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,” […]
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Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music) Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) DTCV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied Records) The Staves – If I Was (Nonesuch)
New Music from Mr. Robinson
Though he comes from Worcester, England and has received accolades from the BBC, Mr. Robinson’s sound is far more Americana than British Invasion. The Bury Me Good EP, which includes three songs harvested from his upcoming full length album, eschews modern gizmos and gimmickry for old-fashioned songcraft that takes cues from the likes of Bob Dylan, […]
Paste Magazine Gives High Praise to Sam Cohen’s Cool It
Sam Cohen‘s debut solo album Cool It is reminding followers what made Cohen so great during his time leading his ex-groups, Yellowbirds and Apollo Sunshine. “Cohen’s debut plays as a bit of a Part 2 to [the last Yellowbirds] album’s dynamic lo-fi psych-pop interplay.” Paste Magazine gave the album a glowing review, saying, “Cohen’s playing…is impassioned, […]
DTCV Album Review – Hits New CMJ Peak
Post-punk, shoegazers DTCV have found a home with a lot CMJ stations, and their support has led it to the #70 spot – a new peak for their album, Uptime! The record was reviewed by Lo-Pie recently, who said the album was “reminiscent of indie-titans Superchunk, and the Dum Dum Girls with…Guided By Voices mixed in”, […]
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Kuroma – Kuromarama (Votiv) Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros. Records) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kathryn Calder – Kathryn Calder (File Under: Music) The Staves – If I Was (Nonesuch)
New Music from Ghost Against Ghost
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 assembled a group of electroacoustic musicians and began performing in New York in 2008. His latest, the Checkpoint Charlie EP, is a two-track EP that offers a glimpse of what to […]
Kathryn Calder on NPR’s Heavy Rotation and in the New York Times – New CMJ Peak
Kathryn Calder, whose self-titled third solo release is gorgeously pensive and full of delightful sonic surprises, is finding fans at public radio stations. Thus, NPR has included her song “Take a Little Time” in its monthly “Heavy Rotation” feature, which collects what public radio hosts from across North America are playing on repeat. Read the feature here […]
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DCTV – Uptime! (Unsatisfied Records) The Staves – If I Was (Nonesuch) Built to Spill – Untethered Moon (Warner Bros. Records) Sam Cohen – Cool It (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kuroma – Kuromarama (Votiv) Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (Nonesuch Records)
Sam Cohen Going For Adds
Sam Cohen is a multi-faceted multi-instrumentalist whose credits include everything from acting as musical director for the Complete Last Waltz live shows to collaborating with Norah Jones. On Cool it, his first album under his own name after a combined decade fronting former bands Apollo Sunshine and the Yellowbirds, Cohen took the idea of a “solo album” to […]
Alpine Going For Adds
Australian six-piece Alpine has released “Foolish”, the first single from the pop group’s wildly anticipated second album, Yuck, due June 16 from Votiv. The group’s last album earned much-deserved accolades from the likes of NPR, LA Weekly, and Pitchfork, which described Alpine as an “unforgettably light and charismatic gem”. According to guitarist and co-producer Christian […]
Built to Spill Adds Tour Dates, Debuts Videos, Wows on Reddit AMA
Built to Spill has a new album, Untethered Moon, and the band is hitting the road to take their music to the masses. The first leg of their tour takes them through the Southern and Midwestern US: 05/07 – EXIT/IN – Nashville, TN 05/08 – Saturn – Birmingham, AL 05/09 – Shaky Knees Music Fest […]
