WVIA’s George Graham Reviews Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet‘s new album Folk Songs, according to a recent review by George Graham of WVIA in Pennsylvania, is “a fascinating recording that combines guest vocals with often haunting arrangements of traditional tunes… Each of the arrangements has some interesting twist, and none of them [do] what you might expect, usually sounding like neither a […]
Krrum Goes For Adds
Producer and songwriter Alex Carrie hails from the wilderness of Derbyshire in the middle of England, where the buses stop at 5 pm and the nearest nightclub is a £50 cab away. His first musical port of call was punk, and when he was young he played trumpet in a ska band. Everything then came […]
Billboard Interviews Coast Modern
“It was definitely a challenging project to incorporate Newtonian physics into hip-hop beats,” Luke Atlas told Billboard about a gig writing rap for NASA that led to his meeting his future Coast Modern collaborator Coleman Trapp. “If we can handle something as weird and hard as this,” Atlas says, “we can handle writing normal songs.” […]
Exclaim! Premieres Barr Brothers Single
“It Came To Me,” a pre-release single from the Barr Brothers‘ new LP Queens of the Breakers, has premiered via Exclaim! Band member Andrew Barr shared the song’s backstory with the site, saying, “Since we were kids, Brad [Barr] and I would sit down at our instruments and, without speaking, launch into playing loud rock and […]
Music Existence Shares KAYE’s “Cheshire Kitten”
Music Existence has shared KAYE‘s new “Cheshire Kitten” single, which is being hailed as a feminist anthem. According to Charlene Kaye, “The song celebrates the fact that [women] are versatile creatures who can be lots of contradictory things at once. We can be technically capable AND sexual, aggressive and soft, breadwinners and maternal figures-and I […]
Cloud Control Gets in the “Zone” on Triple J
Australia’s Triple J has Cloud Control‘s new single, for “Zone (This Is How It Feels)” The song is from the band’s upcoming album of the same title, due September 1 via Votiv. According to Triple J, “The record was self-produced by frontman Alister Wright, who shows off some neat tricks on this maudlin mantra. The […]
San Fermin, On Tour, Talks To PopDust
PopDust has an interview with Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the man behind the chamber pop project San Fermin. “The chamber pop band… is known for their enormous, emotive sound… Their latest release, Belong, is perhaps their most cohesive, using the sounds of their sometimes cacophonous debut record and fine-tuning them into an all-encompassing barrage. The band continues to […]
New Music From Krrum – Digital Servicing Only
Producer and songwriter Alex Carrie hails from the wilderness of Derbyshire in the middle of England, where the buses stop at 5pm and the nearest nightclub is a £50 cab away. His first musical port of call was punk, and when he was young he played trumpet in a ska band. Everything then came into […]
Coast Modern, On Tour Soon, Talks With LA Weekly
Although Coast Modern has steadily been releasing singles and gathering a fan base since last year, Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp have been somewhat mysterious when discussing its backstory. That’s beginning to change with the release of the duo’s self-titled debut LP, which coincided with a significant LA Weekly feature on the group. Fans will […]
Sam Amidon Details His Musical Journey With Fretboard Journal
According to Fretboard Journal, “Sam Amidon is, quite simply, one of our favorite musicians. His visionary music is mesmerizing: He somehow melds traditional Appalachian folk with experimental music (and it works).” In a recent edition of the Fretboard Journal’s podcast, Amidon shares anecdotes about a “fascinating musical journey” that has included many interesting adventures. Listen right […]
The Electricity Club Interviews Lost In Stars
Dylan Willoughby has been making music for many years, but it was only recently that his Lost In Stars project truly took form. The project released its first LP earlier this year, to the delight of fans of intelligent, moody nighttime electro. Now he’s been interviewed by the Electricity Club, a UK-based website dedicated to […]
Coast Modern Goes For Adds
Coast Modern is what happens when you let go of what you always thought you wanted and embrace the unexpected. Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp met while working as Los Angeles-based songwriters, fellow rats in the race to land songs with mainstream pop artists. After a couple of years without much success, they’d each nearly […]
Cloud Control Goes For Adds
When Cloud Control moved back to Sydney in 2013, they were in many ways different than the band that had left. In the preceding two years, they had toured their Australian Music Prize–winning, ARIA-nominated first album Bliss Release to global acclaim, relocated to the UK, and released a second LP – Dream Cave – from their new […]
The Dream Syndicate Goes For Adds
On September 8, seminal indie rock band The Dream Syndicate will release their fifth studio album and first since 1988, How Did I Find Myself Here? Formed in Los Angeles in 1981, The Dream Syndicate was founded by current members Steve Wynn (guitar, vocals) and Dennis Duck (drums) along with Karl Precoda (guitar) and Kendra Smith […]
The Barr Brothers Go For Adds
The Barr Brothers are set to release their third album, Queens of the Breakers, on October 13 via Secret City Records. The band began in the late 2000s, after songwriter Brad Barr and his brother – drummer Andrew Barr – moved to Montréal after spending a decade in Providence playing in avant-rock trio The Slip. Brad’s […]
KQED Highlights Kronos Quartet
Northern California’s KQED devoted some time in a recent California Report to delve into Folk Songs, the new album from the “visionary” San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet that features vocalists Natalie Merchant, Olivia Chaney, Sam Amidon, and Rhiannon Giddens. “Part of what makes Folk Songs such a departure for Kronos,” says the feature, “is what’s not […]
Scan Interviews Gothic Tropic
Scan, the student newspaper at Lancaster University in the UK, interviewed Gothic Tropic leader Cecilia Della Peruti about her album Fast Or Feast, her time working with BØRNS and Charli XCX, her parents’ musical influence on her, and the person who inspired the song “Feed You To The Sharks.” The song, she says, “is not about a […]
New Music From Cloud Control – Digital Servicing Only
When Cloud Control moved back to Sydney in 2013, they were in many ways different than the band that had left. In the preceding two years, they had toured their Australian Music Prize–winning, ARIA-nominated first album Bliss Release to global acclaim, relocated to the UK, and released a second LP – Dream Cave – from their new […]
PopCrush Celebrates KAYE’s “Cheshire Kitten”
“Cheshire Kitten,” the new single by KAYE, is “a feminist future-funk anthem as eccentric as a Lewis Carroll character and as catchy as Chaka Khan.” That’s the opinion of PopCrush, which recently featured a stream of the huge and exciting new stand-alone single from the solo artist who is also known for her work as […]
KEXP Shines the Local Spotlight on Dude York
KEXP has been tooting the Dude York horn for a while now, so it’s almost hard to believe that the beloved Seattle radio institution has only recently picked the up-and-coming Seattle garage rock institution for a Local Artist Spotlight. “Since they emerged in Seattle with their 2011 debut Gangs of Dude York,” the station writes, […]
