Dude York Releases “Black Jack” Video and Announces Tour Dates
Dude York has released a new video for “Black Jack,” the first song on their breakthrough album Sincerely. Directed by Carlos Lopez, the clip features the band’s singer/guitarist Andrew Richards against a dark background with various colorful and jarring images projected onto his face. His placid expression belies the song’s sneering, punk-inspired energy. Enjoy the […]
Slant Likes The Dream Syndicate’s New LP
According to Slant Magazine, “The Dream Syndicate’s first album in 29 years, How Did I Find Myself Here?, is the best kind of nostalgia kick: It effortlessly recalls the band’s much-too-short original run while also settling into a lived-in, comfortable groove.” But while the album does recall the band’s heyday in the Eighties, Slant notes […]
New Music From Pollyn
Here lies Pollyn, a band whose influence stretched around the world. After 13 years, the LA indie electronic trio – which consisted of vocalist Genevieve Artadi, guitarist Anthony Cava, and producer Adam Jay Weissman – has ended it all. Celebrated as one of LA’s most hi-fashion electronic acts, Pollyn were nouveau vintage electronica that layered samples from old […]
Pigeons and Planes Gets Excited For Anna Of The North
Pigeons and Planes nicely summed up some of the anticipation that has been mounting for Anna Of The North‘s debut album since the duo, comprised of Norwegian-based singer Anna Lotterud and producer Brady Daniell-Smith, initially emerged a few years ago. “The Norway-born singer has been impressing us with her unique brand of electronic pop music […]
Earmilk Shares Motherfolk’s “Ryder Robinson”
Earmilk has the premiere of “Ryder Robinson,” the new video from Motherfolk‘s album Fold. Writes Earmilk, “It’s a fun visual for an equally [fun] track: the viewer is given multiple settings and costume changes all while the band contorts and performs within the camera’s somewhat limiting frame, bursting out of your screen and into the […]
Demo Taped Goes For Adds
Adam Alexander aka Demo Taped, the multi-talented, critically-adored 19-year-old whose new single is a blissed-out gospel wrecking ball worthy of celebration, doesn’t like to be called a prodigy. “The only difference between me and anybody else,” he says, “is that when their parents let them quit piano lessons, mine made sure I stayed with it!” Perhaps this […]
Ani Difranco, On Tour Now, Gets NPR Praise and NACC Add Support
An NPR First Look feature on Ani Difranco‘s new album, Binary, contends that the veteran’s “voice has lowered and softened, her guitar work has slowed down, she puts fewer lyrics in her songs, and her songwriter’s skin has gotten thicker” on what is her twentieth studio album. “Where she used to favor immersion,” the feature […]
The AV Club Reviews L.A. Witch, On Tour Starting This Week
The AV Club has a review of L.A. Witch‘s self-titled debut, highlighting the band’s “morbid streak” and describing them as “a garage-rock trio whose music sounds like it should be blaring from a ghostly Thunderbird as it disappears into the midnight mist… Smoky, sinister, otherworldly takes on classic surf, garage, and girl group sounds are […]
The Deli and Clash Music Feature Two Different Bangers by Happy Hollows
The Deli has the video for “Feel The Moon,” one of many synth-filled jams on Happy Hollows’ new LP Concordia. “The post punk duo were always quite adept,” the site says, “at refreshing the rhythmic thrust of eighties new wave with a more joyful anthemic thrust, but not without considering the gloom that also surrounds […]
New Music From Demo Taped
Adam Alexander aka Demo Taped, the multi-talented, critically-adored 19-year-old whose new single is a blissed-out gospel wrecking ball worthy of celebration, doesn’t like to be called a prodigy. “The only difference between me and anybody else,” he says, “is that when their parents let them quit piano lessons, mine made sure I stayed with it!” Perhaps this […]
Substream Believes Anna Of The North Is Worth The Hype
“Ever since Norwegian singer Anna Lotterud met producer Brady Daniell-Smith and put out single ‘Sway,’” writes Substream in a review of Anna Of The North‘s debut LP Lovers, “she’s been on the map of dream-pop lovers. It’s been a slow buildup of new singles and hype since then, from the ode to her current home […]
Coast Modern Sits With Met Radio
Coast Modern sat with Met Radio, the student voice of MSU Denver, for an interview about their hit self-titled debut album. In addition to giving some crucial details about the album’s creation, the band also offers up ideas about their future (“It would be cool to make album in like a destination album, like go […]
Austin Town Hall Says So Many Wizards Create “Rock N’ Roll Heaven”
Austin Town Hall likes “Sic Boys,” one of the tunes on So Many Wizards‘ new album Heavy Vision. While the “track opens with an angelic vocal carefully echoing through your speakers,” the site explains, “you can hear the energy building as the guitars slowly churn. Instantly, they’re jittering quickly, pushing the song’s pace, pushing you […]
Ani DiFranco Goes For Adds
Ani DiFranco says Binary, her 20th studio album, is inspired by her desire “to try to push society to a better place.” This may be a turn from her more inward-focused 2014 LP Allergic To Water, but it comes as no surprise from someone who has long been recognized for her entrepreneurship, social activism, and […]
Motherfolk Goes For Adds
Motherfolk began as a collaborative effort between Nathan Dickerson and Bobby Paver, who attended high school together in Maysville, Kentucky but didn’t discover a shared musical passion until they found themselves living in the same dorm in college. They bonded over music, moving into an apartment together and making frequent trips to Nashville to record […]
Stereogum Reviews The Dream Syndicate’s New LP, Which Debuted at #31 on NACC Last Week
Congratulations to The Dream Syndicate for a massive Top 40 debut at NACC last week with How Did I Find Myself Here?, the band’s first LP in nearly 30 years. It’s a truly remarkable release from the band, which initially broke up in the late Eighties before reforming in 2012. That it took so long […]
The Revue Premieres Happy Hollows’ “Way Home”
The Revue has the video for “Way Home,” the first song on Happy Hollows‘ fantastic new album Concordia. In an accompanying article, the site gives the band’s backstory and explains how Concordia relates to their previous material – Spells, a debut that thrived on “power punk-pop and garage-rock,” and Amethyst, for which they “transformed themselves” […]
L.A. Record Recommends L.A. Witch
“With a name like L.A. Witch,” writes L.A. Record, “you already have a pretty good idea of the music you’re about to hear: something black, something sexy, a soundtrack to the forbidden. With their self-titled debut, this badass L.A. trio uses reverb-soaked guitars, narcoticized vocals, and delightfully seedy subject matter to cast their spell over […]
New Music From Motherfolk
Motherfolk began as a collaborative effort between Nathan Dickerson and Bobby Paver, who attended high school together in Maysville, Kentucky but didn’t discover a shared musical passion until they found themselves living in the same dorm in college. They bonded over music, moving into an apartment together and making frequent trips to Nashville to record […]
Ghettoblaster Shares Happy Hollows’ “Decide”
Ghettoblaster recently premiered “Decide,” the newest single from Happy Hollows‘ fresh LP Concordia. As the site explains, the band has spent a while “cutting their teeth in LA’s underground and touring the country with indie favorites like Lucius, Deerhoof, and Japandroids,” but the new album “represents the peak of Happy Hollows’ artistic progression, combining the […]
