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 […]
Paste Magazine Premieres Kuroma Video
Paste Magazine has the video for Kuroma‘s “A Day With No Disaster,” which it describes as “vivid” and “hallucinatory.” The song is the lead track on the band’s new LP The Dark Horse Rides Again and was inspired by My Bloody Valentine‘s “Only Tomorrow,” as Kuroma’s Hank Sullivant explained: “In the course of part of a verse […]
Rogue Wave Makes Appearance On Bizarro Web Series
Rogue Wave‘s Zach Rogue recently paid a visit to Slo-Mo Destructo, a Nerdist-created take on Japanese game shows that is colorful, strange, and exceedingly awkward. From the video’s description: “[For this episode,] the host, our own senior editor Dan Casey and his continuing wardrobe of absurd suits and glasses, was joined by Zach Rogue of […]
New Music From Johnny Foreigner – Digital Servicing Only
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 […]
Devendra Banhart Receives Four-Star Review by The Times of London and is Top 10 CMJ for Back-to-Back Weeks
The Times of London recently reviewed Devendra Banhart‘s Ape In Pink Marble, placing the album in the context of the veteran musician’s career. The four-star review states: “When he emerged in the mid-Noughties, Banhart seemed as if he had stepped out of a book of fairytales – a handsome Venezuelan-American singing in a Marc Bolan warble about […]
Coast Modern Chats With Baeble Music
Baeble Music has an interview with Coast Modern, the LA-based duo whose radio sampler EP is climbing the CMJ Radio 200. In the inteview, bandmates Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp tell stories about their meteoric rise since their first show, in March of this year. Over the course of the piece, the dudes send out positive vibes […]
New Music From Ocean Park Standoff
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 […]
Ablebody’s Adult Contemporaries Is Bandcamp’s Album Of The Day
Ablebody‘s Adult Contemporaries is a rare debut that feels fully formed – although it’s got a nostalgic feel to it, the album has enough unique qualities to set it apart from its inspirations. Perhaps that’s why it’s off to such a great start at radio, reaching a new peak at #75 in its second week on […]
Rebecca Schiffman Announces Vinyl, Plays LA
Rebecca Schiffman has issued a vinyl version of her self-titled new LP, which is available from her Bandcamp page. She’s known for her clever and fascinating lyrics, which are reproduced on the inner sleeve of the physical version. Buy the record here, and get an immediate download plus access to a streaming version. Schiffman has […]
New Music From The Flaming Lips
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, […]
Daily Emerald Talks To Fruit Bats
Daily Emerald recently interviewed Eric D. Johnson, whose Fruit Bats project is currently on tour behind 2016’s Absolute Loser LP. In the interview, Johnson explains the inspiration behind the album’s cover art and discusses how anxiety can be a creative inspiration for Fruit Bats songs that can seem “light or sunshiny” upon first listen. He […]
Nico Muhly & Teitur Go For Adds
On Confessions, American composer Nico Muhly and Faroese songwriter Teitur present a collection of ornate, classically-styled music inspired sonically by the 1600s and paired with seemingly-banal lyrical artifacts from our new digital century. Recorded with the Holland Baroque Society, a group whose mission is “to convince a large and varied audience of the flexibility and […]
Anna Of The North Goes For Adds
Although they’ve yet to release a full album, the Oslo-based duo Anna of the North has found an international audience and viral success with an epic, swooning, and ethereal sound that, according to the FADER, “brings out Scandi-pop’s sensitive side.” Soundfiction says that “Us,” the duo’s new single, is “a fascinatingly fragmented, synth-driven follow up […]
Devendra Banhart Talks To NPR’s All Things Considered
At the age of 9, Devendra Banhart terrified his family with the first song he wrote, entitled “We’re All Gonna Die.” This is but one of the revelations that the peculiar freak-folk pioneer reveals in a new interview with NPR‘s All Things Considered. The interview aired on October 15, and it can now be streamed […]
