New Music From Tanbark
Tanbark began in 2011 as a long-distance songwriting collaboration between Chloe Nelson, who was studying art history in London, and James Jannicelli, a Minneapolis-based musician. By 2012, they were both in the Twin Cities, where their country and folk-inspired songwriting and close vocal harmonies began to form the basis of their sound. In 2014, the […]
Afropop Worldwide Praises Combo Chimbita As “A Group For All Climates”
Afropop Worldwide recently shared Combo Chimbita‘s video for “Esto Es Real (8100mg),” writing that the desert-shot clip helps the band make “a case for itself as a group for all climates.” See the video here. The band’s new LP Ahomale is off to a great start at radio, landing at #3 at NACC Latin, #11 at NACC World, […]
Listening Through The Lens Previews Sunny War’s Upcoming LP
Listening Through The Lens recently heard a preview of Sunny War‘s upcoming LP Shell Of A Girl. According to the site, the album “will be welcomed with open arms” upon its release. War, says the site, is a “captivating” musician with “a special talent.” Read the full article, which includes an embed of the video for […]
Bandcamp Daily Explores The New Combo Chimbita LP
Bandcamp Daily has a long feature on Combo Chimbita that includes an interesting interview with the quartet’s members. Describing the group’s sound, Bandcamp writes, “Tradition may be the starting point for the band’s music, but innovation is an equally defining feature of their music. They don’t play cumbia, or any other single style. They experiment and […]
Relix Relaxes Into The New Golden Daze LP
Describing the sound of Golden Daze‘s new LP Simpatico, Relix writes, “The music is sunbleached, washed-out, weathered in a nice way. Fans of Jacco Gardner will enjoy Golden Daze. There’s not a rough edge on this record. It’s like a polished, pillowy, retro-pop buddy movie. Layers of slide guitar add a round glow to the […]
Lost In Stars Curates Bauhaus Covers Playlist
Lost In Stars is a project in tune with its connection to its musical forebears. The last LiS album included a tribute to pioneering electronic producer The Space Ape, for example, and new LP Fábula is heavily influenced by the beat-makers and film score composers of the electronic 1980s. LiS mastermind Dylan Willoughby has also covered some of […]
The Smoking Flowers Add Tour Dates
The Smoking Flowers have a handful of shows lined up over the next month. If you’re in the Southeastern US – or in New York or Ohio – consider hitting the band up at one of these shows! According to Visit Knoxville, in a listing found here, “The Smoking Flowers are unafraid to take fascinating, artistic […]
Sounds And Colours Is Transfixed By Combo Chimbita
Sounds And Colours is transfixed by Carolina Oliveros, the voice of Combo Chimbita. "Her intensity, grace and fire is contagious," the site writes in a review of the quartet's new LP Ahomale, "and her powerhouse voice is an instrument to be reckoned with. In a way, Oliveros is a vessel, a spirit medium channeling both […]
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 […]
Stereogum Debuts Golden Daze’s “Blue Bell” Video
Stereogum recently premiered the video for “Blue Bell,” the first song and lead single from Golden Daze‘s Simpatico album. As the site puts it, the song “is coated in dreamy folk balladry, mutating the lo-fi gauze of their first record into a warmer, more mysterious brooding. It’s both aching and hopeful, and the lyrics feel […]
Remezcla Speaks To Combo Chimbita’s Prince Of Queens
“In a zeitgeist consumed by nostalgia,” begins a recent feature on Combo Chimbita‘s new LP Ahomale in Remezcla, “artists embracing futurism and the daunting task of charting new sonic waters feel like an increasingly necessary breath of fresh air. On Combo Chimbita’s new album Ahomale, a tidal wave of sound and spirituality embraces tropical futurism, more […]
Ultimate Classic Rock Enjoys The Bird And The Bee’s Take On Van Halen
Ultimate Classic Rock has a stream of The Bird And The Bee‘s take on Van Halen’s “Panama.” The site writes that the band didn’t take “a faithful approach” to the track, which they reappropriated in a “synth-driven” manner. According to the band’s Inara George, “You really know when a song was embedded in your brain at […]
Ones To Watch Premieres Golden Daze Video
Golden Daze was recently featured in Ones To Watch, which premiered the LA-based duo’s video for “Took A Fall.” According to the site, “The compelling fourth track of [new LP] Simpatico, ‘Took A Fall’ represents the valuable bondage between Loeb and Schwab as they continue to learn and grow as individuals.” Writes Ones To Watch, […]
Rolling Stone Says You Need To Know Fruit Bats’ New Single
Rolling Stone has pegged the title track of the upcoming Fruit Bats LP as a “Song You Need To Know” going into Summer ’19. According to the Stone, “The latest Fruit Bats’ song (the title track off their upcoming seventh LP) sees [Eric D.] Johnson hit a peak of radiant retro poppiness. ‘Gold Past Life’ […]
New Music From Combo Chimbita
Through folkloric mystique, otherworldly psychedelia and a dash of enigmatic punk, Combo Chimbita catapults the sacred knowledge of our forebears into the future. The band’s second studio album and Anti- Records debut – available on May 3 – sees the visionary quartet drawing from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment to unearth the awareness of Ahomale, […]
New Music From Golden Daze
Over musical backdrops ranging from dreamy folk to Seventies-inspired balladry, Golden Daze presents finely-crafted pop songs with bold admissions of love, shame, doubt, and gratitude. The duo was formed in 2013 by Jacob Loeb and Ben Schwab following a collision of friendship and shared musical sensibilities that spanned Portland, Los Angeles, and their overlapping Midwestern […]
New Music From The Bird and The Bee
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 […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life marks both an end and a beginning for Eric D. Johnson. It’s the end of an unintentional thematic trilogy of records that began with 2014’s EDJ (a solo record by name, but a Fruit Bats release in spirit) and hit an emotional peak with 2016’s Absolute Loser. Written in the […]
NYLON Has A Stream of Lost In Stars’ “Wand”
NYLON has a stream of “Wand,” the lead track of Lost In Stars new LP. “Grab the closest pair of nice headphones,” writes the site in a “15 Best New Music Releases” from a week last year, “and strap in for one hell of a stunner. Lost in Stars’ latest is a blissed-out electronic delight […]
The Deli Praises The “Musical Chops” Of Combo Chimbita
The Deli Magazine in New York says Combo Chimbita “creates a vehicle through which they explore the complexities of the Afro-Latin diaspora, and with which they imagine a stunning and prophetic destiny. Not only is their musical intent ambitious, Combo Chimbita has the musical chops to carry it through – the songs on Ahomale are […]
