The Donkeys Seek A New NACC Peak
Sun Damaged Youth, the newest LP from San Diego’s surf-drenched, jangly rock trio The Donkeys, is picking up more and more steam on the NACC 200 as stations dive into its tracklist and discover more and more sunny, catchy standouts. The album got to #32 last week – help it reach an even higher peak by […]
Paul Givant Goes To Alaska With His Band
Paul Givant, who just released a solo album called Fashion District Adjacent, will be touring Alaska at the front of his band Rose’s Pawn Shop. The band has stops throughout the Land of the Midnight Sun, followed by a few in the Pacific Northwest. See the itinerary here. Hopefully, the band will play some songs […]
The Donkeys, On Tour Now, Release “Radiation” Video
The Donkeys have released a video for “Radiation,” directed by surf photographer Shane Lotz. Watch it here. The song is from the band’s new Sun Damaged Youth LP, which is ticking up the Top 200 at NACC. Help the band continue their ascent by adding them to your rotation now! The Donkeys continue their tonight […]
Acid Stag Shares Krrum’s “Phase”
Acid Stag has a stream of Krrum‘s “Phase,” from the new album Honeymoon. The track is “a dense, electronic track with touches of art-rock and pop,” writes the site, while the full LP is “an eclectic and emotional work.” Check it out here. Honeymoon debuted on the NACC 200 last week, getting its start at […]
The Department of Tangents Interviews The Smoking Flowers
The Department of Tangents has the video for “Young and Brave” by The Smoking Flowers, and it also has an exclusive and detailed interview with the duo. The band explains the impetus behind the video, which finds them paying homage to influential rockers, rollers and country outlaws from the past. Also, the band tells the site […]
NBC 7 Shares The Donkeys’ “Kool Kids”
According San Diego's NBC 7, The Donkeys are "everyone's favorite local sultans of chill." Now, "the trio has popped up in the limelight again with a surging new psych-rock/pop track called 'Kool Kids.' NBC 7 has a stream of the track, which can be heard right here. The Donkeys hit a new peak at #47 on […]
Paste Shares Naked Giants Video
Naked Giants are utterly destroying 2018, which has seen the release of the excellent LP Sluff and has found the boys touring the world both with and in Car Seat Headrest. There's so much going on with the band, that it's hard to keep up with all the excitement and press they've been generating. With that […]
The East Nashvillian Profiles The Smoking Flowers
The Smoking Flowers are a staple of the East Nashville scene. and their hometown East Nashvillian has a spendid feature on the duo. Written while they were still crafting their new LP Let’s Die Together, the feature starts by describing the group as “by turns raucous and delicate” before getting into a spot-on description of their live […]
The Donkeys Surge Onto The NACC Top 200
The Donkeys are off to a great start at the NACC 200. Sun Damaged Youth, the first-ever release on the band’s new Flop Records imprint, debuted at #52 last week! Can they reach the Top 40 this week? We’re sure hoping so… after all, their surfy, radioactive vibe is perfect listening as the heat gets hotter. […]
Indie Voice Blog Gives Paul Givant High Marks
Indie Voice Blog has a review of Paul Givant‘s new Fashion District Adjacent, which it hails as “one of the best [albums] we have heard this year. Mixing elements of Americana, folk, and country, he forges a dynamic new mix that is worlds apart from the music created by his band [Rose’s Pawn Shop]. The […]
Devendra Banhart Shares Animated Video For “Celebration”
Q gave Devendra Banhart‘s Ape in Pink Marble four stars; Uncut called it “excellent;” and stations around the country are still playing songs from the record. This year, Banhart curated a series of workshops titled Imaginary Universes, which opened at Fondazione Prada’s Accademia dei bambini in Milan on May 5, 2018. He led the inaugural workshops […]
ANCHR Gets To Know Naked Giants
What are your first musical memories? The members of Naked Giants recall theirs in a new interview with ANCHR magazine that also touches on the trio’s idea for a New West Records supergroup. “New West Records–what they really love is gimmicks,” says the band’s Gianni Aiello. “New West wants something that people will remember.. so […]
The Donkeys, Reviewed by KEXP, Go On Tour
KEXP has a brief review of The Donkeys‘ new Sun Damaged Youth. According to the Seattle-based radio institution, “This San Diego band’s fifth album is a sprawling concept album about an imagined post-apocalyptic Southern California with the music being a summery blend of hazy psych-pop, surf and more.” Read their full rundown of last week’s […]
The Smoking Flowers, On Tour, Get Love From Bandcamp and The Vinyl Anachronist
The Smoking Flowers‘ Let’s Die Together is “New and Notable,” according to Bandcamp, which featured the album earlier this week on its front page. The album is also the subject of a loving review by The Vinyl Anachronist, which says that “Let’s Die Together sounds much more accomplished” than the band’s last album, 2 Guns. […]
Junun Tours With Radiohead and Plays Colbert – Get The Album From Our Download Page
A few years ago, we serviced an extraordinary album from Shye Ben Tzur, Johnny Greenwood, and an Indian qawwali collective known as The Rajasthan Express. Produced by Nigel Godrich, Junun soundtracks a PT Anderson film of the same name and topped the CMJ World chart for several weeks. Now, the group is opening for Greenwood’s […]
Paul Givant Goes For Adds
Fashion District Adjacent, produced by Grammy Award winner Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Flogging Molly, Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys), is the first solo release from Paul Givant, the founder of the heralded Americana band Rose’s Pawn Shop. In a departure from that group’s up-tempo and oft-raucous sound, on the new LP Givant dives into a more […]
The San Diego Reader Reveals The Story Behind Sun Damaged Youth
The San Diego Reader has a loving story about The Donkeys, the SD-based, beach-baked trio that just released Sun Damaged Youth. According to the band, it all originated at Disneyland. “We were just in line at Adventureland goofing-off,” says the band’s Anthony Lukens. “We were eating churros and went to throw them away and there […]
No Depression Loves The Smoking Flowers
Let’s Die Together, the new LP from The Smoking Flowers, “is more than about music.” This is according to No Depression, which has a long article about the band, their history in the Nashville underground, and the new album itself. “Kim Collins… plays ferocious drums along with accordion, acoustic guitar, mandolin, and harmonica. Scott Collins […]
Naked Giants, On Tour Starting This Weekend, Get High Marks From AllMusic
“Arriving via a wave of cosmic feedback, fuzzed-out bass, and warbly, distorted surf guitar,” writes AllMusic, the debut LP from Naked Giants “is a fiery amalgam of seismic Pacific Northwest garage-punk, gnarly bubblegum blues, and fiery psych-rock.” The site’s review contends that the trio is “possessed by the kind of nervy, semi-danceable punk fury” that […]
Sonny Smith Talks Rod For Your Love With Jamie Berger
Sonny Smith, the Sonny and the Sunsets frontman who recently dropped the Dan Auerbach-produced solo album Rod For Your Love, recently sat with his old friend Jamie Berger to talk about his the album and his career. According to Berger, “We talked about flying to Nashville to be produced by a rock star (and guests […]
