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 […]
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)
