New Music From Combo Chimbita | Nueva Música de 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. We’re exactly a month away from […]
New Sun Records Compilation For Record Store Day 2019
Saturday, April 13 is Record Store Day. The annual event has been a crucial part of the vinyl resurgence over the years, and it’s drawn attention not only to records themselves but to the local, unique stores that sell them and the communities that exist around those stores. This year, the creators of Record Store […]
Pitchfork Awards An 8.0 To Beth Gibbons
Pitchfork has given an 8.0 review to Beth Gibbons‘ new performance of Henryk Górecki‘s Third Symphony with The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Writing about Gibbons’ voice, the site says, her ‘grainy, sour wail, coated with streaks of dried spilled coffee and nicotine stains, strikes deep chords of clammy fear, of desperation, of vulnerability.” Pitchfork notes […]
Record Store Day Is Saturday – Tell Your Listeners!
This coming Saturday, April 13, is Record Store Day. The annual event has been a crucial part of the vinyl resurgence over the years, and it’s drawn attention not only to records themselves but to the local, unique stores that sell them and the communities that exist around those stores. Make sure your listeners know […]
Vinylthon Is This Saturday, April 13
In addition to being Record Store Day, Saturday is also The College Radio Foundation’s annual Vinylthon event. The fourth edition of Vinylthon is set to be the biggest yet, with almost 140 stations across 10 countries dedicating programming to the vinyl format. Some stations are even going for 24 hours. Vinylthon is a great way to […]
NYT Reporter Learns Polish To Write About Beth Gibbons’ New Record
Beth Gibbons is notoriously enigmatic, cultivating a public persona as mysterious as Spy Noir tones of her band Portishead. She very rarely grants interviews – they make her feel “awkward” – even if the publication asking is the New York Times. So, when Times reporter Alex Marshall wanted to write a piece profiling Gibbons’ new […]
The Smoking Flowers Release Video And Tour
The Smoking Flowers have some shows coming up, and they’re also just released a new music video for “Here 4 You Now.” The barnburner is featured on their LP Let’s Die Together, and we sent out an acoustic version if it last month. Check out the clip, which focuses on the commitment that bandmembers and […]
New Music From Beth Gibbons And The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Domino is proud to present Henryk Górecki‘s Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) performed by Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. Henryk Górecki (1933 – 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, believed to be the most commercially successful classical composer in recent times, […]
Staccatofy Applauds Alex Lilly
Staccatofy has reviewed Alex Lilly‘s debut 2% Milk LP, contending that “Lilly brings swirling synths, full bass lines, and shifting chordal patterns to a series of catchy melodies.” The site continues, “Lilly has a way with words, melodies and counterpoint, she spins them through her imagination and shares the cream that rises to the top. Highly […]
KVCU Enjoys Combo Chimbita and French Vanilla At SXSW
KVCU went to Austin for SXSW a couple weeks ago, and the station’s Ashley Koett saw sets from AmApAc artists Combo Chimbita and French Vanilla. Of Combo Chimbita, Koett wrote that the band “combines classic Cumbia rhythms and vocals with psych and a bit of punk to craft an absolutely mesmerizing performance.” She was duly […]
Alex Lilly Tells The Standard About Donuts
Alex Lilly recently performed at The Standard Hotel in New York, and the venue hosted an interview with the songstress on its website. In addition to musical stuff, Lilly tells The Standard about her favorite stuff to do in New York – like where she likes to get donuts. Read about it all right here. […]
Alex Lilly Visits Radio8Ball
Alex Lilly visited Radio8Ball back in January, performing some songs with her musical bestie Inara George as well as members of the cast of Star Trek: Discovery. What? We know!!! She also had an in-depth discussion with the show’s host and mastermind, Andras Jones. Check it out right here, and poke around the site for more recordings […]
The Daily Beast Says Combo Chimbita “Accessed A Higher Plane” At SXSW
At South By Southwest, writes The Daily Beast, “Combo Chimbita accessed a higher plane.” The quartet is one of the subjects of the website’s feature on “The Powerful Women Who Rules SXSW,” a list that also includes Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, rocker Japanese Breakfast, and actress Lupita Nyong’o. According to The Daily Beast, “The quartet, fronted by […]
Ghettoblaster Highlights The Smoking Flowers
Ghettoblaster has shared the newest single from The Smoking Flowers, an update of last year’s “Here For You Now” called “(Still) Here For You Now.” As the site writes, the track “captures the emotions the duo were experiencing throughout the healing process” after the band’s Kim Collins was diagnosed with a cancer that she beat […]
Neon Music Interviews Kiyomi
Kiyomi‘s new single “High Ladder” is “about the challenges of trying to achieve something,” she says in a recent interview with Neon Music. “I wrote it about my own struggles in achieving goals with my music, but the song to be related to anything that is trying to reach for something higher.” The interview also […]
The Smoking Flowers, On Tour And Promoting A New Acoustic Collection, Play on WMSE
Last week we shared a new, acoustic track from The Smoking Flowers – “(Still) Here For You Now,” a companion piece to “Here For You Now” from last year’s Let’s Die Together. We sent the track – from an upcoming, stripped-down LP due this summer – as the band embarked on a weekend jaunt to some […]
KXRN Explores Alex Lilly’s 2% Milk
KXRN has given Alex Lilly‘s 2% Milk the Full Album Friday treatment. The feature, which is produced regularly by the Laguna Beach-based station, goes track-by-track into a specific album and delves into the details of each song with its creator. 2% Milk is a cerebral and musically diverse record, so Lilly has quite a bit […]
Relix Shares Combo Chimbita SXSW Show
Combo Chimbita was one of the most talked-about bands in Austin last week, and also one of the hardest working! The NYC-based neo-cumbia quartet played day parties, night parties, and even a breakfast party for the folks at KUTX. If you were at South by Southwest, we sure hope you saw one of their shows! […]
New Music From The Smoking Flowers
We're excited to share a new, acoustic track from The Smoking Flowers – "(Still) Here For You Now," a companion piece to "Here For You Now" from last year's Let's Die Together LP. With influences that range from Led Zeppelin to Gillian Welch and The Ramones to Neil Young, the powerhouse band is built around the […]
Combo Chimbita Rages Through SXSW
It’s no surprise that Combo Chimbita has had a huge SXSW so far. Twitter went crazy for them on Monday during their AV Club show at Mohawk, and this morning they kicked off the day with a show broadcast on KUTX from the Four Seasons. If you’re in Austin, you still have some chances to be […]
