Alex Lilly, On Tour Soon, Talks With VoyageLA
Alex Lilly, who’s set to hit the road with The Bird And The Bee and Samantha Sidley next week, recently gave an interview with VoyageLA. The site asked her about her artistic purpose, to which she replied, “This latest record feels like emotional paintball. After you’re done listening, I hope you feel covered in color […]
Glide Praises The Bird And The Bee’s New Van Halen Covers Collection
The Bird and The Bee released their newest project, Interpreting the Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen last week. The album is gaining the acknowledgment of the likes of Glide Magazine, who noted the band’s focus on infusing the guitar-focused Van Halen originals with their own unique “keyboard-driven pop.” Focusing entirely on the David Lee Roth era, the band was […]
Refinery 29 Premieres Samantha Sidley’s New Video
Not only does Refinery 29 have the premiere of Samantha Sidley‘s video for “I Like Girls,” the lifestyle zine also has an interview with the jazzy singer who is currently preparing for the September release of LP Internal Person. In the interview, Sidley explains the genesis of the song: “I asked Alex Lilly and Barbara Gruska, […]
The Bird And The Bee Go For Adds
Since forming in 2005, The Bird And The Bee have brought a breezy elegance to their music, putting their own idiosyncratic twist on time-bending indie-pop. When we last checked in with the duo, they had just presented the dreamlike and dance-heavy album Recreational Love. Since that triumph, vocalist Inara George has released a solo album […]
Discologist Says Gold Past Life Is Fruit Bats’ Best
Chunky Glasses’ Discologist podcast recently took a deep dive into the newest Fruit Bats disc, giving Gold Past Life the podcast treatment on a recent episode. Fruit Bats is a band that means a lot to the Chunky Glasses crew, as the site has been hyped on the band since 2011’s Tripper and has hosted the band’s […]
Pop Bollocks Says Particle Kid Knows The Secret Of The Kaleidoscopic Earworm
Particle Kid – currently on tour with The Flaming Lips and The Claypool Lennon Delirium – was recently the subject of a flowery and verbose review in Pop Bollocks. The site wrote that new LP “Window Rock may well capture the strongest sense of how Particle Kid music feels out in the wild. The spontaneity […]
Jazziz Shares Samantha Sidley’s Beach Boys Cover
JAZZiz calls Samantha Sidley‘s Beach Boys cover “sumptuous” in a New Music Monday feature that includes the song. “A buried treasure from the band’s iconic, prolific discography,” the site writes, “Busy Doin’ Nothin’” was “originally included on their 1968 album Friends [and was] written by Brian Wilson and inspired by the sound of Bossa Nova.” […]
Tinnitist Compares Particle Kid, Who Is On Tour Now With Flaming Lips, To Beck
Tinnitist recommends Window Rock, the latest LP from psychedelic collagist Particle Kid. Writes the site, “The prolific and eccentric artist’s latest dose of skewed psychedelia, roots-rock trippiness and experimental soundscapes [sounds] a little like Beck’s freakier moments — except Micah Nelson’s tunes eschew sardonic silliness for topical and personal lyrics.” Read the full review here. […]
Bitch Media Plays Sunny War
Dahlia Balcazar played Sunny War‘s single “Shell,” from her upcoming LP Shell Of A Girl, on the June 13 edition of the Backtalk Podcast on Bitch Media. According to the host, “I really love this track. It is so simple, it’s moving, it’s gorgeous. It’s a song about what it means to be a shell […]
Particle Kid Goes For Adds
Particle Kid’s Window Rock is a nine-song collection of kaleidoscopic tracks, exploring the mythology of the self with verve, minimalism, and simplicity. Micah Nelson, the man behind the moniker, is an artist yearning to find meaning in a morally ambivalent world who has been hailed by Rolling Stone as “a musical polymath who combines an […]
Fruit Bats Share “Ocean” Video Via Jambase
“When I first heard the Fruit Bats‘ song ‘Ocean,’” director Danielle Rubi says, “I immediately had a series of moving photographs play out in my mind. The melancholic tone resonated with me a lot artistically, so I decided to create an authentic portrait of how it may feel to be a bit lost in this […]
New Music From Sunny War
Coming on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2018 album With the Sun, Sunny War’s upcoming LP 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. The LP was written in a burst of creativity during a transition period, as […]
New Music From Tinariwen
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 […]
New Music From Samantha Sidley
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 […]
Tanbark Travels West
Tanbark, the New York-based Americana group whose self-titled second LP Tanbark is currently at radio, is coming to the West Coast for a string of dates in the beginning of August. Let us know if you’d like to see the band at any of these dates, host them in your studio or over the phone, […]
KDNK Says Aina Haina Is “New and Notable”
Western Colorado’s KDNK has Aina Haina’s new Second Best LP on their “New and Notable” list. See the whole thing here! The album was crafted in Portland by two friends who initially met in Hawaii, and it provides a diverse and catchy ride over its short run time. Check out the album, produced by band member […]
For Folk’s Sake Digs Into The New One From Fruit Bats
For Folk’s Sake writes that “if ever an album was tailor-made for a road trip (and this road trip has to have the words ‘great’ and ‘American’ in its description), it’s Fruit Bat’s latest record, Gold Past Life.” In a review, the site praises the band’s Eric D. Johnson, who it says “has a uniquely inventive […]
Cleveland Scene Shares Combo Chimbita Live Photos
Combo Chimbita has one more show this July, on Thursday at the 40th Annual Calgary Folk Festival at Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta. It caps a run of shows that has seen the band go up, down, and across North America over May and July. Cleveland Scene caught the band last week at Beachland […]
Blues Magazine Hypes The Upcoming Gregory Ackerman EP
Blues Magazine, a website out of The Netherlands, is excited about the upcoming Stresslove EP from Gregory Ackerman. The site has a Dutch overview of the LA-based artist’s career, a highlight of which has been last year’s debut LP “And Friends.” The site also has an embed of the official lyric video for “We’ve Got […]
CBC Praises Leif Vollebekk’s Lyrics as Tops in 2019
“Hot Tears,” the first single off Canadian musician Leif Vollebekk‘s upcoming LP New Ways, was recently featured by The CBC for having some of the best lyrics 2019 has to offer. “It’s an intimate recording that unfolds differently over time,” says Holly Gordon of The CBC, but what was most amazing to her was the simplicity in one […]
