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)
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 […]
