Atwood Premieres Dive Index’s “Window To Window,” Featuring Natalie Walker
This March, Atwood Magazine premiered the single “Window To Window” from Dive Index‘s new LP Waving At Airplanes. The song features Natalie Walker on vocals, and Atwood describes the song as “hauntingly beautiful” while contending that it’s “perhaps Dive Index’s most grounded offering off [Waving At Airplanes].” The site also has a quote from Walker, […]
New Music From Deantoni Parks (aka TECHNOSELF)
Deantoni Parks – who often goes by the moniker TECHNOSELF – is an American new wave/avant-garde/experimental drummer, songwriter, film director, actor and record producer. He’s the founder, producer and drummer of the New York band KUDU, and as one-half of the writing duo We Are Dark Angels with producer and keyboardist Nicci Kasper, scored Paul Schrader‘s film Dog Eat Dog. […]
Pitchfork Gives Braids A 7.2 Score As Shadow Offering Hits #2 On The NACC Adds Chart
Pitchfork recently issued a 7.2 to Shadow Offering, the newest offering from Montréal-based trio Braids. The record, which comes five years after the band’s last album, Deep In The Iris, “is the start of a new chapter, one robust enough to hold the intense emotions in their lyrics… Shadow Offering evokes excess and mania with […]
Brooklyn Vegan Premieres Figg’s “Black Tar Of Camden Yards”
As Brooklyn Vegan explains, “Figg is the duo of Seattle indie rock vets Robin Peringer (a former member Carissa’s Wierd, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, 764-HERO, and other bands) and Gilden Tunador (who collaborated with Carissa’s Wierd back in the day), and when live shows start happening again, their live band also includes other former […]
Flaunt Premieres Nick Leng’s “Waste My Time” Clip
“Waste My Time,” the new video from Nick Leng, was filmed in the house where the South African-born, Los Angeles-based artist recorded his new LP LEMONS. According to Flaunt, which recently premiered the clip, “The video, direction by Avery Wheless, shows Leng navigating his favorite corners of his house, gingerly showing odd bits and bobs […]
Songlines Considers Lido Pimienta’s LP As One Of The Best New Albums
Songlines recently featured Lido Pimienta‘s Miss Colombia on its July 2020 list of “best new albums from around the world.” Writes the site, “Pimienta calls her third album ‘a cynical love letter’ to her home country and the Colombian people. Based in Toronto, she sings about Colombia’s deep social and political troubles, pointing her finger […]
Soft Sailors Play For Instagram Live
This past week, Soft Sailors performed a set that streamed on Instagram via CBD Is Better. The band maintained social distance for the performance, with singer/guitarist Geoff Geis separated by glass from his (married, cohabitating) bandmates, drummer Andrew Parker and bassist Jenna Parker. The band used wireless microphones and MIDI to record the concert, which […]
New Music From L.A. Witch
L.A. Witch’s self-titled debut unfurled like hazy memories of late-night revelries in the city center creeping back in on a hungover Sunday morning. Guitarist/vocalist Sade Sanchez purred and crooned over jangling guitar chords, painting pictures of urban exploits, old American haunts, and private escapades with a master’s austerity. Bassist Irita Pai and drummer Ellie English […]
Stereogum Picks Braids For Album Of The Week
The new album from Braids was featured by Stereogum as last week’s Album Of The Week. “[Shadow Offering] feels like the culmination of what Braids have been building towards over the last 10 years,” the site said. “It’s glimmering and assured, an album that’s constantly refining and one-upping itself. The Canadian band’s songs have always […]
Thank Folk For That Enjoys Leif Vollebekk’s Contemplative New Set
Thank Folk For That recently shared the new collection from Leif Vollebekk, the two-song Rest. “In a time of social distancing,” the site wrote, “life has brought about a forced pause from normal life. It’s encouraged some of us, including Leif himself, to reflect more, connect more, rest more. This release compliments that quiet introspection.” […]
Latino USA Asks Lido Pimienta About the Making Of Miss Colombia
NPR’s Latino USA has a “How I Made It” feature on the new LP from Lido Pimienta, Miss Colombia, an album on which “she tackles issues of misogyny and anti-blackness in Latin America and beyond.” In the interview, Pimienta “talks about her love for traditional Colombian music, the story of her new album “Miss Colombia”, […]
Popmatters Highlights Inara George
Popmatters recently highlighted Inara George’s The Youth Of Angst, placing the three-song bundle amongst the canon of “threes” in Rock n’ Roll. The new collection “captures the anxiety,” writes Popmatters, “of someone who knows where her life is headed and maybe doesn’t want to go there.” Check out the feature, which includes George’s insights on […]
The Vinyl District Recommends Dive Index
The Vinyl District has picked up on Dive Index‘s Waving At Airplanes. In its review, the site writes that “a few spins made it apparent that [Will] Thomas is a strong songwriter, with [Natalie] Walker singing six of the album’s tracks and Merz handling five. After a couple more plays, I was slightly favoring the […]
FLOOD Features Fig
“Robin Peringer and Gilden Tunador were members of early-aughts slowcore favs Carissa’s Wierd… before setting off on their own to record their self-titled debut under the new moniker Figg,” writes FLOOD in its premiere of the new video from the band, “Black Tar Of Camden Yards.” According to FLOOD, “Though Peringer’s resume also includes work […]
New Music From Braids
Montréal-based indie trio Braids long-awaiting Shadow Offering has arrived via Secret City Records. Formed in 2007, the three piece band – Raphaelle Standell-Preston (lead vocals, guitar, keys), Taylor Bonner Smith (bass, guitar, percussion), and Austin Tufts (drums) – weaves organic and electronic elements together amidst a lyrical landscape that is intimate and emotionally immersive. Co-produced with Chris Walla […]
Lido Pimienta and Leif Vollebekk Are Longlisted For The Polaris Prize
The 2020 Polaris Prize Long List is out, and both Lido Pimienta and Leif Vollebekk are on it! Each year, the Polaris Prize honors, celebrates and rewards creativity and diversity in Canadian recorded music. It’s aim is to identify “the Canadian album of the year based on artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history […]
Classic Pop Enjoys The New Dream Syndicate Record
“Though they’re beloved Paisley Underground contemporaries of REM,” writes Classic Pop, “The Dream Syndicate’s third album since their 2012 reformation sounds nothing like the Athens quartet. On opener ‘The Regulator,’ an almost entirely spontaneous 20-minute jam offering wild saxophone interjections from Marcus Tenney alongside sitar drones via The Long Ryders’ Stephen McCarthy, even Steve Wynn’s […]
London Indoors Recommends Deap Lips
London Indoors recently reviewed Deap Lips, the self-titled LP from the new collaborative union of The Flaming Lips and Deap Vally. The site notes how the record “forces two very different musical styles together,” and says ‘it’s appealing to hear Lips with less fragile vocal” than what fans might be expecting. Check out the full review […]
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed Gives A Glowing Review To Thurlowood
Though the album has new relevance in the midst of a global pandemic, writes A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed, Thurlowood's Discontinue Normal Program is "not horrific or something." Rather, the site writes, the album is full of "light as air" sounds that belie its serious subject matter. According to A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed, "'Survivalist' […]
Mxdwn Shares Inara George’s New Bundle
Mxdwn has shared the new three-song bundle from Inara George, which is called The Youth Of Angst. The collection was produced by Wendy Wang, who has previously played with George in her band The Bird and The Bee. “Wendy started playing with The Bird and The Bee when we released our second album,” George explains. “I […]
