Howlin Rain’s Paste Interview – Looking for New Peak at CMJ
Mansion Songs by Howlin Rain is a snapshot of the artist, found in a position he had not seen himself in before. After 14 years between his old band Comets on Fire (Sub Pop) and Howlin Rain – Ethan Miller, “All of a sudden, didn’t have any band.” Without a core group of musicians around him, […]
Zella Day Touring w/ Milo Greene
Zella Day‘s new single “Hypnotic” has given her self-titled EP a second life. The release reappeared on the Radio 200 chart, making it the 11th week that it makes it up there! Thanks to all the stations for their support. She just announced some West Coast dates opening for Milo Greene in February. This year […]
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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) Buxton – “Icebreaker” [digital single] (New West)
New Music from Kate Pierson (of The B-52’s) – Digital Servicing Only
Kate Pierson, iconic voice and founding member of punk, genre-defying band The B-52s, has announced her debut solo record Guitars and Microphones. The album was produced by Tim Anderson (Banks, Low) and executive produced by Sia, who also helped co-write on several tracks. Guitars and Microphones marries party rock, psychedelia and socio-political punk. Kate’s soaring emotive vocals […]
The Barr Brothers “Come in the Water” Spotify Playlist
The Barr Brothers are playing the final date of their UK tour tonight in Brighton! After returning home to Canada for a couple weeks of rest, they will resume touring around their album Sleeping Operator w/ dates in Canada & the US through March. To celebrate the single “Come in the Water”, they put together […]
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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) Buxton – “Icebreaker” [digital single] (New West)
New Music from Mount Eerie – Digital Servicing Only
From Mount Eerie (the project of Phil Elverum formerly of The Microphones) comes the latest album, Sauna, set for release in early February. Described as “the ultimate” Mount Eerie record, Sauna is a commanding tinkering of “vikings, zen, and real life”, and the songs narrow these ideas to tight moments. The album is a honed thesis. After […]
Howlin Rain Debuts at CMJ – Announces US Tour – Stereogum Streams Single “Wild Bush”
Howlin Rain founder Ethan Miller (ex-Comets on Fire) has released the West Coast dates of his 2015 tour. His latest album, Mansion Songs is the first of a new trilogy, and echoes redemption, transformation, and “something strange and true and beautiful.” Mansion Songs has debuted just outside the top 100 at Radio 200 thanks to debuts from stations […]
Buxton Premiere Single “Icebreaker” on Wondering Sound – Announces US Tour
Wondering Sound premiered the sardonic new single “Icebreaker” from Texas quintet Buxton. The group, led by Sergio Trevino, is set to release their newest record, Half A Native, this spring. They described the single as “a frantic, dissonant track with plenty of twang in Trevino’s voice, and hints of psychedelia in its echoing guitar lines.” The band […]
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Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well (Self-released) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Vetiver – “Current Carry” [digital] (Easy Sound Recording Company) Zella Day – Zella Day EP (B3SCI/Pinetop)
Vetiver Going for Adds
New single from Vetiver “Current Carry” is set for top 5 Adds. Vetiver is the songs and recordings of San Francisco’s Andy Cabic. On his upcoming album, Cabic blends together his art rock roots and the psych folk influences of collaborators and contemporaries like Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Stereogum shared the new single last week, […]
Marianne Faithfull at #19 at CMJ
Marianne Faithful has broke into the Top 20 at CMJ! Thanks to your help, Give My Love to London has spent the past seven weeks steadily climbing the charts and has finally found its rightful place inside the upper tier of Radio 200. In this special mini-doc, Faithfull gives an intimate account of the emotional journey that […]
The Barr Brothers: Jefferson Public Radio In-studio – XFM Interview
While on their west coast run in December, The Barr Brothers stopped by the JPR studios on their way through the Oregon forest. There, they performed songs off Sleeping Operator, including first single “Half Crazy”. They also talked about the process that led to the new album. Listen to the full interview and performance here. […]
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Nick Kingswell – Over Easy (Self-released) Buxton – “Ice Breaker” (New West) Zella Day – Zella Day EP (B3SCI/Pinetop) Howlin’ Rain – Mansion Songs (Easy Sound) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well
New Music from Vetiver – Digital Servicing Only
Vetiver (the solo project from San Francisco’s Andy Cabic) is gearing up to release his latest work, Complete Strangers, in March. Engineered and produced by long-time collaborator Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Beachwood Sparks, Sera Cahoone), Complete Strangers is a work of melancholic dream pop. Cabic brings together the art rock of former band The Raymond […]
Howlin Rain: New Album Streaming on Consequence of Sound
Did you miss the latest from San Francisco blues-psych-folk eccentric Howlin Rain? His fourth album, Mansion Songs, is set for release next week on Easy Sound Record Company, but the album is at radio right NOW. The album picked up top Adds from stations like KAOS, WAWL, WECI, WITR, and more. Consequence of Sound is currently streaming the album […]
Rose’s Pawn Shop – Iowa Public Radio’s Featured Release – Festival Dates
Rose’s Pawn Shop‘s Gravity Well continues to chart with CMJ, coming in at #114 on Radio 200 after 6 weeks. The LA folk rockers continue to find fans across the country. Iowa Public Radio distinguished the album as their Featured Release of the week, calling the songs on Gravity Well “rousing, fierce, and anthemic… a stomping interpretation of […]
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Nick Kingswell – Over Easy (Self-released) Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London (Easy Sound Recording Company) Buxton – “Ice Breaker” (New West) Zella Day – Zella Day EP (B3SCI/Pinetop)
Howlin Rain Going for Adds
“I walked out of the back end of my major label run and the first 9 years in Howlin Rain with no band, no label, no foreseeable immediate move forward and a figurative suitcase full of songs, my talent, invigorated by having nothing else to lose, exhausted by the bullshit and grind of the music […]
Buxton Going for Adds
Houston’s Buxton are getting ready to release their third record, Half A Native, on New West Records next month. Dusty tones, shuffling rhythms, and lonesome acoustic affairs make up most of the LP. Recorded in Los Angeles with Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Beachwood Sparks, Sera Cahoone), the album is the most freewheeling and atmospheric […]
