Loves The “Icy-Cool Summertime Vibes” of foamboy

Posted on Mar 18, 2024
KCRW Loves The “Icy-Cool Summertime Vibes” of foamboy

KCRW has shared “Not A Go,” one of the tracks on foamboy’s new album Eating Me Alive. According to the venerable station, “Funky, precise, and layered with icy-cool summertime vibes, this disco-hued track is your jam for extended daylight fun. Foamboy are the Portland duo keeping their dance-pop offerings tight and well-defined. With ‘Not A Go,’ producer Wil Bakula and […]

Canadian Beats Speaks With Mia Dyson

Posted on Mar 18, 2024
Canadian Beats Speaks With Mia Dyson

Canadian Beats describes Tender Heart, the new LP from Mia Dyson, as “a celebration of renewed life in the wake of near-death – created with nuance and intimacy by a renowned craftsperson.” The site has an interview with the Australian-born, Los Angeles-based artist, who explains that “This is my first release after having survived a heart failure during […]

Treble Says Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “Pick Up Where They Left Off” On Their First LP Since 2007

Posted on Mar 18, 2024
Treble Says Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “Pick Up Where They Left Off” On Their First LP Since 2007

Treble Zine is out with a review of the new Sleepytime Gorilla Museum LP, Of The Last Human Being. “On their first album in 17 years, that cult progressive rock band continues to live up to Levin’s claim. They have even pushed the vaudevillian sonic theatrics into even more curious corners of musical oddity on of the Last Human […]

KUTX Tells The Cactus Lee Story

Posted on Mar 18, 2024
KUTX Tells The Cactus Lee Story

KUTX profiled Cactus Lee in advance of the band’s stint at SXSW last week, calling the local act one of “seven must-see artists at SXSW.” The site writes, “Cactus Lee isn’t an individual but an Austin-based Americana project fronted by Kevin Dehan. Born in Houston, he moved to the capital of Texas in 1987 and has been playing Austin […]

Jazz Journal Reviews Mary Halvorson’s Chart-topping Album Cloudward

Posted on Mar 18, 2024
Jazz Journal Reviews Mary Halvorson’s Chart-topping Album Cloudward

About Cloudward, Mary Halvorson‘s newest LP, The UK’s Jazz Journal writes, “The pitch-shifting US guitarist offers structured but harmonically freewheeling compositions over rubato, rock and loosely Latin beats… Halvorson continues to delight and impress in her music, her energising voice unmistakable in every note. This confident and mature set adds much to her growing reputation, and will delight […]

New Music From Yummi Wisler Guitar Combo

Posted on Mar 13, 2024
New Music From Yummi Wisler Guitar Combo

For Tel Aviv-based Raw Tapes artist Yummi Wisler, playing guitar has always meant freedom — from expectations, from doubts, from the banality of the real world. Wisler grew up adoring blues icons, such as Charley Patton or John Lee Hooker — at a time when everything on the radio was ruled by synthesizers. In the early 2000’s, hungry for something more organic […]

Mary Halvorson Hits #1 At NACC Jazz

Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Mary Halvorson Hits #1 At NACC Jazz

Mary Halvorson‘s Cloudward is currently the #1 album on NACC’s Jazz chart! Thanks to the stations that charted it this week to either jazz or Top 30: CFRU, CFUV, CJSW, CKUT, KBEM, KFFP, KGLT, KMUD, KVMR, KXRY, KZUM, WFHB, WFWM, WHFR, WKNC, WLFR, WODU, WORT, and WWUH. We really appreciate your support! Out now on Nonesuch, Cloudward has been praised […]

Audiofuzz Says foamboy Has Extended Their Sonic Landscape

Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Audiofuzz Says foamboy Has Extended Their Sonic Landscape

Audiofuzz writes that, on their new album Eating Me Alive, foamboy “extend their sonic landscape while maintaining the emotional depth and pop roots that garnered them recognition from indie circles and beyond​​​​​​. Their music offers a candid look into the highs and lows of personal experiences, making [the album] a compelling listen for those who appreciate music that combines […]

Mia Dyson Plays Australia’s ABC For International Women’s Day

Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Mia Dyson Plays Australia’s ABC For International Women’s Day

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has an interview with and performance from Mia Dyson, who “has been writing, recording and performing since she began playing shows around the Surf Coast Shire in Victoria in 2000.” According to the site, Dyson “has just released a powerful new album, Tender Heart, a ten song collection which processes in real-time the […]

Cactus Lee Plays SXSW

Posted on Mar 13, 2024
Cactus Lee Plays SXSW

Cactus Lee is an Austin-based band, so it’s no surprise they’re at South by Southwest this week. According to Raven Sings The Blues, Cactus Lee’s Caravan – at radio now from ORG Music and Aquarium Drunkard – is “a studio fresh album that’s got one foot in the Americana crate and another in the country coffers. Produced again by Kyle Crusham, the record sidles into […]

