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, […]
Allen Tate Goes For Adds
Allen Tate first received acclaim as the male lead singer of San Fermin. Bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone wrote about half of San Fermin’s songs for Tate’s distinctive baritone voice, which has been described as “sterling,” “gorgeous,” and “golden” by the likes of Rolling Stone and NPR. With San Fermin, he has performed sold-out shows across the […]
Johnny Foreigner Goes For Adds
Birmingham, England’s Johnny Foreigner follows the success of this year’s breakthrough Mono No Aware LP with a non-album single, “Flooding.” According to Brookyln Vegan, it is “a frantic pop song that has a ton of stuff going on: yelpy male/female dual-vocals, mathy rhythms, tons of dynamic shifts, and more.” The fast, catchy song is being released […]
Ocean Park Standoff Goes For Adds
The musicians behind LA-based alt-pop trio Ocean Park Standoff come from different worlds. A self-taught producer, Pete Nappi constructs deeply inventive productions equally inspired by art rock and underground hip-hop. A DJ known for high-profile gigs around the globe, Samantha Ronson is also a songwriter who matches her lyrical smarts with a sonic ingenuity rooted […]
Devendra Banhart Takes the Marketplace Quiz
Devenda Banhart is on something of a tour of public radio outlets, recently recording segments with NPR‘s All Things Considered, KPCC‘s The Frame, and now APM‘s Marketplace. The Marketplace Quiz is a “money-inspired personality questionnaire,” but Banhart doesn’t spend his time talking about economics. Instead, he shares stories from his earlier performing days, discusses his first […]
The FADER Shares Kan Wakan Video
Kan Wakan has released a new video for “I Would,” a song currently available on his Molasses EP that will also be included on the upcoming 3-LP collection Phantasmagoria. According to The FADER, which has the premiere, “I Would” is “a lovesick song with an equally tender video… A black-and-white clip about a couple torn apart by […]
Beat Route Features Boreal Sons
Introducing Calgary’s Boreal Sons in a preface to a new feature on the band, Beat Route says the band’s songs are “earthly but angelic, grounded but lofty.” The feature hails the band’s new album You & Everyone, writing that the LP “contains the essence of previous Boreal Sons records, but emboldened through time and experience.” […]
New Music From Allen Tate
Allen Tate first received acclaim as the male lead singer of San Fermin. Bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone wrote about half of San Fermin’s songs for Tate’s distinctive baritone voice, which has been described as “sterling,” “gorgeous,” and “golden” by the likes of Rolling Stone and NPR. With San Fermin, he has performed sold-out shows across the […]
