Post Trash Says June McDoom Offers “Something Truly Great”
Post Trash is out with a review of With Strings, June McDoom‘s newly-released four song EP. “It is something in McDoom’s voice and light, airy approach that carries her music here. While some artists use string arrangements to cover up some possible deficiencies, McDoom and her friend Sammy Weissberg, who helped her with the arrangements, use the strings as […]
Offbeat Says The Ladies Of… Hit “The Sweet Spot Between Lovingly-Crafted Throwback and Exuberant Sleaze”
Brett Milano of Offbeat Magazine recently reviewed Coming Out Of Our Tenderness by The Ladies Of…, writing, “I’m digging the heck out of this album, which hits the sweet spot between lovingly-crafted throwback and exuberant sleaze. [The band avoids] staying in one groove for too long. The rap breaks are blended with garage stomps, disco-styled chants, a hyperactive rhythm section and […]
New Music From Torn Boys
1983, the first-ever release from Stockton, California’s Torn Boys, the now legendary band featuring Jeffrey Clark, Kelly Foley, Duncan Atkinson, and a 19 year-old Grant-Lee Phillips, is set to be released in February by Independent Project Records. The comprehensive archival ten-track set of rare, unreleased studio and live tracks documents the short but eventful life of Torn Boys, a group […]
Higher Plain Hails June McDoom For Her “Innate Skill with Sound Design”
Higher Plain Music recently reviewed June McDoom‘s new EP, With Strings, explaining that McDoom set out to “rerecord a couple of tracks rearranged for strings and harp. This was to spark a more stripped-down approach to songwriting but truth be told, McDoom’s innate skill with sound design and love for some ghostly undertones takes this release into the lush […]
Patrick Watson Announces Live Dates And Releases Video
Four years after his sold-out concerts at MTelus in Montréal, Patrick Watson will be back with new tour dates. Concerts with the Orchestre FILMHarmonique, led by Francis Choinière have also been announced for November 2024 in Toronto and Montréal. The latter will be a great opportunity for fans to rediscover Patrick Watson’s songs with singular orchestration. The announcement […]
Flood Mag Recommends June McDoom’s New EP, Which Features “Luscious Accompaniment”
“On June McDoom‘s With Strings,” FLOOD writes, “her follow-up to 2022’s self-titled debut EP, the NYC-based songwriter revisits ‘The City’ and ‘On My Way’ … With Strings reinterprets these songs with the addition of luscious accompaniment from a chamber orchestra, creating decadent and flowery sonic landscapes fit with trilling harp melodies, wrenching violins, and soaring string arrangements crafted by McDoom and […]
Nitai Hershkovits & Rejoicer Share Video From Puzzles Comp
Nitai Hershkovits & Rejoicer have a rad video out for “side sidemi,” their contribution to the new Puzzles Vol. 5 compilation released by Raw Tapes. The video features direction, animation, and painting by Zoë Medcraft as well as production, animation and post-production by Felix Colgrave. Colorful, clever, and cute, the clip stars a clique of ants that go quite far. See […]
Paste Says “Put Shiva Burlesque On Your Shopping List”
Paste Magazine recommends the new reissue of Shiva Burlesque‘s Mercury Blues + Skulduggery that is now available on vinyl from Independent Project Records. “The easy path would be to dismiss this simply as a stepping stone for Grant-Lee Phillips to find his path with Grant Lee Buffalo and his still strong solo career, but the crushed velvet beauty of this music deserves a standalone chapter. […]
June McDoom Shares Thoughts Of Inspiration With The Creative Independent
The Creative Independent recently posted a fascinating interview with June McDoom, whose new EP With Strings is at radio now from Temporary Residence Ltd. In it, McDoom speaks of her urge to share her inspirations with the world while pushing boundaries into the future. She says, “I think about connecting to a listener who is listening to music on their own, and […]
IPR issues Shiva Burlesque and Scenic Vinyl