WCBE in Columbus, Ohio Features Mia Dyson

Posted on Mar 11, 2024
WCBE in Columbus, Ohio Features Mia Dyson

WCBE FM’s Mike Foley recently spoke to Mia Dyson about Tender Heart, her new LP at radio now. The site writes, “On Music Journeys, the Australian musician shares how the songs came together before and after that life-changing moment, the mental side of recovery, and advice for all of us to maintain a sense of gratitude.” Listen to […]

American Pancake Applauds The “Honest Reflections” Of Gregory Ackerman

Posted on Mar 11, 2024
American Pancake Applauds The “Honest Reflections” Of Gregory Ackerman

American Pancake recently shared Gregory Ackerman‘s new single “Breaking My Heart,” writing that “It might be Ackerman’s vocal countenance that faintly smiles at you while holding both sharp bits of melancholia and a self aware warmth (like giving a hug to someone who needs it) or it might be the magnetism of the sonic structure and production […]

KXSU Hypes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s “Sophisticated, Intelligent, And Theatrical” Live Performance

Posted on Mar 11, 2024
KXSU Hypes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s “Sophisticated, Intelligent, And Theatrical” Live Performance

KXSU in Seattle was able to send a station member to see Sleepytime Gorilla Museum in concert earlier this month at The Crocodile Club. “Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.” Cameron Kidd wrote, “put on the most sophisticated, intelligent, and theatrical show I have ever seen. Dressed in bright red, thoughtfully designed costumes that seem to have descended from the excitement […]

Remezcla Highlights Izzy Savides

Posted on Mar 11, 2024
Remezcla Highlights Izzy Savides

“There’s a lot going on in the world of producer, musician, and singer-songwriter Izzy Savides,” Remezcla contends, “but they manage to nail quite a few musical references at first listen. The 18-year-old contrasts subdued Billie Eilish-influenced vocals with Remi Wolf-like levels of mischief while channeling a refreshing art-rock attitude on their latest material.” Check out the full feature here. […]

New Music From foamboy

Posted on Mar 6, 2024
New Music From foamboy

Foamboy is a Portland-based pop duo comprised of producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek, who worked together for many years in other projects before creating their debut pop album, My Sober Daydream, in 2020 and releasing it in 2021. My Sober Daydream launched the duo into a new stage of their careers, earning recognition from KCRW, Consequence of Sound, and Week in Pop. Foamboy […]

Mxdwn Says The New LP From Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Is “A Real Experience”

Posted on Mar 6, 2024
Mxdwn Says The New LP From Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Is “A Real Experience”

On new LP Of The Last Human Being, mxdwn writes, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “create an indescribable atmosphere that makes listening to this album a real experience… Sleepytime Gorilla Museum truly cannot be categorized into a genre. While much of this album can fall into rock, calling it rock would be a disservice to the amount of genres they swap through and […]

Rolling Stone Australia Features Mia Dyson’s “Profound” New Album

Posted on Mar 6, 2024
Rolling Stone Australia Features Mia Dyson’s “Profound” New Album

Rolling Stone Australia has a feature on Mia Dyson‘s new album, Tender Heart, which was crafted after a near death experience and is at radio now. Read the whole review here. “It’s a profound album,” the site writes. “It’s gentle and thoughtful and you can listen to it without knowing any of the depth of experience and love behind […]

Chicago Reader Raves About Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Posted on Mar 4, 2024
Chicago Reader Raves About Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

According to Chicago Reader, “If you aren’t still in thrall to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from their first go-round, then I can only assume you don’t know who they are—and now that they’ve reunited after 13 years, you have the enviable opportunity to see them for the first time. SGM play ‘rock,’ in a certain sense, but their gloriously […]

Dusted Digs Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward

Posted on Mar 4, 2024
Dusted Digs Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward

Dusted Magazine notes that, on Mary Halvorson‘s new album Cloudward, the celebrated guitarist “has worked with a band dubbed Amaryllis: Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Over the course of their relatively brief tenure, they have cohered into a formidable ensemble, energetically collaborating with stalwart commitment to Halvorson’s compositions. There are […]

Particle Kid Announces Tour

Posted on Mar 4, 2024
Particle Kid Announces Tour

Micah Nelson, also known as Particle Kid, has announced a new tour. According to a four-star All Music Guide review, Particle Kid’s most recent double album Time Capsule “collates five years’ worth of songwriting, sonic investigation, and whim-chasing… There is something a little charming about Micah Nelson‘s warts-and-all behemoth, which, in this age of singles designed for maximum virality, feels like […]

Skip to toolbar