The Cave Singers Go For Adds with Banshee
The Cave Singers present a vibrant and earthy sound that, according to Pitchfork, adds “a welcome dark side” to the folky scene in their hometown of Seattle. After years playing together not only in this band but in punkier projects including Murder City Devils and Pretty Girls Make Graves, members Peter Quirk, Derek Fudesco, and […]
Rokia Traoré Goes for Adds with Né So
Rokia Traoré has explored a breadth of directions over a career that began in 1997 and has earned her praise for uniquely blending Mali’s diverse musical styles with those of the rest of the world. She has recorded with the Kronos Quartet and Damon Albarn; collaborated on a theater piece called Desdemona with Toni Morrison and Peter […]
The Donkeys Are Reviewed by AllMusic, Release “Hurt Somebody” Video Via Paste, Seek New CMJ Peak
The Donkeys‘ new release, Midnight Palms, is relatively short. Yet, according to the AllMusic Guide, “this brief outing adds another five sun-soaked charmers to their growing canon of laid-back, slightly fuzzy West Coast rock.” AMG gave the mini-LP four out of five stars in its recent review, which breaks the album’s five tracks down and […]
Relix Premieres Marco With Love’s “Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll”
Marco With Love is a band deeply steeped in the rock ‘n’ roll traditions of their musical forebears, with a raunchy sound that channels the gritty bar bands of the 60s and 70s and pays homage to the classics. So it makes perfect sense that, alongside blazing originals like “Big Black Dog” and “Promised Land […]
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The Pines – Above the Prairie (Red House Records) Zaac Pick – Constellations (Small Shape Music) Fruit Bats – “From A Soon-to-Be Ghost Town” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Naked Giants – ”Easy Eating” [digital single] (self-released) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch)
New music from The Cave Singers
The Cave Singers present a vibrant and earthy sound that, according to Pitchfork, adds “a welcome dark side” to the folky scene in their hometown of Seattle. After years playing together not only in this band but in punkier projects including Murder City Devils and Pretty Girls Make Graves, members Peter Quirk, Derek Fudesco, and […]
The Pines, Rising at CMJ, Get Strong Reviews from PopMatters and Folk Alley, Hits New CMJ Peak
The four-year wait between The Pines‘ 2012 album Dark So Gold and this year’s Above the Prairie was “more than worth it,” writes PopMatters, because the new LP is both enjoyable to casual listeners and rewarding for those who choose to go deeper into its mediative sonic world. According to the site, the album is […]
Zaac Pick, Beloved by Confront Magazine, Shares Studio Footage and Looks for CMJ Debut
Confront Magazine has a lot of love for Zaac Pick‘s debut LP Constellations, saying, “From start to finish, you can literally feel the emotional pull of the lyrics and the intensity of not one but all of his tracks. Each song is gracefully put together including all elements of traditional folk music with a few […]
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The Donkeys – Midnight Palms (Easy Sound Recording Company) Naked Giants – ”Easy Eating” [digital single] (self-released) Fruit Bats – “From A Soon-to-Be Ghost Town” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch)
New Music from Rokia Traoré
Rokia Traoré has explored a breadth of directions over a career that began in 1997 and has earned her praise for uniquely blending Mali’s diverse musical styles with those of the rest of the world. She’s recorded with the Kronos Quartet and Damon Albarn; collaborated on a theater piece called Desdemona with Toni Morrison and Peter Sellers; won […]
Fruit Bats Go For Adds
Eric D. Johnson is Fruit Bats. And Fruit Bats is back. Five years after 2011’s Tripper became its second LP in a row to reach #1 on the CMJ Radio 200, comes their new album Absolute Loser due this April. This long break was the result of a personal tragedy after Johnson’s wife suffered a miscarriage that led […]
Naked Giants Go For Adds
Naked Giants, a three-piece garage rock wildebeest from Seattle, combine bluesy guitar solos, pounding backbeats, and thick basslines to form a psychedelic whirlwind of fuzz. The band has taken Seattle by storm, playing to rowdy crowds at college house parties and all-ages venues on their way to finding airplay at KEXP and winning second place in […]
The Pines Premiere “Time Dreams” on Democracy Now, Receive Great No Depression Review, Seeking New CMJ Peak
The Pines write music inspired by their surroundings, specifically those of the Midwest region of the United States they call home. Their album art for their new album, Above the Prairie, aptly depicts the colors of their sound: Earthy, down-home Americana with broad strokes of twinkling atmospherics and dark sweeping hues. On “Time Dreams,” the final track on […]
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Zaac Pick – Constellations (Small Space Music) The Donkeys – Midnight Palms (Easy Sound Recording Company) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Marco With Love – Promised Land EP (Outright Rock)
The Current Features the Pines as “Song of the Day;” Above the Prairie Debuts at CMJ as the Band Tours
“Hanging From the Earth,” a standout song from The Pines new album Above the Prairie, was honored with a pick as the Current’s Song of the Day on February 4. It’s the second time that the Current, which is Minnesota’s home for public radio content, has featured a song from the album: indeed, the station was […]
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The Donkeys – Midnight Palms (Easy Sound Recording Company) Zaac Pick – Constellations (Small Space Music) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Marco With Love – Promised Land EP (Outright Rock)
New Music from Fruit Bats – Digital Servicing Only
Fruit Bats, the brainchild of singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson, is back. Five years after 2011’s Tripper became its second LP in a row to reach #1 on the CMJ Radio 200, comes their new album Absolute Loser due this April. This long break was the result of a personal tragedy after Johnson’s wife suffered a miscarriage that led him to […]
BeatRoute Interviews Zaac Pick, and Watch His Music Video for “Bright Ideas”
BeatRoute has an in-depth interview with Zaac Pick, the cross-Canadian artist whose beautiful LP Constellations is looking for Radio 200 debuts next week. Pick discusses the process of making the LP, which is not only his first full-length release, but also his first collection of recordings with a band. Interestingly, the organic and fluent album […]
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Marco With Love – Promised Land EP (Outright Rock) The Donkeys – Midnight Palms (Easy Sound Recording Company) The Pines – Above the Prairie (Red House Records) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch)
New music from Naked Giants – Digital Servicing Only
Naked Giants, a three-piece garage rock wildebeest from Seattle, combine bluesy guitar solos, pounding backbeats, and juicy basslines to form a psychedelic whirlwind of fuzz. The band has taken Seattle by storm, playing to rowdy crowds at college house parties and all-ages venues on their way to finding airplay at KEXP and winning second place in […]
