New Music From Dren McDonald f/ Sophia James
Dren McDonald is a San Francisco Bay Area composer, producer, and musician whose work spans video games, film, theme parks, and immersive media. After founding Vaccination Records in the 1990s and releasing music with several Bay Area bands, he transitioned into scoring for interactive media, accumulating an extensive catalog of game credits. Beyond his work in […]
Blurred Culture Talks With Pluralone
According to Blurred Culture, “With A Drop In The Ocean, the fourth album from his solo project Pluralone, Josh Klinghoffer turns inward. Released via Org Music, the record strips much of the surrounding noise away, placing greater emphasis on acoustic guitar, intimate arrangements, and lyrics that seem less interested in providing answers than in asking difficult questions. A Drop In The Ocean does […]
Heavenly Chats With Stereo Embers
Alex Green writes, “Heavenly are back. Not sounding diminished by time, the band’s first long player in 30 years Highway to Heavenly is a spry collection of janglepop that’s effortlessly melodic and unreasonably catchy. It’s lovely work that ranks among the year’s best.” Green has a conversation with the band on his Stereo Embers podcast; check that out here! […]
Rolling Stone Enjoys Fruit Bats’ New Release
According to Rolling Stone, the new Fruit Bats album The Landfill “explores the unglamorous bits that make up the human story on a record that bristles with live energy.” The venerable magazine has a review of the new LP, which was just released via Merge Records. “On this 10-track collection,” RS writes, “Johnson is as adept at deconstructing melodies as […]
New Music From Azalia Snail
Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde musician who was once called a “heroic… singular creative influence on us, our scene, and our generation” by Elephant 6 luminary Robert Schneider. With her 16th solo album Gentle Mental, her aim is to take listeners on a journey of reflection and spiritual uplift with an ambient immersion that reflects both humanity’s difficult modern plight […]
Pluralone Shares “Feels Like I’ve Done Wrong” Video With It’s Psychedelic Baby
It’s Psychedelic Baby has shared “Feels Like I’ve Done Wrong,” from Pluralone‘s new album A Drop In The Ocean. The site has a quote from Josh Klinghoffer, who began the Pluralone project when he was still the guitarist in Red Hot Chili Peppers. He says, “This was the first song written after the completion of the last Pluralone album. It shows […]
Architeg Says do+pe Isn’t “Comfortable”
Architeg writes that do+pe = no country for old men, the new collaborative LP from The Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy‘s Chuck D, is not “a comfortable legacy record… [it] doesn’t beg for reverence. It argues with the listener, argues with the industry, and occasionally argues with itself. When it’s sharp—like the opener’s economic swerve, the title track’s warning, or the […]
Paste Details Fruit Bats’ The Landfill
Fruit Bats’ new album The Landfill, writes Paste, “is a multi-layered, often melancholy affair as Eric D. Johnson sorts through the comings and goings of life on the threshold of [turning 50].” Though the album, like last year’s Baby Man, came together quickly with Johnson using the stream-of-consciousness-inspired “morning pages” method, it is – unlike Baby Man – a full-band affair. According to Paste, […]
Brooklyn Vegan Covers Inara George’s Street Team Efforts
Brooklyn Vegan has coverage of Inara George’s ongoing tour, for which she is soliciting street teamers. If you’re near one of her upcoming gigs, maybe you can help get the word out? There are details here on the Brooklyn Vegan site. George, who is perhaps best known for her work with the bird and the bee, is touring […]
LWND Gets Dope
Legends Will Never Die likes do+pe = no country for old men, the new album from The Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy‘s Chuck D. According to the site, “no country for old men joins Radio Armageddon & Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025 in terms of the run Chuck D has musically been on for the past 12 months. The production impressively mixes […]
Norman Recommends Souled American
Norman Records recommends Sanctions, the new album from Souled American. “Sanctions is a work shaped by time, loss, and sharpened intent. Emerging after decades away, it speaks directly to a moment defined by cultural fracture, moral fatigue, and systems that reward conformity over conscience. Rather than retreat, the band turn toward roots and tradition—musically and ethically—using restraint and atmosphere […]
Inara George Starts Tour
We Heart Music caught the opening date of Inara George‘s tour, on which she is performing songs from her new album Songs of Douglass & Littell as well as renditions of favorites from her long solo career and the project she’s perhaps best known for, the bird and the bee. The show was a great success, as was her performance […]
New Music From Pluralone
Pluralone, the solo project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer, returns with A Drop In The Ocean, his fourth album under the Pluralone name and the first since 2022’s This Is The Show. Best known for his work with Pearl Jam and the decade he spent as the guitarist in Red Hot Chili Peppers, Klinghoffer brings the same melodic sensibility and […]
Goldmine Reviews John Densmore and Chuck D and Interviews ORG’s Andrew Rossiter
In an interview with Goldmine, ORG Music’s Andrew Rossiter chats about the new ORG release from the Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy’s Chuck D. “I think that the fact that it was a true collaboration between the two of them is a plus,” Rossiter says. “Sometimes you see records where you have two big […]
A Pessimist Likes Fruit Bats’ Easy Vibes
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed writes, “It’s just impossible to be so much of a bitter bastard listening to tunes like those on The Landfill… another fine Fruit Bats record. There’s a lot here that has a sort of classic rock sort of appeal, even on the mid-tempo songs. Still, with stuff like the title cut adding in a twangy […]
Where Strides The Behemoth Keeps Returning To Savage Imperial Death March
Where Strides The Behemoth writes about being surprised to hear about Savage Imperial Death March, the new collaborative LP from Melvins and Napalm Death. Yet, “Melvins were hugely influential in the grunge and sludge world for their experimental approach, and the same can be said for Napalm Death. Of course while the Melvins have always been experimental, weird, and out […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
The midwest, particularly the part of the midwest from which Eric D. Johnson hails, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape, hill after hill, built from the refuse of […]
John Densmore and Chuck D’s Collaboration Is A “Huge Success” According To One Big Blank
About the new collaborative album between The Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy’s Chuck D, One Big Blank writes, “I had no idea what to expect, but was blown away by the output. For those pining for record scratching or bass piano, you won’t find that here. What you will find is an eclectic mix of rhyme, spoken word, some […]
Side-Line Interviews David J
“With Tracks From the Attic Revisited,” Side-Line writes, “David J Haskins does far more than dust off abandoned material. The album turns forgotten demos into living works, shaped by distance, experience, wit, and a willingness to let old songs evolve rather than remain sealed in amber. The site has an interview with David J, who is […]
TribLive Talks With Souled American
TribLive notes that Souled American has “garnered praise from contemporaries like Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo), John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats) and David Lowery (Cracker).” Yet, the band deflected in a recent interview with the site when asked about how influential they felt. According to Chris Grigeroff, “Ah, I don’t know. I hear people say this, that or the other, but I don’t ever hear […]
