Vetiver Tours, Talks To The Albuquerque Journal
Vetiver is currently on tour, supporting the band’s excellent 2015 album Complete Strangers. But Andy Cabic, the band’s mastermind and sole permanent member, already has his mind on the future. In a recent interview with the Albuquerque Journal, Cabic explains how he and longtime collaborator Thom Monahan have been working on new song ideas. “I […]
New Music From Josiah and the Bonnevilles – Digital Servicing Only
Tennessee’s Josiah and The Bonnevilles present their debut EP, Cold Blood. Comprised of four tracks co-produced and mixed by Dave Way (Fiona Apple, Paul McCartney, Macy Gray), the EP features songs from the band’s upcoming full-length album and showcasing songwriting that is refreshingly rooted in the earnest and honest lyrics of Josiah Leming. Leming is […]
Tacocat – Going for #1 at CMJ Radio 200 – Debuts “Talk” Video and Talks to MTV
Tacocat, whose “Dana Katherine Scully” and “I Hate the Weekend” videos have recently been featured in our newsletters, just can’t stop putting creative energy out into the world. The colorful Seattle-based feminist punkers are currently on tour in Europe, but Stateside fans can still get down to their new video, for “Talk,” which is available […]
AllMusic and Paste Praise Rogue Wave
“[Zach] Rogue‘s sweet melodies and sophisticated pop sensibilities show no signs of waning,” writes AllMusic about the new effort from Rogue Wave, Delusions of Grand Fur, “as the band’s wistful indie rock holds at its nucleus classic, band-lush singer/songwriter fare.” According to the site’s review, the new LP continues the band’s streak of albums that […]
Fruit Bats Goes For Adds with Absolute Loser – Get it in Rotation Now!
Since Eric D. Johnson began Fruit Bats, he’s had two #1 albums on the CMJ Radio 200, found success scoring films like Smashed and Our Idiot Brother, and contributed songs to movies like Wild. He’s produced albums for other artists and has played with talented peers including Califone, Vetiver, and The Shins. Yet, in 2014 he was […]
Paste Honors DTCV, New Album Going for CMJ Peak
Paste Magazine’s recent “10 Great Bands with All-Caps, No-Vowel Names” list is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the countless and inane Buzzfeed-styled Top Tens. The list contains several heavy hitters, from MGMT and STRFKR to DWNTWN and SBTRKT, whose monikers include all-caps consonants and absolutely no vowels. It also has DTCV in the #10 slot. According to the article’s author, […]
Glint Adds Members of Rubblebucket and Lip Talk, Releases Remix
Glint has always been about largeness. The band recorded its new LP Inverter – along with preceding EPs Introvert and Extrovert – in abandoned warehouses in an attempt to foster their giant sound. Now the band itself is getting bigger, as frontman Jase Blankfort and collaborator Anders Fleming have joined with guitarist Chris Kyle (Cosmicide, […]
New Music From Fruit Bats!
Since Eric D. Johnson began Fruit Bats, he’s had two #1 albums on the CMJ Radio 200, found success scoring films like Smashed and Our Idiot Brother, and contributed songs to movies like Wild. He’s produced albums for The Cardigans’ Nina Persson and Breathe Owl Breathe, amongst others, and has played with talented peers including Califone, […]
Under The Radar and Stereogum Praise Rogue Wave; Delusions Of Grand Fur Looks For a Strong Debut
Rogue Wave‘s Delusions of Grand Fur “is an unqualified triumph,” writes Under the Radar in a recent review. “Three years after 2013’s sparser, more tentative Nightingale Floors,” the site says, “Rogue Wave come roaring back with an album that reasserts them as major, albeit under-recognized, players in the world of 21st century indie rock.” The […]
Indie Obsessive Praises Glint
Glint’s new album Inverter is “life changing,” writes Indie Obsessive. According to the site, single “Daydreamers” is so good that “we dropped other immediate plans and started looking for upcoming performances by Glint” as soon as its authors heard the song for the first time. Hear what the fuss is about right here. “Daydreamers” is […]
May The Fourth Be With You – Star Wars Headspace At Radio Now
It’s Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you on this special occasion, which you should mark by spinning Star Wars Headspace on the air! Let us know if you’d like a new download of the compilation or the score for The Force Awakens. The Boston Globe likes Star Wars Headspace, writing that even […]
Rogue Wave Goes For Adds!
Delusions of Grand Fur, from Oakland’s Rogue Wave, is a masterstroke by a band that knows who it is but is nonetheless unafraid to evolve. Since 2003’s Out of the Shadow, Rogue Wave has toured the world with the likes of Nada Surf and Death Cab For Cutie; soundtracked countless television shows and movies; and […]
Northern Transmissions Premieres All India Radio Video, and A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed Reviews LP
All India Radio‘s video for “The Slow Light,” the title track of the Australian producer Martin Kennedy‘s new LP, has debuted on Northern Transmissions. According to the site, “the dreamy, breaking-dawn soundscape of ‘The Slow Light’ flows like a beautifully languid reverie and its low-key companion video matches the slowly unfurling radiance with visuals that […]
Film Fans Flock to DTCV; Brooklyn Vegan Streams “Bourgeois Pop”
DTCV, whose new album Confusion Moderne is currently at Radio 200, have been drawing attention from the film world after connecting with star director Steven Soderbergh on their most recent music video. The Film Stage has an embed of the video, “Historie Seule,” which includes a message from the band about how it relates to […]
The Cave Singers, Touring Again in May, Talk to the Tucson Weekly
“This is the longest I’ve ever done anything in my life,” says singer Peter Quirk of The Cave Singers, the Seattle-based three-piece he’s spent the last decade fronting. In a recent interview with Tucson Weekly, Quirk explains how the band’s current slate of songs are “emotionally cooperative” and also gives insight into the new LP’s […]
Tacocat Talks Dogs With Dogster
Tacocat‘s name has the word “cat” in it, and the cover of the band’s new LP Lost Time (which has spent three weeks in the Top 3 at Radio 200) is adorned with a cute kitty clique full of feisty feline clocks. But that’s not to say the band isn’t also down with dogs, as demonstrated […]
New Music From Rogue Wave
Delusions of Grand Fur, from Oakland’s Rogue Wave, is a masterstroke by a band that knows who it is but is nonetheless unafraid to evolve. Since 2003’s Out of the Shadow, Rogue Wave has toured the world with the likes of Nada Surf and Death Cab For Cutie; soundtracked countless television shows and movies; and […]
Tacocat is OpenAir’s Download of the Week and #2 at CMJ
Colorado Public Radio‘s OpenAir has a download of Tacocat‘s “I Hate the Weekend” available all this week as its Download of the Week. The site calls the Lost Time standout “a two-minute punk anthem” and “a fun example of Tacocat’s knack for blending righteous anger with humor.” Check out the feature, and nab the download, […]
Vetiver Remix Goes Viral; Band Begins Tour
Vetiver‘s 2015 Complete Strangers is seeing a resurgence of interest, thanks to a new remix of lead track “Stranger Still” that has already been streamed 200,000 times on Spotify. Created by Dublab‘s Daniel T, the mix takes the song in new directions. Get it onto your playlists and help support the band while during its ongoing […]
Premier Guitar Features Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré, whose album Né So recently spent four weeks at the top of the CMJ New World chart, is a stunning vocalist and guitarist whose “free-ranging palette” as a player has drawn the attention of Premier Guitar. Those interested in the artistry behind her music should surf on over to the site, which features […]
