Pasadena Weekly Praises Sunny War’s “Winningly Light Touch”
Pasadena Weekly has a brisk and chipper take on Sunny War‘s new Shell Of A Girl LP. “The onetime Venice busker,” as the rag describes her, “exercises a winningly light touch as both guitarist and poet while tapping into societal pressures and hypocrisies here, beautifully braiding strands of blues, bossa nova, folk and jazz into […]
SPIN Shares The Flaming Lips’ “Giant Baby” Video, Featuring Fred Armisen
Spin Magazine has the video for “Giant Baby,” one of several standout tracks on the newest Flaming Lips LP, King’s Mouth. Spin describes the video, which “opens with a brief shot of [Fred Armisen], who, playing a late-night host, introduces the band. [The Clash’s Mick] Jones appears in a hooded monk’s robe, swaying back and […]
Jazz De La Peña Says It’s “High Time” For Nérija
Blume, the new LP from London’s jazz septet Nérija, is garnering acclaim from sources around the world. According to Jazz De La Peña, “It’s high time female bands such as Nérija… reach a wider audience. Blume is a mind-blowing recording that transcends genres and captures the groove and the imagination. Highly recommended.” Read the full […]
Fruit Bats Go On The JamBase Podcast
The JamBase Podcast recently spoke to Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats, who brought the site up to speed on some recent and exciting musical collaborations. At this year’s Newport Folk Festival, writes JamBase in a description of the episode, “Johnson shared the stage with the legendary Judy Collins as well as James Mercer of […]
Premier Guitar Sits Down With Particle Kid’s Micah Nelson
Premier Guitar has a thoroughly interesting interview with Micah Nelson, the son of Willie Nelson and the brains behind the Particle Kid musical endeavor. The site delves into the specifics of Nelson’s guitar playing and asks questions about how his legendary father influenced his sound. According to the interview, the music of Django Reinhardt was […]
Popbollocks Shares “The Farmer” From The Good Ones
Popbollocks has shared “The Farmer,” the first single from the “intriguing” new LP from Rwanda’s The Good Ones. “‘The Farmer’ leans into the folk, story-telling traditions of Rwandan music,” says Popbollocks, “but contemporary elements shape lyrics and production. The story here is of the vital role of farmers in culture. The work ethic, the personal […]
Nérija Breaks Down Their Warm, Energetic, and Joyful New LP Blume with JAZZIZ
JAZZIZ recently went track-by-track with Nérija‘s new LP Blume, which is at #2 on the NACC Jazz charts for the second week in a row. Writes JAZZIZ, “Blume is a collection of compositions that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the band – their warmth, energy and joy – and a sound that both breathes and […]
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 […]
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 […]
