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 […]
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 […]
The Barr Brothers Discuss Parenthood and Music with Georgia Straight
In a lengthy recent interview with The Georgia Straight, Andrew Barr of The Barr Brothers explained how fatherhood has impacted how each of them has been able to make music. “Things got really hectic for a while,” he told the paper, because both he and his brother Brad had children. “I wouldn’t say we were […]
KEXP Posts Full Dream Syndicate Session
If you think The Dream Syndicate sounds amazing on their new LP, How Did I Find Myself Here?, you should definitely see them perform live. The veteran rockers emit an effortless cool onstage, and their variety of lively post-shoegaze translates perfectly in a live setting. Though the band’s tour is almost wrapped up, fans can fortunately […]
Live In Limbo Interviews San Fermin
Live in Limbo recently posted an interview, conducted last year, with San Fermin mastermind Ellis Ludwig-Leone. The video interview, conducted during last year’s Wayhome Festival in Ontario, touches on a lot of different topics. Fans of the band will be interested to hear about the themes of the album, to find out how Ludwig-Leone approaches songwriting, […]
The Sacramento Bee Cites Dude York As One Of 2017’s Best “Overlooked” Bands
Did you sleep on Dude York‘s fantastic 2017 LP Sincerely? It did amazingly well at college and specialty radio – it peaked in the Top 5 at both NACC and Specialty and is still charting at a handful of stations almost a year after its release. Apparently the gospel isn’t completely out though, because The […]
Live 4 Ever Praises The Barr Brothers’ New LP
“Queens Of The Breakers,” writes Live 4 Ever about the new Barr Brothers LP, “isn’t merely a collection of excellent songs (although it is full of them). Instead, it is a carefully considered and deliberate whole. This is a record that works and is better if listened to from start to finish to truly understand […]
The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn Talks With The Intelligencer
How Did I Find Myself Here? is The Dream Syndicate’s first album since the 1980s, but it’s been regarded as a rebirth for the band and has garnered major critical acclaim.“This album feels more like our debut,” band leader Steve Wynn told Pennsylvania’s The Intelligencer in an interview. “The material was made as a Dream […]
Diffuser Lists The Magnetic Fields, The Flaming Lips, and Mount Eerie Among the Best of 2017
Three AmApAc artists were on Diffuser‘s list of the 25 best albums from 2017. On The Flaming Lips‘ Oczy Mlody, the site commented, “As they have done to brilliant effect time after time, the Flaming Lips again placed an overlay of Technicolored wonderland on the real world.” Writing about Mount Eerie‘s tragic A Crow Looked […]
Wayne Coyne Reviews The Year With Stereogum
Wayne Coyne, whose band Flaming Lips released the excellent Oczy Mlody at the beginning of last year, re-capped 2017 in a December interview with Stereogum. In a free-wheeling conversation that touches on silly topics like Miley Cyrus, Blake Shelton, and Fyre Fest as well as serious issues like Nazi-punching and the tenets of non-violence. Check out the […]
RI Central Praises The New Dream Syndicate LP
RI Central says How Did I Find Myself Here? “hopefully begins a new chapter” for The Dream Syndicate, writes RI Central. Leader Steve Wynn’s “grandiose approach to songcraft is obvious right out of the gates,” according to the site, and is relentless throughout the LP’s runtime. “The Dream Syndicate… sounds like a band reborn in all […]
