Leif Vollebekk Plays KINK
Leif Vollebekk recently stopped by the studio at Portland’s KINK 101.9 FM for a performance of “Peace Of Mind,” from his new LP Revelation. See the performance here. Revelation is at radio now via Secret City Records, and our digital servicing includes two additional versions of this track. Vollebekk tours Canada early next year: 2/14 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl 2/15 – […]
Ohio Players Inspire Funky Fossil Name
Ohio Players‘ huge 1973 hit “Funky Worm” – remastered and at radio now via Westbound Records and ORG Music – is one of the most-sampled records in the history of hip hop. As reported last year by Dayton Daily News, the song was also the inspiration behind the name of a newly-discovered species of fossil amphibian discovered by paleontologists from Petrified Forest […]
Sun Atoms Gets Four Stars From Spill
Spill Magazine recently reviewed Everything Forever, the new Sun Atoms album at radio now from Little Cloud Records. “Throughout, Sun Atoms give us a heady alt-rock combination of The Dandy Warhols and LCD Soundsystem – like rhythms that take inroads elsewhere with both rhyme and reason sounding sometimes like an updated version of New Order. Quite a tricky thing to achieve, but Sun Atoms seem to be […]
New Music From Eramus Hall
Eramus Hall was a soul/funk group from Detroit, whose debut “Your Love Is My Desire” became one of the most sought-after records of the modern soul era, coveted by DJs and record collectors alike. The group only recorded the one album for Westbound Records, home of funk heavyweights Funkadelic and Ohio Players, before moving to Capitol for their second and final album […]
New Music From the innocence mission
The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, Midwinter Swimmers (due November 29, 2024) sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time, it’s a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and the strange, lo-fi beauty […]
Bandcamp Tells The Westbound Records Story
A man A plan A canal is excited to help promote the new reissue series from Westbound Records and ORG Music, which is shining a light on the influential Detroit imprint that pushed the limits of soulful funk. We recently sent the remastered edition of Ohio Players‘ Pleasure, which is at radio now and features the massive hit “Funky Worm” that […]
PDX Pipeline Is Giving Away Sun Atoms Tickets
Psyched-out gaze wavers Sun Atoms (featuring a member of The Dandy Warhols) will perform an all ages show in Portland, OR on December 11 at the Mission Theater, and PDX Pipeline is giving away a pair of tickets. It’s not only Sun Atoms on the bill; it also features LSD and the Search For God, known for hypnotic shows built upon swirling […]
Plastic Mag Hails Leif Vollebekk’s “Quiet Triumph”
Plastic Mag has coverage of Leif Vollebekk’s new “Peace of Mind (Morning),” the new single that is included – along with “Peace of Mind” (Evening) – in our new digital servicing package of his album Revelation, which is at radio now via Secret City. Plastic says this version “is a quiet triumph, capturing the serenity and searching that define […]
Binnie Klein and Chris Frantz Get Talking
In a new and engaging Talkhouse conversation, Binnie Klein and her fellow DJ on WPKN, Chris Frantz, the Rock N Roll Hall of Famer who has had massive hits with both Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. The two discuss old New York, new music, and more. The two go deep into Klein’s recent musical release, the collaborative album The Quiver by In These Trees and Tartie, […]
Patrick Watson Unveils New Video with November Ultra
Patrick Watson has released the music video for “Silencio,” featuring November Ultra. The song was inspired by a period during which Watson – an Award-winning artist that has released several beloved albums of explorative cinematic pop over the past two decades – couldn’t speak or sing for nearly three months. “Silencio” explores some of the impressions that came […]
It’s Psychedelic Baby Interviews Greg Lisher
It’s Psychedelic Baby has an interview with Greg Lisher, and it’s full of insights and details about Lisher’s long musical career as a guitarist in Camper Van Beethoven. There are a lot of nuggets for CVB fanatics in the interview, along with content about how Lisher created his new solo album Underwater Detection Method. It’s an instrumental, largely-electronic affair, […]
New Music From Leif Vollebekk
Multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk has revealed a captivating acoustic version of “Peace of Mind,” the original version of which is featured on his critically-acclaimed new record Revelation. “’Peace of Mind (Morning)’ felt like it wanted its own space, separate from the album version,” says Vollebekk. “There’s something about a mountain that always makes you feel at ease. It can […]
Greg Lisher Drives On The Transformation Highway
Greg Lisher will be on the air today (Thursday, November 21) on Transformation Highway with John Malkin on KZSC 88.1 FM in Santa Cruz, California. It’ll be streaming worldwide here. The longtime Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom guitarist is promoting his fourth solo album – Underwater Detection Method, his first electronic-leaning LP, which is at radio now via Independent Project Records.
Billboard Interviews Laurie Anderson
Billboard writes that Laurie Anderson‘s new album, Amelia, “delves into legendary aviator Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated final flight. But while questions such as ‘what really happened to Amelia Earhart?’ and ‘where did her plane crash?’ have recurred throughout popular culture for nearly 90 years, Amelia isn’t interested in answers, or even asking questions. Instead, Anderson – through her indelible mixture of storytelling, […]
New Music From Tipula
Tipula’s Raw Tapes debut, Greening, took shape as Eldar Brantman and Dana Dunietz began playfully fusing trip-hop, vocal jazz and classic funk in Eldar’s home studio. With no deadline, slowly Greening emerged. “Creation is necessary for me; like breathing,” says Dunietz. Necessary, but not a burden. These eight tracks sound like two friends enjoying each other, trading melodies between keys and vocals, lightly bouncing over […]
XS Noise Shares Sun Atoms’ Collaboration With Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock
XS Noise has Sun Atoms’ collaboration with Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, “Narco Polo.” The song is on the band’s new album Everything Forever, and an FCC Clean radio edit is available of the track. XS Noise has more details about how the collaboration happened, explaining, “Not completely out of the blue, there has been a chain of amicable […]
Beams Streams Again
Fans of Beams’ album Requiem For A Planet might have noticed that the album – released earlier this year to solid reviews – was not available on streaming services for a while. That situation has fortunately been remedied, and Exclaim has a story behind what happened. According to Exclaim, “In July, an AI playlister named Chartmob added one of […]
Sun Atoms, Writes Willamette Week, Makes “Shoegaze At Its Most Propulsive”
Willamette Week says “Portland band Sun Atoms’ new album, Everything Forever, should appeal to fans of shoegaze at its most propulsive, where walls of guitars meet a thundering rock chassis: think Ride’s latter-day albums with Erol Alkan, or My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless-closing ‘Soon.’” Read more here. Sun Atoms performs live in Portland at McMenamin’s Mission Theater on December 11.
Leif Vollebekk Shares His “Peace of Mind”
Leif Vollebekk has released his new music video for “Peace Of Mind and says, “[The] first time I saw the Rockies I was about 11. It’s one of the few things in life that remains as immense and sublime today as it did when I first saw it. A great mountain range instils calm and peaceful […]
New Music From The Ladies Of…
With songs filled with power-hungry guitar riffs, impeccable vocals, and thunderous grooves, The Ladies Of… is a musical cocktail that combines the vibe and sounds of David Bowie, Spoon, Bleachers, and The Killers, complete with a vigorous shake and a plastic sword garnish. Birthed in 2012, the band is made of a group of writers and performers from around the […]
