FLOOD and Indie Shuffle Recommend “Gotta” By Wages
Wages, who just released their debut LP Glace, are being praised for subverting expectations. Along with its premiere of album track “Gotta,” FLOOD Magazine wrote, “At first blush, [it] sounds like your average stadium-ready indie anthem: a slow knit of synths climb toward a vague light, gathering in a tighter nap as they approach their […]
Rolling Stone Reviews To Emmylou
Released June 3rd, To Emmylou is a long-overdue recognition of the “Godmother of Americana Music,” Emmylou Harris. Rolling Stone Country has described the album as “an eclectic tribute to the Grammy-winning songbird’s original compositions from several up-and-coming bands based in Los Angeles.” While Harris is best known for her legacy of making classic country music, this album far exceeds the […]
Idolator Shares Anna Of The North’s “Baby” Video
Anna of The North makes beautiful music, but Idolator says her video for “Baby” is “every bit as sleek, stylish and understated” as the song itself. “Who else,” the site asks, “could sprawl face-down over furniture and still look cool?” According to Idolator, the Norwegian Scandipop duo is “one of synth-pop’s most exciting new talents” […]
Wages Go For Adds with Glace
Though Glace is Wages’ first full-length, the compositional maturity and arrangements found across its 11 tracks reflect the long, fruitful journey the Los Angeles-based band has taken to get here. At the band’s core are Nick Byron Campbell and James DeDakis, two instrumental polymaths who began their collaboration across the continent in a band called […]
Kuroma Goes For Adds with “A Day With No Disaster”
Kuroma, the Georgia-based affiliates of MGMT and The Whigs whose 2015 album Kuromarama charmed listeners with its candy-coated psychedelic sound, returns this fall 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 reveals […]
The Donkeys “Theme From The Endless Summer” – Going for Spins
Earlier this year, The Donkeys released mini-album Midnight Palms, which peaked at #35 on the CMJ Top 200 and was met with rave reviews by AllMusic and PopMatters. In support of the release, the band is hitting the road for “The Endless Summer Tour,” a title that nods to the cult-classic 1966 surf film The Endless Summer. In […]
Meet Emmylou Harris, the Subject of Fantastic Tribute Compilation To Emmylou
We recently serviced To Emmylou, an 11-track compilation of Emmylou Harris cover songs created by a diverse collection of 10 different Los Angeles-based underground artists. Harris, who has won 13 Grammy Awards and collaborated with everyone from Dolly Parton and Neil Young to Bright Eyes, is a musical legend whose impact cannot be overstated. Born in Alabama […]
Coast Modern, Featured on KCRW and On Tour Now, Perform Today on KUCI
Tune in to KUCI this afternoon at 2pm Pacific Time (5pm Eastern) for a performance by Coast Modern! The station can be heard in Orange County, California at 88.9 FM, or it can be streamed right here at KUCI.org. Santa Monica’s KCRW loves “Guru,” the most recent single from the band. The station featured the track […]
New music from The Donkeys – “Theme From The Endless Summer”
Earlier this year, The Donkeys released their mini-album, Midnight Palms, which was met with rave reviews by AllMusic and PopMatters, and peaked at #35 on the CMJ Top 200 chart. In support of the release, the band is hitting the road for “The Endless Summer Tour,” a title that nods to the cult-classic 1966 surf film. In […]
New Music from Wages
Though Glace is Wages’ first full-length, the compositional maturity and arrangements found across its 11 tracks reflect the long, fruitful journey the Los Angeles-based band has taken to get here. At the band’s core are Nick Byron Campbell and James DeDakis, two instrumental polymaths who began their collaboration across the continent in a band called Arizona. […]
The So So Glos Talk to Dead Press!
The So So Glos are getting ready to launch Kamikaze in the UK, and they’ve done a round of press with British outlets to get the limeys excited about an album that has already turned heads in the US by earning the Glos critical accolades and a new peak (#33) on the CMJ Radio 200. […]
Coast Modern Play “Guru” at Radio K
Coast Modern recently paid a visit to Minnesota’s Radio K, performing a few of its songs in-studio for broadcast over the air. The band – which has expanded from a duo to a four-piece on its current tour – was in excellent form, and played flawless renditions of its popular songs with energy and jovial […]
Elmore Magazine Likes To Emmylou
“To Emmylou is filled with the passion, talent and dedication that encompasses [Emmylou] Harris herself,” writes Elmore Magazine in a recent review of the 11-track tribute to one of the queens of country music. Giving it an 85 on a scale of 100, and the record “a solid effort both because of content and production,” […]
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, is returning this fall 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 […]
Noisey Shares Fences’ “Buffalo Feet”
Noisey has premiered “Buffalo Feet,” the first single from Fences‘ upcoming EP To The Tall Trembling Trees. “Don’t let the fact that he looks like an extra from Sons Of Anarchy fool you,” writes the site, “because Chris Mansfield is a pretty sensitive dude.” That sensitivity is on display on “Buffalo Feet,” a standout track […]
Paste Names Fruit Bats Among the Best of 2016
Paste Magazine has declared Fruit Bats‘ Absolute Loser to be one of “The 25 Best Albums of 2016 (So Far),” an accolade that puts Fruit Bats in the company of people like Kanye West, Sturgill Simpson, Beyoncé, and David Bowie. “The album, as cohesive and strong top to bottom as anything frontman Eric D. Johnson […]
Fences New Single Going for Adds
As Fences, Chris Mansfield pours his everything into writing musical missives that hold a mirror to his foibles and his confusion. Drawn to experimental jazz, he ignored pop and rock music as a young man and went to school at the prestigious Berklee College of Music to study double bass. It was there that a […]
All The Real Girls Going for Top 100 at CMJ
All The Real Girls‘ Elk City skyrocketed 50-plus spots up the Radio 200 chart last week to #128! New stations are discovering the band’s Bright Eyes-like sound every week. Thanks to these stations for giving the band chart support over the past couple weeks: KFAI, KAOS, KRSC, KTUH, WVIA, WUNH, WVMM, CHMR, KAFM, KGNU, Ohio.fm, WCNI, WLFR, […]
No Depression Applauds To Emmylou
“Attempting to emulate the an Americana goddess like Emmylou Harris is no mean feat,” writes the seminal alt.country magazine No Depression, “but the mostly unknown artists that contribute to To Emmylou do an especially impressive job of serving up songs associated with today’s reigning queen of country.” In a review of the compilation, the magazine […]
The So So Glos Debut “Dancing Industry” in the UK with Kerrang!
New York’s critically-acclaimed rockers The So So Glos are taking their success across the pond and have premiered the track “Dancing Industry” with UK magazine Kerrang! The emphatic tune is the lead single from the band’s album, Kamikaze, which came out this summer in the US and is set for a September 30th release date in […]
