Beatroute Says The Flaming Lips Have Achieved Gorgeousness On King’s Mouth
Beatroute says the new Flaming Lips LP is “a swelling return to form.” According to the Canadian review site, “There’s something comfortingly familiar about this album, be it the warm blanket feeling one gets from Wayne Coyne’s voice or the delight one feels in following this band down a concept album rabbit hole. There are […]
Fruit Bats Play For WNRN
Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats is having a banner year. He’s released his first album for Merge, Gold Past Life, found tremendous success at radio, and is poised to start a huge tour next month. Ever the performer, he also stopped by the studios of WNRN recently for an intimate performance – now on […]
Folk Alley Praises Sunny War’s New LP
Sunny War, says Folk Alley, “has the rare skill of wielding so many pieces of the world’s darkness, and then artfully spinning them to light.” According to the site, her new LP Shell Of A Girl ” is, at once, dark and hopeful – a perfect combination of vibes for the year in which it […]
Clash Says Nérija Gets Better With Every Listen
“London based jazz outfit Nérija have just released a debut album that’s great from the first listen,” Clash magazine contends. “But when played regularly and often,” the site continues, “the record soon becomes even more rewarding, even comforting.” One of the album’s many strengths is its sonic diversity, and Clash notes that the septet “incorporates […]
MXDWN Enjoys The Bird And The Bee’s Van Halen Take
In its review of The Bird And The Bee‘s Van Halen tribute LP, MXDWN observes that “Turning the classic rock sound of Van Halen into a soft pop sound with a jazz flare seems a bit unachievable.” However, according to the site, The Bird and the Bee manage it quite well” on Interpreting The Masters […]
Stereogum Shares Tinariwen’s Video For “Kel Tinawen,” Which Features Cass McCombs
Cass McCombs is featured on the new Tinariwen single, and Stereogum writes that “his muttered refrains add a different dimension to the band’s sound, which already had a whole lot of dimensions.” The site has the premiere of the video for “Kel Tinawen,” which is the third single from the group’s upcoming LP Amadjar. See […]
Earmilk Says Nérija Is “Spellbinding”
Earmilk writes that Blume by Nérija “contains ten songs of spellbinding music that offer something for the purists as well as fans of the cutting edge.” The stellar debut LP from the London jazz septet is full of “affecting melodies and danceable beats” that draw from hip hop as well as jazz, yet it also […]
Gearmasters Geeks Out With Combo Chimbita’s Dilemastronauta
Combo Chimbita has a great live sound, and Gearmasters recently talked to the band’s Dilemastronauta about the drum kit pieces he brings on the road in order to bring the band’s massive beat to the people. Drummers in particular will want to check out the session, filmed at the band’s show earlier this summer in Chicago […]
Caravan 222 Plays Lots Of Shows
Caravan 222 is on tour. The group is a San Franciscan super troupe and musical collaboration formed by adjoining members of some of the Bay Area’s top bands. The cosmic Californian group consists of Jacob Landry (Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah), Kyle Demartini (Down Dirty Shake), Nate Porter (New Sun Company), Dashiel McClary (Big River Ever […]
Sunny War Goes For Adds
Coming on the heels of her critically-acclaimed 2018 album With the Sun, Sunny War’s Shell Of A Girl finds the songstress and virtuosic guitarist looking back on the rocky roads of her past with a surprising amount of nostalgia. Originally from Nashville, she spent formative years in Los Angeles’ punk scene, hopping trains from a […]
Tinariwen Goes For Adds
The story of Amadjar – the upcoming album from the Grammy award-winning Tuareg musicians Tinariwen – begins at the end of October 2018 at the Taragalte Festival of nomadic cultures in the Moroccan Sahara. Following their appearance at the festival, Tinariwen hit the road and headed for Mauritania, via southern Morocco, Western Sahara and the […]
Samantha Sidley Goes For Adds
Samantha Sidley’s Interior Person, the full length LP due out in September via Release Me Records, 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 […]
The Van Halen News Desk Reports On The Bird And The Bee, Last Friday’s Artist Of The Day at WYCE
The Van Halen News Desk, has put its stamp of approval on The Bird And The Bee‘s new disc of David Lee Roth-era VH covers, with the feature’s author writing that they’ve been a fan of The Bird And The Bee for a while. According to the author, “I was out shopping at a record store […]
Elsewhere Recommends Nérija To Listeners Everywhere
Graham Reid, of Elsewhere, says the new LP from Nérija is “highly recommended to open-minded jazz listeners of whatever persuasion.” He calls Blume “an impressive and enjoyable debut album from an implosion of individual talents who – to these ears anyway – offer something more ambitious on album than the much vaunted Sons of Kemet […]
Forbes Interviews The Bird And The Bee
Inara George, one half of The Bird And The Bee, recently explained to Forbes why there's no guitar on the group's new Van Halen tribute LP. "We soon figured out that we couldn't put guitar in it. It would be almost like sacrilegious. Greg [Kurstin, the other half of the band] approaches his piano in […]
The Process Takes Notes On Eric D. Johnson’s Process
Earlier this year, The Process spoke to Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats about how he’s sustained an approximately two decade career as an independent musician. According to a summary of the podcast, they talk about “his new album, his writing process, small “keep you going” wins, touring with Califone and The Shins, what it […]
AllMusic Premieres Sunny War’s Boundary-Pushing New LP
Sunny War’s newest album, Shell Of A Girl, drops this Friday after months of buildup. AllMusic has an exclusive premiere of the full-length, and the site writes that the album pushes the boundaries of folk music. It’s also got an interview with the singer-songwriter, who is known for her confessional lyrics, raw delivery, and deft […]
Treble Chooses Nérija’s Blume As Album Of The Week
The full-length debut from London jazz septet Nérija “sounds like a group of incredibly talented friends—all of them women except bassist Rio Kai—enjoying the shared musical space they occupy together.” This is according to Treble Magazine, which recently chose Blume for an Album of the Week feature. “That kind of freewheeling, almost comforting sensibility isn’t […]
Pitchfork Enjoys The New Flaming Lips LP
“As far as concept albums about magical, abnormally sized severed heads go,” writes Pitchfork about the new LP from The Flaming Lips, “this is a pretty breezy listen.” The site praises the narrative album for its “inspiring” casting of The Clash’s Mick Jones in its storyteller’s role and writes that it “reminds us that [The […]
Particle Kid Plays For KUTX
Particle Kid recently showed up at the studios of KUTX in Austin to perform a few songs. According to the station’s website, “Micah Nelson has had mentors of mythological status. A member of Neil Young’s backing band, Promise of the Real, Micah has absorbed Young’s audiophilic attention to detail in each recording of the songs nine […]
