Lianne La Havas is Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Picked as The Current’s Album of the Week
Lianne La Havas is looking to make an impact on the CMJ Radio 200 this week with her new album Blood, a soulful exploration of her musical ancestry that was partially recorded in Jamaica. La Havas recently spoke with Audie Cornish of NPR’s All Things Considered, talking intimately about the album, its inspirations, and the […]
Studio 360 and PopMatters Feature the Bird and the Bee; Recreational Love has Back-to-Back Weeks in the CMJ Top 10
After a strong debut, the Bird and the Bee‘s Recreational Love has spent the past two weeks in the Top 10 of the CMJ Radio 200. The band has also been doing interviews and live performances on the radio, including PRI’s Studio 360. In addition to playing beautiful stripped-down renditions of Recreational Love cuts “Please Take Me […]
Tobias the Owl is Reviewed by the Northwest Music Scene
Elijah Dhawan, the man behind Tobias the Owl, is known throughout his adopted home in the Pacific Northwest. He was named “Best Songwriter” by the Seattle Sound in 2014, helped curate an acoustic music festival in Olympia, and collaborated with musicians around the region. So it’s only appropriate that his new album, Painting Zeros By […]
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Lael Neale – I’ll Be Your Man (Liberal Arts) Alpine – Yuck (Votiv) Aqueduct – Wild Knights (Aqueduct Music) Zella Day – Kicker (Pinetop/Hollywood) Futurebirds – “twentyseven” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) CHAPPO – Future Former Self (Votiv) NEEDS – NEEDS (File Under: Music) Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) Young […]
New Music From Gary Clark Jr. – Digital Servicing Only
Austin-native guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr. has just announced the much-anticipated follow-up to his celebrated debut album, Blak & Blu. Set to arrive this September, Clark‘s sophomore LP, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, marks the evolution of an artist embracing his roots with a rarified grace and an inextinguishable passion. Written, produced, and arranged […]
Buzzbands LA Features Lael Neale’s “Born in the Summer.” New Album ‘I’ll Be Your Man’ Picks up at CMJ
Los Angeles-based songstress Lael Neale recently released her debut album, I’ll Be Your Man. With her casual, colloquial prose and her gorgeously hazy voice, Neale has continued to impress listeners with her captivating sound. Buzzbands LA recently featured the album’s lead single, “Born in the Summer,” calling the track a “woozy slice of psychedelia.” The feature goes on […]
Wall Street Journal Features Jeremy and the Harlequins’ “You’re My Halo”
In a recent feature, The Wall Street Journal explored Jeremy and the Harlequin’s debut full-length release, American Dreamer, with specific focus on the band’s revamped version of standout track “You’re My Halo.” Originally recorded with frontman Jeremy Fury‘s previous band, the track was sharpened with Fury‘s “reverb-soaked vocals and backing shoo-wops” and was eventually added […]
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Alpine – Yuck (Votiv) The Bird and the Bee – Recreational Love (Rostrum Records) Lianne La Havas – Blood (Nonesuch) Tobias The Owl – Painting Zeroes By Your Name (London Tone Music) Aqueduct – Wild Knights (Aqueduct Music)
New Music from The Jigsaw Seen – Digital Servicing Only
Venerable Los Angeles rockers The Jigsaw Seen are back with their first release for Burger Records, a single called “Have a Wonderful Day” that is a formidable addition to the already impressive canon of these crucial garage rock legends. Since forming in 1988, the Jigsaw Seen has been featured on Rhino’s box set “Children Of Nuggets: […]
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 – […]
