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 […]
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 […]
