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Mr. Robinson – Bury Me Good EP (Palawan Productions) NEEDS – NEEDS (File Under: Music) CHAPPO – Future Former Self (Votiv) Ghost Against Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie EP (Our Silent Canvas) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music) Kuroma – Kuromarama (Votiv) DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied […]
CHAPPO Going for Adds
On sophomore album Future Former Self, NYC-based CHAPPO explores the abstract nature of time and the experience it has on the perception of reality. The sci-fi inclined group has cultivated a universe of music in which the concept of time is twisted hopelessly out of focus, seeming like a band that has recently traveled back […]
NEEDS Going for Adds
Vancouver’s hardcore five-piece NEEDS presents a grown-up soundtrack to teen angst by tackling destruction, emotion, and the current state of the world in a way that is raw and heavy, stylized and self-aware. Menacing yet melodic, intelligent yet terrifying, the songs on the band’s self-titled debut album are forceful, evolved, deliberate, mature, and often humorous […]
Kathryn Calder Interviewed in VICE and Reviewed by Grayowl Point
Kathryn Calder recently sat down with Noisey to talk about her self-titled third solo album, which is embedded as a stream with the interview. According to Calder, “all of the things we deal with in life are sort of echoed in nature because we’re really an extension of our surroundings so I feel – at […]
Kuroma Premiere New Video, Tour with Tennis & Tame Impala
Kuroma, the glammy, psychedelic brainchild of former MGMT and Whigs member Hank Sullivant, has produced a colorful video to go with “Love is on the Way,” a standout track from their new album Kuromarama. Culture Collide has the premiere, which can be viewed here. Watch it and see why the site says the band “falls between […]
DTCV Premiere “Radio Drive” Video on IMPOSE
The premiere of DTCV‘s new “Radio Drive” video, which features the band getting a bit trippy with visual effects, opens IMPOSE‘s new “Week in Pop” feature. The feature also includes an interview with the band, in which interviewer Sjimon Gompers asks about their lifestyle in the deserts of Joshua Tree, California, their recording process, what’s […]
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Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros.) Ghost Against Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie EP (Our Silent Canvas) Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (Nonesuch Records) The Staves – If I Was (Nonesuch Records)
New music from CHAPPO
On sophomore album Future Former Self, NYC-based CHAPPO explores the abstract nature of time and the experience it has on the perception of reality. Drawing influence from intellectuals like Carl Sagan, Buckminster Fuller, and Oliver Sacks, the sci-fi inclined group cultivates a universe of music in which the concept of time is twisted hopelessly out […]
The Staves featured on NPR; Watch the “Blood I Bled” video
NPR has selected the Staves as a “Musician You Should Know” in an edition of All Songs Considered that revolves around artists “making magic out of circumstance”. The accompanying feature, which highlights If I Was standout cut “No Me, No You, No More”, tells the story of the song’s creation in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin […]
Built to Spill Cracks CMJ’s Top 10; Doug Martsch explains “Untethered Moon”
According to Rolling Stone, Built to Spill‘s “catalog is full of one melancholy LP, jam-packed with guitar pyrotechnics, after another.” Untethered Moon, the band’s first album since 2009, adds to this legacy with guitar virtuosity and a consistency that the magazine praises in its review, which can be read here. Those looking for a more detailed […]
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Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Ghost Against Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie EP (Our Silent Canvas) Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) Mr. Robinson – Bury Me Good EP (Palawan Productions) Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music) Kuroma – Kuromarama (Votiv) DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied Records)
New Music From NEEDS
On their self-titled debut album, Vancouver’s hardcore five-piece NEEDS presents a grown-up soundtrack to teen angst by tackling destruction, emotion, and the current state of the world in a way that is as raw and heavy yet stylized and self-aware. NEEDS is a crusty punk teen garage band that never gave up but never stopped […]
Sam Cohen Makes Chart Debut & Talks to Flavorwire
Sam Cohen made his solo debut on the CMJ Radio 200 this week with his album Cool It. After years fronting Apollo Sunshine and the Yellowbirds, as well as doing session work for a stunning variety of stars including the Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir, the multi-instrumentalist self-recorded himself playing almost every note of the new album, which […]
DTCV Converses with Rebel Noise
Rebel Noise recently had a conversation with Guylaine Vivarat and James Greer, the duo behind the band DTCV. Their album Uptime! has been received enthusiastically at stations around the country that appreciate its smart blend of noise rock and pop sensibilities. According to Rebel Noise interviewer Jen Dan, the band produces a great blend of Sonic […]
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Ghost Against Ghost – Checkpoint Charlie EP (Our Silent Canvas) Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros. Records) Mr. Robinson – Bury Me Good EP (Palawan Productions) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music) Kuroma – Kuromarama (Votiv)
New music from The Bird and the Bee – “Will You Dance?” – Digital Servicing Only
After three studio albums on Blue Note Records, The Bird and the Bee returns with Recreational Love, the duo’s first album of original material since 2009’s critically-acclaimed Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future. “We didn’t mean to take so long but life ended up getting in the way, in a great way,” says vocalist Inara George, who […]
Ghost Against Ghost Going for Adds
Ghost Against Ghost was first envisioned in a dream. Exhilarated by the boundless energy of conceptual post rock, dystopian epics, and neo-romanticism, producer/composer Christopher Bono collaborates with electroacoustic musicians and performs long multi-media shows that alternated between songs and improvisations. The Checkpoint Charlie EP offers a glimpse of what to expect on his upcoming album, Oia. […]
Mr. Robinson Going for Adds
Though he comes from Worcester, England, has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, and has been featured on the BBC, Mr. Robinson’s sound is more Americana than British Invasion. His Bury Me Good EP eschews modern gizmos and gimmickry for old-fashioned songcraft that takes cues from the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and John Martyn. A multi-instrumentalist […]
AV Club’s Brief History of Built to Spill – Untethered Moon Reviewed by Consequence of Sound
Built to Spill‘s new full-length is finding its way into the hearts and minds of radio programmers and DJs. The band hit #1 at KEXP helped it debut at #23 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart. According to Consequence of Sound, this success is due to the fact that Untethered Moon is an “excellent record of big hooks and […]
Tame Impala Remixes Kuroma; Tour with Tennis Starts Tomorrow
Kuroma‘s “20+ Centuries,” which opens the band’s stunning new album Kuromarama, has gotten the remix treatment from Tame Impala‘s Jay Watson, aka Gum. Listen to the remix, which has debuted on Noisey, here. The site evocatively describes the original as “zingy, kaleidoscopic kind of power pop with a herd of stallions stampeding all over it,” […]
