PopMatters and Indie Shuffle Feature Chris Hunt
PopMatters has a stream of “Plaster,” a “thoroughly visceral” track from ex-Cloudeater member Chris Hunt‘s new Tomb release. The site’s founder, Sarah Zupko, says that “an almost heavy metal effect” is created by the song’s juxtaposition of “wide cinematic flourishes with elements of jaggy noise.” Check it out here. Indie Shuffle has another track from the […]
Hear Walden’s Haunting “Apollo”
According to its Facebook site, Calgary-based quartet Walden is currently preparing to release a live video of “Apollo,” the stunning title track on its new debut EP. That video isn’t quite ready for audiences, but fans can watch a video that band member Mark Loewen has posted featuring audio of the studio version of the […]
Glint Share “Get Out The Way” with XS Noize, Announce NYC Residency, Reach New CMJ Peak
Glint‘s large scale, cinematic indie rock moved to yet another new peak at CMJ Radio 200 on the strength of huge-sounding singles like “Get Out The Way.” XS Noize recently posted that track, telling audiences that “we’d be surprised if you don’t find yourself reaching for the repeat button a few times over.” The song, […]
Tacocat Go For Adds With Lost Time
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 […]
Marco With Love Goes For Adds with Smothered and Covered
Marco With Love embodies the diversity, DIY work ethic, and true essence of rock ‘n’ roll. In addition to leader and namesake Marco Argiro, Marco With Love’s agile lineup includes drummer Peter Landi (The Glazzies), bassist Subodh Samudre (Golden Bones, Peru, Planar), and pedal steel player Blaine O’Brien (Brothers NYC). Fast, rough around the edges, […]
All The Real Girls Go For Adds with “Elk City” – 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, Elk City, is inspired by […]
Indie Band Guru Hails the black watch’s “Genius;” Magnet Shares “Pershing/Harvard Square”
According to the Indie Band Guru, the black watch‘s new album Highs and Lows “is nothing short of musical genius.” According to the review, bandleader John Andrew Fredrick “has taken the strongest elements of ’80s music and made them relevant again” on tracks that combine “the energy of The Ramones with the emotion of The Cure.” […]
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 […]
