Walden Releases Live Videos
Walden has released a new live video for “Apollo,” the title track of the Calgary-based band’s new EP. Shot by Ryan Bouman, the video features the band performing their aching, fragile tune in an empty studio with some heavy mood lighting. The clip opens with some footage of a moon landing, which is appropriate given […]
St. Germain, On Tour, Talks to The West Australian
St. Germain, the pseudonym of electronic pioneer Ludovic Navarre, is currently on the North American leg of a worldwide tour in support of his self-titled comeback album St. Germain. In a recent interview with The West Australian, Navarre explains the difference between the new album and Tourist, his chart-busting multi-platinum release from 2000. “I really […]
DTCV Goes For Adds
DTCV was born late at night at a party in the Hollywood Hills mansion of a film producer, where Lola G. – a French-born musician slumming in LA’s stoner garage scene – met novelist, screenwriter, and former Guided By Voices member James Greer. Lola and Greer started a conversation about Super-Fuzz pedals and the imminent […]
San Fermin and Sam Amidon Go For Adds with “Shiver”
“Shiver,” a collaboration between winter 2015 tourmates San Fermin and Sam Amidon, originated with Amidon’s son. “It started with an iPhone recording of Sam’s five-year-old son Arthur banging on some drums at the venue in Providence, which I turned into a beat,” says San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone. “Sam wrote a banjo line and played a violin […]
Tacocat, #7 At Radio 200, Speaks to Noisey and KTSW
Tacocat, whose album Lost Time jumped 180 spots on the CMJ Radio 200 last week to land at #7, has been delighting fans as well as members of the press with their feminist inclinations, wry pop culture references, and colorful aesthetic. The band can count the staff of Noisey amongst their faithful, and the site even […]
Record Store Day Is This Saturday!
This Saturday, April 16, marks this year’s edition of Record Store Day, an annual celebration of independent stores all around the world that champion vinyl. This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store — the staff, the customers, and the artists — to come together and celebrate the […]
Marco With Love Premiere “Big Black Dog” Video, Shoot For The Top 100
Marco With Love has a fresh new video for “Big Black Dog,” one of 10 blazing tracks on the NYC-based rockers’ new album Smothered and Covered. Filmed in a California desert, the clip debuted on American Songwriter with some words from bandleader Marco Argiro about the song’s lyrical content: “Some of my best work comes […]
MXDWN Praises Glint’s New LP
MXDWN is emphatic in its praise for Glint‘s “riveting” new LP, Inverter. “Combining dream pop and experimental new wave sonic textures with a foundation in rock,” the site writes, “Glint builds a strong instrumental base for honest, exploratory lyrics to shine.” Much of the review is focused on these lyrics, crafted by band mastermind Jase […]
New Music from DTCV – Digital Servicing Only
DTCV was born late at night at a party in the Hollywood Hills mansion of a film producer, where Lola G. – a French-born musician slumming in LA’s stoner garage scene – met novelist, screenwriter, and former Guided By Voices member James Greer. Lola and Greer started a conversation about Super-Fuzz pedals and the imminent […]
Pitchfork, Inverse Promote Star Wars Headspace
One of the neatest musical components of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens was the new cantina music, which was composed by series producer JJ Abrams in collaboration with the creator of Broadway’s smash hit Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Mirada. The only official release of the song, “Jabba Flow,” is the remix available – along with tracks from […]
Modern Vinyl Streams Marco With Love; New Album Debuts at CMJ
Marco With Love has a new album, Smothered and Covered, which is named – as singer/guitarist Marco Argiro has confirmed to Modern Vinyl – after the famous Waffle House order. The site has the premiere of the album, available as a SoundCloud stream, along with some information about its limited vinyl release. According to Modern Vinyl, […]
New Music From San Fermin and Sam Amidon – Digital Servicing Only
“Shiver,” a collaboration between winter 2015 tourmates San Fermin and Sam Amidon, originated with Amidon’s son. “It started with an iPhone recording of Sam’s five-year-old son Arthur banging on some drums at the venue in Providence, which I turned into a beat,” says San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone. “Sam wrote a banjo line and played a violin […]
Rookie Mag and The AV Club Love Tacocat; Their New Album is CMJ’s Top Mover
Rookie Mag has Tacocat‘s video for Lost Time‘s opening track, “Dana Katherine Scully,” along with an interview with bandleader Emily Nokes. The track is a tribute to the X-Files character, who Nokes refers to as “a really interesting feminist icon from the 1990s… She’s… the only voice of reason amongst these hard-science men in these fields of […]
Naked Giants Perform For Pressure Drop
Pressure Drop TV has a loud, sweaty live set from Seattle’s Naked Giants. The band stopped by the Pressure Drop studio in San Francisco on a rainy day during their tour last month, and the ensuing 7-song set features four songs not featured on their self-released Easy Eating EP. Watch their high-intensity performance here or below.
Glint Debuts “Daydreamers” Video
Glint’s new video for “Daydreamers” is an impressive sight to behold: a mixed animation/live action production that finds the band’s members interacting with a bleak cartoon landscape full of twisted fairy tale imagery. The epic visual is a perfect accompaniment to the song’s massive, expansive sound. Watch “Daydreamers” here or below. Glint continues its residency […]
Young Empires’ “Sunshine (Summer Edit)” Going for Spins – Digital Servicing Only
“It’s hard to believe that The Gates is Young Empires‘ debut,” writes the CBC. “It’s such a confident, cohesive record.” Three years after the release of their “happy-go-lucky” EP Wake All My Youth, the Toronto-based trio has returned with an album that combines late night soul, Technicolor pop, and vibey beats to present a mature […]
Tacocat Feels The Bern, Hates The Weekend, Tours, and Seeks CMJ Peak
Tacocat was recently asked to perform at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle, and the Stranger talked to the band’s singer Emily Nokes about the experience. “The invite was so casual that at first we assumed it was one of those community-organized liberal park frolics or some kind of Bands 4 Bernie BBQ,” Nokes said, but […]
The Cave Singers Share “That’s Why” With Buzzbands, Continue Tour
Buzzbands writes that The Cave Singers' "That's Why" "should instantly consume your existence with the opening riff." The bass-led song, which is full of grooves and sounds a bit like T. Rex, is certainly hard to deny. Listen to it here. The band is beginning another leg of touring behind their fifth album Banshee, the […]
Rokia Traoré Goes To The BBC and Hits #1 at CMJ New World for Three Weeks in a Row
Malian singer/activist Rokia Traoré recently paid a visit to England’s BBC Radio 3, where she performed a couple of songs from her amazing new album Né So along with a classic from more than a decade ago. She also visited BBC Radio 4, granting the station a interview and talking in depth about the new album. […]
New Music from Young Empires – “Sunshine (Summer Edit)” – Digital Servicing Only
“It’s hard to believe that The Gates is Young Empires‘ debut,” writes the CBC. “It’s such a confident, cohesive record.” Three years after the release of their “happy-go-lucky” EP Wake All My Youth, the Toronto-based trio has returned with an album that combines late night soul, Technicolor pop, and vibey beats to present a mature […]
