Northwest Music Scene Praises The Cave Singers’ Banshee
Northwest Music Scene has high praise for the Cave Singers‘ Banshee, the band’s fifth album and the highest-charting self-released album on the CMJ Radio 200 for the past four weeks. The site calls the album “their most cohesive to date,” praising the development of singer Peter Quirk‘s lyrics and the band’s straightforward approach to making […]
Rokia Traoré, #1 at New World, Releases New Video After Being Honored by the UN
Rokia Traoré has been atop the CMJ New World chart for the past two weeks, but that’s not the only honor that has been bestowed upon the Malian musician and activist. On March 20, she was named a Regional Goodwill Ambassador for West and Central Africa by UNHCR, the agency within the UN that is […]
New Music From Tacocat
One of feminism’s biggest hurdles has always been that it isn’t allowed to be fun. Tacocat gives that notion precisely the credence that it deserves by ignoring it altogether and making unselfconscious pop songs about Plan B, night swimming, high school horse girls, and the bridge-and-tunnel bros who turn their neighborhood into a toilet every […]
New Music From Marco With Love
Born in 2013 as the solo project of singer/guitarist/pianist Marco Argiro (Le Mood, the Killing Floor), Marco With Love has quickly matured into a band that embodies the diversity, DIY work ethic, and true essence of rock ‘n’ roll. In addition to Argiro, Marco With Love’s agile lineup includes drummer Peter Landi (The Glazzies), bassist […]
The Verge And Thump Announce Star Wars Headspace
Star Wars Headspace, the Rick Rubin-produced electronic music collection that let beatmakers like Flying Lotus, Rustie, Röyksopp, GTA, and Baauer go wild with samples taken from the Star Wars franchise, was recently featured in the Verge. The site, which shared embeds of several of the album’s tracks, singles out FlyLo’s track for continuing the “astral electro-jazz” […]
Naked Giants on KEXP’s Song of the Day and Music That Matters Podcast
KEXP recently spilled a lot of digital ink over Naked Giants, the young punkers who are taking Seattle by storm and just finished a whirlwind stint at SXSW. The band’s “Easy Eating” was selected by the station as its “Song of the Day” on Friday, March 11, but it didn’t just get a cursory download […]
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 […]
Glint Shares “Get Out The Way” with The Music Ninja, Debuts in the CMJ Top 100
Glint, which debuted at #80 on the Radio 200 this week after coming in at #6 on the New Adds chart last week, has shared Inverter‘s lead single “Get Out the Way” with The Music Ninja. The track, according to the site, “is a commandingly anthemic song, led by goosebump-inducing, gorgeous vocals. Emotive, powerful, and entrancing, the combination […]
CMJ Streams Chris Hunt’s Tomb
CMJ has a full stream of Chris Hunt (ex-Cloudeater)’s new EP, Tomb, one of two EPs the Atlanta-based producer released earlier this month. Tomb and Tomb II, according to CMJ, are “full of dense sonic head trips and post-shoegaze tape manipulation.” Go here to check out the first of the two EPs, which also features vocalist Marshall […]
KEXP Streams The Cave Singers’ “Christmas Night,” Glide Interviews the Band
Seattle’s KEXP has a stream of “Christmas Night,” the second focus track from The Cave Singers‘ excellent new album Banshee. The station asked singer Peter Quirk to tell them about the song, and the frontman responded quizzically: “Something that found us one afternoon while we were dreaming. Found photos of an apocalyptic life, sitting in […]
Walden Goes For Adds with Apollo – Digital Servicing Only
Walden creates contemplative, atmospheric indie rock imbued with a sense of hopefulness. On their debut EP Apollo, the Calgary-based quartet explores the resonance of the past on the present and the alienating effects of technology with acoustic guitar and piano-led songs that respond to the emotional isolation of urban living with a message of solidarity […]
Chris Hunt Goes For Adds with Tomb
Chris Hunt is an Atlanta-based producer focused on the textural atmospheres of sound. From 2009 until 2013, he was one of the chief producers and driving forces behind Cloudeater, an eclectic and critically-acclaimed band that collaborated with Prefuse 73 and Wale that ended their run in what ATL music blog Latest Disgrace called “its most fertile […]
The Los Angeles Review of Books Interviews the black watch
John Andrew Fredrick, the longstanding leader of LA’s the black watch, recently participated in an interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books that examined his career fronting the band as well as his literary efforts. “There’s a manic energy to Fredrick’s thought processes,” writes interviewer John McIntyre in the interview’s preface, “blink and you’ll almost […]
Rokia Traoré (#1 CMJ New World), Praised by The Telegraph, Performs for French TV
Rokia Traoré, whose album Né So hit the #1 spot on CMJ’s New World chart last week, recently performed two songs from the album on France’s Le Grand Journal television show. Nonesuch’s website has embeds of the two songs, “Ilé” and “Obiké,” which the Malian singer-songwriter performed with a colorful, energetic, and excitingly groovy band. Watch them […]
New Music from Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt is an Atlanta-based producer focused on the textural atmospheres of sound. From 2009 until 2013, he was one of the chief producers and driving forces behind Cloudeater, an eclectic and critically-acclaimed band that collaborated with Prefuse 73 and Wale and ended its run during what esteemed ATL music blog Latest Disgrace called “its […]
Billboard and The Verge Hype Star Wars Headspace
Last month, the Rick Rubin-helmed Star Wars Headspace project was released and, according to Billboard, “the force is strong” with the accomplished super-producer. The release features a Rubin-selected slate of star beatmakers turning in tracks that use the sounds of Star Wars to create unexpected new musical gems. Billboard has streams of three tracks, from […]
The Donkeys Get Love from WRUV and KLHK
The Donkeys‘ Midnight Palms has been exciting DJs across the US with its laid-back vibes and undeniable catchiness. Bernie Sanders‘ hometown station WRUV added the album, with the reviewer writing that all of its songs are great and worthy of airplay. Check out that review right here. KJHK, of Lawrence, Kansas, is also digging the record. Their […]
New Music from Walden – Digital Servicing Only
Walden creates contemplative, atmospheric indie rock imbued with a sense of hopefulness. On their debut EP Apollo, the Calgary-based quartet explores the resonance of the past on the present and the alienating effects of technology with acoustic guitar and piano-led songs that respond to the emotional isolation of urban living with a message of solidarity […]
KWCW Interviews The Cave Singers
Walla Walla’s KWCW has been supporting The Cave Singers‘ Banshee LP, and the station recently conducted a phone interview with the band’s singer Peter Quirk. Clocking in at almost 25 minutes, the conversation is notable for how informed and enthusiastic the station’s DJs are about the Cave Singers and the folky Seattle scene from which […]
Glint Streams Album on PureVolume
After a protracted buildup that began last summer with the Introvert EP and continued with autumn’s Extrovert EP, Glint‘s long-awaited album Inverter has arrived and is currently streaming on PureVolume. “Making a record is never easy,” the site says, “and for Glint, the latest one proved to be especially ambitious… Songs like the anthemic ‘Daydreamers,’ […]
