Rolling Stone Touts Deap Lips
Rolling Stone has featured “Home Thru Hell,” the opening track on the upcoming Deap Lips LP. The venerable magazine tells readers that the collaborative group, which features members of Deap Vally and The Flaming Lips, “embarks on a psychedelic odyssey on their new song, ‘Home Thru Hell,’ [which] opens with revving car engines and a […]
Billboard Shares “Bridges” By Melody Federer And Burt Bacharach
Billboard notes that, “over the course of six decades of songwriting, Burt Bacharach has teamed with an impressive cadre of collaborators, most notably Hal David but also ex-wife Carole Bayer Sager and Elvis Costello, among others.” Now he’s working with Melody Federer, who sang with him as a special guest during a 2019 concert at […]
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, […]
Stereogum Shares “Young Buck” And Announces New Braids LP
Out this April via Secret City Records, Braids’ upcoming Shadow Offering LP was produced by Death Cab For Cutie‘s Chris Walla. Pushing the band out of their comfort zone, Walla worked to both break and unified the band’s dynamic, unearthing individual creative energy. Now available is the advance single “Young Buck.” According to singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston, “We […]
Vetiver Returns To The USA
Vetiver is currently with Devendra Banhart in Europe, touring to support last year's excellent Up On High LP. But stateside fans oughtn't worry – Andy Cabic and company won't stay away forever. In fact, the band returns to California for a Leap Day show later this month, and they've got a slew of dates in […]
Loud And Quiet Says The New Innocence Mission LP Is “Teaming With Tragic Awe And Wonder”
Loud And Quiet has a review of the new album from The Innocence Mission, entitled See You Tomorrow. “Stretching as far back as 1989,” the site explains, “The Innocence Mission’s expansive back catalogue has forever pondered the passing of time and how we and those around us interact with inevitable change and progression. Their twelfth […]
Mxdwn Loves The Shamanic New LP From Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Mxdwn praises Yorkston/Thorne/Khan in a new review. “Navarasa: Nine Emotions sounds like the stuff of shamans,” the review says. “It kind of hooks you in this meditative trance that is quite soothing while also heady, like you’re on the brink of a mini-revelation, that an ancient truth might be revealed to you. Most tracks are filled […]
Cool Hunting Shares Devendra Banhart’s “Kantori Ongaku”
Devendra Banhart‘s most recent LP, Ma, is currently at radio. Cool Hunting featured the video last year for album standout “Kantori Ongaku.” The site writes, “A tribute to Japanese pop act Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haruomi Hosono, Devendra Banhart’s new single ‘Kantori Ongaku’ taps into the singer/songwriter’s specific vein of clever, eccentric folk. The track, whose title […]
New Music From Braids
Formed in 2007, Braids have solidified a long reputation for musical ingenuity and have established themselves as one of Canada’s most acclaimed art rock bands. 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 […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer Reviews the “Lovely, Understated” New LP From The Innocence Mission
“See You Tomorrow,” writes The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dan DeLuca about the new record from The Innocence Mission, “is an album about, and full of, care, restraint, and love.” The “lovely, understated” album recalls The Sundays, writes DeLuca. “The lyrics are full of natural elements — sun, stars, clouds, trees, fields — and they continually return […]
Leif Vollebekk Talks Swimming With The Vancouver Sun
In a recent interview with The Vancouver Sun, Leif Vollebekk explains how his work has been influenced by filmmakers, gushes about working with mixer Chris Shaw in Austin, and talks about how important swimming is on tour. “It’s a really fun thing to do on tour” he says. “You feel like crap because you’re not […]
Samantha Sidley Performs At A Paste Session Today; Her NYC Residency Kicks Off Tonight
Samantha Sidley is doing a Paste Session today at 2:30PM EST / 11:30AM PST. You can go here to watch. If you’re in New York City this week, make sure to check out her residency that kicks off tonight at The Green Room 42. Located inside the Yotel New York in Manhattan, the glitzy cabaret […]
The Guardian Features Yorkston/Thorne/Khan On A List Of Fifty Great Tracks To Hear This Month
The Guardian has featured Yorkston/Thorne/Khan‘s “The North Carr” as one of 50 great tracks for the month of February. “This luscious instrumental track named after a Scottish lightship, written by singer-songwriter James Yorkston, is a particularly beautiful thing. Suhail Yusuf Khan’s sarangi (a classical instrument with a sound close to the human voice) improvises delicate […]
The Good Ones Hit #1 At NACC World
Thanks to all the stations who charted The Good Ones’ Rwanda, You Should Be Loved to NACC World this week. It’s been a long journey! Big ups to CJAM 99.1 fm, CJLO 1690 am, CJSW 90.9 fm, KALX 90.7 fm, KAXE 91.7 fm/KBXE 90.5 fm, KGLT 91.9 fm, KMUD 91.1 fm, KRCC 91.5 fm, KRSC […]
American Songwriter Interviews Melody Federer About Her New Single With Burt Bacharach
Melody Federer recently teamed up with the one and only Burt Bacharach for a single, entitled “Bridges,” and American Songwriter says the two are a “match made in musical heaven.” Says the site, “The track shuffles along with a strong vocal melody and baseline that provide the perfect backing for the piano and strings to dance […]
New Music From Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan – the trio of James Yorkston (guitar, nyckelharpa, vocals), Jon Thorne (double bass, vocals) and Suhail Yusuf Khan (sarangi, vocals) – is pleased to announce their new album Navarasa: Nine Emotions. At the heart of the trio’s transporting new record is the Indian subcontinent’s concept of navarasa – the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) […]
New Music From Melody Federer and Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach and Melody Federer – a match made in musical heaven – have joined creative forces for “Bridges,” their first collaborative effort. Bacharach, a pop culture icon and one of the world’s greatest contemporary composers, is entering the eighth decade of a career that has spanned generations and continents. Federer, a noted solo artist as well […]
Under The Radar Interviews Vetiver
Under The Radar proclaims that Up On High “might just be Vetiver‘s most beautiful effort to date. The hallmarks of an Andy Cabic record are there—the acoustic base, the intimate environment, the melodic approach—but there’s a confidence present on these songs in the no-frills approach. No bells are heard, no whistles employed. Up On High […]
Samantha Sidley Takes NYC
Samantha Sidley, whose Interior Person was on LA Times‘ Top Ten Albums of 2019 list, is going to New York City for a stand of dates at The Green Room 42. Located inside the Yotel New York in Manhattan, the glitzy cabaret is the perfect setting for Sidley’s sensual, femme-forward jazz. See her if you have […]
Leif Vollebekk Plays For World Cafe
Congratulations to Leif Vollebekk for being chosen to perform live on NPR’s World Cafe. According to the Montréal-based songwriter, he had been considering an end to his music career after initially releasing his 2017 album Twin Solitude. Yet, he was inspired by the critical success of that Polaris Prize-nominated album to continue working as a […]
