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 […]
Stephin Merritt Talks Literature With The LA Review of Books
The Magnetic Fields‘ Stephin Merritt recently had a long conversation with the LA Review of Books, giving engaging answers to questions about his reading habits and favorite books. Interestingly, Merritt begins the interview discussing the influence of physical books themselves on The Magnetic Fields. “As a child I bought a three-book [Richard Brautigan] set,” he […]
Overcoats Go For Adds
Overcoats, who ranked #3 in last year’s NPR Listeners Poll of favorite new artists, is a duo of former college roommates Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. The two were drawn to each other when they first met as teenagers in 2011, finding connection in a love of diverse musical styles and forging a closeness that verges on sisterhood. Both […]
Lost In Stars Goes For Adds
Dylan Willoughby is the Los Angeles-based producer behind Lost in Stars. On his debut, self-titled LP, he mines the depths of experimental electronic music, house, UK dubstep, grime and synth-pop. Willoughby’s work has found an international audience via SoundCloud and has been championed by the tastemakers at KCRW. Lost in Stars frequently collaborates with Greek-born […]
GRMLN Goes For Adds
GRMLN is the musical project of Yoodoo Park, a 24-year-old guitarist and producer from Kyoto, Japan who spent several of his formative years studying and performing in California. His earliest recordings got the attention of Carpark Records, which released 2012’s Explore EP, 2013’s Empire LP, and 2014’s Soon Away LP. Park’s sound has evolved steadily […]
My Goodness Goes For Adds
“Scavengers” title track of the forthcoming album from Seattle’s My Goodness. Scavengers, the second LP from the band, continues the sonic evolution that they first teased on last year’s Islands EP. This increased creative capacity is due, in part, to the addition of Duke Evers members Kyle Veazey and Josh Starkel to the core duo of Schneider and […]
Lines Go For Adds
Defined by chaotic synth hits, pounding bass, and melodies that rise but never seem to set, Lines is a Stockholm-based four-piece that hurtles towards listeners like an incandescent ball of energy. Every song is an event, and beautiful chaos. With a knack for creating twisted beats that blend electro-pop and cyber-punk, Lines channel the intensity of […]
The New Yorker Features San Fermin
The New Yorker has a feature on San Fermin‘s new LP Belong. Bringing readers back a few years to the “Peak Indie” moment around the turn of the decade, the magazine writes that “the feeling of early-aughts ensemble indie can be found on the affectionate and spirited chamber-pop record “Belong,” from the Brooklyn band San […]
