Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch Talks to Pop Matters; Tour continues – Looking for New CMJ Peak
According to Pop Matters, “There isn’t any other band quite like Built to Spill in the musical clime of 2015.” The site recently sat down with Doug Martsch, who has deftly helmed the ever-evolving band for more than two decades, to learn about the inspirations and process behind their new album, Untethered Moon. Check out the interview, in […]
CHAPPO Streams Album on CMJ, Tours US
CHAPPO, the New York-based, sci-fi influenced psychedelic quartet, has impressed the folks at CMJ. Last week, they described the band’s sound as “a little Animal Collective trippiness, a little Strokes worn-leather droll, MGMT shimmy, Arcade Fire sweep, synthy hints… smelted into all something that could rise out a mid-size club and into the radio of […]
NEEDS is Reviewed by Ground Control and Georgia Straight, Goes on Tour
Vancouver-based mature hardcore act NEEDS has been getting great reviews of their self-titled debut album. According to Ground Control Mag, which praises the album for a “human mix to hardcore which hasn’t really been done as well since Circle Jerks,” says that “it’s very possible that NEEDS will be the new blood which launches the next […]
Ghost Against Ghost is Featured on AltSounds
Altsounds has a feature on Ghost Against Ghost‘s Checkpoint Charlie EP. The feature describes Christopher Bono’s neo-classical project as a “post-everything electronic-rock concept,” paying special heed to the EP’s use of a 46-piece orchestra recorded in Prague. Read the feature, which includes a stream of the whole thing, here. Second Inversion, a website devoted to “rethinking […]
The Bird and the Bee Are Picked as KCRW’s Top Tune; Debut Video on Funny or Die
The Bird and the Bee return this summer with their first album in five years, entitled Recreational Love. The duo, which pairs Grammy-nominated producer Greg Kurstin (Sia, Foster the People) with Living Sisters member Inara George, have embraced their pop side on lead single “Will You Dance?,” which was KCRW Today’s Top Tune on May […]
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Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) 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) DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied Records)
New Music from Fool’s Gold
Fool’s Gold returns with Flying Lessons, the colorful, confident, and ebullient follow up to their 2011 sophomore LP Leave No Trace. That album earned the band rave reviews from Pitchfork, SPIN, and NPR and led to tour dates around the world. The five-piece, created in 2007 by Luke Top (bass/vocals) and Lewis Pesacov (lead guitar) and […]
Built to Spill Talks Basketball with CoS, Gets Reviewed by the AV Club – #8 at CMJ Radio 200
Consequence of Sound has posted an interview with Built to Spill‘s Doug Martsch. Ostensibly about the band’s new album Untethered Moon, which CoS says is one of the best releases of 2015, and their tour, which is taking the band across North America this summer, the interview mostly focuses on Marstch’s love of basketball. Check […]
Sam Cohen Strips Down for Relix, Shares Grateful Dead Favorites – Breaks CMJ’s Top 100
Sam Cohen‘s Cool It, which moved up 38 spots in its second week at CMJ Radio 200 to #89, is full of studio magic, guitar calisthenics, and synthesized atmospherics. Yet the heart of the album is its songs, which are capable of standing alone without any high-tech wizardry. Cohen recently performed two of them, “The Garden” and […]
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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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