New Music From Bananagun, Remixed By Maston – Digital Servicing Only – Get It On Our Download Page
There’s an enticing lost world exoticism to the music of Bananagun, the Melbourne-based five piece. It’s the sort of stuff that could’ve come from a dusty record crate of hidden gems; yet as the punchy, colorfully vibrant pair of sold-out introductory singles “Do Yeah” and Out of Reach” proved, the band are no revivalists. On […]
Too Much Love Gives Just Enough Love To David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels
Too Much Love Magazine recommends A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment, the first full length from David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels, for “alternative aficionados.” Newton, as the site points out, used to be part of britpop pioneers The Mighty Lemon Drops, as well as The Blue Aeroplanes. The new album should delight fans […]
polyheDren Shares “Tethys Express” Video
See the music video for “Tethys Express,” one of two singles released by polyheDren. The track features Rini, an Indian-American singer, violinist, and composer whose music combines traditional Indian timbres with modern styles. “Tethys Express” explores this aesthetic, and all proceeds from the collaboration go to benefit music education through the Bay Area Music Project. See […]
L.A. Witch Gets The Seal Of Approval From The Line Of Best Fit
The Line Of Best Fit Is enamored of L.A. Witch‘s new album Play With Fire. “With the same elusive draw as a Quentin Tarantino film, L.A. Witch manages to encompass a whole heap of meaning without giving too much away. Since appearing a few years back, they’ve been a resoundingly gothic edge to a world […]
Buzzbands Shares “The Kids Are Not Alright” From David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels
Buzzbands has a stream of "The Kids Are Not Alright," one of the standout tracks on the new album from David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels, A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment. On the song, the site writes, "Newton proclaims 'I fear for the future' over a cascade of chiming, stinging guitars." Buzzbands says […]
RCR Reviews The Microphones in 2020
River Cities’ Reader goes deep in its review of The Microphones In 2020, the newest offering from Phil Elverum. Though he returns to the Microphones moniker on this release, RCR writes that “Elverum’s vocal style in recent Mount Eerie music continues here, a rubato and even-toned delivery that has evolved from his more pop-adjacent, succinct […]
Audio Femme Calls Bananagun A Tonic For Our Times
“Right now in Melbourne as we face mandatory mask-wearing, hundreds of new Coronovirus cases daily and constant news of deaths and illness,” Audio Femme writes. So, “something as buoyant, nostalgic, and shamelessly celebratory of just being alive and making music as The True Story of Bananagun is a tonic for the spirit and senses.” Thus […]
Exposé Explores Dive Index’s New LP
Exposé has exposed Dive Index’s Waving At Airplanes, which it calls ” a very deceptive album,” to a larger audience. “On the surface,” the site writes, “it’s moody, atmospheric electronic pop, with references to trip-hop and off-kilter pop like Billie Eilish, but close listening reveals a lot of subtlety and depth… For fans of electronic […]
New Music From L.A. Witch
On L.A. Witch’s self-titled 2017 debut, guitarist/vocalist Sade Sanchez purred and crooned over jangling chords while bassist Irita Pai and drummer Ellie English provided a full-bodied thump and intoxicating swing. The album had an air of effortlessness, a natural flow that hit a snag when the band’s popularity grew and they began touring regularly, so […]
Interview Interviews The Microphones
The Microphones’ Phil Elverum recently spoke with Interview Magazine. “After 17 years,” the magazine writes in an introduction, “Elverum has returned to The Microphones with a new piece, simply titled The Microphones in 2020. Simultaneously a song, an album, and a supplemental lyric film that spans 45 minutes, it is an attempt by Elverum to […]
Imperfect Fifth Shares Alex Lilly’s “Pulsating” New Song
Imperfect Fifth writes that “avant-pop temptress Alex Lilly’s single ‘Terrible Person’ is a pulsating, mysterious gem that plays with subtlety both in the music and lyrics.” The track the site continues,, “starts out as one might expect, with Lilly singing “that would make you a really really terrible person. and make me the dumb one […]
The Arts Desk Compares Bananagun To Sergio Mendes and The Animals
The Arts Desk recently wrote about The True Story Of Bananagun, writing that the debut LP from Melbourne’s Bananagun “injects the listener with good cheer and whacky ideas, via a psychedelia-laced stew of Latin percussive drive, wah-wah, vocal harmonies, jazz sax, and a bizarre pastiche of Sixties pop arrangements. Imagine Scandinavian tribalist space-rock nutters Goat […]
JW Vibes On David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels
Praising its "fiery energy and innovation," "incisive lyrics," and "sparkling and ultra-contemporary" production, The JW Vibe recommends David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels' new LP A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment. "There isn’t much to praise COVID-19 for," the site says, "but we can be grateful that the quarantine allowed him time to complete some […]
NPR Interviews Phil Elverum Of The Microphones
"Why is there a new Microphones album in 2020?" NPR asks at the onset of a recent interview with Phil Elverum, who has returned to the moniker after years of releasing music as Mount Eerie. The feature answers itself quickly, explaining that "'What was The Microphones?' is the better question and the one Elverum maps […]
WFPK Highlights Inara George’s Duet With Dave Grohl
"The Bird and the Bee‘s Inara George first recorded 'Sex in Cars' for her The Youth of Angst EP released earlier this summer," notes Louisville's WFPK in a recent feature. "But now George has re-recorded it with a high-profile friend for a good cause!" The friend, of course, is former Nirvana skin-basher and current Foo […]
Shindig! Premieres Bananagun Vid
Shindig! has the premiere of the video for “The Master,” a new single from Bananagun‘s smash hit LP The True Story Of Bananagun. The band’s Nick van Bakel told the site that “’The Master’ is kind of about evacuating yourself from the absurd but typical life of working your arse into the ground for someone else.” […]
NB Media Co-op Draws Attention To Lido Pimienta’s Justice-Minded Efforts
Lido Pimienta, the Colombian-born, Canada-based artist whose diverse and vibrant release Miss Colombia topped the NACC World and Latin Charts for a stretch earlier this year, has long been an activist as well as an artist. Now, NB Media Co-op is reporting on her steadfast support of the indigenous Wayúu women of Colombia. Read here about […]
New Music From David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels
Wolverhampton, UK-born David Newton was the guitarist and songwriter behind C86 popsters The Mighty Lemon Drops, who starred on the front cover of an issue of NME and crossed over to top the charts at US alternative/college radio. Following a brief stint with The Blue Aeroplanes after the break-up of the Drops in the early […]
The Daily Californian Reviews The Microphones In 2020
The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley’s independent, student-run rag, recently gave its seal of approval to The Microphones’ The Microphones In 2020. According to the paper, “what Phil Elverum seems to appreciate is that it is not a sin to be boring or unremarkable, and he celebrates mundanity and absurdity at every opportunity. He waxes poetic […]
PolyheDren talks with Rini
Rini is one of the artists with whom Dren McDonald has collaborated as part of his polyheDren project. McDonald recently interviewed Rini, asking the mulitfaceted musician about what musicians are inspiring her now. See the interview via Facebook here. Rini sings “Tethys Express,” one of two singles released sofar by polyheDren to benefit The Bay […]
