For Folk’s Sake Appreciates The Laid-Back Vibe of Vetiver
“As Up On High progresses,” writes For Folk’s Sake about the new Vetiver LP at radio now, “you slip into a supple calm, as the meditative reel of fingerpicking seems to reminisce over the searching acid folk of the band’s early years. Though, [Vetiver’s Andy] Cabic now seems more self-aware than ever.” The site applauds […]
Particle Kid And Sunny War Explore Austin For Taste Of Country
Micah Nelson – who records and performs using the Particle Kid moniker – recently explored Austin, TX with his friend and fellow AmApAc-associated artist Sunny War, for a web series called Sites And Sounds. The show, which premiered via Taste Of Country last year, finds Nelson and war moving around the city and enjoying great […]
The Good Ones – Vying For Supremacy At NACC World – Get Love From WUOG
“There is a sense of true love for what they are creating that emanates from every song” on The Good Ones new LP, Rwanda, You Should Be Loved. That’s how Leo Pryor, a reviewer for Athens, GA radio station WUOG FM, describes the record in a recent review. According to Pryor, “The only explicitly credited […]
Combo Chimbita – Lauded By Rolling Stone – Hits The Road
Combo Chimbita had a big 2019, releasing their sophomore LP Ahomale to critical acclaim. According to Rolling Stone, which put Ahomale at #7 on its list of best “Latin” albums of 2019, the record is “a psychedelic rollercoaster ride of diasporic percussion, explosive power chords and singer Carolina Olivero’s soaring vocal gymnastics.” That description, here, […]
Archyde Profiles Tinariwen
“Tinariwen’s musical style is quite modern and transcultural,” writes Archyde in a recent exploration of the Tuareg group. “Translated,” the piece explains, “Tinariwen means ‘deserts’ – spaces that are of central importance for the band: as concrete, physical places in which their members grew up, live and sometimes also record their music. At the same […]
The Innocence Mission Gets Love From All Songs Considered and Leo Sigh
NPR's All Songs Considered chose The Innocence Mission's new LP See You Tomorrow as one of its Top 9 Albums out on January 17. Reviewer Lars Gotrich calls the record "reflective, atmospheric, [and] grounded by Karen Peris' voice and this supreme detail in her lyrics about the everyday. Simple images rendered quite beautifully." Check it […]
Leif Vollebekk Shares “Apalachee Plain” Via American Songwriter
Leif Vollebekk told American Songwriter about the inspiration behind his song “Apalachee Plain.” According to the songwriter, “A few years ago, I was driving through the painted desert and saw a lone mustang running alongside the road. He looked so free. He seemed to know everything. That image came back to me when I wrote […]
WUOG Praises The Lyricism And Harmonies On Lost Wisdom pt. 2
“This album brought me to tears,” writes Chase McGee of The University of Georgia’s WUOG FM in his recent review of the new LP from Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron. According to McGee, “Lost Wisdom pt. 2 is a patchwork of years of hurt, repair, and recovery. It features some of the most beautiful Mount […]
The Bird And The Bee’s Greg Kurstin Tells His Story To Tape Op
Greg Kurstin announces that “music is [his] happy place” in a new feature in Tape Op. The article lists the stunning array of top-notch artists with which the producer has worked, including “Lily Allen, Sia, Pink, The Shins, Foo Fighters, Liam Gallagher, Beck, The Flaming Lips, Tegan and Sara, Peaches, Kelly Clarkson, Lykke Li, Ellie […]
New Music From The Innocence Mission
Love. Connection. Community. Understanding. Not everybody can turn these intimate feelings into song, especially not with the beauty and sensitivity of the orchestral Lancaster, Pennsylvania folk band The Innocence Mission. Led by Karen Peris and husband Don Peris, the band has spent years trying to voice the inexpressible, and Sufjan Stevens – who has covered […]
New Music From Deap Lips (Flaming Lips + Deap Vally)
