Overcoats Perform For OpenAir
After a strong string of sets at SXSW, New York-based duo Overcoats are prepping their debut album Young for release later this month. They recently stopped by Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir for a session and interview, perfoming three songs from Young and chatting with host Alicia Mitchell (who has a long history with community radio in […]
New Music From Ghost Against Ghost
Ghost Against Ghost, the conceptual rock project of producer/composer Christopher Bono, creates epic and progressive music that draws influence from experimental, contemporary, and traditional classical music. The project began in 2008, after the composer envisioned an as-yet unfinished concept album in a dream. After the dream, Bono delved into musical study, spending seven years in […]
Buzzbands Premieres Nectarines’ “Out Of My World”
Buzzbands recently premiered “Out of My World,” a song from Nectarines‘ self-titled debut EP. The site describes the band’s sound as “infectious ‘goth doo-wop’” and outlines the band’s origin story. “‘Out of My World,’” writes Buzzbands, “is a 2-minute shot of adrenaline about confronting being out of your comfort zone and, ultimately, moving on. Over […]
Rolling Stone Australia Gives Five Stars To Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
“Uncategorisable folk-fusion” is how Rolling Stone Australia describes the sound of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, whose new album Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars was awarded five stars from the magazine. “The appeal of [the band’s] 2016 debut Everything Sacred lay in its capturing of three gifted, adventurous musicians getting to know each other, resulting in beautiful improvisations exhibiting the […]
The Observer Interviews Wayne Coyne
The Observer has an interview with Wayne Coyne, whose Flaming Lips released Oczy Mlody back in January. About that record, The Observer says, “Fortifying the lush Lips sonics this time around are traces of modern production that might sound opportunistic or out of place coming from any other band—fat hip-hop beats and booty-tickling low-end. These […]
New Music From Coast Modern
Coast Modern is what happens when you let go of what you always thought you wanted and embrace the unexpected; when you stop chasing and start taking the lead. 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 […]
New Music From Kan Wakan
Kan Wakan is Gueorgui Linev—the producer, composer, synthesizer scientist, film score fanatic, and multi-instrumentalist whose highly-acclaimed full-length debut Moving On dissolved the genre-breaking electronica of Massive Attack, Air, and Zero 7 into a bottomless sea of 20th century minimalism, psychedelic soul, and ambient atmosphere. It’s been three years since the release of Moving On, and […]
Brooklyn Vegan Shares French Vanilla’s “Carrie”
According to Brooklyn Vegan, “If you like your music danceable with healthy doses of angst and angles (not to mention saxophone), you will likely dig” French Vanilla. The LA-based feminist punk group just released their debut, self-titled LP, and Brooklyn Vegan has the video for the album’s single. “Carrie” is lyrically inspired by the Stephen […]
Noisey Premieres Simon Doom’s “I Feel Unloved”
“Ugh,” opens the article accompanying NOISEY‘s premiere of Simon Doom‘s “I Feel Unloved.” “This song is so good, with a verse like sunshine and plinkety guitars that are very Albert Hammond Jr… but then there’s a Flaming Lips-ian synthy psych-pop twist too.” The song comes from Doom’s upcoming album Babyman, which was produced by MGMT. In addition […]
Steady Holiday, On Tour Now, Shares “More Than One Way” With Consequence of Sound
Consequence of Sound has a stream of “More Than One Way,” the second track from Steady Holiday‘s new EP Terror. The song was written as a response to Donald Trump’s election, and CoS writes that its “words [provide] a chilly contrast to the otherwise soft and hazy romantic arrangement behind” singer/instrumentalist Dre Babinski. According to […]
Lemonwire Reviews Tinariwen’s Elwan
“Any listener of Tinariwen’s music can hear a cry for freedom in a world gone mad, as well as resolution to remain strong to the ties of music and landscape that bring societies, as well as people, together,” writes Lemonwire in its recent review of the Tuareg collective’s new album Elwan. The review states that […]
Record Store Day Celebrates 10 Years on Saturday, April 22
It’s that time of the year again! For the tenth year in a row, independent record stores around the world are celebrating every vinyl lover’s favorite holiday — Record Store Day! The event began as a way to draw attention to local stores at a time when vinyl seemed like it was in decline; now, […]
Steady Holiday Goes For Adds
Steady Holiday is Dre Babinski. Just over a year ago, she could be found playing in bands around LA, opening for Fitz and the Tantrums and Fun., and making a record with some friends from Dr. Dog. She enjoyed the side-woman life, but longed for an outlet of her own. Writing and recording in secret, […]
San Fermin Goes For Adds
San Fermin’s new Belong LP marks a shift in perspective for bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone. “In the past I’d usually write through characters… to try to distance myself from what I was writing about,” says the Brooklyn-based artist. “I decided that I could drop some of the artifice and write something more direct.” In bringing a […]
Nectarines Go For Adds
Nectarines make slightly-gothic dream pop with a vibe that feels a bit like The Pixies on codeine. Glorious, honeyed, heavy, and rhythmic, Nectarines recall a time when clove cigarettes, asymmetrical haircuts, and dark fashion told you were in the right place. The band is led by vocalist/guitarist Nima Kazerouni of So Many Wizards, an acclaimed […]
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Goes For Adds
Produced by the band and recorded entirely onto tape at Analogue Cat Studios in Northern Ireland by Julie McLarnon, the new Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi, jazz-tinged bass, acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Mississippi John Hurt, and three unique vocalists. Yet while the constituent elements seem […]
Mount Eerie Talks With Paste
As Paste writes, Mount Eerie‘s new album A Crow Looked At Me “articulates more than just a one-sided sadness. Traveling through an entire spectrum of bereavement, [Phil] Elverum is mystified at how someone can exist and then be irrevocably gone… All he can do, in response to this profoundly devastating thing, is continue to exist […]
CoS Praises The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields – who seek a new NACC peak this week with 50 Song Memoir – have garnered a great review from Consequence of Sound. “An unprecedented two-and-a-half-hour journey into the typically guarded [Stephin] Merritt’s life, the album is as revealing as it is resonant,” CoS writes, after setting the album up as “the […]
Mayflower Madame, On Tour In the US, Premieres “Drown” Via BlackBook
BlackBook recently premiered the new single from Mayflower Madame, “Drown,” comparing the Oslo-based band to gothic and shoegaze heroes. According to the site, the band’s “sneering vocals and wickedly distorted guitar riffs are pure Jesus & Mary Chain, the ominous, echo-drenched atmospherics recall Sisters of Mercy, and the overall and very palpable sense of fear […]
New Music From Yorkston/Thorne/Khan
Produced by the band and recorded entirely onto tape at Analogue Cat Studios in Northern Ireland by Julie McLarnon, the new Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan and Mississippi […]
