New Music From Kate Pierson (of The B-52s)
Kate Pierson, iconic voice and founding member of the punk, genre-defying band The B-52s, has announced her debut solo record Guitars and Microphones. With friend Sia as executive producer, Pierson worked with variety of other songwriters including Chris Braide (Lana Del Rey) & The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi, who also contributed guitar to a batch […]
Howlin Rain Reviewed on Relix – US Feb / March Tour
San Francisco’s Ethan Miller’s brainchild, Howlin Rain, received warm acclamations from Relix on their latest album, Mansion Songs. The review names the eight song record, “their best album since Miller launched the outfit nearly a decade ago.” Noting the almost tangible foils of Miller’s solo songs interplaying with the talent of the band “achieving a harrowing synthesis […]
Buxton Single Premiered on Entertainment Weekly – Announce US Spring Tour
Entertainment Weekly debuted Buxton’s self-titled track off their album, Half A Native. Homegrown in Houston, Buxton rose to local fame for being an idiosyncratic blues-rock-psych counteraction to a largely hip-hop and country dominated Texas music scene. EW calls the forthcoming album a “blend of sugar-sweet hooks and honky tonk twang.” Half a Native, was the first time the band […]
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Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun) CHAPPO – Celebrate EP (Votiv) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Sam Cohen – “Let the Mountain Come to You” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Buxton Going for Adds
Buxton’s third release Half A Native is a record of growth and progress, with added elements of jangly-psych, honky-tonk, ambience and distortion. Buxton was born and raised in the South, but made the trek out to Los Angeles to work with fabled producer/engineer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Beachwood Sparks, Jonathan Wilson). The shift helped Buxton to craft their […]
CHAPPO Going for Adds
East Village natives CHAPPO have released their new EP, Celebrate. Music blog death and taxes calls it “a four song blast of vitamin D certain to thaw you of whatever winter-coaxed lethargy has settled in on your cold dead heart.” One listen, and we know you’ll be hooked. Splitting the difference between the guitar driven psychedelia of 60′s […]
Sam Cohen Going for Adds
Sam Cohen has been playing and producing psychedelic indie rock for years with groups like Apollo Sunshine and solo project Yellowbirds. As a producer Sam says, “I started to hear what I sound like, so I became Sam Cohen and made my latest record, Cool It.” The multi-instrumentalist / songwriter applied every facet of his […]
Mount Eerie’s Sauna Pitchfork Review – Looking for Debuts
Mount Eerie, the musical-project of Washington-based Phil Elverum (fka The Microphones), is receiving rave reviews for his latest release Sauna. Pitchfork gave it an 8.1 saying, “No one else sounds like Phil Elverum. The amount of mood, texture, and feeling he can communicate with a single guitar drone is uncanny.” You can read that full review here. Sauna was the #4 […]
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Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well (Self-released) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator (Secret City)
New Music From CHAPPO
New York four piece, CHAPPO released their new EP, Celebrate. The energetic, interactive band is now on tour with White Arrows, and later this spring will be touring beside Big Data. Consequence of Sound describes them as refreshingly new, yet comfortably reminiscent of a 60’s fun band, “like MGMT coming down off a great acid trip.” […]
Zella Day Talks Early Days and “second coming” with BlackBook
For as young as Zella Day is, it’s funny to think of Zella Day‘s second release as a second coming, but she put out her first album when she was only thirteen years old. In an interview with BlackBook, Zella opens up about growing up in the middle of nowhere and her naive beginnings in […]
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Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun) Howlin Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound Recording Company) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well (Self-released) Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company) The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator (Secret City) […]
New Music From Buxton
Houston five-piece Buxton is releasing their third studio album, Half A Native. Known locally for their rustic sound, Buxton’s music thrives as an innovative blues-rock-psych counteraction to a largely hip-hop and country dominated Texas music scene. “I’m on the outside looking in,” Trevino croons on the sweeping album opener “What I’d Do,” his warm drawl scaffolded […]
Mount Eerie “Sauna” Music Video – “Dragon” Stream – #4 Most Added at CMJ
Stereogum premiered Mount Eerie’s single “Dragon” off Sauna, as well as the video for the self-titled track. The most “hi-fi” record Mount Eerie has yet created, Sauna is an intricate trace. Mount Eerie mastermind, Phil Everum (fka the Microphones), calls the album a working of “vikings, zen, and real life.” The album was digitally serviced […]
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Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well (Self-released) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Zella Day – Zella Day EP (B3SCI/Pinetop) The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator (Secret City) Blake Mills – Heigh Ho (Verve) Geneviève Bellemare – Live and […]
New Music From Sam Cohen – Digital Servicing Only
After 10 years of playing with groups like Apollo Sunshine & Yellowbirds and serving as Musical Director for The Complete Last Waltz (Nels Cline, Cass McCombs, Dr. Dog), Sam Cohen is releasing his first solo album, Cool It. The multi-instrumentalist / songwriter applied every facet of his talents on the record, playing almost every single instrument. First […]
Howlin Rain Performs “Coliseum” with Meg Baird for FLOOD Magazine
“Coliseum” is a cold and lonely song off San Francisco eccentric Howlin Rain‘s fourth album, Mansion Songs. FLOOD Magazine premiered the song last month and described it as, “A delicate and heartbreaking stripped-down folk track about dealing with disappointment”. Recorded at The Mansion (Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, and Thee Oh Sees) with Eric Bauer, the […]
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Mount Eerie – Sauna (P.W. Elverum & Sun) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well (Self-released) Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital single] (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Mount Eerie Going for Adds
From Mount Eerie (the project of Phil Elverum formerly The Microphones) comes the latest album, Sauna, set for release in early February. Being deemed “the ultimate” Mount Eerie record, Sauna is as arresting & organic as anything he’s ever done. The album’s thematic references are “vikings, zen, and real life”, and the songs narrow these ideas […]
Kate Pierson (of The B-52’s) Going for Adds
Kate Pierson, iconic voice and founding member of the punk, genre-defying band The B-52s, has announced her debut solo record Guitars and Microphones. The B-52s changed everything with their kitsch-spitting Americana realism – becoming one of non-commercial / college radio’s first staple artists. On her new album, she extrapolates on that tradition in a way […]
