New Music From The Flaming Lips
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 […]
Wolf In A Suit Features Allen Tate’s “Wrapped Up”
Wolf In A Suit, which recently featured Allen Tate‘s “Wrapped Up,” wrote that the song is “melodious [and] soft yet powerful.” According to the site, the San Fermin frontman-turned-solo artist “brings an honest outlook of life, as this track showcases a much familiar feeling while maintaining that sense of truth that is undeniable; instead of […]
Tacocat Makes The Most of the Worst Year Ever
“Tacocat, my band, has been with me longer than any pet, partner, job, or hair color,” writes Emily Nokes in a recent essay for The Stranger. “This was the year we were able to do it bigger and better than before.” Nokes then takes readers along with the band as she recounts the ups-and-downs of […]
New Music From Slime Girls – Digital Servicing Only
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 […]
MXDWN Loves Slow Hollows, Their New Record is Fifth Most Added at CMJ
MXDWN has a review of Slow Hollows’ Romantic, which contends that the album “combines nostalgia, lo-fi, and pop” to sound “familiar and new all at the same time… It’s all music that has been done and exhausted before, [but] Slow Hollows take on the genres is refreshing…” “Romantic is everything one would hope and imagine […]
CoS Shares Allen Tate’s “YDNF”
“YDNF,” one of the singles from Allen Tate‘s stellar Sleepwalker LP, has been featured on Consequence of Sound. The song, CoS writes, “exemplifies his gravitation toward a more contemplative brand of indie pop [as compared to his work as a vocalist in the band San Fermin] that pushes his velvety baritone to the fore. The […]
Slow Hollows Go For Adds – Digital Servicing Only
The rock project from 18-year-old collaborator on Frank Ocean‘s ‘Blonde,’ ‘Endless,’ and Tyler, The Creator‘s ‘Cherry Bomb’ January-February tour opening for Cherry Glazerr Romantic is the third album from Slow Hollows, the LA-based post-pop project of 18-year-old Austin Feinstein. Written during his senior year of high school and between his contributions to Frank Ocean‘s Blonde (on “Self Control”) and Endless […]
Radio Milwaukee Interviews Devendra Banhart
WYMS, a non-commercial station in Milwaukee, recently conducted an interview with Devendra Banhart. Throughout the course of the interview, Banhart exudes a quizzical unpredictability that has become predictable from the quirky freak-folk pioneer, opining about Japanese death poems and sharing an idea for social media to come paired with biological devices that gave electroshocks to […]
Nico Muhly and Teitur, Featured by The Atlantic, Make a Strong Debut at Radio 200
Last fall, The Atlantic chose “Describe You” by Nico Muhly & Teitur for a Track of the Day feature. The magazine describes Confessions, the duo’s new LP released on Nonesuch Records last year, as “a quirky, charming mix of songs combining Teitur’s winsome voice and Muhly’s baroque string textures.” Check out the feature, and hear the […]
New Music From Slow Hollows – Digital Servicing Only
The rock project from 18-year-old collaborator on Frank Ocean‘s ‘Blonde,’ ‘Endless,’ and Tyler, The Creator‘s ‘Cherry Bomb’ January-February tour opening for Cherry Glazerr Romantic is the third album from Slow Hollows, the LA-based post-pop project of 18-year-old Austin Feinstein. Written during his senior year of high school and between his contributions to Frank Ocean‘s Blonde (on “Self Control”) and Endless […]
CLRVYNT Shares Dude York’s “Black Jack”
“Power-pop addicts, meet your new favorite band: Dude York,” writes CLRVYNT, going further to say that “the Seattle-based riff-rock trio is powered by the grit of the Reatards and the hooks of Van Halen.” The website has a stream of “Black Jack,” the first single released from the band’s upcoming Sincerely LP. CLRVYNT notes that […]
IMPOSE Premieres Wallgrin’s “Ae’aea” Video
IMPOSE has the premiere of “Ae’aea,” the new song/video from Canadian experimentalist Wallgrin. The video, which is the fourth release in File Under: Music‘s excellent One Song At A Time series, was directed by Matt Leaf and “begins with a thundering waterfall, setting the dramatic tone for the song and its visual counterpart. As Wallgrin’s gorgeous […]
DGO Mag Reviews The Glory of Fruit Bats
“Absolute Loser is a fantastic record that will rightly be on (or atop) many a critics’ Best of 2016 list, mine included,” writes Jon E. Lynch of DGO Mag about Fruit Bats‘ comeback album, which surfaced last Spring. Fruit Bats’ latest release – entitled the Glory of Fruit Bats and sent out into the world […]
Grimy Goods Interviews Allen Tate
In a recent interview with Grimy Goods, Allen Tate provides an in-depth look at the process behind his solo album Sleepwalker and explores how his participation in the experimental indie-pop collective San Fermin has shaped him as a musician. “I’m such a better musician now just by being around everyone in the band,” he says […]
Boreal Sons Talk Reconfiguration With VUE Weekly
VUE Weekly has a feature on Boreal Sons, whose You & Everyone LP is currently at CMJ. The band lost its guitarist before the making of the new album, a topic that VUE discussed in depth with the keyboardist/singer Evan Acheson. “At the beginning we had no idea what we were doing or how we were […]
Wallgrin Goes For Spins
File Under: Music has released the fourth single in its One Song At A Time series, a track called “Ae’aea” from experimental-art pop project Wallgrin. The solo project of composer, violinist, and vocalist Tegan Wahlgren, Wallgrin applies her talent to exploring the space between extremes of beauty and dissonance, expressed through layers of strings and […]
Naked Giants Premiere “Easy Eating” Video on IMPOSE
Naked Giants look like absolute maniacs in the video for “Easy Eating,” performing with nutso energy in a golden room while a janitor stares at them. IMPOSE has the video, which was made to support the boys’ current R.I.P. EP. According to the band, “The janitor in the video originally had an in-depth backstory – his […]
Devendra Banhart Joins Concert For Standing Rock
Last week, we told you about Devendra Banhart‘s upcoming tour, which will take him throughout North America in 2017. The songwriter behind this year’s amazing Ape In Pink Marble has added a final 2016 date, however, to benefit the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. As Rolling Stone reports, “After months of protests, the […]
Ocean Park Standoff Are On The Verge
On The Verge, a show created by the Boston University chapter of Verge Campus and broadcast every Sunday morning on WTBU, recently interviewed Ocean Park Standoff‘s Ethan Thompson. In the text accompanying the extensive discussion, the show’s Neela Mahaghagh writes that the band is “a curiosity… They are strange and unique, but perfectly catchy for […]
New Music From Wallgrin – Digital Servicing Only
File Under: Music has released the fourth single in its One Song At A Time series, a track called “Ae’aea” from experimental-art pop project Wallgrin. The solo project of composer, violinist, and vocalist Tegan Wahlgren, Wallgrin applies her talent to exploring the space between extremes of beauty and dissonance, expressed through layers of strings and […]
