New Music from Built to Spill – Digital Servicing Only
One of the most endearing and enduring bands of its generation, Built to Spill, has announced their new album, Untethered Moon. The band, fronted by Doug Martsch, creates resonate and sonorous songs that Stereogum says, “exist on a continuum between two poles: snappy, twee-inflected pop songs and vast, mind-altering classic rock soundscapes.” Hailing from Boise, Idaho, Built to […]
Kate Pierson LA Times Album Review – Debuts in Top 100 at CMJ
Randall Roberts of the LA Times recently gave Kate Pierson’s record, Guitars and Microphones, a glowing review. Roberts notes that Pierson’s beloved and influential past is reignited here, “Fans of her essential B-52s work will find comfort in these 10 songs.” This being her first solo album, “Mod synthetic jams such as ‘Bottoms Up,’ ‘Crush Me with Your Love’ […]
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Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Buxton – Half A Native (New West Records) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Little Helen Rose – Live at The Monkey Room (Self-released)
Little Helen Rose Going for Adds
Soulful siren Little Helen Rose releases her debut EP Live at the Monkey Room this week. The EP captures Little Helen Rose at her most sincere. She’ll sing with her toes dipped in the muddy waters of blues, country and soul, and her fingers on her tenor sax – armed to rip through a solo whenever there are 16 […]
Buxton Premieres “Half A Native” Single – Looking for Debuts
We’re still looking for debuts on Half a Native, the 3rd album from Buxton. That title-track was given an exclusive premiere by Entertainment Weekly which you can check out here. The dreamy folk rock tune offers soothing melodies and gentle hooks, ideal for fans of Woods and Vetiver. The guitar played by singer Sergio Trevino was picked up […]
Death and Taxes Streaming CHAPPO EP – Close to Charting
Let’s keep CHAPPO‘s Celebrate spinning and get the EP onto those charts. We’re so close! Death and Taxes Magazine featured the EP a few weeks ago and the tracks are still streaming here. Of the EP, Death and Taxes had this to say – “CHAPPO’s sound is part ‘jam-band’, part ‘disco’; a peculiar hybrid where psychedelia is […]
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Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kate Pierson – Guitars and Microphones (Lazy Meadow/Kobalt) Kathryn Calder – “Take A Little Time” [digital single] (File Under: Music) Sam Cohen – “Let the Mountain Come to You” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company)
New Music From Little Helen Rose
The debut EP by country, rock, soul siren Little Helen Rose is steeped in tradition. Ironically enough, that is what makes Rose’s Live at The Monkey Room so refreshing. The 4 song EP captures Little Helen Rose at her most sincere, recorded live with no overdubs, no fixes – all in one take. At a […]
Buxton – New Peak at CMJ – FCC WARNING Track #3 & Track #11
Five-piece Buxton’s third studio album, Half A Native, charted this week at #72 at CMJ Radio 200! Known locally for their rustic sound, Buxton’s music thrives as an innovative blues-psych-rock counteraction to a largely hip-hop and country dominated Texas music scene. Half A Native is a record of progress, with added elements of jangly-psych, honky-tonk, ambience […]
Kate Pierson “Bottoms Up” Stereogum Premiere
Stereogum premiered the track “Bottoms Up” from Kate Pierson’s (The B-52s) new album, Guitars and Microphones! The record is Pierson’s first solo album, and works to marry party rock, psychedelia with socio-political punk. Stereogum calls the song, “A short but sweet injection of cinnamon sweet rock with a muscular riff courtesy of Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi. Valensi […]
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CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Kathryn Calder – “Take A Little Time” [digital single] (File Under: Music) Sam Cohen – “Let the Mountain Come to You” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Kate Pierson Going for Adds
Kate Pierson of The B-52s releases her debut solo album Guitars and Microphones this week. Tim Anderson (Banks, Low) produced the album while Sia served as Executive Producer and co-wrote with Pierson, along with a variety of other songwriters including Chris Braide (Lana Del Rey) and The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi. The result is a record that harkens […]
Kathryn Calder Going for Adds
Kathryn Calder of New Pornographers has just released the first single, “Take A Little Time”, from her self-titled upcoming album. A prolific and interdisciplinary artist, Calder has already released two solo albums and is working on a documentary. “Take a Little Time” is a mobile, dangling synth pop song with floating vocals and bopping guitars. […]
Howlin Rain Glide Magazine Interview – Looking for CMJ Peak
Howlin Rain‘s Mansion Songs frames founder Ethan Miller “taking stock of things for the first time in 14 years.” His band had left their home base of San Francisco due to the rising cost of living, which left Miller questioning his existence as an artist. The self-aware journey took him across San Francisco, with Miller penning […]
Buxton SXSW Tour – Looking For Debuts
Buxton‘s third record Half A Native is off to a solid start at CMJ, already debuting on the Radio 200 chart in its Add week. The album is all about being on the outside looking in, and vocalist / guitarist Sergio Trevino knows all about that. Raised in rural Texas by Mexican parents, he experienced life […]
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CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Sam Cohen – “Let the Mountain Come to You” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
New Music from Kathryn Calder (of The New Pornographers) – Digital Servicing Only
Stereogum just premiered the new single, “Take a Little Time” from Kathryn Calder’s (New Pornographers, Immaculate Machine) forthcoming self-titled album. A prolific and interdisciplinary artist, Calder has already released two solo albums and is working on a documentary. The lead single “Take a Little Time” is a mobile, dangling synthy pop song with floating vocals […]
CHAPPO Premiere on Consequence of Sound
Consequence of Sound premiered the title track from CHAPPO’s EP, Celebrate. The groovy, funky, fun New Yorkers have shaken off their once garage-psych feels to spin their way onto the dance floor. The single, “Celebrate” is an energetic yet easy listening tune deemed by CoS “an even-paced slow jam that plays up to the band’s knack […]
Rodrigo Amarante Opening for Neko Case this April
Rodrigo Amarante‘s released one of the most beloved debut albums of last year, Cavalo. Stereogum and NPR highlighted it, with Bob Boilen calling it “sonically rich and spare at the same time”. Just last week Rodrigo Amarante announced a string of headlining tour dates, which launch at the end of March in Los Angeles, and […]
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Buxton – Half A Native (New West) Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun) Sam Cohen – “Let the Mountain Come to You” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company)
