The Arts Desk Hails Laurie Anderson’s “Remarkable Gift For Storytelling”
The Arts Desk says “Laurie Anderson is what Leonardo da Vinci would have hailed as una donna universale: inspired by science and technology, she’s wide-ranging artist, a writer, film-maker, and explorer. She has a remarkable gift for story-telling, and her latest offering, an imaginative account of the woman aviator Amelia Earhart’s last voyage, taps into many of the creative […]
Popdose Shares A “Powerful and Poignant” Track From In These Trees & Tartie
Popdose writes that “Ablaze,” by In These Trees & Tartie, “exemplifies the power of collaboration… [and] stands out with its powerful vocal delivery and poignant message.” The stunning song is featured on The Quiver, which came together as a result of a radio connection. “The entire album, according to Popdose, “is a true tour de force, featuring emotionally […]
Mary Halvorson Goes Cloudward With PostGenre
“Throughout her career thus far,” PostGenre writes, “Mary Halvorson has found much acclaim while forging a formidable idiosyncratic voice. No one is mimicking her incomparable perspective, which can be consistently heard throughout her output.” Earlier this year, in advance of Halvorson’s stunning #1 NACC Jazz album Cloudward, PostGenre talked with Halvorson about the album, its composition, and how she tried […]
New Music From Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers. Her work, which encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for more than forty years. In a recent 60 Minutes profile, Anderson Cooper said she “is a pioneer of the avant-garde, but … that doesn’t begin to describe what […]
WOW Radio Invites Binnie Klein To The Studio
Binnie Klein – also known as In These Trees – was recently a guest on Wallingford, Connecticut’s WOW Radio with hosts Pam Landry and Brian Smith. Klein talked to the two of them about her new LP, which is a collaboration with Australian musician Tartie. Klein and Tartie connected remotely in 2019 and worked on the album over email; they’ve yet to meet in […]
The Ladies Of… Hit The Road
The Ladies Of… featuring James Hall are keeping busy this fall and taking their rowdy and rocking show out to these lucky cities: 9/13 – Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA 9/14 – Nowhere Bar – Athens, GA 10/17 – The Merry Widow – Mobile, AL 10/18 – Santos Bar – New Orleans, LA 10/19 – TBD – […]
Michael’s Music Log Digs Into The Quiver
Michael Doherty recently delved into The Quiver, the new collaborative LP from In These Trees & Tartie. Doherty says that highlights include the “powerful and haunting” track “Ablaze,” the “eerie and gorgeous” song “Ghosts In Our Rooms,” and “Hailstorm,” which is “catchy and even playful.” Read the full review here. The Quiver is at radio now – get it […]
Ghettoblaster Shares “Heat Potential” By Beams
Ghettoblaster has shared “Heat Potential,” one of the videos from the recent Beams album Requiem For A Planet. The track, according to the site, is “a steady and lush stunner.” See the video here. Requiem For A Planet, explains the band’s Anna Mērnieks-Duffield, “is about grieving the loss of the ‘planet’ we were promised as kids. One where it seemed […]
New Music From Afterimage
Independent Project Records and the surviving members of underground ‘80s post-punk band Afterimage have announced the upcoming release of Faces to Hide, a 22-track retrospective compilation of the original band line-up’s full output, out on September 20, 2024. The first singles from the collection, “Just A Laugh” (demo) and “Afterimage” (demo), are at radio now. The original line-up […]
Binnie Klein Chats With Watt From Pedro
Binnie Klein, the longtime WPKN DJ who uses In These Trees as a creative moniker, recently jumped on a Skype call with the legendary Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges) for an episode of his Watt From Pedro podcast. The two spoke about Klein’s “righteous” new musical project, a collaborative LP with Australian musician Tartie that is called The Quiver, and played songs from the album alongside […]
WXPN Hypes Laurie Anderson and ANOHNI
WXPN recently posted Laurie Anderson‘s “India And On Down To Australia,” which features ANOHNI and which will appear on Anderson’s forthcoming Nonesuch release Amelia. According to WXPN, “these two long-standing legends of the avant-pop world collide for… a chapter in Laurie Anderson’s Amelia, her first studio album since 2010. As the title suggests, it’s a concept album detailing the tragic flight of Amelia Earhart, but this […]
The Peak Tells Readers To Prepare For Leif Vollebekk
Leif Vollebekk‘s new album Revelation comes out September 27 on Secret City Records, and The Peak says listeners ought to “prepare to be immersed in vast orchestration and effortless vocals.” The site caught up with Vollebekk for an interview last month at the Vancouver Folk Fest and got details about his influences and processes. Read it here. Two singles from the forthcoming album, […]
Stereo Embers Glowingly Reviews In These Trees & Tartie
Stereo Embers is out with a stunning review of The Quiver, the new album from In These Trees & Tartie. “Running the spectrum from intimate to universal in a way so thoroughly integrated with soul and sorrow, with lasting love and lasting hurt,” the review says about album opener “Orchard,” “the chance of you not reacting from the […]
Pitchfork Shares Laurie Anderson’s Album Announcement
Pitchfork recently covered Laurie Anderson‘s announcement of Amelia, her new album available later this month. The site had a quote from Anderson, who explains “the words used in Amelia are inspired by Amelia Earhart’s pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about,” Read more, […]
Dan West Celebrates His Album Release
Dan West, whose album d’Animal Hedonistic Pillow is out now, will celebrate its release this Friday, August 23, at Scribble in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The album will be on sale on cassette there. Check it out if you’re in the area! We recently posted a social media video about the album. Find it here on our Instagram, […]
Gregory Ackerman, Says Indie Boulevard, Is “Magic”
Indie Boulevard writes that “Luckier Still,” from Gregory Ackerman‘s new EP, is “nothing short of spectacular. It’s one of those tunes that hooks you from the first note. I’m totally enamored with the arrangement and production—the craftsmanship is just top-notch. From the crisp guitars to the deep, groovy bass, and the overall lush sound they produce, everything […]
Acid Ted Digs Dren McDonald
Acid Ted digs Dren McDonald and recently shared “Orcinus Bulla,” one of the tracks on McDonald’s new ambient LP Oceanic. “The track is a lovely beatless piece,” says Acid Ted. “It has deep liquid tones. It flirts with being both drone and neo classical but avoids settling in either. It’s a delightfully complex and layer set of modular synth […]
Binnie Klein Visits First Voices Radio And Shares “Ablaze” By In These Trees & Tartie
The Quiver, the new collaborative album from In These Trees & Tartie, was inspired in part by what First Voices Radio describes as a shared “passion for nature and survival of the planet.” One environmentally-focused highlight on the record is “Ablaze,” inspired by the ever-increasing global problem of wildfires. According to First Voices Radio, the track is “a […]
Torn Boys Go Deep With It’s Psychedelic Baby
Torn Boys members Jeffrey Clark and Kelly Foley recently chatted with It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, providing an oral history of the long-ago musical project that recently found release via Independent Project Records. According to Foley, “during the era we were playing in the early eighties, the notion of there somehow being a Torn Boys ‘album’ wasn’t even a pipe dream. No […]
David J Hits Up Spotlight On
David J – the founding member of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets whose 3-disc set of cassette demos Tracks From The Attic is at radio now from Independent Project Records – recently guested on the Spotlight On podcast. The site says, “David came by to talk about his career-spanning triple album made up of home demos recorded between 1984 and 2004, hand-selected for […]
