New Music From Nérija
Nérija (pronounced ‘ne-ree-ya’) is the septet of contemporary jazz luminaries Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet), Cassie Kinoshi (alto saxophone), Rosie Turton (trombone), Shirley Tetteh (guitar), Lizy Exell (drums), and Rio Kai (bass). Rooted in friendship, Nérija is a collective whose breakneck shifts in tempo and style rely on a deep understanding of mood, […]
Berkeley Place Loves “Everything About” The New LP From Fruit Bats, Who Begin Touring This Week
“I love everything about [Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life],” writes Berkeley Place in a recent review that compares the album to works by pre-disco Bee Gees as well as Supertramp and The Kinks. The whole review is available here. Gold Past Life is currently at radio and available for download on our website. You can see […]
Paste Shares The Bird And The Bee’s Van Halen Cover Featuring Beck
Paste has the latest Van Halen cover from The Bird and the Bee. “‘Hot For Teacher,’” writes the zine, “trades the original song’s throttling percussion and electric guitar lead for rapid piano keying and a pulsing synth, and opens with spoken word by Beck.” According to Paste, “Vocalist Inara George takes on David Lee Roth’s […]
Leif Vollebekk Has Today’s Top Tune On KCRW
The Montréal-based artist Leif Vollebekk released Twin Solitude in 2017, and that record was shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize and the 2018 Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Now he’s back. The highly-anticipated follow-up LP New Ways is due in November via Secret City Records, to be followed by tours of […]
JAZZIZ Likes Samantha Sidley
Samantha Sidley likes girls, and JAZZIZ likes Samantha Sidley. The site recently featured Sidley, who is touring the US with The Bird And The Bee and Alex Lilly next month and releasing her debut LP Interior Person in September, and is hosting a stream of advance single “I Like Girls.” According to Sidley, who provided […]
Fruit Bats Announce Completed 2019 Tour Itinerary
Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats just wrapped up a string of dates opening for Mandolin Orange, but that was just a prologue to a summer and fall full of dates all across North America. Johnson took to Facebook yesterday to announce the finalized itinerary for Fruit Bats’ massive tour in support of Gold Past Life, […]
Aina Haina Goes For Adds
Aina Haina (pronounced “Eye-na High-na”) – named for an unincorporated town on the island of Honolulu – traces its roots to the South Pacific, where guitarist/vocalist Mike Ailes and drummer/producer Dylan Magierek first met while attending the University of Hawaii. They reconnected years later in Portland, Oregon, the city in which Magierek has been piloting […]
Sunny War Goes For Adds
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 […]
No Depression Selects Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life As One Of The Best of 2019
No Depression, which recently reviewed Fruit Bats‘ Gold Past Life, has included it among the “Best Roots Music Albums of 2019 So Far.” The magazine contends, “[Fruit Bats’ mastermind] Eric D. Johnson describes the process of creating the music for Gold Past Life as ‘a soothing balm,’ which is exactly what it’s like to listen […]
Combo Chimbita, Championed By The Chicago Reader, Adds Tour Dates In The Southwest
According to The Chicago Reader, Combo Chimbita “imbue their experimental jams with Afro-indigenous mysticism and spirituality as well as the fierce energy of punk and metal, and propel them into the 21st century with dub and electro.” Read the full review here. The band plays Cincinnati tomorrow night as part of their ongoing tour to […]
Leif Vollebekk Cries “Hot Tears” On Lightning 100
Lighting 100, one of the major stations in the Nashville area, recently featured Leif Vollebekk, who’s released the first single from upcoming album New Ways. The article touches on the importance the Montreal-based artist places upon feeling in touch with his senses as they play an essential role in the LP, which is due November 1. […]
Tinariwen Shares New Mali-shot Video
Tinariwen has just released a new video for their song “Taqkal Tarha” (featuring Micah Nelson) from their upcoming album Amadjar, set for release on September 6. The video is directed by Matthieu Rozier and shot in their native Mali which they have since returned to following violent political and social upheaval. The video features Tinariwen […]
Folk Radio Premieres Gregory Ackerman’s “We’ve Got a Runner” Video, Makes It Their Song Of The Day
Folk Radio has premiered Gregory Ackerman‘s video for “We’ve Got a Runner” and made the track of their Song of the Day. Read the feature and watch the video here. Hear why they say the song, “is a catchy number that’s impossible to resist – it could be a summer anthem.”
XPN Selects The Bird And The Bee For Song Of The Week
Thanks to Bruce Warren at XPN for selecting The Bird And The Bee‘s “Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love” as the station’s “Gotta Hear Song Of The Week” back in June. The song is the second release from the duo’s upcoming collection of David Lee Roth-era Van Halen covers, Interpreting The Masters Volume 2. Hear the song, […]
The SB Independent Interviews Fruit Bats
The Santa Barbara Independent has an interview with Eric D. Johnson, the self-described “relentless” force behind Fruit Bats. According to Johnson, whose longevity in the music industry is quite impressive, “Fruit Bats never really got big, but getting to play in the Shins for a few years made it so that I could focus on […]
New Music From The Bird And The Bee (featuring Beck)
The Bird And The Bee, the LA-based duo of Inara George and Greg Kurstin, have released a third advance single from their upcoming LP Interpreting The Masters Volume 2: A Tribute To Van Halen. The album is a collection of David Lee Roth-era Van Halen covers, and serves as a sequel to the band’s 2010 fan-favorite set of […]
Leif Vollebekk Goes For Adds
“Hot Tears” is the first single 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 Music, The Line […]
Samanta Sidley Goes For Adds
“I Like Girls” is a peek into a meticulously-crafted debut album from Samantha Sidley that features the beautifully-trained jazz vocalist taking confident ownership of songs written for her to sing by some of the most important women in her life. This unassuming anthem was co-written by Alex Lilly and Sidley’s wife, Barbara Gruska (The Belle […]
Popmatters Says Fruit Bats Are “Sincere Without Being Earnest”
PopMatters contends that the new Fruit Bats LP, Gold Past Life, is an “exhilarating trip down multiple memory lanes.” In a new review, the site dissects the album’s thematic and musical conceits, writing that “the whole project seems to walk a fantastically deft line that is self-aware without being arch and sincere without being earnest. […]
Tanbark Gets Personal With Porchstomp
We’ve been getting to know Tanbark through their new self-titled second LP, which has been reminding us of classic artists like Karen Dalton as well as newer favorites like Faye Webster. We also recently found a Porchstomp article on the band from 2016 that’s helped us get to know them better as people. Some intimate […]
