New Music From Linda Fox
File Under: Music has released “Like New” from Linda Fox, the next audio/visual single in its One Song At A Time series. An experimental project at heart, project mastermind Michael Donovan draws from elements of noise pop, dance-rock, lo-fi, and folk music to fashion palpable songs that reflect less than immediately accessible emotional states. A playful, questioning guitar goes over […]
Breaking and Entering Streams darkDARK
“If you’re familiar with acts like Sleigh Bells and Purity Ring,” opens Breaking & Entering‘s feature on darkDARK‘s new EP Heathered, “we have some blissful electronic pop that you’ll love.” Calling the record “euphoric,” the site describes the project as “an escape of sorts, with a relaxing, yet intricate blend of synths, guitars, and breathy […]
PopMatters Shares Lost In Stars
PopMatters has a stream of Lost In Stars‘ “All We Ever Wanted From Everything,” one of several songs on the producer’s new LP that feature the stunning lead vocals of frequent collaborator Kid Moxie. According to the site, “Dylan Willoughby may have been classically trained, but it’s electronic music that has always been his prime […]
Consequence Of Sound Interviews Steady Holiday
Last fall, Steady Holiday was profiled by Consequence of Sound on a feature entitled “Five Rising LA Artists You Need To Hear.” Yet, as the band’s Dre Babinski told the magazine, her ambitions go beyond the City of Angels. In the accompanying interview, Babinski tells CoS about how she moved from being a backing woman […]
New Music From Julietta
Though Julietta was born and raised in New York, she has found her sound in Central America. The artist spent her winter in the dense jungles of Nicaragua at Maderas Village Studios recording her single “Beach Break,” which has caught the attention of music blogs across the globe and led to features as an upcoming […]
Baeble Music Shares “Kai’s Song” By Overcoats
The writers at Baeble Music love “Kai’s Song,” one of the fantastic tracks on Overcoats’ debut album Young, and they’ve written a blog post sharing the song and explaining why. The site says the New York-based duo knows “how to blend modern and classic styles by using electronic production underneath delicate vocal harmonies… ‘Kai’s Song’ is […]
Culture Collide Interviews and Streams Nectarines
Nectarines member Nima Kazerouni recently sat for an interview with Culture Collide. In it, he explained how the new project differs from his other bands, So Many Wizards and Crown Plaza. Calling Nectarines’ work a collection of “dark heartbreak songs,” he explains that his bandmate Allie Bumstead was the lynchpin that made the band come […]
The Gauntlet Reviews Mount Eerie’s “A Crow Looked At Me”
Mount Eerie‘s A Crow Looked At Me is currently the top-reviewed album of the year, according to Metacritic – and still the positive responses continue to come in from people who’ve taken a bit more time to process the LP. The Gauntlet is one such outlet, writing in a recent review that the album “captures the […]
Blonder Goes For Adds
Blonder lives and breathes elegantly yearning melodies and song structures. Constantine Anastasakis grew up in Long Island, NY. Torn between his parents’ careers – his artistically-minded mother worked at a blue chip art gallery, while his florist father firmly believed in “stable careers” – Anastasakis escaped the city by sequestering himself in Vermont with a friend from college. After teaching […]
Blake Hazard Goes For Adds
Blake Hazard started playing the subways of New York City in her teens, graduating to playing smaller clubs in the city before making her way to Boston to study at Harvard University and forming The Submarines with then-boyfriend, John Dragonetti. Together, they made three records, toured the US and Europe many times, and made numerious festival and […]
Nowness Features Stephin Merritt and Devendra Banhart
Nowness has filmed a couple of AmApAc-affiliated artists for its My Place series, which provides intimate looks at artists in their homes. Devendra Banhart and The Magnetic Fields‘ Stephen Merritt are the two most recent creatives featured in the series. Join them as they walk around their respective domiciles, reveling in their own idiosyncrasies and […]
San Fermin Gets A Strong Review From The Line Of Best Fit
The Line Of Best Fit approves of San Fermin‘s Belong, comparing it favorably in a review to their “brilliant” 2015 release Jackrabbit. The album is “an intricate, technically awe-inspiring LP with many narrow pathways to explore,” LOBF writes, spending time delving into the vocal interplay between singers Allen Tate and Charlene Kaye. “[San Fermin’s] most […]
Pop Lib Praises Steady Holiday
Pop Lib has reviewed Steady Holiday‘s new Terror EP, which has been serviced to radio in a package along with her 2016 Under The Influence LP. The site writes that “this is recognisably Steady Holiday – from the beguiling lighter-than-air voice of songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dre Babinski, right through to the richly detailed arrangement […]
Arctic Drones Reviews Ghost Against Ghost
Arctic Drones has reviewed still love by Ghost Against Ghost, writing that “the music is a sound of its own—a bewildering mixture of 1980s synthesizers, electronic dance music and dark romanticism—that is dominant in its presence and prone to flood your living room in sound. Large choruses are flanked by soothing verses and soundscapes, while […]
New Music From Blake Hazard – Digital Servicing Only
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 […]
CoS Streams darkDARK
Consequence Of Sound has a full-EP stream of darkDARK‘s Heathered, comparing the duo to synth heroes S U R V I V E. “[S U R V I V E has] tapped into a nostalgic fascination with the darker side of synth music and helped bring it to the masses. Their take on the sounds, […]
Bandcamp Features French Vanilla
Bandcamp Daily has a delightful feature on LA art-punk outfit French Vanilla, including an interview with the band as well as an embed of their video for “Evolution Of A Friendship.” The article explains that the band is part of a new crop of Los Angeles-based bands “making a distinct turn away from the garage […]
Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Talks to Jesse Thorn
Phil Elverum, who records under the name Mount Eerie and just released the tragic, critically-acclaimed album A Crow Looked At Me, has been featured on a recent episode of Bullseye with Jesse Thorn. In the interview, Elverum talks to Thorn about experiencing the death of his wife – and mother of his child – and […]
New Music From Blonder – Digital Servicing Only
Blonder lives and breathes elegantly yearning melodies and song structures. Constantine Anastasakis, who grew up in Long Island, NY, was first exposed to music through his older sister, starting with a visit to Jim Morrison’s grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. “I memorized all the Doors’ songs,” he recalls. “I would sing them with my sister for her […]
NPR Features Overcoats
“I think we did feel a magic when we sang together,” JJ Mitchell told NPR about her relationship with her Overcoats bandmate Hana Elion. “We could tell that our voices just sort of blended in this very crazy way, and kind of cradled one another.” The duo recently spoke to All Things Considered, recording an […]
