Pitchfork Praises Lianne La Havas, “Unstoppable” Debuts on Stereogum. Blood is #6 Most Added and Looking for CMJ Debuts
Pitchfork has praised Lianne La Havas' new album Blood, giving it a 7.7 review in advance of its release last week. In her review, Hannah Georgis writes, "La Havas may be young, but her voice marries youthful lightness with a gravitas most often ascribed to artists well beyond her 25 years." According to Georgis, "La Havas is […]
AV Club Shares Aqueduct’s “Paranoid Much.” Album at a New CMJ Peak
Aqueduct's Wild Knights, a heady bedroom pop gem that took band mastermind David Terry nearly a decade to perfect, is proving that hard work pays off. The album is off to a strong start at CMJ, charting in the Top 100 for the second week in a row thanks to catchy tracks like lead single "Simpleanimal" […]
KEXP Streams Full Built to Spill Performance
Built to Spill, whose album Untethered Moon is still kicking around in the CMJ Radio 200 after peaking in the Top Ten a couple of months ago, has been on the road for most of 2015. So of course the band, which already had a two-decade-long history of playing sprawling, virtuosic live shows, completely slayed […]
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The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records) Alpine – Yuck (Votiv) Tobias The Owl – Painting Zeroes By Your Name (London Tone Music) Lael Neale – I’ll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts) Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (Harlequins LLC) Zella Day – Kicker (Pinetop/Hollywood) Futurebirds – “twentyseven” [digital single] (Easy […]
Lianne La Havas Goes for Adds
Lianne La Havas, the English singer / songwriter / guitarist whose Mercury Prize-nominated debut Is Your Love Big Enough? was named Album of the Year in 2012 by iTunes UK, has returned with sophomore album Blood. Inspired by a trip with her mother to visit their ancestral homeland of Jamaica, La Havas has pushed the boundaries of her sound […]
Tobias the Owl Goes for Adds
Elijah Dhawan, the Toronto-born singer-songwriter who performs as Tobias the Owl with a multiregional cast of musical collaborators, is no stranger to the road. Dhawan has spent years traveling – sometimes on foot – throughout North America, gathering a diverse set of influences from Texas roots and folk traditions, deep Southern bluegrass, Canadian indie rock, […]
Futurebirds Go For Adds with “twentyseven” Digital Single
The Athens, GA-based five-piece band Futurebirds is a touring band. They hit the road for months while looking for a label to release Baby Yaga in 2013, earning a reputation for playing chaotic live shows with the energy of primal, sweat-filled, cosmic rock revivals. After Fat Possum took notice and brought the band's blend of country, […]
The Bird and the Bee Perform on KCSN & are #9 at CMJ Radio 200; Bandmember Greg Kurstin Talks to Q Magazine
The Bird and the Bee stopped by Los Angeles' KCSN 88.5 FM to do a live session last week, joining an incredibly impressive roster of artists – both obscure and huge – who have performed on the station in recent years. The band showed off a few essential cuts from new LP Recreational Love, which […]
Rolling Stone AU and the Mushroom Group Love Alpine; New Album Yuck is Top 40 at CMJ
"God it's sexy being Alpine," opines Michael Dwyer in the opening to his recent four start review of Alpine's Yuck in Rolling Stone Australia. "The hyperventilating rush of the Melbourne indie-electro sextet's helium-light debut of 2012," he continues, "is in a state of orgasmic escalation on album two." While other reviewers have praised the album for […]
Young Empires’ Sunshine Premieres on SPIN
Toronto trio Young Empires has been teasing debut LP The Gates all year, starting with the release of the upbeat, tribal singles “The Gates” and “So Cruel” and continuing now with the album’s third single, “Sunshine.” SPIN debuted the “dreamy, sun-soaked” video for the song, which it calls an “indie pop delicacy,” last month. According to […]
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Lael Neale – I’ll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts) Aqueduct – Wild Knights (Aqueduct Music) Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (Harlequins LLC) Zella Day – Kicker (Pinetop/Hollywood) Elohim – “She Talks Too Much” & “Xanax” [digital singles] (B3SCI) CHAPPO – Future Former Self (Votiv) NEEDS – NEEDS (File Under: Music) Sam Cohen – […]
New Music from Tobias the Owl – Get It Here
Elijah Dhawan, the Toronto-born singer-songwriter who performs as Tobias the Owl with a multiregional cast of musical collaborators, is no stranger to the road. Dhawan has spent years traveling – sometimes on foot – throughout North America, gathering a diverse set of influences from Texas roots and folk traditions, deep Southern bluegrass, Canadian indie rock, […]
Aqueduct’s Wild Knights is City Arts’ “Album of the Month,” Debuts in the CMJ Top 100
Seattle’s City Arts selected Aqueduct‘s Wild Knights as its “Album of the Month” for July, writing that “the songs are great and the record is magnetic.” Reviewer Jonathan Zwickel has a long history with the band, having interviewed mastermind David Terry years ago during the beginning of his music journalism career. On Wild Knights, he says, “Terry […]
Jeremy and the Harlequins are Interviewed by Groundsounds, Moving Up at CMJ
Groundsounds has an interview, here, with Jeremy and the Harlequins bandleader Jeremy Fury. Read it to learn about how the band came together to record debut LP American Dreamer, a stunning collection of vintage-sounding rock ‘n’ roll that recalls Elvis, Buddy Holly, and Roy Orbison while giving them a dark and modern twist. Fury explained his love […]
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Alpine – Yuck (Votiv) The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records) Lael Neale – I'll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts) Young Empires – The Gates Sampler EP (Votiv) Fever the Ghost – “Vervain (Dreams of an Old Wooden Cage)" [digital single] (Complicated Game) POWERS – "Beat Of My Drum" & “Loved By […]
New Music from Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas, the English singer / songwriter / guitarist who’s Mercury Prize-nominated debut Is Your Love Big Enough? was named Album of the Year in 2012 by iTunes UK, has returned with sophomore album Blood. Inspired by a trip with her mother to visit their ancestral homeland of Jamaica, La Havas has pushed the boundaries of her sound […]
Lael Neale is Interviewed by Myspace, Reviewed by Just Music I Like, and is Going for Debuts at CMJ
Myspace recently did an Artist of the Day feature on Lael Neale, the Virginia born singer-songwriter whose country-inflected debut album I’ll Be Your Man got started at radio last week with top 5 adds from CFUV, KDUR, WDWN, WNSU, WRMC and the like. Neale, whose voice and presentation is reminiscent of classic songstresses like Nico and Dusty […]
Zella Day is Reviewed by PPCorn, Announces Tour Dates
PPCorn‘s Marissa Fitzgerald is enamored with Zella Day‘s Kicker. Opening her 4.6/5 star review of the album, the writer says Kicker is an “incredible album full of unique and fully engaging tracks.” The site gives the album a perfect score for its originality, and Fitzgerald’s review takes readers through the nuts and bolts of the […]
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The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records) Aqueduct – Wild Knights (Aqueduct Music) Alpine – Yuck (Votiv) Jeremy and the Harlequins – American Dreamer (Harlequins LLC) Young Empires – The Gates Sampler EP (Votiv)
New Music from Futurebirds – Digital Servicing Only – Get It Here
Futurebirds is a touring band. The Athens, GA-based five-piece was on the road for months while looking for a label to release Baby Yaga in 2013, earning a reputation for playing chaotic live shows with the energy of primal, sweat-filled, cosmic rock revivals. After Fat Possum took notice and brought the band’s blend of country, rock, […]