The seeds of Deap Lips were first planted years ago, when Deap Vally‘s Lindsey Troy & Julie Edwards each fell in love with the music of The Flaming Lips. “There are very few artists,” says Edwards, “who can offer the same experience on a decades-spanning deep dive.” In 2016, as Deap Vally were touring with Wolfmother, Wayne Coyne […]
Third Coast Review Enjoys A Performance By Mount Eerie And Julie Doiron
Third Coast Review, a site based in Chicago, had the pleasure of seeing a Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron performance last month at Thalia Hall. According to the site, “Their converging back together for Lost Wisdom pt. 2 feels right and brings together elements of Phil Elverum‘s early writing with his more forthright, almost diary […]
The Good Ones’ Adrien Kazigira Plays Solo For Fretboard Journal
During a recent trip to visit Fretboard Journal, The Good Ones‘ bandleader and guitarist Adrien Kazigira saw a guitar he liked. The site says he “noticed the Preston Thompson 0000 we had on the wall. He put down the Yamaha he usually employs and promptly launched into this tune, ‘My Smartest Friend Has Lost His […]
Lemonwire Says Leif Vollebekk’s New LP Builds On His Previous Work
Leif Vollebekk hit his stride musically with 2017’s Twin Solitude, Lemonwire writes, and new LP New Ways “serves as the next step of the progression.” The site says that the aim of the LP is to “deepen the grooves, engage desire and emotion with courage, and further dig into Vollebekk’s rhythmic explorations.” Over the course […]
LA Weekly Picks Samantha Sidley And Alex Lilly
According to LA Weekly, “Samantha Sidley’s 2019 debut album, Interior Person, is startling not because she’s radically experimenting with new sonic ideas but because the proudly lesbian L.A. vocalist upends romantic jazz-pop tradition by infusing it with long-missing tolerance and empathy. Sidley purrs such witty and melodically engaging tunes as ‘I Like Girls’ and ‘Butterfly […]
Bucketfull Of Brains Raves About Vetiver’s Up On High, Which Hit A New NACC Peak This Week
Bucketfull Of Brains writes that Vetiver‘s “Up On High is a record to take time with, as it gives of itself but gradually. Most of those songs simply don’t allow you to take short cuts, or think your way into them. They work by insinuation, as different fragments get their hooks in and hang on, […]
Leif Vollebekk, On Tour, Hits A New NACC Peak – Thanks!
We want to thank all of the stations that helped Leif Vollebekk‘s New Ways jump to a new peak at #34 on the NACC chart this week: CFOU, CHMR, CHOP, CHOQ, CHYZ, CJAM, CKDU, CKUT, KBVR, KCRW, KCSB, KGLT, KMHD2, KPUR, KUWS, KVNF, KVSC, SiriusXM: The Loft, WRMC, and WUSC! Vollebekk’s West Coast tour got […]
Fruit Bats End Up On Year End Lists By Tom O’Connor, KOSU’s Chad Whitehead, and Riff Magazine
Tom O’Connor says Fruit Bats‘ Gold Past Life was his favorite record of 2019. In a Medium Post, the music aficionado compares the band to ELO and The Bee-Gees and writes that the band’s Eric D. Johnson “has found a sound that is airy, progressive, traditional, and beautiful.” See the whole list here. Chad Whitehead […]
WV Public Radio Loves The Bird And The Bee’s Van Halen Tribute
Jim Lange of West Virginia Public Broadcasting recently featured The Bird and The Bee‘s Inara George on his radio program. About the band’s new Van Halen tribute album, Lange writes, “I love the irony, humor, disposition of musical elements of a good cover song, but this was something else: this [is] a true tribute. This […]
Pitchfork Calls Leif Vollebekk’s New LP “Understated And Affecting”
A recent Pitchfork review of Leif Vollebekk‘s New Ways gives the Canadian singer-songwriter high marks while exploring the production techniques that make the record sound so warm. “Vollebekk laces his capacious, meandering music with a ’60s folk-jazz sensibility. He recorded New Ways directly to tape, allowing each song’s mood to dictate its direction… The sparse, tense “Hot […]
