All The Real Girls, Looking for CMJ Debuts, Share Track With CMJ
CMJ has posted the title track from All The Real Girls‘ debut album Elk City, a track that the site describes as having “an eccentrically look-on-the-bright-side vibe.” Musically, CMJ says, “lilting guitar leads hop along a shuffling beat made anxiously happy with handclaps and tambourine. Nabbing producer John Goodmanson (Nada Surf, Sleater-Kinney) to wrangle this […]
Fruit Bats Play For Paste, Are Reviewed By AllMusic
Fruit Bats, whose album Absolute Loser is currently sitting at #6 on the CMJ Radio 200, recently showed up at the Paste Magazine studios to perform three songs from the album in a quaint, stripped-down setting. Enjoy their “eerie, otherworldly sound” by watching the session, here. According to AllMusic, the album is “dominated by an […]
Interview interviews Coast Modern
Interview magazine recently posted a long Q&A with Coast Modern, a band that makes “songs [that] contain much more than meets the eye.” Asked to describe the duo’s sound, Luke Atlas told the magazine, “It’s like being in the rainforest looking for a jungle temple and stumbling across the LaCroix fountain of youth.” According to […]
Tacocat Plays KEXP Today at noon Pacific Time!
Tacocat‘s Lost Time has been getting a lot of love at alternative specialty radio. KACV, KCMP, KDHX, KEGR, KFMG, KIWR, KJEE, KOSU, KURQ, KUCI, KXRN, WBJB, WBRU, WCNR, WDST, WEDG, WLUM, WMLB, WNRN, WPNH, WRLT, WSOU, and WWCD have all played different tracks from the record, which has a lot of quality material for you to […]
All The Real Girls Go For Adds
All The Real Girls is the new project from Peter Donovan, an earnest songwriter from the Pacific Northwest whose hearty, Americana-tinged work led members of Built To Spill, Death Cab For Cutie, Long Winters, Lashes, and Pell Mell to join him in creating a veritable supergroup. The band’s first album is inspired by Jo, an […]
Fruit Bats Talk to WOUB & Are Podcasted by KEXP; Get Them to #1 This Week!
Fruit Bats‘ album Absolute Loser has been performing well on the CMJ Radio 200, hitting a new peak last week by reaching #5. But let’s be real: this album is so full of choice material that it deserves to reach #1. Give it a boost this week – we’ve pushed “From a Soon-to-Be Ghost Town” […]
Rogue Wave, Looking To Crack the Top Ten, Plays For Nic Harcourt
Rogue Wave recently performed for Nic Harcourt’s Transmissions, playing three songs live at the World Arts Stage in Culver City, California and sitting with the radio legend for an in-depth conversation. Watch the interview here, and check out the YouTube videos of the band’s three performances: “Ocean,” “Look at Me,” and “Falling” below. All three of those songs […]
Vetiver Plays World Cafe – Listen Tomorrow
Vetiver recently recorded a live set for World Cafe at WXPN Philadelphia, and it’s set to premiere tomorrow – Tuesday, June 14 -at 2pm ET (11am PT). World Cafe can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide, and fans can tune into their local affiliate station at the scheduled World Cafe broadcast time. If you miss it during […]
The Donkeys Announce Tour
The Donkeys released the Midnight Palms EP in February, which is kind of odd because the record is so sunny and easy-going that it’s perfect for summertime listening. Fortunately, the band has just announced a summer tour, so fans can groove to their beautiful tunes in the proper setting! Check below for the tour dates, which begin […]
New Music from All The Real Girls
All The Real Girls is the new project from Peter Donovan, an earnest songwriter from the Pacific Northwest whose hearty, Americana-tinged work led members of Built To Spill, Death Cab For Cutie, Long Winters, Lashes, and Pell Mell to join him in creating a veritable supergroup. The band’s first album is inspired by Jo, an […]
Fruit Bats, Currently #5 at CMJ, Host Huichica Festival
The 2016 edition of Sonoma, California’s Huichica Festival, an annual event founded in 2010 by Fruit Bats‘ Eric D. Johnson, takes place this weekend with a roster of acts including Dengue Fever, Giant Sand, Silver Apples, and A man A plan A canal pals Vetiver and Rodrigo Amarante — along with Fruit Bats, of course! […]
Rogue Wave’s Pat Spurgeon Talks With Reverb and Their New Album Lands at #13
Those interested in the nuts and bolts of music making should visit Reverb for an enlightening feature on Pat Spurgeon, one of the two permanent members (along with Zach Rogue) of Rogue Wave. In it, he explains how the other musicians who shared the band’s rehearsal space influenced the sound of new album Delusions of Grand […]
Lael Neale Announces Bonnaroo Set
Lael Neale, the songstress whose debut album I’ll Be Your Man we serviced to you last year, has announced a performance at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. This is the legendary fest’s 14th year, and Neale joins a bill that includes LCD Soundsystem, Alvvays, Death Cab For Cutie, and Chvrches. If you’ll be at […]
Noisey and Pigeons & Planes Share Anna of the North
Noisey has shared Anna of the North‘s “Baby,” a sultry electronic bedroom pop ballad that we haven’t been able to get out of our heads. According to the site, “‘Baby’ is a slow, synthy, sparkly song, capturing the energy of what it’s like to be awake at 3 AM thinking of that other person.” Listen […]
Fruit Bats Set Sights on CMJ Surge, Earn Paste Praise
Fruit Bats new album Absolute Loser has been very well received. The LP, the first Eric D. Johnson has released under the Fruit Bats name since 2011, inched up to #7 on Radio 200 last week — but it’s still got a ways to go before it matches the success of 2011’s Tripper and hits […]
The 405 Loves The So So Glos, On Tour in June
The 405 is keen on Kamikaze, the new sonic assault from NYC’s The So So Glos. The album is packed with “overwhelmingly catchy and energetic songs full of anthemic shout-along choruses,” says the site, which dives into the socio-political messaging behing the punk group’s snark and snarls. The Glos are “trying to make sense of […]
Coast Modern Talks to Washington Square News
The members of Coast Modern recently did an interview with Washington Square News, the independent student newspaper at NYU. In the interview, bandmates Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp discuss their transition from pop songwriters to indie darlings, explaining a bit about their creative process and how songs like “Hollow Life” came together organically. The duo […]
Fruit Bats Talk To ArtistDirect, Play For KUTX, Reach #8 at CMJ, Go for a New Peak!
In a recent interview with ArtistDirect, Fruit Bats‘ Eric D. Johnson opens up about how “scary” it was to get confessional when first sharing the backstory of his new album Absolute Loser. Referring to his wife’s miscarriage, which inspired not only this album but also a previous album released under the name EDJ, “I felt […]
Coast Modern Goes For Adds with Guru EP
Luke Atlas and Coleman Trapp met while working as Los Angeles-based songwriters. After more than two years of peddling some great, some terrible, and some very weird creations, they received little more than fleeting glances. Discouraged, Trapp escaped for the mountainous serenity of Colorado. “I actually started thinking I might never go back,” he recalls. […]
The So So Glos, on Tour, are Reviewed by Pitchfork & Consequence of Sound
Pitchfork just gave its approval to the So So Glos’ new album Kamikaze, writing in a review that praises the band’s connection to their local Brooklyn DIY scene and acknowledges the world-weary and self-aware lyrical thrust of their new collection of tunes while lauding its “peppy backbeats, gang-shouted choruses, and fist-pumping enthusiasm.” Read the review […]
