Overcoats Tour US
Overcoats just don’t stop! The duo, which won plaudits in 2017 for blending electronic and folk elements on the sonically-ambitious album YOUNG, is continuing with a relentless tour schedule in the new year. They’re in Indiana tonight, and they’ve got shows into February: 01/15 – HI-FI Indy – Indianapolis, IN 01/16 – The Majestic Theatre […]
The Barr Brothers Share Trip Tales with Clash Music
Clash Music says The Barr Brothers’ “fresh, folk-hewn take on songwriting is born for the concert effect, with their impactful songwriting echoing around venues across the globe.” The band tours a lot, and Clash talked to Brad Barr about some of his most enduring tour memories. Barr has this advice to young touring acts just getting started on […]
KEXP Uploads Full L.A. Witch Performance
L.A. Witch recently performed on KEXP, Seattle’s premiere non-commercial station. The LA-based three-piece tore through a four song set culled from their 2017 self-titled debut and answered interview questions from host John Richards. We told you about the set when it happened back in October, but now it’s been archived online. Watch it again – […]
The Dream Syndicate Finishes Tour With Two Dates in Texas
The Dream Syndicate still has two dates to go on its US tour! The band plays later this month in Texas, bringing to an end a string of electric shows that have delighted audiences who have loved the band for years along with others who discovered the band for the first time with 2017’s How […]
The Barr Brothers Perform on CBS This Morning, Announce February Dates in Québec
CBS This Morning hosts a “Saturday Session” each week featuring musical performances from bands like The Barr Brothers, who showed up this Saturday to play two songs from the bands’ 2017 LP Queens of the Breakers. “Hideous Glorious” and “Defibrillation.” The band has some European dates this month before returning home to their native Québec for a string […]
KEXP Reviews Dude York’s Holiday LP
KEXP has declared Christmas “the most pop-punk of holidays,” which explains why Dude York has issued a Christmas LP this season. Writes the station, “In the spectrum of holidays, Christmas hits with the same immediacy and mass appeal as its kindred spirit genre — both also have some serious haters who just ‘don’t get it, […]
UPROXX Interviews Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart, who has been in the Grateful Dead for five decades and has won several Grammys for his solo percussive work, says his new album RAMU might be “the best record” he’s made. This is according to an interview with UPROXX, which talked to the prolific musician about the album’s creation as well as […]
The Barr Brothers Explain Queens Of the Breakers To WaPo
The Washington Post reports that the process behind The Barr Brothers‘ The Queens Of The Breakers was neither smooth nor effortless. As the band “raced to finish their third album,” the paper writes, “they had two other deadlines looming. They were renovating a house they had just bought together and Andrew’s wife was due to give […]
The Grammys Nominate Tinariwen For Best World Music Album
One of the great pleasures of our year has been working with Tinariwen, the North African collective whose album Elwan did well at both Radio 200 and the World chart. In recent years, the group’s homeland in a Saharan mountain range has been transformed into a conflict zone. While the songs on Elwan evoke those […]
Overcoats Add Tour Dates and Interview with Scarlet and Black
Scarlet and Black has an interview with Overcoats, whose debut album Young is currently at radio with a deluxe edition featuring two additional songs. In the interview, the duo delves into their origin. According to band member Hana Elion, “we bonded over mutual love of anthropology and cheese puffs.” JJ Mitchell, her musical co-conspirator, added, […]
NYLON Premieres L.A. Witch’s “Drive Your Car” Video
“Nothing,” writes NYLON in a sensational headline, “is as cool as L.A. Witch‘s ‘Drive Your Car’ video.” The clip, for a track taken from the band’s self-titled debut on Suicide Squeeze, is “as effortlessly cool as they come. Who knew all you’d need was some badass whips, a killer all-black wardrobe, and an unbothered attitude […]
Camille Shares Pitchfork Playlist Highlighting Voice and Percussion
French singer/performer Camille has garnered quite a bit of praise for the delicate and innovative manipulations of voice and percussion that she employs so effectively on her new album OUÏ. She’s now created a new Spotify playlist titled Voix et Percussion (Voice and Percussion), from a mix she made for Pitchfork Radio in partnership with Sonos during […]
Billboard Interviews Mickey Hart and Shares “Auctioneers”
“I didn’t want it to sound like a standard record by any stretch of the imagination,” former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart recently told Billboard about his new solo release RAMU. “I didn’t want to use cliche elements that you would normally put in a pop or rock ‘n’ roll (album)… I pulled out a […]
The Stranger Celebrates The Holidays With Dude York, On Tour Now
When you got your copy of Dude York's new album Halftime For The Holidays, was your first reaction to ask, "What the f*ck?" Well, that's exactly what a patron at a local Seattle JCPenney asked the band as they left the store this summer carrying armloads of Santas and sports memorabilia. They'd been there to […]
The Boston Globe Explores The Barr Brothers’ New England Roots
The Barr Brothers are a Canadian band, but brothers Andrew and Brad Barr weren’t born in the Great White North. Rather, they got their start in New England. “In the mid-’90s, as Berklee College students,” writes The Boston Globe, “they rocked [local venues] the Middle East, the Paradise, and Somerville Theatre” in an “avant-rock jam-trio” […]
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed Loves SISTERS’ Wait Don’t Wait
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed has a review of SISTERS’ new LP Wait Don’t Wait, calling the collection “a lively set of indie-pop. In fact, the band manages to hop over a few genre labels with a nice sort of ease.” The review compares the Portland-based duo to The Eurythmics and says Wait Don’t Wait […]
Hear Our Holiday Playlist, Featuring Dude York and More, on Spotify
Dude York‘s “Break Up Holiday” is your newest seasonal anthem, with soaring pop punk melodies and wry lyrics about heartbreak at Yuletide. The song opens up the brand new A man A plan A canal Holiday Playlist on Spotify, featuring Christmas and Hanukkah music from AmApAc-associated acts as well as some other holiday classics chosen […]
New Video From Overcoats on NPR – Touring With Tennis in 2018
NPR’s First Watch recently shared the video for “I Don’t Believe In Us,” one of two bonus tracks appended to the new deluxe edition of Overcoats‘ stunning 2017 debut, Young. Writes NPR, “The song’s pastel-colored music video, co-directed by Aaron Vasquez and Sinjun Strom, daydreams of liberation from circumstances which no longer fulfill us. Cycling […]
Tom Tom Mag Talks with L.A. Witch’s Ellie English – KEXP Features “Baby In Blue Jeans”
Tom Tom Mag, a fantastic webzine focusing on “drummers, music, and feminism,” calls L.A. Witch “psychedelic, haunting, swirling, hazy, [and] intoxicating… The moment the needle hits their self-titled debut, there’s a time warp to a familiar unknown.” The band has just completed a US tour, and Tom Tom talked to drummer Ellie English about touring, […]
Mount Eerie and The Magnetic Fields Make Early Year-End Lists
It’s hard to believe that it’s already the end of 2017, but it is. And along with the ending of the years comes the annual onslaught of Year-End lists. We’ve had the pleasure of working with a lot of very talented artists this year who definitely deserve recognition, and we’re please that Mount Eerie and […]
