The New York Times Interviews The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne
The New York Times has an illuminative interview with Flaming Lips leader Wayne Coyne, who discusses how new album Oczy Mlody is full of “emotional outbursts” that he can’t even fully explain. Elsewhere, Coyne tells the Times how he feels about David Bowie‘s death (“Bowie was already in a realm of the mythical character, like […]
CoS Shares Kan Wakan Single
Consequence of Sound has the new single from Kan Wakan, called “I Had To Laugh,” which follows last year’s Molasses EP and continues Kan Wakan’s momentum as he builds up to the release of his upcoming 3-LP Phantasmagoria album. “The fresh single,” writes CoS, “showcases the blend of organic and electronic production Kan Wakan has […]
New Music From San Fermin – Digital Servicing Only
Scheduled for release this April, San Fermin’s new Belong LP marks a shift in songwriting perspective for bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone. “In the past I’d usually write through characters from books or movies, as a way to try to distance myself from what I was writing about,” says the Brooklyn-based artist. “As I’ve become more confident […]
New Music From Blake Hazard – Digital Servicing Only
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. 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 […]
Technique and Hot Press Hail Oczy Mlody as a Return To Form for The Flaming Lips
Technique has reviewed the new Flaming Lips album, contending that the band sounds “reinvigorated” and contending, “Oczy Mlody is no exception to the group’s long tradition of excellence. The Flaming Lips have reinvented themselves again, and the album with which they have done it may well be the best of their career.” The review takes […]
The FADER Premieres Slow Hollows’ “Softer”
The FADER has a stream of “Softer,” a track taken from Slow Hollows‘ new LP Romantic. “‘Softer’ was written in early 2015. It’s primarily meant to represent the absurdity of the things that humans tend to place importance in, and how easy it is to get bogged down by a negative mindset towards all things once loved,” […]
Buried Muse Shares Surf Curse’s “All Is Lost”
Buried Muse has a new video from Surf Curse, whose new album Nothing Yet is at radio now. “All Is Lost,” filmed by Stumble on Tapes, features its two members performing in silhouette in a split screen with their backs to the camera. “This is their first album in almost four years,” the site notes, “so it’s pretty […]
New Music From Crywank – Digital Servicing Only
Anti-folk act Crywank has a new song, “Part 2,” and File Under: Music has released it – along with a video – as the sixth audio/visual single in its One Song At A Time series. Formed in the UK, the project originally started as a solo project by James Clayton before Dan Watson joined on percussion. Crywank […]
The Music Ninja Shares Greyface’s “Delilah”
The Music Ninja has the premiere of “Delilah,” from Greyface‘s excellent debut LP Greyola. The site has high praise for the record, writing that it’s “a delicate, somewhat dreary, and downright addictive jam that calls on associations of the glory days of this genre. You could easily find it nestled neatly into an Indie Rock […]
New Music From Overcoats – Digital Servicing Only
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 […]
Forbes Interviews The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne
The Flaming Lips‘ Wayne Coyne is a counter-culture legend whose band has been the sunny face of candy-coated psychedelia for a generation now. So of course he’s granted a long-overdue interview to the defining magazine of today’s freaks and weirdos: Forbes. The interview was conducted on Coyne’s birthday, at a technicolor rave hosted by the […]
Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau Play For World Cafe
Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau, two world-renowned musicians who have teamed up to record a self-titled mandolin-and-guitar folk/jazz fusion album, took their sound to XPN’s World Cafe for a live session recently. The Nonesuch label mates performed three tracks from their new record – covers by Elliott Smith, Gillian Welch, and Bob Dylan – and […]
Greyface Goes For Adds
Justin (Jutty) Taylor (vocals/bass), Ryan Malina (guitar), and Julien Bellin (drums) met while playing music together as teenagers in Florida in the 1990s and have been playing music together since, yet Greyface is their first official project as a three-piece. Debut album Greyola exhibits the sound of a band drawing from a wealth of influence and experience. […]
Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau Go For Adds
“Progressive-bluegrass pacesetter” Chris Thile (Punch Brothers) pairs with renowned jazz pianist BradMehldau to cut a record of loose originals and covers of Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan and JoniMitchell. Mandolinist Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, A Prairie Home Companion) and accomplished jazz pianist Brad Mehldau first performed together in September 2011 as part […]
The Oklahoman Praises The Flaming Lips
Oklahomans have loved The Flaming Lips for more than three decades now, a fruitful creative stretch of time during which the band has become the best-known rock act from a state known more for churning out country stars like Garth Brooks and Reba McIntyre. Since Oklahomans know the band best, it’s important to know how they […]
MushRoomed Reviews Surf Curse
In a recent review of the new Surf Curse album, MushRoomed took time to extol the virtues of the duo’s live shows. “Although they’re a two piece band,” the site says, “they manage to fill the stage with such energy that you hardly remember it’s just two white boys on stage.” The review describes the […]
New Music From Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau
Mandolinist Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, A Prairie Home Companion) and accomplished jazz pianist Brad Mehldau first performed together in September 2011 as part of Mehldau’s residency at London’s Wigmore Hall. Of that performance, the Guardian wrote, “Mehldau struck up his signature rocking chord vamp over which lightly struck motifs swell to sensuous extended […]
Stereogum Shares The Flaming Lips’ Video For “Sunrise (Eyes of The Young). New LP Goes for #1!
Stereogum has the video for “Sunrise (Eyes of the Young),” a standout track from The Flaming Lips‘ new opus Oczy Mlody. The video, like everything the Lips do, is quite trippy and has been described by Wayne Coyne as “part somber and sad and part childlike, ethereal fantasy.” In a statement, Coyne continued with a […]
Northern Transmissions Gives “Song of The Day” Honors to Slow Hollows
Northern Transmissions chose “Last Dance” by Slow Hollows for a recent Song of the Day feature. The site refers to the band as “post pop,” referencing the catchy quality of the songs singer/guitarist Austin Feinstein and crew have assembled into new LP Romantic, which currently sits at #25 on the CMJ Radio 200. “Last Dance,” the […]
New Music From Greyface
Justin (Jutty) Taylor (vocals/bass), Ryan Malina (guitar), and Julien Bellin (drums) met while playing music together as teenagers in Florida in the 1990s and have been playing music together since, yet Greyface is their first official project as a three-piece. Debut album Greyola exhibits the sound of a band drawing from a wealth of influence and experience. […]
