Picking Up Rocks Compares Alex Bloom To Alice In Chains and Local H
Picking Up Rocks has a stream of Alex Bloom‘s “Cigarette,” which the site describes as “an absolutely insidious earworm that had it existed in 1995 would have played in a non-stop loop on MTV. It sounds like the wayward child of Alice in Chains’ ‘Heaven Beside You’ and Local H’s ‘Bound For The Floor’ and […]
Rolling Stone Praises The “Stunning” New Mount Eerie Record
Rolling Stone lauds the new record from Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron as being “delicately powerful.” According to the venerable magazine, the record finds Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum “meditating on grief and grace with poignancy,” while “Elverum and Doiron work together with an intimacy that conveys a lifetime of collaboration and creation.” Read the whole […]
AQVOL Goes for Adds
AQVOL is the moniker of Justin Marshall, a singer, songwriter and producer from Broward County, Florida who fuses candid hip-hop, meditative R&B and timeless indie rock influences to create thoughtful, introspective narratives with uncanny, melodic infectiousness. Marshall grew up surrounded by music by artists like Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Hank Wiliams, Jr., but as a […]
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Go For Adds
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 will be released on January 24, 2020. At the heart of the record is the Indian subcontinent’s navarasa — the nine (nava) emotions […]
The AV Club Recommends Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron
The AV Club chose Lost Wisdom pt. 2, the new release from Mount Eerie, as one of “Five New Releases We Love” in a recent feature. The record takes on some difficult subject matter, and The AV Club contends that “it’s far from easy listening. To make it go down smoother, Elverum recruited his old […]
Afropunk Applauds The Emotional Content Of The Good Ones’ New Record
Afropunk writes that the new LP from Rwanda’s The Good Ones is “honest and unflinching, yet hopeful.” Titled Rwanda, You Should Be Loved, the LP was recorded in Africa and features contributions from Wilco’s Nels Cline, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, and Fugazi’s Joe Lally. As Afropunk […]
The Skinny Says Up On High Is Vetiver’s Best LP
“For their seventh album,” The Skinny writes, “Vetiver marry the folkier roots of their earlier records (2004’s Vetiver; 2006’s To Find Me Gone) with the shinier pop noise we heard on 2015 gem, Complete Strangers.” The result? According to the site, this LP is “the best album of Vetiver’s career. Provided we all agree that […]
Gigwise Praises The Startling, Intimate New LP From Leif Vollebekk
“Leif Vollebekk’s New Ways is a startling, intimate record that delves deep into the musician’s world.” This is according to Gigwise, which has a positively glowing review of the new LP. “With each carefully measured song,” the site writes, Vollebekk “lays out everything you dislike in the world and repackages it in ways that make […]
Bootstraps Shares Some Demo Love With a Left Bank Mix
The new Bootstraps LP is called Demo Love because band mastermind Jordan Beckett is fascinated by what he describes as “the dichotomy of the word ‘Demo,’ which can mean to demonstrate or to demolish.” According to Beckett, “Getting ‘demo love’ is also a music expression where you can’t let go of a song’s original version […]
Pitchfork Goes Deep With Mount Eerie
Fans of Mount Eerie will want to dive into Pitchfork‘s new interview with Phil Elverum, conducted to promote his new Lost Wisdom pt. 2 album with Julie Doiron. According to Elverum, the new LP is “definitely a step back into poetry and away from memoir. That’s partially just how it came out. A lot of […]
The BBC Features The Good Ones, Who Have The #1 Most-Added World Album At NACC
Thanks to all the stations that had The Good Ones on your NACC World ADDS charts this week: CJLO 1690 am, KFAI 90.3 fm, KGLT 91.9 fm, KMUD 91.1 fm, KRKQ 95.5 fm, WCSF 88.7 fm, WNMC 90.7 fm, WRIR 97.3 fm, and WWUH 91.3 fm. Rwanda, You Should Be Loved was the most-added album […]
PopMatters Compares Vetiver To A First Kiss
About the new Vetiver album Up On High, Popmatters writes that it is “good humor which makes the music so charming. The ease by which Andy Cabic conveys his ruminations implies he is talking to himself, but we are all in on the joke. He’s persuasive by not trying to persuade. Vetiver offers a teasing mischievousness […]
October Talks Beer With Fruit Bats
October recently sat with Eric D. Johnson, of Fruit Bats fame, to talk about music and beer. In an interesting conversation, the site probes Johnson about topics including his forays as a film scorer and why – despite loving beer – he doesn’t ever want to be intoxicated on stage. Read the whole thing here while […]
Bootstraps Shares “Whenever You’re Around” Clip
Bootstraps has released a new video, for Demo Love track “Whenever You’re Around.” The clip is directed by Sam Jaeger, a filmmaker for whom Bootstraps has done soundtrack work. “Sam was really the first person to motivate me to go into music,” Bootstraps told Songfacts. “I knew I wanted him to do a video, and […]
Nérija Plays Jools Holland
Nérija recently visited the BBC to tape a performance on “Later… With Jools Holland.” The septet performed “Riverfest,” one of the standout pieces on their Blume LP available now from Domino. Watch their thrilling, dynamic performance here.
Vintage Guitar Interviews Sunny War
Sunny War was featured in the print edition of Vintage Guitar magazine, which included an exploratory interview. The feature is now online, and it included details about War’s playing technique and writing style that adds layers to her new Shell Of A Girl LP. Flip to page 34 of the digital issue, available right here. […]
Mount Eerie, with Julie Dorion, Goes For Adds
Over the past couple of decades, Phil Elverum – who initially released music as The Microphones before transitioning to the Mount Eerie moniker – has developed a cult-like following amongst listeners for his sonic adventurousness, prolific creation, wry lyricism, and relentlessly DIY ethos. Yet his last few years have been a whirlwind of change. A few years ago, he was welcoming […]
The Good Ones Go For Adds
2019 year marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, during which more than a million people were killed – many who died after enduring gruesome torture. The Good Ones formed as a healing process after that genocide, and the original trio’s membership reunited Rwanda’s three tribes with one member each from the Tutsi, Hutu, and […]
Exclaim! Applauds Leif Vollebekk
Exclaim! says Leif Vollebekk‘s New Ways LP is a “remarkable” record in that is able to satisfy fans of the artist’s previous LP Twin Solitude “while also pushing tendrils out towards listeners in search of more versatility.” The LP “spices up” his sound, and Exclaim! argues that “New Ways soars most prominently into fresh territory is […]
Mxdwn Loves The Musical Variation of Vetiver’s Up On High
Mxdwn writes that, on the newest Vetiver LP, “Andy Cabic uses layers of acoustic guitars and hushed vocals to evoke a dream-like feeling.” The review revels in the record’s “unique and mysterious atmosphere,” explaining that “though Cabic’s lyrics often explore concepts of time, the sound of the album seems to be out of time.” The review […]