Independent Project Records is out with two beautiful vinyl editions of albums they issued on CD last year: Shiva Burlesque‘s Mercury Blues + Skulduggery, and Scenic‘s Incident At Cima. Featuring IPR’s Jeffrey Clark along with a pre-Grant Lee Buffalo Grant-Lee Phillips, who were also members of Torn Boys (also at radio now), Shiva Burlesque was described by Melody Maker as having created “a marriage of Joy […]
New Music From Raw Tapes
Founded in Tel Aviv in 2008, Raw Tapes Records has grown from being the home of the local beat scene to a meeting point of producers, jazz artists, vocalists and rappers, keeping itself on the cutting edge while always remaining soulful. Raw Tapes is now celebrating 15 years of spreading the magic of music with Puzzles Vol. 5 – […]
Hump Day News Makes A Burger With June McDoom
Hump Day News likes June McDoom‘s new EP, and the blog is also apparently hungry. They write, “Feathery neu-Joni chillfolk. Add strings. Add lettuce. Add tomato. Add pickles. June McDoom completes the perfect burger on this gem of an EP With Strings. The nice thing about having a successful record like her previous self-titled EP is that […]
Matt Holubowski Tours Western Canada
Matt Holubowski‘s new LP Like Flowers On A Molten Lawn is at radio now. Backseat Mafia calls the album a “reflective set of songs” that “beautifully showcases” the talents of his collaborators. Dusty Organ says the new record is a “compelling neo-folk album exploring the themes of spring, cycles, and life and death… With each release, Holubowksi continues to evolve his […]
Broadway World Covers Torn Boys
Broadway World has given notice about Independent Project Records’ upcoming release of Torn Boys’ album 1983. The site has the history of the project, explaining, “Formed in 1982 by IPR co-owner Jeffrey Clark (vocals, electric guitar) and Kelly Foley (vocals, acoustic guitar) and disbanded by late 1983, the Torn Boys lived out their one and a half summers fusing dreamscape lyricism with ultra-’80’s synth […]
The CD Hotlist Says A Produce Is “Genuinely Enjoyable”
The CD Hotlist has a blurb on A Produce‘s album The Clearing, which has been reissued and is at radio now from Independent Project Records. The Hotlist’s Rick Anderson wrote in July that, “the music is perhaps a bit dated (listen to the somewhat Casio-esque drum machine on “For Jackson Pollack [sic] #3,” for example), but it’s both genuinely enjoyable and […]
New Music From June McDoom
June McDoom is a singer-songwriter based in New York City. Growing up in South Florida in a Jamaican household, McDoom was raised around reggae music; later, she discovered and nourished her own deep love for folk music and songwriting of the 1960s and 70s. While studying in NYC for a degree in Jazz Performance, her musical […]
The Sherwood Park News Features Bobby Bazini
Bobby Bazini played in Sherwood Park, Alberta last week, and The Sherwood Park News featured the Quèbec-based artist in advance of the show. The site notes that “Bazini admits that he struggled with finding his passion for music at one point in his career, losing a bit of that flame inside, but [creating the Pearl LP] has ignited […]
iogi Lines Up SXSW Official Showcase
iogi is heading to Texas next spring for South by Southwest. The Tel Aviv-based songwriter/producer released his new album, we can be friends, earlier this year via Raw Tapes. Now, he is among the first wave of artists announced for official SXSW 2024 showcases. Read Variety’s announcement right here. According to Under The Radar, the new LP “occupies a… warm and dreamy […]
Soundcheck Hails The “Distinctive, Soulful Voice” Of Bobby Bazini, Who Is Currently On Tour In Canada
Bobby Bazini continues his Canadian tour this week, starting with a show tomorrow (Tuesday, November 7) in Regina at The Artesian. If you’re on Bazini’s tour trajectory, be sure to check him out! A 2019 live review in Soundcheck hails Bazini’s “distinctive, soulful voice.” The site writes, “Bazini is one of those rare performers in that […]
The Vinyl District Recommends Releases By The Ophelias, Shiva Burlesque, and Scenic
According to The Vinyl District, “The return to activity of Independent Project Records, founded by musician and graphic designer Bruce Licher way back in 1980, has been one of the sweeter developments on the contemporary scene, especially right now through a handful of vinyl releases that carry forward the label’s magnificent design aesthetic.” The website has reviews of three recent […]
