The Flaming Lips Appear On The Tonight Show
One of the highlights of The Flaming Lips‘ new album Oczy Mlody is “The Castle,” a shimmering single that features both sunny melodies and wicked, experimental production. The band recently played the song on The Tonight Show, bringing their delightfully psychedelic playfulness to late night. Watch the performance below, and learn more here via Spin. […]
Surf Curse’s “Christine F” Video Premieres On The Grey Estates
Surf Curse‘s just-released Nothing Yet LP begins with “Christine F,” a surging statement of musical and lyrical purpose that provides an alluring introduction to the band’s energetic lo-fi, surf punk sound. The Grey Estates has the video for the track, which is delightfully creepy and features many of the band’s peers from the vast Los […]
Surf Curse Goes For Adds
Second LP from lo-fi duo based in the same LA DIY community as Girlpool, Cherry Glazerr, The Garden, and Slow Hollows Surf Curse is Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck, who started their project in a basement in Reno, Nevada before going to Los Angeles to become a fixture of the DIY scene anchored […]
New Music From Kan Wakan Going for Spins
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 […]
The Flaming Lips, Aiming For #1 at CMJ, Share Video Via Pitchfork
Pitchfork has the video for The Flaming Lips‘ “How??” This trippy and trashily disaffected song serves as the opener for the Lips’ epic new LP Oczy Mlody, teasing out the album’s musical and lyrical themes. The video, as described by Pitchfork, “features bright costumes, and also finds Wayne Coyne on a motorcycle covered in stuffed […]
CBC Honors Boreal Songs Amongst The Best Albertan Albums Of the Year
Boreal Sons have found a fan in Katherine Duncan, who hosts CBC Radio 1‘s Key of A program highlighting great music from the Canadian province of Alberta. Duncan included the band’s You & Everyone in her “Alberta Top Ten Albums of 2016,” writing that on the album the band has “taken that limitation [of losing a […]
New Music From Kan Wakan – Digital Servicing Only
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 two years since the release of Moving On, and […]
Wayne Coyne Talks To Prince Paul at The Talkhouse, Music OHM Compares Oczy Mlody to Literally Taking Drugs
On the eve of the release of the Flaming Lips’ new record Oczy Mlody, which shot to #3 at CMJ’s Radio 200 chart this week, Lips’ mastermind Wayne Coyne sat down with legendary hip-hop producer Prince Paul (De La Soul, Handsome Boys Modeling School), at the Sonos store in New York City and got deep on […]
PRI’s The World Features Nico Muhly & Teitur
Confessions, the new LP from Nico Muhly & Teitur, was recently featured on Public Radio International‘s syndicated The World program. The feature led the program’s Global Hit podcast on January 13, and that can be heard right here. Released in October, Confessions has been continuing to build up steam at radio and has been charting […]
New Music From Surf Curse – Digital Servicing Only
Second LP from lo-fi duo based in the same LA DIY community as Girlpool, Cherry Glazerr, The Garden, and Slow Hollows Surf Curse is Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck, who started their project in a basement in Reno, Nevada before going to Los Angeles to become a fixture of the DIY scene anchored […]
The Flaming Lips Talk To Salon, Receive Plaudits From Relix, Land at CMJ #3, Aim For CMJ Chart Domination
In a recent interview with Salon, The Flaming Lips‘ Wayne Coyne was dismissive of the idea of his band’s importance, telling the site that “it is just music after all… It’s not like we’re trying extract some bacteria from a dying infant’s brain in one long move… This is easy compared to real jobs, hard […]
BeatRoute Reviews the ‘Appealing’ Slow Hollows LP, Currently #31 at CMJ
BeatRoute has a review of Slow Hollows’ new LP Romantic, which describes the album as “dreary winter blues” and notes singer Austin Feinstein’s recent collaborations with Frank Ocean and Tyler, The Creator. Calling the album “a youthful, poesy, lovelorn collection of songs,” Beatroute states that “Feinstein’s vocals aren’t choirboy material, but his lackadaisical drawl laid over […]
Brightest Young Things Interviews Allen Tate
Brightest Young Things has an insightful interview with Allen Tate, who sings in San Fermin and recently released a gorgeous solo album entitled Sleepwalker. Conducted right before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the interview doesn’t only touch on musical topics but breaches Tate’s ideas about where America is going as a nation in 2017. “There are a lot […]
Tinariwen Goes For Adds
Road movies often unfold the same way, with characters traveling in search of truth while reconnecting with a past that has – of course – been erased. Tinariwen‘s Elwan has a similar story, coming from a band that has been triumphantly touring the world at the same time as the frontiers that encircle their desert home have […]
The Flaming Lips Earn Positive Reviews from The Independent and CoS
The first reviews of The Flaming Lips‘ Oczy Mlody are coming in, and they’re overwhelmingly positive. The Independent gives the new LP four out of five stars, writing that the album is “a lovely, silly, serious work that draws one in despite the bursts of utopian cosmo-babble… But buried amongst the cosmic fairytale whimsy and […]
Slow Hollows, On Tour With Cherry Glazerr, Make CMJ Debut And Get Review From Eleven PDX
Slow Hollows had a strong CMJ debut last week with Romantic, which landed at #51 on Radio 200 after being the fifth-most added release in the week prior. Get them spinning at your station and help them break the Top 30 in their second week! According to Eleven PDX, the record is a “tight nine-track […]
Village Voice Interviews Allen Tate
Comparing the work on Allen Tate‘s new solo LP to the work he does as a vocalist in baroque-pop outfit San Fermin, Village Voice wrote, “Whereas San Fermin sounds like the soundtrack of a Prohibition-era music hall or a bawdy artists’ salon, Sleepwalker is the record of a poet’s attic, a solo hike on a […]
Brooklyn Vegan Shares Dan Deacon’s Rogue Wave Remix
Brooklyn Vegan has shared the Dan Deacon remix of Rogue Wave‘s Delusions of Grand Fur standout “What Is Left To Solve?” The feature includes a quote from Zach Rogue, who explains his reaction to hearing the mix for the first time: “At first, the mix sounds like he threw it into a washing machine on […]
New Music From Tinariwen – Digital Servicing Only
Road movies often unfold the same way, with characters traveling in search of truth while reconnecting with a past that has – of course – been erased. Tinariwen’s Elwan has a similar story, coming from a band that has been triumphantly touring the world at the same time as the frontiers that encircle their desert […]
Rokia Traore is Nominated for a “French Grammy”
Rokia Traoré‘s Né So was one of the most successful records we promoted to CMJ New World last year, peaking at #1 and spending 19 weeks on the chart on its way to ranking as the #5 record at New World for the whole year. The album has also been critically acclaimed, and it was […]
