New Music From The Barr Brothers
The Barr Brothers are set to release their third album, Queens of the Breakers, on October 13, 2017 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, RI playing in avant-rock trio The […]
Simon Doom Selects Summer Songs For Brightest Young Things
Simon Doom‘s Simon O’Connor has teamed up with Brightest Young Things to present a sick summer compilation of tracks for fans to jam during the hot months. The diverse collection includes everything Charles Mingus and ZZ Top, along with a “Ghost Riders In The Sky” cover by the legendary Space Lady – a longtime favorite […]
Overcoats Play For Jefferson Public Radio
Overcoats‘ “sound captivates, combining electronic backdrops with soaring, harmonic intimacy — a sort of Chet Faker meets Simon & Garfunkel.” This is according to a blurb accompanying the New York-based duo’s recent live session for Jefferson Public Radio. It’s clear from the 25-minute session that the girls have a magnetic presence, which is buoyed here […]
New Album From Coast Modern
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 […]
Drowned In Sound Interviews Gothic Tropic
Drowned In Sound has a stunningly thorough interview with Cecilia Della Peruti, whose band Gothic Tropic “radiates with pop gloss and heroic hooks.” According to the site, “if Debbie Harry, Christine McVie, and Kevin Parker were going for a drive in the Cali Valley on a hot summer’s afternoon, this would be the tape they’d […]
Magnet Says Sam Amidon Is “Essential”
Magnet Magazine has classified Sam Amidon‘s The Following Mountain as “Essential New Music,” writing that “after five rewarding albums of artful, evocative (re)interpretations of primarily traditional material (and the odd contemporary pop cover), this Vermont troubadour and multi-instrumentalist makes a seemingly sharp pivot with his first offering of entirely original compositions. That the results rarely […]
New Music From The Dream Syndicate
After sharing their LP’s first single and title track earlier this summer, the LA proto-shoegaze band presents second single “Glide.” On September 8th, 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 […]
The News and Review Loves Holy Oak’s Alt-Folk Sound
Chico, California’s News & Review has a feature on Holy Oak‘s new Second Son album, stating that “in a world of straightforward confessional songs, it can be refreshing to hear epic lyrical landscapes spanning tales of vampires, street performers and talking flowers.” This is what Neil Holyoak provides over the course of Second Son, which […]
Exclaim! Recommends Kronos Quartet
Exclaim! recently reviewed Folk Songs, the new album from Kronos Quartet that includes guest vocals from Nonesuch labelmates Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant along with arrangement help from the venerable Nico Muhly. According to the review, “The Quartet’s versatility can be seen in the contrast between the first two songs [“Oh Where” […]
KAYE Goes For Adds
KAYE was born in Honolulu and spent her childhood all over the globe, relocating to Singapore, Hong Kong, Arizona and Michigan all before she turned 18. The musically-obsessed teenager grew into a virtuosic adult, releasing an album under her full name, Charlene Kaye, and then becoming the lead female vocalist in the New York-based indie rock collective […]
CHOU Interviews Holy Oak
Neil Holyoak, who records and performs under the name Holy Oak, recently did a call-in interview with the No Filter show on AM station CHOU in Quebec. The interview is full of insights about the musician’s life and the making of his new album Second Son. According to Holyoak, the “slow, dark” timbre of the […]
WYCE Chooses Kronos Quartet As “Artist of The Day”
Kronos Quartet was featured on Tuesday, July 25 as WYCE‘s “Artist of the Day.” The quartet, which has been playing together for decades, recently released the Folk Songs LP with guests Natalie Merchant, Sam Amidon, Rhiannon Giddens, and Olivia Chaney (Offa Rex). In their brief piece, the station highlights this record and details some of the […]
Coast Modern Goes Track-By-Track with Consequence of Sound
Consequence of Sound has a track-by-track rundown of Coast Modern‘s debut album, complete with a stream of new single “Frost.” “‘Frost’ is the band’s most stripped-back song to date, leaving behind the psychedelic synth lines of previous singles in favor of some lo-fi acoustic guitar,” writes CoS. “The soft track caps off the upcoming LP, […]
New Music From KAYE – Digital Servicing Only
KAYE was born in Honolulu and spent her childhood all over the globe, relocating to Singapore, Hong Kong, Arizona and Michigan all before she turned 18. The musically-obsessed teenager grew into a virtuosic adult, releasing an album under her full name, Charlene Kaye, and then becoming the lead female vocalist in the New York-based indie rock collective […]
107.7 The End Praises 2017 LPs by My Goodness and Dude York
Seattle’s 107.7 The End has included Scavengers, by My Goodness, amongst its list of best local albums from 2017. Calling the album a “step forward,” the article’s author also declares the album’s title track “one of the best songs I’ve heard all year.” Sincerely, the new album from Dude York, is also on the list […]
KEXP Selects Cloud Control For “Song Of The Day” Honors
Cloud Control’s “Rainbow City” has been swooped up by KEXP and given a “Song Of The Day” feature. The station says, “‘Rainbow City’ comes out with a gorgeously produced video, a surreal color-fest that meets the expectation of a song about rainbow anything. The song sees riffs float through a gossamer miasma of synths and […]
Simon Doom Shares Favorite Records With Discogs
Simon Doom‘s Simon O’Connor has eclectic and often-obscure musical taste, as evidenced by a recent interview with the musician on Discogs. O’Connor, Discogs writes, has created a “unique brand of power pop that’s as innovative as it is accessible” on new LP Babyman. In the interview, he delves into his influences by sharing the first […]
WQHS Reviews Overcoats’ Breakthrough Debut LP
WQHS, the student-run station at the University of Pennsylvania, has a review of Overcoats’ Young. According to the review, the duo creates “beautiful songs of sadness and longing… [with] a unique style that makes you want rock back and forth to the beat.” The reviewer continues, “Overcoats’ songs are about relationships, not just romantic but also familial. […]
AllMusic Positively Reviews Kronos Quartet
AllMusic has a four-star review of the new LP from Kronos Quartet, calling Folk Songs “a smart and emotionally effective exploration of the folk tradition that respects musical history without being chained to it, and it’s an experiment the Kronos Quartet would do well to repeat in the future.” The album features an impressive set […]
My Goodness Releases “Islands” Video, Hits the NACC 200
My Goodness has a new video, for Scavengers standout track “Islands.” In an interview with KEXP last year, band member Andy Lum said, “In the past we’ve drawn most of our creative energy from volume, which is a lot of fun, but doesn’t leave a lot of room to grow. We basically explored ways we […]
