Flagpole Reviews Kuroma’s New LP
Flagpole has a review of Kuroma‘s The Dark Horse Rides Again, comparing the band to Tame Impala and Melody’s Echo Chamber and saying the album “hits the ground running and rarely revisits the same territory, oscillating between kinetic barnburners, angelic ballads, and smooth sailers.” The review compliments singer Hank Sullivant’s voice, an “airy tenor [that] […]
New Music From My Goodness
Islands, the new EP from Seattle’s My Goodness, illustrates a major sonic leap for the band. Formed by Seattleites Joel Schneider and Andy Lum after a chance encounter at SXSW, My Goodness has made considerable strides since recording the rocking, bluesy 2014 LP Shiver & Shake live in the studio with Rick Parashar (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Blind Melon). […]
Pickathon Starlight Series Kicks Off With Fruit Bats
“Humbug Mountain Song” is one of the high points on Fruit Bats 2016 LP Absolute Loser, and the band’s performance of the song was among the high points at the idyllic Pickathon festival earlier this year. That’s why Season 2 of The Starlight Series, a monthly video series of performances from Pickathon being put online […]
The Monitor Reviews Tacocat
The Monitor has a new review of Tacocat‘s Lost Time, calling the band’s singer Emily Nokes a “nasty woman” who is making her voice heard. “With a resilient sense of melody and balanced diet of sass, snark and smarts,” writes the McAllen, Texas-based paper, “Nokes makes short work of anonymous internet trolls, mansplainers and boyfriends […]
New Music From Pill Friends- Digital Servicing Only
File Under: Music has released the third single in its One Song At A Time series, from Pennsylvania five-piece Pill Friends. The song, “Holy Like You,” follows the band’s February LP Child Sacrifice. It’s a lo-fi midtempo rocker, with chugging guitars and earnest vocals that the AV Club has compared to “one of Modest Mouse’s down-trodden […]
Paste Interviews Allen Tate and Shares “Don’t Choke” Video
In a recent interview with Paste Magazine, Allen Tate explained how his job as the male lead singer of San Fermin impacts his work as a solo artist. “When the band is touring on an album cycle, we play close to 200 shows a year… so it was a question of where there was space to […]
Drowned In Sound Features Ablebody
Drowned in Sound has a lengthy feature on Ablebody, which goes in-depth with band mastermind Christoph Hochheim as he explains the process behind the creation of the band’s new LP Adult Contemporaries. Drowned in Sound gives a history of the band, whose members have played with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and The Depreciation […]
Devendra Banhart Speaks With LA Weekly
When asked by LA Weekly if his music is experimental, Devendra Banhart reflected, “I can’t imagine anyone approaching art without the joy of experimentation. The joy of it is inherent … and that is how you flow with the reality of change.” The quote comes from a recent interview he did with the storied alt […]
Rogue Wave (Dan Deacon Remix) Goes For Adds – Digital Servicing Only
Dan Deacon has submitted a remix of “What Is Left To Solve,” the first single from Rogue Wave‘s 2016 LP Delusions Of Grand Fur. The album is notable for the band’s ever-so-slight shift towards synthesizers, but Deacon’s new remix takes Rogue Wave to a new and imminently danceable level of electronica. Talking about the remix to […]
Andrew Joslyn Goes For Adds – Digital Servicing Only
Best known as an orchestra leader and co-writer on songs from The Heist and This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, Andrew Joslyn has collaborating and performed with a diverse range of artists including David Bazan (Pedro The Lion), Mark Lanegan (Queens of the Stone Age), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), Shelby Earl, Billy McCarthy (Augustines), Macklemore, and Allen Stone. Additionally, […]
Pitchfork Interviews Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is a playful fellow, and his sense of humor is on full display in a recent interview the musician gave to Pitchfork. Along with anecdotes about his first job as a manure-shoveler in Venezuela and reminiscences about the love he feels for ska music, Banhart shares his favorite joke with Pitchfork and also passes […]
AllMusic Glowingly Describes New Kuroma LP
“Kuroma‘s previous albums proved that they’re masters of psychedelic pop’s trippy mischief,” writes the AllMusic Guide, “but on The Dark Horse Rides Again, they explore the style’s transcendence.” The site’s review of the new LP is nothing short of glowing, saying that its “songs reflect newfound emotional and spiritual dimensions” and bringing forth comparisons to […]
New Music From Andrew Joslyn
Best known as an orchestra leader for the past eight years and co-writer on songs from The Heist and This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, Andrew Joslyn has collaborated and performed with a diverse range of artists including David Bazan (Pedro The Lion), Mark Lanegan (Queens of the Stone Age), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), Billy McCarthy (Augustines), Macklemore, Shelby Earl, and […]
Stereogum Premieres Ablebody’s “Backseat Heart” Video
According to Stereogum, Ablebody‘s “Backseat Heart” is “bold, but subtle — a five-minute single that drifts by, comfortable in its grandeur.” The song is the opening track on Adult Contemporaries, the debut LP from the duo of Christoph and Anton Hochheim (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Depreciation Guild), and Stereogum has the Megan Cullen-directed video […]
AllMusic Gives Nico Muhly and Teitur Four Stars
AllMusic has reviewed Nico Muhly & Teitur‘s collaborative album Confessions, giving the new LP four out of five stars. Writing about the project’s creation, AllMusic says, “The project was inspired by the early days of social networking and the phenomenon of people uploading mundane, sometimes uniquely self-revealing home videos, specifically to YouTube. Originally conceived as […]
Georgie Premieres on Stereogum
Stereogum has the video for Georgie’s debut single, “Company of Thieves.” According to the site, the Spacebomb-produced track is “a flashback to early ’60s rock ‘n’ roll and girl-group pop, though it skews closer to Amy Winehouse than, say, Vivian Girls. Georgie’s vocals are proud and unrelenting as she howls about a scorned lover… With a […]
New Music From Rogue Wave (Dan Deacon Remix) – Digital Servicing Only
Dan Deacon has submitted a remix of “What Is Left To Solve,” the first single from Rogue Wave‘s 2016 LP Delusions Of Grand Fur. The album is notable for the band’s ever-so-slight shift towards synthesizers, but Deacon’s new remix takes Rogue Wave to a new and imminently danceable level of electronica. Talking about the remix to […]
Stereogum Premieres So So Glos Video
Stereogum has the new “Missionary” video from The So So Glos, which is taken from the Brookyln band’s raging LP Kamikaze. The Glos embody the DIY aesthetic and have a sound that harks back to the late 1980s punk scene, and they’ve added to their already-considerable street cred by tapping Operation Ivy leader Jesse Michaels to […]
Tacocat Plays For Y-Not Radio
Seattle-based four-piece Tacocat recently visited Y-Not Radio in Philadelphia and performed a few songs in-studio. Recorded at Spice House Sound, the October 21 session included a fun interview along with versions of four songs from the band’s Lost Time LP. Check the whole thing out here. Y-Not also posted a couple videos from the session […]
The Flaming Lips Go For Adds
Oczy Mlody, the highly-anticipated new album from The Flaming Lips, is being released early next year. 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, […]
