DTCV Going for Adds
After several singles and two previous albums, on Burger and Xemu records respectively, DCTV (pronounced ‘detective’) has a brand new studio album, entitled UPTIME! available now on Unsatisfied Records. Formed in 2012, the French-American post-punk band combines alluring girl group melodies with layers of shoegazy guitars and sonic elements influenced by the likes of the Velvet […]
Kuroma Going for Adds
Psychedelic and glammy power-pop quartet Kuroma, fronted by Hank Sullivant formerly of MGMT and The Whigs, is seeking Adds this week for their jubilant new album Kuromarama. Spanning ten tracks, Kuromarama is the most-polished and realized iteration yet of Sullivant‘s genius, which previously brought us the albums Paris and Psychopomp. The album was recorded between the band members’ hometowns of […]
Vetiver Interview w/ Aquarium Drunkard – Album Streaming on Entertainment Weekly – Going for New CMJ Peak
Vetiver‘s new album, Complete Strangers, had a strong debut at #51 last week on the CMJ Radio 200 and is generating airplay at key stations including KCRW. Go here to check out a full album stream on Entertainment Weekly, which takes note of the album’s embrace of electronic textures and compares it to Graceland and “smoothed-out […]
The Staves Featured on KEXP & KCMP – Noisey Premieres “Black & White” Video – Going for Debuts
The Staves are getting some well-warranted attention after releasing their sophomore album If I Was, which was produced by Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and is out now from Nonesuch. KEXP featured the album here, calling it a “stunner,” while KCMP wrote here about the making of the album and shared a mini-documentary about its creation […]
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Buxton – Half A Native (New West) Young Buffalo – House (Votiv) Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (Nonesuch) Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow / Kobalt) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv)
New Music from Kuroma
Psych-tinged power pop band Kuroma are releasing their latest LP,Kuromarama, on Tuesday. Kuroma came into being when Hank Sullivant formerly of The Whigs and MGMT embarked on a solo project and formed a band to realize the songs he had crafted. Now on their third full-length release, Kuroma has honed its jumpy technicolored revelry into […]
Built to Spill Premiere Surreal “Living Zoo” Music Video
Built to Spill are not only gearing up for the release of their highly-anticipated album, Untethered Moon, but also for a spring tour that includes a stop at this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Hopefully the video for lead single “Living Zoo” is not indicative of what the band will encounter when they’re on […]
Young Buffalo Hits CMJ Top 20 – Popdose Album Review – Opening for Matt Pond PA Next Week
The debut album by Mississippi band Young Buffalo is at #16 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart, a feat that few, new artists reach. Congratulations to the band and thanks to stations like KUCI, WUNH, WNRN, and KUMD for their ongoing support. Popdose is calling the album an “instant classic.” Read the full review here. Listen […]
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Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (Nonesuch) The Staves – If I Was (Nonesuch) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow / Kobalt) Buxton – Half A Native (New West) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Bonson Berner – Reflection (Forty Below Records)
New Music from DTCV
Vivarock and Fiat Lux‘s DTCV is releasing their newest album, UPTIME! Now in their 3rd year, DTCV have released 2 studio albums (on Burger & Xemu, respectively) and a compilation of EPs / singles. DTCV are following up that comp with a brand new studio album, UPTIME! DTCV have been compared to Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Mission […]
Vetiver Debuts at CMJ – Paste Magazine Interview
Paste Magazine recently wrote a feature interviewing the main musician behind Vetiver, Andy Cabic, about the new album, Complete Strangers. The interview touches up Cabic‘s musical journey as a songwriter leading up to his 6th LP. Although Cabic does not directly talk about his album, his appraoch to it reveals a lot about what is behind […]
Stereogum Deems The Staves “Essential Listening” – Looking for Debuts
Stereogum reviewed The Staves‘ second full-length album, If I Was, and declared that the “entire record is essential listening.” The album was produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and delivers a folky and soulful sound. The songs sing passionately of struggle but do not cease to give a sense of power derived from it. The […]
Kate Pierson Interviews w/ Newstalk & NY Post
The solo album by Kate Pierson is still spinning at CMJ, charting for the 6th week in a row! The roots of her solo project first started a decade ago, but a surprise hit in Japan from her band NiNa and the recording of The B-52s 2008 album, Funplex, put it on the backburner. Pierson […]
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Buxton – Half A Native (New West) Young Buffalo – House (Votiv) Tigran Hamasyan – Mockroot (Nonesuch) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Bonson Berner – Reflection (Forty Below Records) Built to Spill – “Never Be The Same” / “Living Zoo” [digital single] (Warner Bros.)
The Staves Going for Adds
The Staves are a folk rock trio of sisters from England. After a critically acclaimed debut album in 2012, The Staves spent most of the past three years on the road, opening for such acts as The Civil Wars, Mumford & Sons, and Bon Iver. During the Bon Iver dates, the sisters formed a bond […]
Bonson Berner Featured on Review Fix and WVAU – Looking for Debuts
Pato Aloi of Bonson Berner sat down with music and media review site Review Fix to chat about their latest album Reflection. Aloi talks about musical influences such as LCD Soundsystem and welcomes a comparison to The National. Aloi also reveals that Reflection came together in just a week in what must have been a whirlwind of […]
Tigran Hamasyan – NPR: A “Musician to Tell Your Friends About in 2015”
NPR has just featured a list of musicians that they expect to make a big impact in 2015. This list of artists, which NPR believes has the propensity to “find an enthusiastic audience in 2015”, includes Armenian-American jazz pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan. Hamasyan‘s Nonesuch debut, Mockroot, is a wild mashup up of jazz and […]
Fool’s Gold Interview Magazine Music Video Premiere
Interview Magazine has the exclusive music video premiere for the track “I’m In Love”, the debut single off of Fool’s Gold‘s upcoming album Flying Lessons. The video is an intricate piece of stop motion composed by New York-based director Sally Tran. Many of the cutouts from the video are actually caricatured sketches that the band […]
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Young Buffalo – House (Votiv) Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow / Kobalt) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Buxton – Half A Native (New West)
New Music From The Staves
The Staves‘ Justin Vernon–produced Nonesuch debut, If I Was, is at radio now. The Staves, originally from Watford, England, are three sisters: Emily (vocals), Jessica (vocals, guitar), and Camilla (vocals, ukulele) Staveley-Taylor. The album was recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, at Vernon‘s April Base Studios—a former veterinary clinic where he also recorded his 2012 self-titled […]
