Thirdstory Talks Headlining Tour, Chance The Rapper, and Denver With 303 Magazine
Thirdstory is receiving a warm response to their album Cold Heart. Thanks to all of the stations that have been supporting this new release. 303 Magazine recently chatted with Thirdstory about their creative process, the lessons they learned while on tour with Chance the Rapper and what they’re looking forward to most on their Denver stop. Check out the feature here. […]
Isador Goes For Adds
Warren Heller, who goes by the name Isador, is a stunningly creative photographer, graphic designer, filmmaker, and musician who has made it his mission to tell stories of coming of age in a hostile world, overcoming limitations both externally imposed and involuntarily self-inflicted. “I was incredibly bored growing up in New Jersey. I didn’t connect with anything […]
Sis Goes For Adds
Sis is the serendipitous, scary, and smooth combustion of Jenny Gillespie Mason, Rob Shelton, Carly Bond, Joseph Adamik, Andrew Maguire, and Jamie Riotto. The group began as a spontaneous shredding/sculpting session of songwriting and recording between former folkie Gillespie Mason – who came armed with her journals and a handful of rough compositions begun on […]
Tiny Mix Tapes Gives Five Stars To Mount Eerie’s Now Only
Tiny Mix Tapes chose Mount Eerie‘s A Crow Looked At Me as its top album of 2017, and the site has now given a five-star review to the follow up. The review of Now Only, written by Jazz Scott, is intimate and personal – like so many reactions to Mount Eerie’s recent music, it speaks to […]
Royal Gazette Interviews Thirdstory’s Ben Lusher
Ben Lusher recently talked with Royal Gazette, a newspaper in his home country of Bermuda. Lusher is one-third of Thirdstory, whose soulful album Cold Heart is aiming for NACC debuts this week. Lusher told the paper about his journey with Thirdstory, and explained why it was worth putting their album on hold last year while […]
Simon Doom Speaks With The Young Folks
Simon Doom fans got a nice surprise earlier this year when the band (led by Simon O’Connor, who performs in MGMT‘s touring band) released a new single “Lucifer The Light Bearer.” They’ll be happy to know there’s more Simon Doom music on the way, at least according to a new interview O’Connor gave to The […]
KEXP Reviews Mount Eerie’s Now Only
KEXP has a review of Mount Eerie‘s new Now Only LP, and it’s an inevitably deep and thoughtful rumination on an album that demands nothing less. “His voice remains as tender as a wound,” the station writes, comparing his singing to that of work he recorded nearly two decades ago, “which makes these spartan songs […]
Naked Giants, Among Rolling Stone’s Favorites at SxSW, Play For The Current
Rolling Stone caught one of Naked Giants‘ sets last week in Austin for SxSW and praised the trio’s “exuberant chants and peals of feedback. Guitarist Grant Mullen and bassist Gianni Aiello locked into a ramshackle battle, trading licks and bitten-off vocals as they thrashed about the stage in a sweaty tangle of long hair that […]
Floated Magazine Gets Dream System 8’s Origin Story
Dream System 8 was recently profiled in Floated Magazine, which asked the duo of David Klotz and Erica Elektra all about their influences, their musical synergy, how parenthood impacts their creativity, and the Tinder date that led to the group’s genesis. While that date has been referenced in much of the duo’s mythology, this may […]
Rejjie Snow Talks To The Fader
“It’s an album that I think is my best work to date, and I think it’s very important,” Rejjie Snow told The Fader in a recent interview about his new album Dear Annie. “I really put blood, sweat, and tears into this. I hope people listen.” Snow also talked to the Fader about other interesting […]
Billboard Highlights Thirdstory And Eryn Allen Kane
Billboard has a clip of Thirdstory‘s “Still In Love,” featuring a duet with Eryn Allen Kane. This version of the song, as well as its original incarnation, appears on the group’s new LP Cold Heart that is currently at radio and aiming for NACC debuts. Writes Billboard, “Eryn Allen Kane and Thirdstory have each gotten […]
Pitchfork Gives “Best New Music” Honors To Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie‘s A Crow Looked At Me, which was released last year, has become the most-acclaimed album of Phil Elverum‘s career. According to Pitchfork, the album’s follow up – called Now Only and at radio now – “is no less a marvel. Phil Elverum’s latest is part memoir and part magnum opus, sung softly and […]
Flood Shares Sonny Smith
Flood has the premiere of the video for “Pictures Of You,” the lead track on Sonny Smith‘s new album Rod For Your Love. The record was produced by Dan Auerbach, but Flood contends that the song “suggests Black Lips more than Black Keys, as the jangling guitars and breezy melodies lift the peculiarly linear two-and-a-half […]
Mount Eerie Goes For Adds
As Mount Eerie, and prior to 2004 as The Microphones, Phil Elverum has pioneered a distinct form of existential music – hinged on a balance of boundlessness and intimacy – that feels entirely homegrown. While each album has been unique in sound and approach, they all grapple with big questions in ways that are human and relatable. […]
Thirdstory Goes For Adds
Thirdstory is an NYC-based trio made up of Ben Lusher, Richard Saunders, and Elliott Skinner. Since 2015, the group has cultivated a strong grassroots following that began on YouTube. The group’s YouTube channel features an abundance of awe-inspiring acoustic covers, and since its debut the trio has collected more than 100,000 subscribers. In 2017, the […]
Demo Taped Goes For Adds
The 19-year-old behind Demo Taped, Adam Alexander, learned both the importance of fellowship and the art of showmanship from his grandfather, a preacher. “He’s not a showy preacher,” says Alexander, “but if he doesn’t get the reaction he’s looking for, he’s got funny ways to keep people’s attention. I did learn that from him.” In […]
Meernaa Goes For Adds
Meernaa is Carly Bond’s beautiful, freaky dream. Bond (guitar and vocals) formed Meernaa with Rob Shelton (keys) in Oakland in 2015. They are natural collaborators (both work as engineers at John Vanderslice’s recording studio Tiny Telephone) who draw influence from the environments of the Bay Area, where the shift between dramatic landscapes can be hard […]
Naked Giants Share “Sluff” Vid Via Billboard
Naked Giants took Austin by storm last week, playing more shows at South By Southwest than we even care to try counting (so we won’t). They were well-received as well, thanks to their infectious energy and their ability to crank it to 11. Hopefully you saw them if you were in Texas for the festival! […]
Sonny Smith Talks To Brooklyn Vegan About Dan Auerbach, His Mom, and So Much More
“He believes in ‘first thought best thought,’” Sonny Smith says of Dan Auerbach, the Black Keys member who produced Smith’s new album Rod For Your Love and released it via his own Easy Eye Sound label. According to Smith, Auerbach kept “the pace fast enough that you can’t second guess too much. I think there […]
The Financial Times Likes Steve Reich’s New Album
The Financial Times has a review of Steve Reich‘s new Pulse/Quartet album. According to the site, Pulse is an “uncharacteristically serene” work from Reich, in which “musical landscape feels unmistakably American, but more like the homely contentment of Copland than the Reich of earlier years. Blue skies beckon and there is a comforting warmth in […]
