Fruit Bats Go For Adds With “Humbug Mountain Song”
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, […]
Love is Pop and Stereogum Feature DTCV
“There isn’t a bad song on the record,” writes Love is Pop in a recent review of DTCV‘s Confusion Moderne. “Whether you’re into fuzz pedals or French Pop, it’s sure to put a smile on your face.” Awarding it with the title of “album of the day,” the site praises the LP’s “adorable and irresistible” […]
Tacocat is Honored by Rolling Stone, Plays on WFMU
Rolling Stone recently included Tacocat on its list of “10 Great Modern Punk Bands,” singling out the Seattle four-piece and asserting that “it was about time someone combined the Beach Boys with Bikini Kill.” The full list, which also includes critical darlings like Downtown Boys, RVIVR, Tenement, and G.L.O.S.S., is available here. New Jersey’s WFMU is a […]
Stereo Embers and Echoes.org Love All India Radio
Stereo Embers has high praise for The Slow Light, calling All India Radio‘s new LP the work of “genius” that runs the gamut “from the eerie to the spectral, dewy to Saharan, [a] sunrise to dead of night” while instantly enveloping readers in a manner that “reflexively provokes flights of flailing journalistic poetry.” Comparing the […]
Star Wars Headspace Finds Fans At The Diamondback and Laughing Place
By now, you have likely heard the greatness contained within Star Wars Headspace, the Rick Rubin-produced electronic compilation album featuring such artists as Flying Lotus, GTA, and Baauer on tracks that melt the sounds of the Star Wars galaxy into fresh new bangers. It’s hard to lose attention while listening to the collection, as sound bits and samples from […]
New Music from Fruit Bats – “Humbug Mountain Song” – Digital Servicing Only
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, […]
The Cave Singers’ Derek Fudesco Talks To The Albuquerque Journal
Derek Fudesco, guitarist for The Cave Singers and member of a long list of awesome bands including Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and Death Wish Kids, recently talked to the Albuquerque Journal in advance of the band’s recent tour stop in New Mexico. In the interview, he discusses the musical bond that he […]
Pause Musicale Streams Glint’s “Get Out The Way”
“Get Out the Way,” a highlight from Glint‘s new album Inverter, has been getting attention across the Atlantic. French website Pause Musicale has shared the track, drenching it with praise. According to the site, the song “weaves a story, full of intimate notes, shaken by stormy turmoil, filled with agitated percussion.” That’s just a rough […]
Naked Giants is The End’s Artist Of The Month
Seattle’s Naked Giants are having a banner year, having just released their debut EP Easy Eating and completed their first tour. Now, the band has been honored by Seattle’s 107.7 The End as April’s Locals Only Artist of the Month. In a feature on The End’s website, bandmember Henry LaVallee talks in-depth about the band’s influences […]
All India Radio Goes For Adds
Fronted by Australian musician Martin Kennedy, All India Radio has been creating downtempo chillgaze since 1999. The project first formed after Kennedy heard some tapes of street and radio sounds from India. Inspired, he began sampling the tapes and blending the recordings with his own ambient works to develop a distinct sound that combines layered […]
Vetiver Goes For Spins
Vetiver returned last year with Complete Strangers, an album full of introspective lyrics paired with instrumentals that fluctuate between melancholy and sunshine. This magnetic sound was harnessed by producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Beachwood Sparks, The Donkeys), who joined bandleader Andy Cabic to help him expand his already-impressive sonic palette. According to Drops of Gold, opening […]
Pitchfork Premieres DTCV Video
Pitchfork has premiered the new video from DTCV, the fuzzy, French pop-inspired post-punk band from ex-Guided by Voices member James Greer and vocalist Lola G. The band didn’t just get anyone to throw together the clip for “Historie Seule,” which opens their new album Confusion Moderne; rather, they enlisted Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, The Knick, […]
Tacocat, #2 At Radio 200, Gets Great Reviews From Stereogum and The Line Of Best Fit
Everything is looking up for Tacocat, as the four-piece Seattle punk group has rocketed to #2 at the CMJ Radio 200. Keep the band in your hearts and on your charts as they aim to break hit the top! One reason Tacocat is so appealing is because their music and deadpan lyrics are seriously resonant. […]
Prelude Press Shares Marco With Love’s “Black Dog”
Marco With Love premiered a new video last week, and Prelude Press has picked up the clip and embedded it. The site’s blurb on “Big Black Dog” gives some new tidbits about its creation, including that it was filmed at the Super X Ranch in Pioneertown near Joshua Tree National Park in California. The video features the […]
New Music From All India Radio
Fronted by Australian musician Martin Kennedy, All India Radio has been creating downtempo chillgaze since 1999. After the dissolution of Kennedy’s long-running rock band Pray TV, he struggled to find a new musical way forward until hearing a collection of tapes his former bandmate Aidan Halloran had recorded of street and radio sounds during a […]
Scully Loves Tacocat, and So Does Rolling Stone; Meet the Band! #2 at CMJ Radio 200!
Rolling Stone describes Tacocat‘s new album as “super-catchy pop-punk with whip-smart feminist wit,” lauding the Seattle four-piece for writing “brief, conversational songs fly by like text messages to a best friend – emoji-laden missives about girl power, cats, aliens, weed and pop-culture.” Lost Time, writes RS, “is full of concise, energetic pop-punk, built on surfy […]
Magnetic Premieres Chris Hunt’s “Ultimatum”
Magnetic Mag calls the video for Chris Hunt‘s “Ultimatum” a “stunning audio-visual display.” The video, directed by Alexander Zhuravlov and featuring actors Nathan Griswold and Tara Lee, channels Hunt’s harsh and cinematic musical aesthetic into a slow-moving, quizzical clip. Of Tomb, the two-EP set from which “Ultimatum” is culled, Magnetic says, “Hunt is able to […]
Star Wars Headspace, Reviewed By The Daily Free Press, Is Streaming at Indie Shuffle
Boston University‘s Daily Free Press has a review of Star Wars Headspace, the stunning compilation put together by Rick Rubin and featuring a smorgasbord of contemporary electro artists using Star Wars sounds to create new and interesting beats. Reviewer Clara Hudson singles out a few of the album’s tracks, complimenting Baauer’s “unmistakable grandiose and upbeat tempo” […]
New Music From Vetiver – Digital Servicing Only – “Stranger Still” Radio Edit and Daniel T Remix
Vetiver returned last year with Complete Strangers, an album full of introspective lyrics paired with instrumentals that seem to fluctuate between melancholy and sunshine. This magnetic sound was harnessed with the help of musicians Bart Davenport, Gabe Noel, and Josh Adams and producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Beachwood Sparks, The Donkeys), who joined bandleader Andy Cabic […]
Consequence of Sound and Stereogum Feature DTCV’s New Single
“Capital Ennui,” the first single from DTCV‘s fantastic new album Confusion Moderne, is streaming via Consqeuence of Sound. The song, which singer Lola G. compares to works by Stereolab and Gang of Four, is described by CoS as “a fuzzy, lazily bopping slice of post-punk where Lola’s vocals add a sense of beautiful lightness” despite […]
