PopMatters and GoodMoMusic Share Kuroma’s “Twenty Centuries in Time”
Kuroma has a released a new EP, 20+ Centuries, to put the metaphorical cherry on top of an exceptional year that included tours with Tennis and Tame Impala, a headlining tour, and the release of the critically-acclaimed Kuromarama album. In addition to a couple of new songs and a Breeders cover, the EP includes a […]
Lianne La Havas Plays Colbert and World Cafe, Debuts New Music Video
Lianne La Havas has been busy! Last week, she sat in with Jon Batiste and Stay Human on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performing songs from her album Blood as well as standards for the audience between appearances by guest luminaries Hillary Clinton, Anthony Bourdain, and Carrie Brownstein. She also performed a version of […]
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Lithuania – Hardcore Friends (Lame-O) Pell – “Queso” digital single (Federal Prism) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Kuroma Goes for Adds with the “20+ Centuries” EP
Kuroma, a supergroup filled with minds behind such projects as MGMT, Amazing Baby, and The Whigs, returns with a new EP following their recent full-length, Kuromarama. Kuromarama, produced by MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser, resulted from a long creative journey, and is a fully-realized record carefully designed, bursting with subtle nuances, catchy hooks, garage rock abandon and […]
Glint Goes For Adds with the “Extrovert” EP
This summer, we serviced Glint‘s Introvert – a moody, expansive EP that recalled Minus the Bear and Warpaint. Now, Glint releases their second EP of 2015: Extrovert. Leader Jase Blankfort recorded the EPs in the empty warehouses of Nyack, New York, allowing the immense spaces to shape the sound. Though “studios can sometimes have a sterile environment […]
Pell Goes for Adds with the “Queso” Single!
Pell, who was born and raised in New Orleans but forced to relocate to Mississippi at age 13 after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his family’s home, has been praised for fusing precise lyricism and soulful singing. He rose to prominence in 2014 with Floating While Dreaming, a critically-acclaimed album that led to festival spots at Lollapalooza and Reading, […]
St. Germain is Reviewed by the Guardian, Debuts on the CMJ Radio 200
St. Germain‘s Tourist, released 15 years ago, is “easy to listen to and difficult to get out of your head,” writes the Guardian. Now the production pioneer is back, with a self-titled and sprawling new LP, and the Guardian explains in a review how the new record changes up the “French Touch” sound by implementing […]
Lithuania Premieres “Hardcore Friends” on VICE and “Place of No Tomorrow” on the AV Club, Tours North America
Lithuania‘s Hardcore Friends LP is a tribute to the enduring and endearing friendship between band members Eric Slick (of Dr. Dog) and Dominic Angelella (of DRGN KING), who met in art school and have been collaborating off and on for the past decade. The album chronicles their friendship in chronological order, concluding with a title […]
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Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (Complicated Game) Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express – Junun (Nonesuch) Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock) Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company)
New Music from Glint – Extrovert EP
This summer, we serviced Glint‘s Introvert – a moody, expansive EP that recalled Minus the Bear and Warpaint. Now, Glint releases their second EP of 2015: Extrovert. Leader Jase Blankfort recorded the EPs in the empty warehouses of Nyack, New York, allowing the immense spaces to shape the sound. Though “studios can sometimes have a sterile environment […]
AllMusic Reviews Futurebirds, Chunky Glasses Calls Hotel Parties “One of the Year’s Best Releases”
Futurebirds have earned themselves an AllMusic review for their album Hotel Parties. Comparing the band to Big Star, REM, and My Morning Jacket, the review praises the album’s “easygoing yet complex style” and describes the band’s sound as “sauntering pop-country-psych” with lyrics “exploring themes of dualism and contradiction.” This is Futurebirds’ third album to date, and […]
Lianne La Havas Performs on CBS This Morning: Saturday
British singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas is seemingly everywhere. She visited CBS earlier this month while on tour behind her album Blood, performing several songs on CBS This Morning: Saturday. Go here for more information and watch the stripped-down and gorgeous versions of “Green and Gold,” “Unstoppable,” and “What You Don’t Do,” below to find out […]
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Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (Complicated Game) Gary Clark, Jr. – The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Bros.) Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express – “Roked” [single] (Nonesuch) St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock) Lael Neale – I’ll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts)
New Music from Kuroma – 20+ Centuries EP
Kuroma, a supergroup filled with minds behind such projects as MGMT, Amazing Baby, and The Whigs, return with a new EP following their recent full-length, Kuromarama. Kuromarama, produced by MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser, resulted from a long creative journey, and is a fully-realized record carefully designed, bursting with subtle nuances, catchy hooks, garage rock abandon and […]
Culture Collide Loves Lithuania, Spin Premieres “Pieces”
Culture Collide has high praise for Hardcore Friends, the debut LP from Philadelphia’s Lithuania. The site gives the record a score of 88 out of 100, opening its review by describing the band’s songs as “wildly catchy and surprisingly earnest punk jams.” It continues, “Hardcore Friends is both a ripping, punk-infused record, and an ode […]
Kathryn Calder Performs for the National Post
Grief has unfortunately been a common theme in Kathryn Calder‘s recent life. The New Pornographers member has lost both of her parents in the past few years, and she hasn’t shied away from dealing with themes of loss and mourning on her three solo albums. She discussed these tragedies, and how they informed her third, […]
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St. Germain – St. Germain (Nonesuch) Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express – “Roked” [single] (Nonesuch) Jacob Snider – Carrier (featuring Armand Hirsch) (Hollyhock) Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch) Futurebirds – Hotel Parties (Easy Sound Recording Company) Fever the Ghost – Zirconium Meconium (Complicated Game)
New Music from Pell – “Queso” Single
Pell, who was born and raised in New Orleans but forced to relocate to Mississippi at age 13 after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his family’s home, has been praised for fusing precise lyricism and soulful singing. He rose to prominence in 2014 with Floating While Dreaming, a critically-acclaimed album that led to festival spots at Lollapalooza and Reading, […]
Gary Clark, Jr. Plays “The Healing” and “Grinder” for a CBS Saturday Session
Gary Clark, Jr. recently visited CBS to perform two songs from his hit album The Story of Sonny Boy Slim at CBS This Morning: Saturday. Clark, who they say is “arguably the most acclaimed bluesman of his generation,” brought a full band and background singers to the studio to play blistering renditions of “The Healing” (view […]
Young Empires Wow CMJ Audiences, Share Stories with Exclaim
Did you go to the 2015 CMJ Music Marathon? If so, hopefully you caught one of four performances from Toronto’s Young Empires. Music Times called them “One of the ten best bands we saw at CMJ,” and wrote, “the group performed cuts from their new album The Gates with powerful charisma… Despite a short half-hour, […]
