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 […]
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 […]
