New Music From Dren McDonald featuring Amelie Anna
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. McDonald has released several solo and […]
KLOF Loves The Landfill
According to KLOF, The Landfill “is the most ‘live’ a Fruit Bats record has felt since The Ruminant Band (2009), and by stripping away the usual layers that crowd a full-band arrangement, the group somehow sounds even more psychedelic and technicolour… The Landfill should rightfully be the record that firmly underlines the prominent place held by the Fruit Bats in the canon of […]
Inara George Takes Adam Weissler Inside Her New Album
Adam Weissler‘s Inside Music has an intimate conversation with Inara George, whose new album Songs of Douglass & Littell is at radio now from her own Release Me Records imprint. After a long and illuminating talk about the new album, her time as a member of hip aughts duo the bird and the bee, and much more, George gives an intimate […]
David J Talks Snake Hunting (and more) With KMUW
KMUW‘s Jedd Beaudoin explains, “Tracks From The Attic Revisited is the new release from David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) and follows his triple 2024 archival record, Tracks From The Attic, which featured songs from over four decades of writing and recording. The ever prolific artist felt compelled to work on several of the songs again, re-writing lyrics and contemplating sounds […]
MXDWN Says The Landfill Is the Most Rewarding Fruit Bats Album Yet
MXDWN says Fruit Bats‘ new album The Landfill is the band’s “most emotionally resonant and rewarding album to date… Moving between vintage-pop melancholy and folk-rock warmth, The Landfill explores a series of memories set against Midwestern landscapes as Johnson reflects on the loss of a former love… Modern psychology often describes memory as a reconstructive process, constantly reshaped by time, experience, and perspective. The […]
V13 Has The Video For Azalia Snail’s “No Tango”
V13 Media has shared Azalia Snail‘s music video for “No Tango,” which comes from her new album Gentle Mental. The site writes, “No Tango’ emphasizes that positivity and uplift are always lurking beneath the chaos of these modern times. Hence, the two frog puppets, leaping for joy in slow motion.” Check that out here, and get Gentle Mental – which has been […]
Last Day Deaf Shares The Spellbinding Dren McDonald and Sophia James Track “Fading”
According to Last Day Deaf, “Dren McDonald and Sophia James craft something quietly spellbinding on ‘Fading,’ a cinematic blend of ambient folk, chamber pop, and experimental songwriting. Sophia James’ haunting vocal performance anchors the track with remarkable emotional depth, while McDonald’s nuanced production surrounds it with lush textures and understated orchestration. The result is intimate yet expansive, unfolding with patient […]
Spectrum Culture Says Heavenly’s Second Act Justifies TikTok’s Existence
“We stand by our belief that TikTok has made many things about our world objectively worse,” writes Spectrum Culture, “but we’ll be honest: anything that gets young people to listen to bands like Heavenly can’t be all bad.” The site has a review of one of the revived band’s recent shows, in support of their new album Highway To Heavenly. “Their current […]
Souled American Resurfaces and Midbrow Is There
Midbrow has a review of Souled American’s recent show in Philadelphia. “The music wasn’t merely laconic: this was slowcore country at its most desolate, with the humming energy of wide-open spaces so quiet and empty in their vastness that even in the daylight you think of the surface of the moon. When Joe Adducci would switch to fretless […]
Pluralone Does Radio Free BK
Last week, Josh Klinghoffer – whose new album as Pluralone, A Drop In The Ocean, is at radio now from ORG Music – visited Radio Free Brooklyn‘s show Ensnared. They write, “We have Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Josh Klinghoffer in the studio in this one. The music legend started his professional career in the 90’s at the age of 17 […]
Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts Features Azalia Snail
Don’t Bother Wearing Seatbelts – a podcast dedicated to the Elephant 6 cultural moment and its adjacent artists – recently had a special episode featuring Azalia Snail. “A true pioneer of the 1990s underground,” they write, “Azalia helped shape the sound of home recording, neo-psychedelia, experimental pop, and the DIY universe that so many artists continue to explore […]
Big Takeover Shares Dren McDonald’s Hypnotic New Track Featuring Sophia James
Big Takeover has coverage of the new Dren McDonald single, and the site contends that “‘Fading’ is indeed a thing of beauty, and aptly named. Its hypnotic, cycling acoustics are perhaps the only constant, Sophia James’ arabesque-infused vocals, and the subtle atmospheres that drift in her wake, often on the edge of disappearing completely, as if a change of […]
NPR Interviews Fruit Bats
Talking To Elyssa Nadwari of NPR about the title of his new album, Fruit Bats’ Eric D Johnson said, “When I was a kid, I lived in this apartment complex when I was, like, 10. And it was a fairly featureless view out my window, but there was a landfill, which I always found to be very epic. It was just […]
KCPR Catches Up With Heavenly
KCPR’s Dylan Koch writes, “With badges over their hearts and their hearts on their sleeves, English indie pop group Heavenly put out some of the most heartfelt albums of the 1990s. Now, they are back with Highway to Heavenly, their first LP in 30 years, an instant classic… No longer the bushy-tailed popkids that they once were, Heavenly […]
Under The Radar Shares Pluralone’s “Meditative” Single “Feels Like I’ve Done Wrong”
According to Under The Radar, “’Feels Like I’ve Done Wrong’ is one of several tracks on [Pluralone‘s new album A Drop In The Ocean] that have been gestating for years, and it is a fittingly meditative effort, centering on echoing percussion, a hypnotic piano line, and a pretty, plaintive chorus. Josh Klinghoffer gives the track space to sprawl, only letting […]
SPIN Says Souled American Feels Vital On New LP
SPIN Magazine has a review of the new Souled American album, their first in 30 years. They write, “Sanctions distills what was great about Souled American, channeled through its two remaining members. Though each songwriter’s individual preoccupations and quirks are on display here, the interplay between Joe Adducci and Chris Grigoroff makes this feel like a joint effort. It’s no faint praise that Jeff […]
Heavenly Takes To The Airwaves At KALX
Tune into KALX today (Monday, June 22) at 11AM PDT (2 PM EDT) DJ Poindexter’s recent interview with Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of UK indie pop band Heavenly ahead of their show at the Great American Music Hall on Wednesday June 24th. The station says, “Their most recent album, Highway to Heavenly, is their first release in 30 years. They talk […]
AMFM Has A Conversation With Pluralone
AMFM has an interview with Josh Klinghoffer, who is at radio now with a new album from his Pluralone project called A Drop In The Ocean. “In an exclusive conversation,” the site writes, “multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer opens up about the long, nonlinear journey behind his fourth Pluralone album… The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist and current Pearl Jam touring member reflects on […]
Atwood Chats With Fruit Bats
Atwood Magazine writes, “Out now via Merge Records, The Landfill is Fruit Bats’ twelfth album and one of the project’s most vibrant full-band statements to date. It arrives in Eric D. Johnson’s 25th year making music under the Fruit Bats name, following 2025’s intimate solo outing Baby Man and carrying that record’s immediacy into a bigger, brighter, more communal space. After years of […]
SPIN Features Inara George
SPIN Magazine has a nice feature on Inara George, chronicling the Bird and the Bee musician’s return to releasing music with her new album Songs of Douglass and Littell. The site also has details about her ongoing tour, on which “she’ll be performing songs from all her projects, including the Bird and the Bee’s ‘Again and Again,’ which has had a […]
