Sors-tu Premieres The Barr Brothers’ New Video
The Barr Brothers have released the second official video clip from 2017’s Queens of the Breakers. “You Would Have To Lose Your Mind” features experimental dancer Brittany Canda. Sors-tu.ca has the premiere of the clip, which it compares to some of the videos that Sia has made. Enjoy the gorgeous clip right here. The Barr Brothers […]
Artichoke Goes For Adds
Artichoke’s newest album, Echoes, is a collection of songs about songs, including ten stylistically-warped covers alongside four originals. Timothy Sellers (Artichoke) and musical guests recorded this oblique reinvention of pop music from the twentieth century at his studio in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles – an older part of town with a hilly […]
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 […]
red steppes Go For Adds
Singer-songwriter Nika Aila States, who performs as red steppes, has been writing and performing songs for years. Living in the Bay Area, her geographical inclinations have led her to nurse a deep preoccupation with a sense of place, writing songs with an ocular lyrical panache that deals first with finding a setting – usually one that’s […]
The Dream Syndicate Plays Two Stripped-Down Songs For WFUV
The Dream Syndicate continues to promote last year’s How Did I Find Myself Here? After three decades without releasing material, the new record is more than a comeback – it finds the band not only returning to form but explanding its sound. A key player on the LP is Jason Victor, the newest member of the […]
CHAPPO Schedules Shows
CHAPPO started off 2018 with a bang, premiering the song “Cry On Me” on KCRW and announcing their upcoming album DO IT. The single is available to download from AmApAc in advance of the album’s release next month, and we’re excited about all of the positive feedback we’ve been receiving from stations about the track. […]
Brooklyn Vegan Shares Sonny Smith Song
A few months ago, Brooklyn Vegan was one of the first outlets to drop the news that Sonny Smith – known, among many other things, for his work as the frontman of Sonny and the Sunsets – had signed to Dan Auerbach‘s Easy Eye Sound and would release the Auerbach-helmed Rod For Your Love his year. […]
Pitchfork Bestows “Best New Track” Honors On Mount Eerie
Pitchfork says “Distortion,” the new single from Mount Eerie, is a Best New Track. “On Mount Eerie’s new song,” writes the site, “death is still real, but its scope has expanded. It’s no longer confined to the few months before and after [his wife] Geneviève’s death, though he still calls to her, still refers to […]
Aesthetic Magazine Interviews San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone
San Fermin continues to support Belong, which the band released to much acclaim last year. The band’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone recently sat with Aesthetic Magazine for a conversation as well as a photo session. Ludwig-Leone explained why he chose to make Belong more lyrically personal than previous San Fermin outings, and he also told the ‘zine […]
Noisey Premieres Leyya Video
According to Noisey, “One of the most exciting things about music is that it doesn’t have to make absolute, technical sense for you to thoroughly enjoy it… Clashing sounds and words, beats and melodies to create a mood or feeling or swath simply of sound rather than rigid structure is an entirely pleasurable creative act.” […]
The Barr Brothers Tell The CBC About Leonard Cohen
“A simple guitar pattern can free your mind,” according to Brad Barr. The Barr Brothers member was talking to The CBC about the influence of Leonard Cohen, whose hometown of Montreal he adopted with his brother Andrew, on the Barr Brothers’ sound. In the segment, Barr talks passionately about Cohen, while performing a beautiful acoustic […]
Leyya Goes For Adds
Leyya, the Austrian Indiepop duo, has been generating a buzz since the instant success of their 2016 debut Spanish Disco. That album’s hit single, “Superego,” racked up over three million plays on Spotify and over 560,000 Youtube views. Leyya has laid claim to the prestigious Amadeus Music Award and graced the stages at festivals across […]
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. […]
Coast Modern Unveils Massive US Tour
Coast Modern – the effervescent, hip-hop inspired, and tropical indie pop project of Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp – is headed on tour at the end of February, and they won’t be back home for two months. Let us know if you’d like us to reach out to the band about opportunities at your station […]
The Dream Syndicate Performs For World Cafe
WXPN recently hosted Steve Wynn of The Dream Syndicate for an episode of World Cafe. Host Talia Schlanger talked to Steve Wynn at the end of 2017 for an episode broadcast last week. According to Schlanger, “In this session, Steve talks about touring with R.E.M. and U2, and watching them ascend to pop stardom at the […]
Sonny Smith Plots Western Tour
Sonny Smith, who has just released two singles from his upcoming Rod For Your Love LP produced by Dan Auerbach for Easy Eye Sound, has also announced some tour dates. Smith is a veteran performer whose live shows are always worth the price of admission. Here are the dates: 02/02 – Gallery 16 – San […]
Tiny Mix Tapes Calls Mount Eerie’s LP The Best of the Year
This week, we serviced “Distortion,” the first song from Phil Elverum’s new album as Mount Eerie – Now Only. The new record is the next chapter in a musical movement that began last year with the stunning and tragic A Crow Looked At Me. That album – an almost stream-of-conscience reaction to the loss of […]
CHAPPO Premieres on KCRW
KCRW has thrown its weight behind CHAPPO’s “Cry On Me,” calling the band’s new single “a glorious anthem for catharsis” and premiering it online last week. Since the band’s last LP, 2015’s Future Former Self, the members of the band have dealth both collectively and individually with tremendous loss. KCRW writes, “To present a track […]
KEXP Says L.A. Witch Makes “Music That Matters”
L.A. Witch has been getting regular play on Seattle’s KEXP, and now the band has been featured on the site’s heavily-downloaded “Music That Matters” podcast. The description of the episode, #599, is as follows: “Goth is back from the dead and everybody is wearing black and dangly earrings. Atticus takes you on a journey throughout […]
CHAPPO Goes For Adds
DO IT, the third LP from New York’s CHAPPO, was born of tragedy. On the heels of their last album, the dense and conceptual Future Former Self, singer Alex Chappo, guitarist David Feddock, and keyboardist Chris Olson found themselves scattered and devastated. Chappo lost his best friend to suicide, Feddock and his wife lost their […]
