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 […]
Pitchfork Praises the “Pop Genius” of Camille
Pitchfork has reviewed Camille‘s latest album, OUÏ, writing that the artist “sounds awed by language as a brilliant, living thing.” Though the record is intellectual, the review states that “the underlying concept rarely strangles the pop potential of OUÏ’s 11 songs,” which leads to “plenty of pure pleasure hits for non-Francophones.” The album marries “tradition and […]
Northern Transmissions Shares SISTERS’ “Let Me Go”
Northern Transmissions has "Let Me Go," a single from SISTERS' new LP Wait Don't Wait. The single, writes the site, "begins with a grimy bassline and a classic hip hop clap with Emily Westman and Andrew Vait trading verses, asking those universal questions of love and love lost. On a dime, the song transforms to […]
Louder Than War Loves The Dream Syndicate’s New LP
Louder Than War loves the Dream Syndicate‘s How Did I Find Myself Here?, dubbing the band’s first LP in 30 years “essential” and saying the reinvigorated group has released the “best work of their career.” Gushes the site, “This is a stunning album… a rockin’, transcendental album. An album where every song is different to […]
New Music From San Fermin
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 […]
NPR and Paste Highlight The Barr Brothers
NPR has the premiere of “Queens of the Breakers,” the titular song from The Barr Brothers just-released new LP. According to Bruce Warren, the band “has an expansive sound where influences intersect, and the members are equally at home playing jazz fests, folk fests and rock fests. They are super crafty songwriters and performers — sophisticated, […]
L.A. Witch Talks Photos and Rock with Synesthesia
Synesthesia has a beautiful collection of L.A. Witch photos, taken before a Bay Area concert last October. The sepia-toned prints depict the trio setting up for its gig, laying out guitar pedals and setting up mic stands during the calm before the metaphorical storm of their raging, reverb-drenched live set. Along with the photos is […]
My Goodness Performs For KEXP
KEXP‘s Evie Cooke says My Goodness is one of her favorite bands in Seattle, which is probably why she invited the band to the station to perform songs from 2017’s Scavengers LP. In addition to the performance, the band talked to Cooke for a bit about the process behind making the LP and expanding from […]
The Barr Brothers Go For Adds
The Barr Brothers began in the late 2000s, after songwriter Brad Barr and his brother – drummer Andrew Barr – moved to Montréal following a decade in Providence playing in avant-rock trio The Slip. Brad’s apartment shared a wall with Sarah Pagé, a unique and exciting harpist who began collaborating with the brothers and recording […]
Camille Goes For Adds
OUÏ, from French singer and composer Camille, is coming to the US. OUÏ is her fifth studio album in a career that also includes contributions to the band Nouvelle Vague and the soundtrack to the film Ratatouille; recorded over the course of a year in a fourteenth century monastery in Avignon, the album was co-produced by Camille with […]
SISTERS Go For Adds
Emma Goldman famously wrote that “a revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.” As SISTERS, Emily Westman and Andrew Vait have turned that quote into a pop manifesto. Joy as an act of revolutionary defiance in the face of oppression is the name of their game, and on the new album they sound […]
