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 […]
The World Features Mariza
The name of Mariza‘s most recent album is Mundo, so it’s appropriate that the famed Portuguese fado singer got a recent feature on PRI’s The World. “‘Mundo’ is an invitation to people to get inside of my world,” Mariza told the program, “my music world, my personal world because I can’t separate them both. I’m […]
The Flaming Lips Go For Adds
Oczy Mlody, the highly-anticipated new album from The Flaming Lips, is here. Three-time Grammy Award winners, the band is one of the most enduring, influential, unpredictable, and universally-respected groups of their generation or any other. They have been cited as the ultimate live attraction and life-affirming festival band who continue to dazzle audiences with their over-the-top, maximalist, high-energy onslaught on the […]
Slime Girls Go For Adds
File Under: Music has released “Meteor Showers” by Slime Girls, the fifth audio/visual single in its One Song At A Time series. According to Consequence of Sound, which premiered the song, the speedy, propulsive emo track features “a blast of synths and straightforward guitar hooks that definitely falls on the more intense side of the […]
VICE Interviews and Streams Slow Hollows LP, Going For Debuts This Week
VICE has an interview with Austin Feinstein, the 18-year-old Angelino whose band Slow Hollows recently released Romantic and is touring the country with Cherry Glazerr. In addition to his work with the band, Feinstein has also collaborated with Frank Ocean and Tyler, The Creator. In the interview, he explains how he came to work with those […]
Naked Giants, Praised By The AZ Daily Sun, Cover Talking Heads With Car Seat Headrest
The Arizona Daily Sun has mentioned Naked Giants‘ “Twist” among its top ten songs of 2016, writing of the R.I.P. EP track, “It’s rock and roll in the spirit of pirate radio.” Check out the feature right here. The boys in Naked Giants aren’t just making news with their own songs; recent live dates have […]
Circuit Sweet Features Wallgrin Video
Wallgrin‘s video for “Ae’aea,” directed by Matt Leaf and released last month as part of File Under: Music‘s One Song At A Time series, has been featured on Circuit Sweet. According to the site, Wallgrin’s music is “unique and visionary. Wallgrin blends dance music with elements of traditional folk and Celtic pop, relying on her […]
