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 […]
The Examiner Interviews Rogue Wave, and Relix Reviews Their LP
Rogue Wave‘s Zach Rogue has given a series of insightful, candid interviews in support of the band’s current LP, Delusions of Grand Fur. One of those interviews was with The Examiner, during which Rogue shared his experiences as a young musician signed to Sub Pop, explained the axe he has to grind with Facebook, and […]
New Music from Coast Modern – Digital Servicing Only
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. Discouraged, Trapp escaped for the mountainous serenity of […]
Fruit Bats, Live on KUTX at 3pm CT Today, Are Reviewed by Paste Magazine
Fruit Bats is back on the scene after a five-year absence, and the new album Absolute Loser is a complete winner. The band is going to be on Austin’s KUTX this afternoon, taking to the airwaves for a live performance starting at 3pm Central (1pm Pacific). Tune in at 98.9 FM in Austin or by going […]
Anna of the North Share “Baby” with Gorilla vs. Bear, Talk to Wonderland Mag
In the new video for Anna of the North‘s “Baby,” which has premiered on Gorilla vs. Bear, singer Anna Lotterud flings herself around a bedroom while waiting by the telephone for a call that never comes. Her producer Brady Daniell-Smith adds a bit of levity to the proceedings, showing up briefly to play percussion first with his […]
Josiah, of Josiah and the Bonnevilles, Takes To the Fields in “Long Gone”
Josiah Leming, the young and emotive powerhouse behind Josiah and the Bonnevilles, takes a walk around a rural landscape in the black-and-white video for “Long Gone.” The gorgeous, acoustically propelled tune is accompanied by similarly-gorgeous bucolic visuals that add poignancy to the slow-boiling, pensive number. Get lost in Josiah’s charismatic presence below. The Tennessee-based three […]
Anna Of The North Go 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.” The project got its start when singer Anna Lotterud began to feel unsettled in life and […]
All The Real Girls Go For Adds with “Lizzie”
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 […]
Rogue Wave – #27 at CMJ – Talks to Noisey and Continues Tour
In a recent interview with Noisey, Rogue Wave leader Zach Rogue confessed to feeling insecure while finishing Delusions of Grand Fur, the band’s sixth album and a return to a self-produced, experimental process of recording that the band hadn’t employed in more than a decade. “I was actually kind of terrified when it was time […]
DTCV Stream Album on Consequence of Sound, Share Download via Buzzbands
If you’ve yet to hear DTCV‘s Confusion Moderne, which is a stunning fusion of post punk with 60s-era French pop, then you owe it to yourself to hop on over to Consequence of Sound and check out their full album stream. According to the site, it’s a “strangely international-sounding psych-rock record that pulls you in […]
New Music from All The Real Girls – Digital Servicing Only
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 […]
The So So Glos Stream Album, Feed the Street, and Hit the Road
The AV Club is streaming Kamikaze, the new album from The So So Glos that the site says “is its most dynamic batch of songs yet.” In addition to the stream, the feature includes a quote from bandleader Aleksander So So Glo, who illuminates the lyrical inspirations behind the disc: “Extreme times call for extreme […]
Rogue Wave Talks With American Songwriter, Reaches New CMJ Peak
American Songwriter has a lengthy interview with Rogue Wave, a band the site calls “one of the best things to rise from the ashes of the dot-com bubble.” In the interview, frontman Zach Rogue explains how he got into songwriting: “I was in college and some of my friends would ask me to play some […]
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 […]
