Lithuania Get Some Hometown Love from Philly’s WXPN, The Deli; On Tour with Beach Slang
“It’s really exciting for me not to be sitting down,” Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick told Philadelphia’s WXPN about his role playing guitar and singing in his current garage rock project, Lithuania. “My whole life I’ve been sitting down, and now I’m like wait, I can move around? No wonder people like to do this!” […]
Futurebirds Debut Video on Baeble Music, Are Featured on KEXP’s “Music That Matters”
Futurebirds‘ newest album is called Hotel Parties, and that title captures the essence of an LP that is a testimony of life on the rock n roll road. But while being in a touring band is often portrayed in popular culture as a mix of glamor and debauchery, the lyrical themes on Hotel Parties portray […]
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Glint – Extrovert EP (Votiv) Ghost Against Ghost – still love EP (Our Silent Canvas) Kuroma – 20+ Centuries EP (Votiv) Pell – “Queso” [digital single] (Federal Prism) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – “Roked” [single] (Nonesuch) Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock) Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch) Fever […]
New Music from the Electric Sons – Digital Servicing Only
With songs that range from ebullient arena anthems to dark, electronic infused ballads, The Electric Sons’ world is a high-energy kaleidoscope of imaginative lyrics and infectious hooks that will leave audiences dancing and dreaming. The band got its start when vocalist/frontman Andrew Miller and keyboardist/producer Ben Richards were assigned to write together as part of […]
Billboard Premieres Kuroma’s Breeders Cover, Flood Streams Their New EP
Kuroma has a new EP, the follow-up to their excellent album Kuromarama from earlier this year, and it includes a cover of the Breeders‘ “Divine Hammer” in addition to three new originals. Billboard has the premiere of the “kick ass” track from the 20+ Centuries EP, as well as a blurb from leader Hank Sullivant […]
PopMatter and Echoes and Dust Stream Ghost Against Ghost
PopMatters recently premiered a “preview edit” of “still love,” the new, sprawling, and operatic 17-minute postrock composition from Ghost Against Ghost that features Mercury Rev guitarist Anthony Molina and former Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen. According to the site, “the band combine elements of Pink Floyd, Anathema, and Vangelis, making for a sound that’s both vintage and […]
Tarmac Adam is Reviewed by PopMatters and Featured in the Lowdown Under
Though Tarmac Adam descended from Australian rock legends Crowded House and includes that band’s bassist Nick Seymour, PopMatters said in a recent review that “after three albums, they’ve deservedly come into their own.” The site says that In Place, the band’s newest effort, demonstrates the band’s “ability to make music that’s seductive and sublime” and that […]
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St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Lithuania – Hardcore Friends (Lame-O) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company) Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (Complicated Game) Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock)
New Music from DTCV
French-American post-punk band DTCV (pronounced Detective) was formed in Los Angeles in 2012 by Guylaine Vivarat and James Greer (Guided by Voices, SPIN Magazine) and has been compared to Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, and “post-Nico Velvet Underground with Debbie Harry on vocals.” The band released Uptime! earlier this year, charting on CMJ and […]
Fever the Ghost Premiere “Vervain” on Northern Transmissions, Continues Tour
Experimental psych-prog-glammers Fever the Ghost premiered Zirconium Meconium track “Vervain (Dreams of An Old Wooden Cage)” on Northern Transmissions earlier this year. Of the record, the site said, “Transmitting cosmic narratives and inventive song structures, Fever The Ghost’s sprawling pop saga Zirconium Meconium sleekly marries the group’s esoteric tendencies with an inescapable melodicism.” “Vervain” is […]
Futurebirds Earns Rave Reviews on the Road
Futurebirds have been tearing up venues with their rollicking, sweat-filled live concerts for a long time now and have earned a reputation for putting on amazing shows. So it’s not surprise that two back-to-back October 26 shows in New Orleans were received as well as they were. Off Beat was at the scene for both […]
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Kuroma – 20+ Centuries EP (Votiv) Pell – “Queso” digital single (Federal Prism) Glint – Extrovert EP (Votiv) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch)
Ghost Against Ghost Goes for Adds
Ghost Against Ghost, the conceptual rock project of producer/composer Christopher Bono, creates epic and progressive music that draws influence from experimental, contemporary, and traditional classical music. The project began in 2008, after the composer envisioned an as-yet unfinished concept album in a dream. After the dream, Bono delved into musical study, spending seven years in […]
Lithuania Stream Album on Brooklyn Vegan, Gets Reviewed by New Noise, Shoots for New CMJ Peak
“Lithuania is another band of Eric Slick of Dr. Dog, but they’re nothing like that band,” writes Brooklyn Vegan of the project, which recently premiered the debut LP Hardcore Friends. Perhaps that’s a bit extreme, though. While the site is correct that they make “the kind of crunchy, fuzzy rock that’s closer to Weezer or […]
PureVolume Premieres Glint’s “The Truth Lies In Us”
Glint has been at “the forefront of the experimental electronic movement that’s become wildly popular,” writes PureVolume. The site has a premiere of the band’s “The Truth Lies In Us,” a truly massive offering from the Glint’s new EP Extrovert. Acting as a preface to the band’s upcoming LP Inverter as well as the flip-side […]
St. Germain on NPR First Listen and Climbing at CMJ Radio 200
St. Germain‘s self-titled comeback album was recently featured by NPR as a First Listen, and the accompanying feature had no shortage of great things to say about the record. The review starts by telling the artist’s history, touching on the success he had with 2000’s Tourist LP, before getting into the nuts and bolts of […]
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Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kuroma – 20+ Centuries EP (Votiv) Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (Complicated Game) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – “Roked” [single] (Nonesuch)
New Music from Ghost Against Ghost – still love EP
Ghost Against Ghost, the conceptual rock project of producer/composer Christopher Bono, creates epic and progressive music that draws influence from experimental, contemporary, and traditional classical music. The project began in 2008, after the composer envisioned an as-yet unfinished concept album in a dream. After the dream, Bono delved into musical study, spending seven years in […]
Fever the Ghost Talks to Clash Music, Continues Tour, Reach New CMJ Peak
Fever the Ghost is weird. In a recent feature on Clash Music about the band, singer Caspar Indrizzo is quoted as saying that debut album Zirconium Meconium is like “Easter bunny poop. You might look at that Easter bunny’s poop at first and be like, ‘I’m not gonna try that,’ but once you do, you […]
Jacob Snider Presents the “I Am Not All Right Video,” Goes for Chart Debut
Jacob Snider, the hooky and inventive songwriter behind the new album Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch), makes an off-kilter folk-pop sound that is chock full of alluring eccentricities. Snider made a video for one of those songs, “I Am Not All Right,” which highlights these eccentricities while finding him getting quite intimate with a tree. The Makeda […]
