New Music From Pluralone
Pluralone (pronounced “plural one”) is the new project from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Josh Klinghoffer. While Klinghoffer is best known for his stint as guitarist in Red Hot Chili Peppers from 2009 until 2019, he has played and recorded with a variety of acts – including PJ Harvey, Beck, and Gnarls Barkley – and has fronted […]
New Sounds Highlights Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan‘s “Westlin Winds” was featured on a recent episode of New Sounds entitled “West Meets India, Again.” John Shaefer, the host, calls the project “a kind of hybrid Indian-Scottish-English folk music from collaborative trio of James Yorkston, Jon Thorne, and Suhail Yusuf Khan. Each contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on […]
Dyking Out Dykes Out With Samantha Sidley
The Dyking Out podcast recently had a long chat with Samantha Sidley. The theme of the episode is trauma, and it contains a trigger warning for sexual assault, car accidents, and eating disorders. Writes the site, “Samantha is an incredible jazz singer and interpreter whose album Interior Person is out now. We talk all about […]
New Music From Lido Pimienta
Lido Pimienta is a Colombian-born, Toronto-based interdisciplinary musician and global beats trailblazer who has been praised by NPR Music, Pitchfork, Fader, Noisey, Remezcla, Stereogum, Rolling Stone and featured on the cover of Toronto’s NOW Magazine. She has been a speaker at Red Bull Music Academy, creates visual art and is working on a graphic novel, […]
The Current Gives Song Of The Day Honors To Braids
Minnesota Public Radio – The Current – made Braids‘ “Young Buck” Song of The Day yesterday, Tuesday, March 3. Check out the song, taken from their upcoming LP Shadow Offering, right here. The track, which has an intense video, has been getting lots of airplay. According to Stereogum, “a playful electronic jaunt that toys around […]
Mix247EDM Shares Elohim’s “Group Therapy”
Mix247EDM has the new single from Elohim, "Group Therapy," which was just released in conjunction with her Group Therapy Tour featuring Bahari and Mehro. According to the site, "The song is a reflection of Elohim's devotion to mental health awareness. Whereas many of her previous song involve her own personal battle with depression and anxiety, 'Group […]
Billboard Praises Combo Chimbita, Who Are Currently On Tour
Billboard writes, “Combo Chimbita… dances among a cosmos of greatness in ‘Revelación (Candela),’ a song featured in the group’s sophomore album Ahomale. Its visceral drive is wrought through the flexible high-pitched voice of Carolina Oliveros, the bouncy percussion by Dilemastonauta, Niño Lento’s deftly guitar chords and the galvanized bass strokes by Prince of Queens. The […]
All Music Compares Up On High To Vetiver’s Best Work
AllMusic says the new Vetiver album, Up On High, is “a clear and focused return to the peaks the band found in the mid-2000s, and as enjoyable a listen as the best of their work.” The site compares the band’s sound to everyone from The Grateful Dead to Tom Petty to R.E.M., praising the “space in […]
New Music From The Dream Syndicate
LA indie rock forbearers The Dream Syndicate have announced their third ANTI- Records release, The Universe Inside, available April 10. When audiences think of The Dream Syndicate, they don’t just imagine the wild abandon with which singer/guitarist Steve Wynn, drummer Dennis Duck, bassist Mark Walton, keyboardist Chris Cacavas and lead guitarist Jason Victor perform; the carefully-constructed […]
Leif Vollebekk Takes FLOOD Fans On A “Transatlantic Flight”
Last year, FLOOD premiered Leif Vollebekk‘s “Transatlantic Flight” video in advance of his new LP New Ways. Vollebekk told the site about his inspiration. “The video is just one long take with the exception of one cut,” Vollebekk says. “I asked to have it like that because I always liked how in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise the […]
Alfitude Shares “Perfume” By Group Therapy Tour Participant Mehro
Alfitude has the video for Mehro‘s “Perfume,” which the site describes as having a “beautifully simple, yet heartwarming sound.” See the debut video, which looks like it was taken from a TV show in the late Sixties or Seventies, right here. Mehro is currently accompanying Elohim and Bahari on The Group Therapy Tour. The tour […]
Rutland Herald Says Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life Is “Another Winning Album”
“Gold Past Life finds [Fruit Bats‘ Eric D.] Johnson hitting his stride as one of the best and most under-appreciated songwriters around. Quite possibly his most assured release to date, the album shines on the strength of Johnson’s simple yet pretty compositions and his uncanny knack for marrying breezy and infectious pop with poignant melancholia. […]
Stereogum Shares “The Shearing’s Not For You” By Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
“’The Shearing’s Not For You,” writes Stereogum, “is a traditional Scottish folk song about an expectant mother being abandoned by her child’s father, sung by Yorkston with textured melancholy. The trio has found a gorgeous common ground between those musical histories; this tune feels of a piece with its predecessor, rich and nimble and eerie […]
Sunny War Joins Newport Folk Festival Lineup
Sunny War has been chosen to participate in this year’s Newport Folk Festival, a tremendous honor for the guitar virtuoso whose gorgeous voice and confessional lyricism have propelled her to the forefront of the contemporary folk world. The first-ever Newport Folk Festival took place in 1959, and the annual event has been seminal to development […]
Burt Bacharach Tells Forbes About How Great Melody Federer Is
Burt Bacharach, the legendary songwriter who has shown no sign of wanting to retire from a career that has already spanned more than 50 years, recently teamed up with Melody Federer for new single “Bridges.” It’s got a classic-sound that recalls Bacharach’s 1970s work with Dionne Warwick, yet it’s fresh and undeniably of the 21st century. […]
Rolling Stone Says You Should Know Lido Pimienta
Rolling Stone says the new single from Lido Pimienta is a song you need to know. “Eso Que Tu Haces,” the mag writes, is about “the universal need to assert one’s humanity, whether from a lover, a relative, or a community; or from an entire country, and its entertainment industry at large.” The article continues, […]
Elohim, Bahari, and Mehro Go For Adds
Since Elohim‘s first single “Xanax” debuted in 2015, she’s gathered fans around the world on the strength of songs that deal with themes of mental illness. Her self-reflective 2018 debut album included songs like “Panic Attacks,” and The FADER wrote after her Coachella performance that year that “it’s partly due to Elohim’s unfailing openness about […]
God Is In The TV Recommends Braids, Whose Advance Single “Young Buck” Goes For Adds This Week
God Is In The TV recommends “Young Buck,” an advance single from Braids‘ upcoming album that the site describes as “an upbeat and effervescent ode to impossible love that’s both impossibly catchy and a resplendent floor filling slice of electro pop.” According to GIITTV, the new track is good for fans of “Carly Rae Jepson, […]
Ones To Watch Shares Nick Leng’s Chester Watson Collaboration – “Plastic Moon”
“The musical mind of Nick Leng resides in a different dimension than most,” writes Ones To Watch. “Though still an earthly inhabitant,” the site continues, “the classically-trained pianist-turned producer, songwriter, artist, hears the properties of sound differently than most. A quick listen through the young creative’s discography and his flair for manifesting otherworldly sonic textures […]
Curve Interviews Samantha Sidley
Curve Magazine has a feature on Samantha Sidley, and it includes the story of how she first came to meet her wife and musical collaborator Barbara Gruska. “I saw her and was completely blown away,” Sidley told Curve about first seeing Gruska’s band. “I thought, I understand that person. I can take care of them.” It […]
