Brooklyn Vegan Shares Ablebody’s “Gaucho,” Band Seeks New CMJ Peak
The video for Ablebody‘s “Gaucho” is available via Brooklyn Vegan. According to the site, the band has a “clear love of ’80s UK indie, and you can hear echoes of Prefab Sprout, The Monochome Set, El Records, and more in their sound.” Check out the video here. “Gaucho” is on Ablebody’s debut LP, Adult Cotemporaries, […]
Stereogum Streams Kuroma’s New LP, The Dark Horse Rides Again, Going For CMJ Debuts This Week
Kuroma‘s The Dark Horse Rides Again consists of “achingly pretty music delivered with a gentle touch,” writes Stereogum, which has a stream of the entire LP. Stereogum notes that bandleader “Hank Sullivant was a bassist in the Whigs and a touring guitarist with MGMT during their Oracular Spectacular-era breakout… [and] it’s obvious why MGMT asked […]
New Music From Nico Muhly & Teitur
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 […]
Devendra Banhart Shares Eccentricities with Exclaim! His New Album Breaks CMJ’s Top 10
Devendra Banhart, whose album Ape In Pink Marble is currently at Radio 200, has a reputation for possessing a charming quirkiness that is on full display in a recent interview with Exclaim! Entitled “Five Facts Devendra Banhart Seems To Believe About Devendra Banhart,” the feature quotes the freak-folk pioneer as he discusses alternative titles for […]
The Pines Tour The Upper Midwest
The La Crosse Tribune recently interviewed The Pines in advance of last weekend’s show in Viroqua, Wisconsin, and the band explained how the Midwest has influenced its sound and worldview. “Part of being from the Midwest is that it gives you a patient overlook on things that sweep across the country,” band member Huckfelt told the publication. […]
New Music From Anna of the North – Digital Servicing Only
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.” The project got its start when singer Anna Lotterud, who grew up in a small […]
Noisey Premieres Ablebody’s “One Dime A Day,” New Album Debuts at CMJ
Noisey has a crush on Ablebody, writing that the band is “as perfect a pop package as you can get, really: Handsome twin brothers, summery lo-fi tracks, and a ‘formerly of’ CV that includes The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and The Depreciation Guild.” The site has the premier of the band’s new video […]
The Cave Singers Tour
Even though KEXP once wrote that the band “would immediately top the shortlist” if Seattle were to start looking for an official house band, the Cave Singers are really more of a regional act constantly on the move around the entirety of the Pacific Northwest. Next month they’ll dip all the way down to California, followed […]
Kuroma Goes For Adds
Kuroma, the Georgia-based affiliates of MGMT and The Whigs whose 2015 album Kuromarama charmed listeners with its candy-coated psychedelic sound, returns with The Dark Horse Rides Again. The band, which has toured with Tame Impala, Jarvis Cocker, The Walkmen, and more, has been growing upwardly since its 2007 full-length debut Paris, and the new LP […]
Kan Wakan Goes For Adds
Kan Wakan is Gueorgui Linev—the producer, composer, synthesizer scientist, film score fanatic, and multi-instrumentalist whose highly-acclaimed full-length debut Moving On dissolved the genre-breaking electronica of Massive Attack, Air, and Zero 7 into a bottomless sea of 20th century minimalism, psychedelic soul, and ambient atmosphere. It’s been two years since the release of Moving On, and […]
Naked Giants Go For Adds – Digital Servicing Only
ON TOUR WITH CAR SEAT HEADREST A three-piece garage rock wildebeest from Seattle, Naked Giants combine spontaneity with a stylistically-diverse catalogue to create a sound that sets them apart from your average garage rock band. Bringing together influences from the likes of Ty Segall and the Sonics as well as Pink Floyd and even Spinal Tap […]
Georgie Goes For Adds – Digital Servicing Only
Georgie is a fresh singer from Nottingham, England with a classic sensibility that belies her 21 years. Her music is being released by Richmond, Virginia’s Spacebomb Records, a label “shaped around traditional models and time-honored ways” that calls itself “a house band, a unified crew of arrangers and musicians, artists, scribes, vibe-gardeners and business men […]
UQ Reviews Boreal Sons
UQ Music Blog has a review of Boreal Sons‘ new album You & Everyone, saying the album “explore[s] reoccurring synthesized sounds and a cool electronic rock rhythm.” Describing the album as “away from the mainstream” and predicting that it will become a daily soundtrack for listeners, UQ praises singer for using his voice to sound “effortless […]
Stereogum and CoS Share Devendra Banhart’s “Middle Names”
Stereogum premiered Devendra Banhart‘s “Middle Names,” the first song on his new LP Ape In Pink Marble, this summer in advance of the album’s release. As described by the site, the song “is a hushed, simple, pretty song… It shows Banhart at his most restrained — no scraggly falsetto howls, no surrealist nature imagery, just a […]
Coast Modern Tour with The Temper Trap
Coast Modern have had a whirlwind of a year. What was once a casual collaboration between songwriters Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp, has turned into a fully realized project that has led them to festivals like SXSW, Sumemrfest, Meadows; opening slots for BØRNS and The Wombats; and more than 12 million streams on Spotify. Now the band is concluding their year […]
New Music From Kuroma
Kuroma, the Georgia-based affiliates of MGMT and The Whigs whose 2015 album Kuromarama charmed listeners with its candy-coated psychedelic sound, returns with The Dark Horse Rides Again. The band, which has toured with Tame Impala, Jarvis Cocker, The Walkmen, and more, has been growing upwardly since its 2007 full-length debut Paris, and the new LP […]
New Music from Kan Wakan
Kan Wakan is Gueorgui Linev—the producer, composer, synthesizer scientist, film score fanatic, and multi-instrumentalist whose highly-acclaimed full-length debut Moving On dissolved the genre-breaking electronica of Massive Attack, Air, and Zero 7 into a bottomless sea of 20th century minimalism, psychedelic soul, and ambient atmosphere. It’s been two years since the release of Moving On, and […]
KCRW Premieres Video For Ablebody’s “Send Me A Letter”
KCRW has the premiere of “Send Me a Letter,” a single from Ablebody‘s Adult Contemporaries that features guest backing vocals from Sean Nicholas Savage. Writing about the video, DJ Marion Hodges says, “Get ready to lose yourself in it’s gloriously eerie night time beach setting, not to mention the glorious melody.” Hodges says she’s been […]
Blurt Magazine Reviews Tobias The Owl
“Elijah Dhavvan… seems to have cornered [sic] the market on beautiful and beautifully-crafted songs that ache without coming off too earnest,” writes Blurt Magazine about Dhavvan’s new album under the Tobias The Owl moniker, entitled Every Eye Is A Universe. Praising Dhavvan for his “brilliantly original songs,” the review cites his “strong, steady, deep vocals” for how […]
New Music From Naked Giants – Digital Servicing Only
OPENING FOR CAR SEAT HEADREST THIS FALL A three-piece garage rock wildebeest from Seattle, Naked Giants combine spontaneity with a stylistically-diverse catalogue to create a sound that sets them apart from typical cut-and-paste garage outfits. Bringing together influences from the likes of Ty Segall and the Sonics as well as Pink Floyd and even Spinal […]
