Mickey Hart Goes For Adds
A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time,” The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart is an accomplished writer, painter, musicologist, and expert on the history and mythology of drums. He’s won World Music Grammys for his percussive albums Planet Drum (1991) and Global Drum Project (2007); […]
SISTERS Rule, Writes CityArts
SISTERS’ stellar Wait Don’t Wait LP made its NACC debut last week, landing at #129. According to CityArts, the duo’s “voices soar [and] their optimism inspires” across an album that is “full of stimulating yet concise songwriting” and “easily enjoyable.” Writes the rag, “The album sports many qualities from the bright side of vintage, from the […]
WFPK Talks To A Barr Brother
“This new record is one of the best records of the year… I cannot stop listening to it!” That’s WFPK’s Kyle Meredith on Queens of the Breakers, the third album from The Barr Brothers that he describes as “a great combination of rock, blues, and trance in the styles of John Cale and Mississippi Fred […]
Stereofox Shares “Tuesday” From Kan Wakan
Stereofox has shared “Tuesday,” a track from Kan Wakan‘s epic Phantasmagoria album. “The track is absolutely gorgeous,” writes the site, “and a perfect way to soothe all worries. It feels like the soundrack of a fairy tale situated in a golden-coloured, Autumn forest. The vocals, combined with the spacious strings sounds craft a really, really […]
New Music From Mickey Hart
A Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time,” The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart is an accomplished writer, painter, musicologist, and expert on the history and mythology of drums. He’s won World Music Grammys for his percussive albums Planet Drum (1991) and Global Drum Project (2007); […]
Camille Appears on PRI’s The World
Camille was featured on PRI‘s The World last week, talking about a new album “that is primitive and classical, yet modern and electronic.” OUÏ was an immediate chart-topper in Camille’s home country of France this summer, and the just-out Nonesuch edition is the renowned experimentalist’s first official US release. The World spoke to Camille about the […]
L.A. Witch, On Tour, Talks With Bad Luck
Bad Luck recently interviewed L.A. Witch about the trio’s debut album, finding out how it was made and getting the backstory on the band’s DIY years when they were spray-painting their own burned CDs. Now, the band is signed to Suicide Squeeze, which the article says they feel is “like a family” to them. Enjoy their […]
Simon Doom Goes To KXRN
KXRN, located in Laguna Beach, California, is really gaining a reputation for hosting top notch artists for in-studios and intimate interview sessions. We’re stoked that they’ve been so supportive of so many AmApAc artists, including Simon Doom. Doom, who performs in Kuroma and released the awesome solo Babyman LP this year, recently stopped by KXRN to […]
New Music From Blake Hazard
Blake Hazard started playing the subways of New York City in her teens, graduating to smaller clubs in the city before making her way to Boston to study at Harvard University. There, she continued to play live, eventually starting a relationship with John Dragonetti and moving to LA with him. They broke up, but reunited after hearing […]
Red Guitar Music Loves Ani DiFranco and Her New LP
Red Guitar Music takes a deep dive into Ani DiFranco‘s Binary in a recent review, praising her history as a DIY icon and contending that “Binary sees her unafraid as ever to tell it like it is and stick it to the man.” The review praises the arrangements of Tchad Blake, who brings out DiFranco’s […]
Grungecake Shares Pollyn’s Lyric Video
Grungecake has included Pollyn‘s lyric video for “Findaway” (which features Hot Chip‘s Alexis Taylor) in a recent edition of its regular #5NewVideos feature. The site describes the band as “pop noir” and says “their upbeat track gets a dancing animation that matches the energy and shows you how to move to the song.” Watch the […]
Pigeons and Planes Says Demo Taped is a Teen To Watch
Demo Taped is on Pigeons and Planes’ recent list of Best Teenaged Artists. “As a producer as well as a singer,” the site writes, “he makes forward-thinking pop songs, and his live show brings out the electronic, danceable side of his music.” Check it out here. We recently serviced the Atlanta-based musician’s first single for […]
Mount Eerie Performs For Stereogum
Phil Elverum‘s most recent album under the Mount Eerie moniker, A Crow Looked At Me, is one of the best and most critically-acclaimed albums of the year. It’s also, quite frankly, among the most harrowing due to its subject matter: the quick and unexpected loss of Elverum’s wife to cancer, and his visceral reaction to […]
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 […]
San Fermin Goes For Adds
Produced by bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone and brought to life by his fellow performers—lead vocalists Charlene Kaye (KAYE) and Allen Tate, trumpet player John Brandon, saxophonist Stephen Chen, violinist Rebekah Durham, drummer Michael Hanf, and guitarists Tyler McDiarmid and Aki Ishiguro—San Fermin‘s 2017 album Belong is a warm, intoxicating LP. It arrived after two previous San […]
KCRW Premieres Kan Wakan’s “Phantasmagoria Part 1”
KCRW has shared “Phantasmagora Part 1,” which is one of three title tracks on Kan Wakan‘s new three-LP opus Phantasmagoria. “I met Kan Wakan’s Gueorgui Linev a few years ago,” writes the station’s Marion Hodges, and “within a few minutes of beginning our conversation, I realized I was speaking with someone who held a deep passion […]
AMBY Says “You’ve Got To Hear” The Barr Brothers
“You’ve got to hear this,” writes A Music Blog, Yea? of The Barr Brothers’ new LP Queens of the Breakers. While the blog criticizes the band’s previous LP Sleeping Operator for being “over-polished at times,” the site writes that on Queens of the Breakers “it would appear that the character of the group has evolved to a […]
Higher Plain Music Calls Camille “Unique and Spellbinding”
Higher Plain Music has recently reviewed Camille‘s stunning LP OUÏ, which it says is “more accessible” than some of her previous work. The review praises a record that is at times “dark and mysterious” while also “uplifting” and “nuanced” despite being “tightly knitted” wtih “no fat across the album itself.” As a whole, the record […]
Culture Collide Shares SISTERS’ “Heart Beats”
Culture Collide has the premiere of “Heart Beats,” a catchy single from SISTERS‘ second LP Wait Don’t Wait. “Emily Westman and Andrew Vait… are trying to find some happiness through their music in this mixed up world, and they seem to be succeeding. Their poppy beats are a mix of old school R&B, a touch of […]
New Music From Isador
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 […]
