The Donkeys Play Public Radio Sessions, Continue Tour
At the beginning of their nationwide, southern-routed tour last year, the Donkeys took some time to perform a few songs for Public Radio Sessions. Based in Atlanta, Public Radio is “a takeaway-styled music film production… [that] arranges and films performances… [that] are intimate yet public, hosted in accessible locations.” For their appearance, the Donkeys sat […]
The Cave Singers, Featured on Stereogum and Consequence of Sound, Tour
Seattle’s the Cave Singers, set to release their fifth album Banshee later this month, dropped a couple tracks from the upcoming LP late last year. One of them, “That’s Why,” caught the attention of Stereogum. The song is a triumph of rock ‘n’ roll minimalism, and the site described it thusly: “Unadorned except for a […]
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Zaac Pick – Constellations (Small Space Music) The Pines – Above the Prairie (Red House Records) 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 Donkeys Go for Adds
With Midnight Palms, The Donkeys present a fine, half-sized document of their singular sound. At once accessible, adventurous, nostalgic, and progressive, the five-song mini-album oozes with the sticky, syrupy energy of a band fresh off the road and in rare form. Tracked largely live-in-the-studio with veteran producer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Fruit Bats, Devendra Banhart), Midnight […]
Zaac Pick Goes for Adds
Though Constellations is Zaac Pick’s first full-length, the Vancouver-based artist already has a reputation for compelling lyrics and haunting melodies. Pick’s large-scale, cinematic style earned acclaim after the 2009 release of his debut EP, Fierce Wind, while 2011’s Whitewater EP showed an autumnal maturity bred through two years of steady writing and touring. Along the […]
The Pines, on Tour, Get Props From the Current and Hear Ya, Seek CMJ Debuts
“Just when we think we know what we’ve come to expect from the Pines or consider brushing them off as another in a long string of Americana bands,” writes Minnesota Public Radio‘s the Current, “they put out a new song that hits so close to the gut that it reminds us that they are truly a […]
Marco With Love’s Peter Landi Writes for Modern Drummer
“Okay,” writes Peter Landi, “time to talk about my drums.” In a guest column for Modern Drummer, the Marco With Love percussionist tells readers about the setup he uses to propel Marco’s rhythmic, rocking songs. “I like to keep it simple and sounding great,” Landi says before giving readers a detailed breakdown of his hardware and […]
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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) EarlyRise – Colors (Self-released) Pell – “Queso” [single] (Federal Prism) The Cave Singers – “That’s Why” [single] (Self-released)
New Music from The Donkeys
With Midnight Palms, The Donkeys present a fine, half-sized document of their singular sound. At once accessible, adventurous, nostalgic, and progressive, the five-song mini-album oozes with the sticky, palpable energy of a band fresh off the road and in rare form. Tracked largely live-in-the-studio with veteran producer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Fruit Bats, Devendra Banhart), Midnight Palms […]
Paste Premieres The Pines’ “Hanging From the Earth”
“It’s a dreamy country love song of sorts,” says the Pines’ Benson Ramsey about “Hanging From the Earth.” The gorgeous song, one of many highlights on the band’s new LP Above the Prairie, was recently premiered on Paste Magazine. In the accompanying feature, Ramsey explains, “It’s sort of a meditational breakdown on the fact that we […]
As He Plots US Tour, Ambient Music Guide Reveres St. Germain
The Ambient Music Guide has given props to St. Germain in its wrap up of 2015, mentioning his self-titled comeback LP amongst its favorite albums of the year. “Repeated listens reveal a wonderful complexity and level of detail,” the site says. “This is tuneful, exotic and soulful music from an act who everyone thought had […]
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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) Marco With Love – Promised Land EP (Outright Rock) EarlyRise – Colors (Self-released) The Cave Singers – “That’s Why” [digital single] (self-released)
New Music from Zaac Pick
Though Constellations is Zaac Pick’s first full-length, the Vancouver-based artist already has a reputation for compelling lyrics and haunting melodies. Pick’s large-scale, cinematic style earned acclaim after the 2009 release of his debut EP, Fierce Wind, while 2011’s Whitewater EP showed an autumnal maturity bred through two years of steady writing and touring. Along the […]
Futurebirds Talk to Seventh Hex, Perform for OurVinyl, and Tour
In a recent interview with The Seventh Hex, Futurebirds member Carter King explained the dire feelings that went into writing the new album Hotel Parties while touring behind their last album. “We couldn’t see at the time that we were shedding some necessary skin. It just looked to us like the wheels were coming off. […]
NEEDS Does Daytrotter
Daytrotter is an Internet institution with a decade-long history of documenting the most important musicians of the day, from up-and-comers to legends. Thus, it is an honor for NEEDS to now be included amongst the ranks of bands that have recorded Daytrotter Sessions. Tracked on January 25 at the Horseshack in Davenport, IA, the band’s […]
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The Pines – Above the Prairie (Red House Records) Marco With Love – Promised Land EP (Outright Rock) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) EarlyRise – Colors (Self-released)
The Pines Go For Adds
Called “quietly gripping” by legendary rock journalist David Fricke (Rolling Stone), Minneapolis-based The Pines sound like a Brian Eno for the Great Plains. Their native Midwest is their muse, and their songs explore the vast expanses around and above them to find beauty in the isolated towns and farms that dot the landscape and the […]
Marco With Love Performs on Blind Blind Tiger
Marco With Love, whose Promised Land EP has been on the Radio 200 for the past three weeks, bring an exuberant swagger to their performances that makes them a joy to watch live. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, the NYC-based quartet stopped by Blind Blind Tiger to document their energetic style in front […]
Uncut Reviews Junun, Talks to Jonny Greenwood
Uncut recently did a feature on Junun, combining a review of the album and PT Anderson-directed documentary thereof with a short conversation with Jonny Greenwood about the making of the collaborative album with Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express. “Junun slots neatly into a lineage of musical artifacts capturing the raw activity of cultural […]
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St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) EarlyRise – Colors (self-released) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company) The Cave Singers – “That’s Why” [digital single] (self-released)
