Cecilia Della Peruti Makes Her Directorial Debut With Gothic Tropic’s “Your Soul”
“Your Soul” is the newest video from Gothic Tropic‘s Fast or Feast, and it’s also the first video directed by the band’s mastermind Cecilia Della Peruti. According to Paper Magazine, Peruti’s music “Embracing harder sonic textures and her vulnerability [in] a combination that makes [her] accessible melodies deeper, darker, and rooted in truth. From this place, […]
Inara George Goes For Adds
On the day Inara George turned five years old, she attended the wake of her father, musician Lowell George, the beating heart of the band Little Feat. As anyone who has lost a parent or a close loved one knows, the grief – as well as the gratitude that their lives touched yours – spreads […]
The New York Times Shares Sunny War
Earlier this year, Sunny War was featured in a New York Times playlist along with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Thom Yorke. The Times calls “If It Wasn’t Broken” a “minimal lament, which uses just acoustic guitar picking, fiddle and a backup vocal here and there. It’s both lived-in advice and a kind of […]
Thriftys Makes A Big Jump At NACC
Thriftys made the biggest week-to-week jump of any self-releasing artist on this past week’s NACC Radio 200, as Automatic Thought made it the way to #113 after debuting last week at #169. We appreciate the chart support the record found from AM 1700, CHMR, DMPulse, KBLU, KJHK, KMSC, KPFT, KWUR, KXLU, WCSF, WDWN, WMEB, WNCW, […]
LA Record Premieres The “Punchy And Engaging” New Alex Lilly Single
LA Record recently premiered “Distracting Me,” the lead single from Alex Lilly‘s upcoming LP 2% Milk. The magazine says the song “is a light (but not slight) pop song with a punchy beat and engaging twisty-turny melodies, written about how romance re-orders priorities—and how every so often the unexpected choice turns out to be the […]
Positive Feedback Has An Affirmative Response To Sunny War
Positive Feedback writes that “Sunny War’s voice, her guitar and all that glorious accompaniment is delivered with a full, rich and gorgeous sound that makes [new album With The Sun] one of the biggest surprises of 2018, a timeless folk album that you’ll keep playing for years.” The glowing review delves into the album, comparing War […]
Naked Giants Plot 2019 Tour
Naked Giants are gearing up to tour Europe with Car Seat Headrest, operating both as the opening act for the tour and also as the lynchpins of Will Toledo‘s sprawling live band. After that, the bands will come back to the states to continue their aural assault on the homeland. Check out the dates below, […]
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 […]
One Chord To Another Is “Seriously Addicted” To Sunny War
Sunny War may describe her sound as “folk punk,” but that didn’t keep her off the radar of self-professed “Finnish pop” site One Chord To Another. Writes the site, “The lead track of [new LP With The Sun] is ‘If It Wasn’t Broken’ and I’ve been seriously addicted to it. This broken-hearted song is actually quite […]
Thriftys Debuts At NACC
Thriftys busted into the NACC Radio 200 last week, getting its start at #169 with Automatic Thought. It was the debut album’s first week on the charts, and it was the highest-charting debut of any self-release on the Radio 200 this week. Thanks to CHMR, DMPulse Media, KMSC, KWUR, KXLU, WCSF, WGBK, WIDB, WLIG, WMCX, […]
Beehype Says Leyya is “Ultra-Catchy”
Beehype says Leyya’s single “Wannabe” is notable for its “jungle beat and ultra-catchy chorus. Leyya could’ve been a sound-a-like in chilly, bedroom electro-pop, but the duo adds a couple of special ingredients to an established sound. That’s why they sound so accessible while offering different layers of depth.” The site says the song is “truly […]
New Noise Hails The “Magic” Of The Smoking Flowers
New Noise Magazine writes that The Smoking Flowers’ Let’s Die Together is “an album that has a unique ability to fuse loud, thriving ’90s rock guitars with a vintage feeling akin to their Nashville home.” The site’s review of the album cites the undeniable connection between bandmates Kim and Scott Collins, a married couple who’ve […]
Sunny War Plays “Static” On KXLU’s Demolisten
Sunny War stopped by Demolisten, the storied demos-and-live-music program that’s been on Los Angeles’ KXLU since the 1980s, earlier this year to perform some of her stunning and inspiring composition. Much of the intimate set, which was broadcast in February from Time Warp Records in beautiful Mar Vista, has been posted on Youtube. Watch “Static,” which […]
Thriftys Plays An Alien In “Leave Here Unknown”
In the video for “Leave Here Unknown,” writes The Deli, Thriftys‘ Chase Eiseman “plays an extraterrestrial musician with an inability to blend in. In the clip, Eiseman’s green-painted skin and third eye aren’t his only traits that stand out; his easygoing falsetto in the chorus is a highlight of the track, and pulls listeners in […]
Sunny War Critiques Contemporary Manhood With New Video
Sunny War has a new video, for the single “Age Of Man.” Buzzbands calls the track a “horn-splashed song that showcases War’s wise-beyond-her-years vocals and the prowess, honed by many a session on the Venice Beach boardwalk, of an artist who considers herself a blues guitarist but not a blues artist.” The video is a humorous […]
Julietta Shares “Hard Love” Via Cool Hunting
Cool Hunting has Julietta‘s video for “Hard Love,” a standout track from her new LP Smooth Sailing. Says the site, “A collage of brilliant bits from the known universe—including galactic star-scapes and jungle flora—the latest music video from Brooklyn’s Julietta, “Hard Love” melts and pops with decisive delight. In the track, breathy vocals drift atop […]
Thriftys Goes For Adds
Thriftys’ Automatic Thought is a sincere burst of sun-drenched energy, a come-clean admission of Brit-rock infatuation, and a 90’s college rock nostalgia grab from Oakland-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Chase Eiseman. Born and raised in LA, Eiseman lost both his parents to AIDS by age 4 and latched onto musical expression as a way to process […]
Sunny War Talks With The Bluegass Situation
The Bluegrass Situation writes that Sunny War's 2016 album "Red, White and Blue colored within the lines of folk, so to speak, but [new LP] With the Sun pushes in messier stylistic directions, and the results are extraordinary." This description accompanies a long-ranging interview with War on the site that goes deep and finds the […]
At Cost Reviews Julietta
Smooth Sailing, the LP from Julietta, "saunters with the ease of its warm weather feel." That's according to At Cost Magazine, which reviewed the record recently. The site describes the record's "soft, honey-dripped vocals and lightly-plucked melodies," and does a great job describing the sonic and lyrical content of each track. Overall, the review says […]
The Green Man Review Takes On Sunny War
The Green Man Review has published its take on Sunny War‘s With The Sun, calling the up-and-coming singer/songwriter “as punk as they come; a blues-style guitarist; a street performer with a singer-songwriter’s heart… [and] a major new voice in Americana.” The review highlights War’s “muscular picking, her subtly emotion-laden vocals, and her lyrics that pull no […]
