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 […]
The Young Folks Compare Devendra Banhart’s New Album, Now #11 at CMJ, to a Good Friend
The Young Folks blog says that on Ape In Pink Marble, Devendra Banhart‘s new LP, the songwriter “serves up some delicately sensible lyrics provocative enough for personal, philosophical epiphanies to brew.” The songs on the album, according to the review, “can croon you to a more peaceful, rejuvenated sense of self… Ape In Pink Marble is […]
Fruit Bats Embark On Tour
Fresh off the success of this year’s magical comeback LP Absolute Loser, which peaked at #5 on the CMJ Radio 200, Fruit Bats are set to embark on yet another tour that begins next week and stretches all the way into December. Here are the dates! 10/15 – Lipton’s Chef Fest – Chicago, IL […]
New Music From Georgie
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 […]
WRUV Celebrates Boreal Sons’ “Minimalism”
WRUV 90.1, the radio voice of The University of Vermont, has added Boreal Sons‘ new LP You & Everyone to rotation and posted a web review praising the album. “This album is loaded with rich, minimalist melodies and the most unconventional arrangements,” the station writes. “It adds an element of drama to the tracks. This […]
Coast Modern Takes Over AOL’s Instagram at The Meadows Music Festival
AOL Music just published a feature on Coast Modern, the indie pop duo of Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp. The group has been touring throughout the year, with opening slots over the summer with BØRNS, The Temper Trap, and The Wombats as well as a large number of festival performances. AOL met up with the band […]
Ablebody Goes For Adds
Ablebody, comprised of identical twins Christoph and Anton Hochheim (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Depreciation Guild), draws from the raw richness of the 60s; the melodicism of soft 70s pop; and the sophisticated side of romantic 80s synth pop to create a sound suspended between decades. The LA-based duo has been active […]
Coast Modern Goes For Adds
Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp met while working as Los Angeles-based songwriters, fellow rats in the race to land songs with mainstream pop artists. After more than two years of peddling some great, some terrible, and some very weird creations, they received little more than fleeting glances before a discouraged Trapp escaped for the mountainous […]
