The Smoking Flowers Tour In Alabama
The Smoking Flowers continue to promote their 2018 LP Let’s Die Together, and they’ll start 2019 with a short jaunt to Alabama followed by a set in their hometown. Released on Bandaloop Records, the album finds the East Nashville duo exploring themes of resilience and passionate love. Musically, they rock hard enough to have been compared to […]
Down Dirty Shake Goes For Adds
Based in San Francisco, Down Dirty Shake seamlessly blends the sounds of Latin, psych, soul, pop, and garage rock. The group was founded by AJ Ayez (vocals, keys), Kyle DeMartini (guitar, vocals), and Aaron Grimes (drums, vocals) while the three were high school classmates in Merced, CA, and in the ensuing years the band’s style […]
Culture Collide Shares An Intimate Video From Inara George
Culture Collide writes that Inara George‘s new record finds the longtime bird and the bee singer “exploring ambitious new territory. Perhaps nowhere on the album is this more apparent than with the track ‘A Bridge,’ in which George does away with all instrumentation and pop influence, choosing to experiment with the hypnotic and spiritual nature […]
Park Ave Lauds Tobias The Owl
Aly Crase of Park Ave has a glowing review of a recent Tobias The Owl performance that also includes a brief interview with the band’s Elijah Dhavvan. According to the site, “The sound was huge and the songs melodic” during the band’s set at The Conor Byrne Pub in Seattle. Read the review here, and check […]
Steve Reich Talks About Music With Essential Tremors
Essential Tremors, a show on WYPR, describes itself as a forum “in which musicians and other creators talk about the songs that shaped who they are.” Steve Reich appeared on a recent episode, which can be heard right here. According to the show’s description, Reich “long ago transcended the ‘minimalist’ tag to stand as one […]
Sunny War Plays The Kennedy Center – Watch The Full Concert
Sunny War has had one heck of a year, and she capped it off with a late-November performance at the Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in Washington, DC. According to the Kennedy Center’s site, War is “a master of fingerstyle guitar with a superb clawhammer technique.” She’s also a tremendously gifted songwriter with a […]
The Barr Brothers Announce Full-Album Shows
The Barr Brothers have just announced some full-album shows in Canada. According to Jambands, “The Barrs will play all of their 2011 self-titled record, 2014’s Sleeping Operator and 2017’s Queens of the Breakers over the three nights” at two separate venues – one in Toronto and one in Montréal. According to the band, “Nostalgia, as […]
Dude York’s Christmas Album Is Still Good
Do you remember Dude York‘s Halftime For The Holidays, which we delivered last year with a big helping of Christmas cheer? Stereogum said, “It’s a mix of pumped-up originals that act as sardonic takes on classic holiday songs, and it’s a whole lot of fun.” The good news about Christmas albums is that they can […]
Thriftys Plays The Bay Area This Month
The legendary Elbo Room in the Mission District of San Francisco is closing this month after three decades in business, meaning that The City will have one fewer spot for up-and-coming indie artists to play in front of people. It’s sad indeed, but fortunately there are still a few more shows and fortunately Thriftys gets […]
Glide Magazine Profiles Inara George
Glide Magazine has an interview with Inara George, whose Dearest Everybody is at radio along with her duet with Charlie Wadhams. George explains that the album is made of “songs that I wrote for friends, for special people, and sort of as a gift mostly; for people who had lost someone or as kind of […]
Inara George & Charlie Wadhams Go For Spins
When she announced the formation of her new label Release Me Records, Inara George (the bird and the bee, The Living Sisters), she told VoyageLA that her goal was “exposing some very talented people, that I’ve had the pleasure of working with, to the world.” One such person is Charlie Wadhams, a longtime George associate. […]
Inara George Discusses Loss With The SF Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner has a feature on Inara George‘s new solo album, Dearest Everybody. The album is pre-occupied with loss, as George explains to the Examiner: “The whole record is just different versions of saying goodbye to people, and there are only a few songs about my dad (Little Feat‘s Lowell George, who died when […]
The LA Times Shines a Light on Sunny War
Earlier this year, The LA Times pointed to Sunny War‘s album With The Sun as one of LA’s best offerings of 2018. Wrote the site, “She works with a lilting vibrato that recalls the great jazz vocalists of the 1950s, and as she maneuvers her fingers across her guitar, she doesn’t need to shout to […]
Popmatters Shares Alex Lilly’s “Pornographic Mind”
Popmatters recently premiered “Pornographic Mind,” the second single from Alex Lilly‘s forthcoming 2% Milk LP. As the site puts it, “The tune is a combination of classic AM radio pop, of the kind that has inspired Lilly’s sometime bandmate Inara George, as well as breezy, late ’80s synthesizer pop, think Madonna with a more poetic […]
The Country Blues Says Sunny War Is One Of The Genre’s Most Exciting New Voices
While Sunny War might be a new face at radio, she’s been on the radar of certain music fans for a while now. We recently dug up this article from The Country Blues, which eloquently explains the appeal of War and deftly indentifies the creative promise that she’s since brought to fruition on her new […]
B-Sides and Badlands Gives A Nod To Inara George
B-sides and Badlands approves of the new Inara George LP, giving Dearest Everybody a four-out-of-five rating and exploring the album’s heavy themes. “Three years in the making,” the site writes, “Dearest Everybody culls together decades-worth of experiences, as George processes her father’s death, handles relationships with her mother and three children, and soothes her own […]
Alex Lilly Goes For Adds
Los Angeles-based artist Alex Lilly is a Renaissance Female. In addition to writing, producing, and playing in her own musical projects – including Obi Best, The Living Sisters, Touché, and Zero DeZire – she’s established a notable career on the road in the touring bands of esteemed musicians like Beck, Lorde, Ry Cooder, and the […]
UPROXX Praises The Multi-Faceted Sunny War, Who Hit #59 at NACC And #4 at NACC Folk Last Week
About Sunny War, UPROXX writes, “It’s impossible to boil Sunny War’s music down to a fixed genre or style: her repertoire spans everything along the spectrum, from country blues to punk… The lyrics Sunny, born Sydney Lyndella Ward, writes aren’t short of nuance, either. Some of the themes in her music pay homage to her […]
NPR Tells Inara George’s Story
An NPR feature on Inara George includes high praise from Shirley Manson, the vocalist of Garbage. Manson said, “When she sent [new LP Dearest Everybody] to me, I said, ‘You’ve made the best record of your career, in my humble opinion!’” In addition to this quote, the article details George’s musical history and how she […]
Brooklyn Vegan Premieres Winter & Triptides’ New Video
Brooklyn Vegan has the premiere of “Desaparecidos,” the new video from Winter & Triptides. The site explains, “Earlier this year, Brazilian singer/songwriter Samira Winter and Glenn Brigman released Estrela Mágica, their debut as Winter & Triptides, which mixes tropicalia and sunshine psych into one lovely record. One of the LP’s best cuts is “Desaparecidos,” which […]
