Samantha Sidley Shares Her Story With The Windy City Times
Samantha Sidley recently participated in her first “face-to-face interview,” conducted by The Windy City Times before the jazz singer’s recent performance in Chicago. In addition to providing some backstory about Sidley’s new LP Interior Person, the interview also gives the backstory of Sidley’s relationship with her wife and producer, Barbara Gruska. According to Sidley, “She […]
Pitchfork Praises Ma As A Return To Form From Devendra Banhart
In its review of Devendra Banhart‘s new Ma LP, Pitchfork observes that “Banhart steps fully into these songs with a vitality that recalls his beginnings. The songs are arranged and rendered with nuance by a veteran band, as comfortable with synthesizer squall as they are saxophone fantasies. Puckish and tender, Banhart seems again delighted to […]
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 where he was approached by a […]
Tinariwen, On Tour, Hits #1 At NACC World
Congratulations to Tinariwen, who hit #1 in their second week on the NACC World chart with Amadjar. The stunning album, which includes guest spots from the likes of Cass McCombs, Micah Nelson, Warren Ellis (Nick Cave), Rodolphe Burger, and Stephen O’Malley (Sun O)))), also debuted in the Top 25 at the NACC Radio 200. Get Amadjar on […]
The Flaming Lips Post The Making Of King’s Mouth
King’s Mouth isn’t just the name of the new Flaming Lips album; it’s also a traveling immersive, interactive art experience that Wayne Coyne has installed at galleries throughout the United States. The album, in fact, is the installation’s soundtrack. According to the King’s Mouth press release, the surreal piece “is an enormous metallic head, beckoning visitors […]
Remezcla Talks To “Third-Culture Kid” Devendra Banhart
“Devendra Banhart connects with his multicultural reality,” according to Remezcla, on his “buoyant tenth Album, Ma.” In an in-depth review that also includes parts of an exclusive interview with the Nonesuch-affiliated artist, the site explores how Banhart grew up as someone “caught in the middle: a California kid in Caracas and a Venezuelan back in […]
The Alternative Root Reviews Sunny War’s Shell Of A Girl
Sunny War‘s Shell Of A Girl LP “is a softly quiet record,” writes The Alternative Root in a recent review, “and if it is a blues record listeners should find similarities in Nina Simone and not Muddy Waters.” The site picks out a few of the album’s tracks as highlights, drawing attention to War’s “quietly […]
Samantha Sidley Goes For Adds
Samantha Sidley’s Interior Person is a testament to the jazz singer’s lifelong love of vocalists. “My whole life was a song,” Sidley says of her childhood. “If I looked at a tree, it was a song. If I felt happy, sad, joy, it was a song… I’ve always considered myself an interpreter, which is sort […]
Devendra Banhart Goes For Adds
The simply titled Ma is Devendra Banhart’s third album for Nonesuch, one that addresses—often in a beguilingly oblique way—the unconditional nature of maternal love, the desire to nurture, the passing down of wisdom, the longing to establish the relationship of mother to child, and the consequences of that bond being broken. Banhart doesn’t approach the album’s maternal theme in […]
Phony Ppl Go For Spins
Liberation is both the modus operandi and main ingredient of the fearless five-man band Phony Ppl. Comprised of the cream of Brooklyn’s young musician crop, each member is a product of musical parents who gifted their children with exposure to the greatest, from Mandrill to Bossa Nova, and, most importantly, wings for exploration and self-discovery. The […]
AllMusic Says Tinariwen Is As Authentic As Ever
AllMusic writes that, on Tinariwen‘s newest desert rock masterpiece, Amadjar, the members of the Tuareg guitar group “again summon a common musical language while sounding as authentic as ever.” The site notes that, in making the record, “Tinariwen’s last 20 years of globetrotting and guesting in unfamiliar Western studios were all but forgotten as they […]
Sunny War Goes To A KCBX “Therapy” Session
Sunny War performed this year at Live Oak, an annual festival held by KCBX in San Luis Obispo, CA. While there, she chatted backstage with the station’s Elizabeth Barrett for an episode of The Reluctant Therapist. In a long-ranging conversation about “life, music and mental health,” Barrett asked War to share how she “uses her […]
WGBH Takes An NPR Station Break With Particle Kid
Thanks to WGBH in Boston for picking Particle Kid‘s “Radio Flyer” for a recent “Station Breaks” feature on NPR.org! According to the station’s Stacy Buchanan, “‘Radio Flyer’ uses a mix of idealism and psychedelic rock to find a connection in a spiritually and morally disconnected world.” The piece includes an embed of the glowingly blacklit […]
Fruit Bats Commence Tour
This is it, the week we’ve been waiting for. Eric D. Johnson’s gathered a full band of Fruit Bats and they’re headed on the road in support of his June release Gold Past Life. The album received a warm critical reception and has been a hit at radio all around the US. If you’re not […]
Nérija Posts A “Riverfest” Performance
Nérija has released another live video from their performance at London’s Total Refreshment Centre. The septet, which is 6/7 female, sounds buoyant in the space. See them perform “Riverfest” right here. The track is from the group’s recent release, Blume, which is out on Domino and aiming for radio play now. If you have any […]
Phony Ppl Go On Tour
We’re thrilled to be working with the Brooklyn five-piece Phony Ppl, who are out on the road now. Super excited to see them tonight in LA. Let us know if you are interested in tickets or if you would like to set up an interview or in-studio performance with the band. Don’t miss your chance […]
Popmatters Calls The New Tinariwen LP “A Particularly Well-Polished Jewel” And Awards It With 9/10 Stars
Tinariwen, which Popmatters says is arguably “the foremost band to put modern music of Saharan nomads on the map,” is back. Popmatters says the collective’s newest LP Amadjar is a testament to a group that “has continued to face hatred with grace, skill, and admirable persistence.” Moreover, they’ve embraced musical adventurism, continuing to expand their […]
NME Enjoys The Flaming Lips’ King’s Mouth
NME says The Flaming Lips’ King’s Mouth “finds the band more playful, cinematic and cohesive than they’ve been since “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots.” The venerable publication giggles a bit at the concept album’s premise – “JK Rowling isn’t exactly quaking in her boots at the arrival of Wayne Coyne on the fantasy children’s story scene” – but […]
Central Track Shares Señor Fin
Central Track recently chose Señor Fin‘s “You And Yours” For a Song Of The Day feature. The site says the track is recommended for fans of “rock bands that use a flute, but aren’t Jethro Tull.” According to Central Track, “This is a very pretty song through and through, and only elevated by a strong […]
Tinariwen Goes For Adds
The best Tinariwen music isn’t the music they perform in front of microphones. It’s the music they play at night around the fire, back in their own country, amongst themselves and at their own pace. Having eaten, and drunk their tea, the men bring out their guitars, chat, remember old songs and let the music […]
