Skye Wallace Goes For Adds
Skye Wallace is used to ambitious missions. The Vancouver artist once crisscrossed Canada by train to seek inspiration for a dark and layered album, Living Parts, chronicling the lives of characters moving through some of the more tragic tales of Canadian history. While this could’ve been the start of a path to the platonic ideal […]
KPCC Interviews Devendra Banhart About LA’s Impact On His Art
KPCC‘s The Frame recently had a long conversation with Devendra Banhart about how living in Los Angeles was an inspiration to him as he created his new LP, Ape In Pink Marble. Listeners can hear the whole thing on KPCC’s website, which also has some choice excerpts. “Los Angeles is a beautiful and really private place,” Banhart […]
Dusty Organ Features Boreal Sons
Dusty Organ has shared “What Becomes,” the lead track from Boreal Sons‘ new LP You & Everyone. Calling the track “dark” and “lush,” the site draws attention to the fact that the band has shedded a guitarist since releasing its last album. But rather than feeling emptier, tracks like “What Becomes” show how the band […]
New Music From Coast Modern
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 […]
Tiny Mix Tapes Reviews Devendra Banhart
“Time has proven Devendra Banhart to be a songwriter in a class of his own,” writes Tiny Mix Tapes in its review of the songwriter’s new Ape In Pink Marble LP. The review casts the new record as an evolution, noting that “his music has never felt rushed or bogged down by ego, but rather […]
Stereogum Premieres Tacocat’s Video For “The Internet”
Tacocat‘s Lost Time has been one of the great joys of 2016 – it’s a technicolor blast of poppy girl-powered punk that gleefully smashes the patriarchy with wryly humorous lyrics and shout-along choruses. Though its chart peak was last semester, the album is still going strong at stations around the country because its deep enough to […]
New Music From Skye Wallace
Skye Wallace is used to ambitious missions. The Vancouver artist once crisscrossed Canada by train to seek inspiration for a dark and layered album, Living Parts, chronicling the lives of characters moving through some of the more tragic tales of Canadian history. While this could’ve been the start of a path to the platonic ideal […]
Exclaim Shares Francis Cheer’s “Northern Semantic”
Exclaim! has the premiere of Francis Cheer’s “Northern Semantic,” one of several standouts on new LP Black White and Grey. According to the site, which is one of the most-read media sites in Canada, the song “is a sprightly folk rock number built on busy percussion, interwoven guitars and [John Francis] Gerrard‘s unique vocal delivery.” Listen […]
Boreal Sons Tour Canada
Boreal Sons’ You & Everyone is being picked up by DJs around North America, with stations in both the US and Canada embracing the album like the two twins depicted on its cover are embracing each other. The band is also on tour throughout Canada, with tour dates over the next couple of weeks in support of […]
New Music From Ablebody
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 […]
Devendra Banhart Is Selected by KCRW For Today’s Top Tune
KCRW has selected Devendra Banhart‘s “Saturday Night” as Today’s Top Tune. The song is taken from Ape in Pink Marble, Banhart’s first album since 2013’s Mala – which went all the way to #1 at CMJ. In its short feature, the station notes that Banhart is an “accomplished visual artist” and that his “songs are […]
WRUV and The Musical Hype Like Fences
WRUV has added Fences‘ new EP To The Tall Trembling Trees, praising the 6-song collection from Christopher Mansfield in a review on the station’s website. Calling Mansfield a “very talented singer,” the review says the EP “packs an emotional punch” and compares it to Ben Folds and Bleachers. Read the review here. The Musical Hype […]
The Decider Delves Deep Into Rodrigo Amarante’s “Tuyo”
Rodrigo Amarante has told The Decider about the process behind creating “Tuyo,” his gorgeous theme for Netflix‘s Narcos series. Although the riveting drama is about cocaine, the site says Amarante’s song is “arguable the most addictive” thing about it. The feature goes in-depth, with Amarante explaining how the show’s creators gave him freedom to create […]
Boreal Sons Go For Adds
It’s been three years since Boreal Sons, the Calgary-based sublime art-rock band, have released a record. You & Everyone, which follows 2013’s Threadbare, is a product of refinement and loss. After a 2014 UK tour in support of Threadbare, Boreal Sons lost guitarist Logan Gabert and chose to move forward as a streamlined three-piece featuring […]
Devendra Banhart, Aiming For a Strong Debut Week at CMJ, Shares Some Favorites With The Quietus
According to The Quietus, Devendra Banhart possesses “style and [a] sound [that] are ever evolving and, as such, ever difficult to pin down.” This is surely apparent on new LP Ape In Pink Marble, and the result of the myriad musical influences Banhart has devoured over his life. He recently shared some of those influences with […]
Rebecca Schiffman Records Squidbillies Theme
Rebecca Schiffman has spent the last three weeks on the CMJ Radio 200 – but that’s not the only place she’s been! She’s also been on TV sets, as she recorded a cover of the theme song for Adult Swim’s popular television show Squidbillies that was used during the opening credits of an episode this […]
OUT Magazine Shares Two KAYE Videos
OUT Magazine calls KAYE an “indie pop sensation,” claiming that her new Honey EP has taken over their play queue and praising the multi-faceted musician’s “vogue fierceness.” The site is currently hosting streams of two videos from the EP: “UUU,” which OUT says “delivers a powerful sound and look that has us excited for what […]
New Music from Boreal Sons
It’s been three years since Boreal Sons, the Calgary-based sublime art-rock band, have released a record. You & Everyone, which follows 2013’s Threadbare, is a product of refinement and loss. After a 2014 UK tour in support of Threadbare, Boreal Sons lost guitarist Logan Gabert and chose to move forward as a streamlined three-piece featuring […]
Stereogum Shares Devendra Banhart’s “Saturday Night” Video
Devendra Banhart has released a video for Ape in Pink Marble track “Saturday Night,” and Stereogum has shared the clip with its readers. The video was directed by Jon Beasley and Isabelle Albuquerque, two acclaimed and award-winning multi-disciplinary artists who have displayed and performed work worldwide at places such as Art Basel Miami and the Hammer […]
Glide Magazine Premieres Francis Cheer’s “Deep End”
Even though Francis Cheer‘s new album Black White and Grey deals lyrically with challenging and sometimes-dark subject matter, the emotive LP has a spry, poppy feel throughout. Glide Magazine says that the album “really does offer bright and gloom… [it’s] musical medicine” that creates “an alternate reality from the status quo.” The magazine compares album […]
