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 […]
Earmilk Shares Coast Modern’s MGMT Cover
Earmilk has shared Coast Modern’s recent re-imagination of MGMT’s “Electric Feel,” which the duo recently released. Writes Earmilk, “I’m not usually a huge fan of bands covering other groups songs, but Coast Modern were able to add a freshness to the hit track. The song starts with some smooth crooning, and evolves by the chorus into […]
The Kitsap Sun Profiles CHAPPO
The Kitsap Sun recently profiled CHAPPO, whose new LP DO IT debuted in the Top 100 at NACC this week. The paper gives a bit of a backstory on the band, whose members Dave Feddock (guitar) and Chris Olson (keyboard) attended the same junior high school but didn’t become acquainted until much later. The paper […]
Beams’ Anna Mernieks Speaks With the Wisconsin Gazette
Beams is currently on tour in North America, and bandleader Anna Mernieks recently conducted an interview with the Wisconsin Gazette to promote the band’s show last week in Milwaukee. Mernieks dealt with a severe bout of depression during the making of the album, which she addressed during the interview. According to the singer/songwriter, “writing songs” […]
Keyboard Mag Profiles Dream System 8
Keyboard Magazine has a profile of Dream System 8, the LA-based duo of Erica Elektra and David Klotz. Writes the magazine, “the band coaxes beguiling textures from their array of 80s era keyboards from Roland, Korg, and Yamaha.” The site asked them to give some background about their influences and musical history. Fans may already know […]
Stereogum Premieres Sonny Smith’s Duet With Angel Olsen, “Burnin’ Up”
Earlier this year, Stereogum was kind enough to share the track “Burnin’ Up” from Sonny Smith‘s then-forthcoming LP Rod For Your Love. The track features vocals from Angel Olsen, who also appears in the video. Says Olsen, “I’ve been a fan of Sonny’s for a long time now. I was pretty busy traveling when we […]
Naked Giants, Currently at SxSW, Release Video Via Uproxx
Uproxx has the video for “TV,” one of the massive rockers on Naked Giants‘ new Steve Fisk-produced LP SLUFF. The site decribes the track as “full of retro swagger and guitar-swinging irreverence that taps into the still-beating heart of the genre… the song swells to a full-on psychedelic freakout before its close.” Catch the clip right […]
Sonny Smith Goes For Adds
For years, the incredibly prolific Sonny Smith has built his own brand of indie-folk and rock & roll. With a dozen albums to his name and a handful of related projects — including multiple stage plays, a full-length musical and his nationally-recognized art installation, “100 Bands” — under his belt, Smith has grown into a cult […]
Naked Giants Go For Adds
Naked Giants have signed to New West Records, and SLUFF is their debut full-length. The band – a three-piece garage rock wildebeest from Seattle – combines spontaneity with serious musicianship. Bringing together a tremendous array of influences with an audible energy that gets the crowds doing the twist, guitarist/vocalist Grant Mullen, bassist/vocalist Gianni Aiello, and drummer Henry LaVallee have built […]
Rejjie Snow Goes For Adds
By most metrics, Rejjie Snow appears to be a rap artist and that’s technically true. But he doesn’t see it that way, and in any case the simplicity of the label obscures what makes him different, which is pretty much everything. “I thought I’d be blacklisted from hip-hop for being Irish,” he says, but that’s […]
Coast Modern Releases MGMT Cover, Tours
Coast Modern is on a creative tear, making so much new music that they can’t even keep track of what they’ve recorded. Regarding their newest release – a cover of MGMT‘s classic “Electric Feel” – the duo of Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp says, “Honestly we don’t remember making this. A few days ago the mastered […]
AmApAc Artists Head To Austin for SxSW
Multiple A man A plan A canal artists are getting pumped for a week of shows in Austin for South by Southwest. If you’re going to be in Austin, here’s where you can catch our artists! Monday, 3/12 Naked Giants – Strange Brew 7 – Hotel Vegas & Volstead Lounge – 9:30 PM Tuesday, 3/13 […]
Magnetic Mag Premieres Dream System 8’s “It’s All Happening”
Magnetic Magazine recently premiered “It’s All Happening,” from Dream System 8‘s debut LP We Sleep Again. The site quotes the band’s Erika Electra about the song’s meaning – according to her, “The song is sort of an existential look at my life. I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of time, and how it is […]
KTSW Reviews Artichoke’s Echoes
Echoes, the newest album from Artichoke, has a “fun-loving” sound and contains “the most unconventional and intriguing versions of classics we all know and love.” The review identifies a couple of covers as highlights: Johnny Cash‘s “Folsom Prison Blues” and Jimmy Buffett‘s “Margaritaville.” According to the review, these tracks have “the heavy and lo-fi guitar solos […]
