Reverb Interviews Tinariwen’s Eyadou Ag Leche
Reverb Magazine recently spoke with Eyadou Ag Leche, Tinariwen‘s bassist, about the group’s new album Amadjar, their career, and their influences. It’s a crucial look into the inner workings of a group that can be mysterious to Western ears, so it’s definitely worth a read! According to Ag Leche, the impulse behind the record was for […]
Buzzbands Compares Alex Bloom To Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, And Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker
“Despite citing the ‘Rock’ preset of a ‘white Casio keyboard’ as inspiration,” writes Buzzbands, “it’s Alex Bloom’s melodies and vocals that truly take the wheel. Falling somewhere between Elliott Smith and Jeff Buckley (think “So Real,” not “Hallelujah”), making sense as his previous offering “Blue Room” was recorded at New Monkey Studio. In “Elevator,” Bloom […]
Gregory Ackerman Shares “Future” Video
Gregory Ackerman has released a lyric video for “Future,” one of four songs on his new Stresslove EP from Munich Records. The video is a cool animated collage of images based around the Stresslove artwork – give it a view right here! Stresslove, currently at radio, is available from our DL page. Get it in […]
Alex Bloom Goes For Adds
Chaos/Control is the new LP from Alex Bloom, a Los Angeles-based musician and a graduate of USC’s Thornton School of Music. He released his debut LP Blue Room in 2017 upon graduation and it was met with critical acclaim, with Northern Transmissions calling it “undeniably one of the most thoughtful albums of the year” and […]
Pitchfork Shares The New Single From Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron
Pitchfork has a stream of the new song from Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron, “Belief Pt. 2.” It comes from Lost Wisdom Pt. 2, which arrives early next month. Pitchfork quotes Phil Elverum about the song, which he says is “a flag planted, a declaration of belief in love no matter what, the culminating answer […]
BiRN Loves Bootstraps
The Berklee Internet Radio Network (BiRN)'s Kelsey Johnson has chosen Bootstraps' Demo Love as one of her "Prime Slices" this week. According to Johnson, "The album is an indie folk triumph, and it features staple sounds of the genre, such as ethereal electric guitar tones, acoustic guitar picking and strumming, and a dark kick drum, […]
VoyageLA Introduces Audiences To Gregory Ackerman
VoyageLA recently profiled Gregory Ackerman, whose EP Stresslove is at radio now and aiming for NACC debuts. The feature is heavy on backstory, as Ackerman takes readers all the way back to what it was like growing up in South Pasadena. “It was a great neighborhood to grow up in,” Ackerman says. “There were tons […]
The 405 Shares The “Delightful” Medicine By TENTS
The 405 has a stream of “Medicine,” the title track of TENTS‘ new LP. “‘Medicine’ sounds like the product of optimistic people who have been marinating in melancholy,” writes The 405. “There is an implacable sense of sadness throughout the verses, as the group reflects on the temporary nature of life. But the chorus bursts […]
Devendra Tells office About Identity
In a recent interview with office, Devendra Banhart opined on the transitory essence of experience. “There’s no solid self,” he told the site. “Everything I was so sure of 20 years ago, all those opinions changed. And everything I was sure of 10 years ago, those things have changed. Everything I was so sure of […]
New Music From Mount Eerie
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 […]
L.A. Times Praises Samantha Sidley
The L.A. Times applauds Samantha Sidley for her “quietly radical debut album,” Interior Person. According to the newspaper, “the LP addresses the pleasures and torments of romance from an explicitly gay point of view,” and “happily conjures memories of Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie and mid-’60s Dionne Warwick.” In the interview, Sidley reflects on the recording process and her love of playing […]
Stereo Embers Shares TENTS’ Title Track
Stereo Embers is effusive about “Medicine,” the title track from the new album by Portland’s TENTS. According to the site, which compares the band to the likes of Field Music and AC Newman, “it’s such a great tune, so slyly danceable and grounded in its own unselfconscious truth.” Hear it right here. We hope Medicine can crack the NACC Radio 200 next week, […]
Music Connection Profiles Samantha Sidley
“On her new full-length release, Interior Person,” writes Music Connection, “Samantha Sidley animates sterling songs with her lustrous voice, transforming them into a sparkling litany of self-possession, revelation and winning personality.” The site has an in-depth feature on Sidley, who shares intimate details about the process of working with her wife, Barbara Gruska, as well […]
Bootstraps Talks To Talent In Borders
In a recent interview with Talent In Borders, Bootstraps‘ Jordan Beckett discusses his influences and the story behind his new LP Demo Love. The piece is notable in that it includes both listening and viewing recommendations from Beckett, so definitely check it out here if you’re interested in those. It’s also got a tidbit about […]
The Vinyl District Goes On A Date With Gregory Ackerman
In a First Date feature on The Vinyl District, Gregory Ackerman tells readers about his love for collecting records. Says Ackerman, “until about high school when I started writing and recording my own music,” records seemed like artifacts from a previous time. However, with recording “came the evaluation of sound and how you capture it […]
New Music From Bootstraps
Bootstraps is the moniker of singer and songwriter Jordan Beckett, who learned to play guitar after an injury interrupted his college baseball career. Originally from Portland, Beckett’s first steps into songwriting and recording were influenced by the rich indie backdrop of the Pacific Northwest. Beckett eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting, but turned […]
New Music From Gregory Ackerman
LA-based singer-songwriter Gregory Ackerman’s Stresslove EP is made of “love songs meant for those who had fallen out of love” and was produced by Pierre de Reeder, the former bassist of Rilo Kiley and the engineer of recent recordings with bandmate Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, She & Him, and other notable songwriters. De Reeder adds […]
Portland Monthly Talks To TENTS
“I spent most of my life being a businessman and not enough as an artist,” says Brian Hall in a recent interview with Portland Monthly. Hall, who makes up one-third of Portland’s TENTS. In the interview, Hall explains how TENTS “harnesses his background in commercial music to explore themes like body positivity and childrearing.” According […]
NPR Music Digs The Bird And The Bee’s World Cafe Performance
NPR Music digs the smooth and synthy twist The Bird And The Bee applied to Van Halen‘s David Lee Roth-era oeuvre on new LP Interpreting The Masters Volume 2: A Tribute To Van Halen. “Though the songs will feel familiar to fans of the guitar rock icons,” writes NPR, “the arrangements are entirely fresh.” This ringing […]
New Music From Leif Vollebekk
“Hot Tears” and “Blood Brother” are the first singles from New Ways, Leif Vollebekk’s follow-up to 2017’s critically-acclaimed Twin Solitude. Twin Solitude was a breakthrough album for the Montreal-based artist, landing a spot on the Polaris Music Prize shortlist and a Juno nomination. Garnering more than 23 million streams, the record was praised by NPR […]
