The Black Keys nominated for Best Rock Video VMA
The Black Keys’ video for “Lonely Boy” is nominated for a 2012 MTV Video Music Award. They’re facing some stiff competition including the likes of Jack White and Coldplay, so make sure to help them out with some votes! You can find the complete list of nominees and videos here. If you haven’t seen the video yet make […]
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The Daredevil Christopher Wright – The Nature of Things (File Under: Music) Onuinu – “Ice Palace” (BadCopBadCop/Bladen County) Infantree – Hero’s Dose (Vapor) Cut Chemist – “Outro [Revisited]” (A Stable Sound) Gaz Coombes – Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit) George Sarah – Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group) Dr. John – […]
Infantree & Daredevil Christopher Wright Reach New CMJ Peaks!
This week, radio gave two A man A plan A canal artists a big push – Infantree and The Daredevil Christopher Wright. After slipping out of the top 50 a couple weeks ago, DCW returned by reaching a new peak at #46! Infantree found themselves climbing up the top 200, dropping in at #74. Both […]
Lianne La Havas Going for Adds 8/14 & NPR’s First Listen
U.K. artist Lianne La Havas can now count NPR as one of her biggest fans, after her debut album Is Your Love Big Enough? was featured on First Listen! NPR notes that in today’s music industry, it’s not enough just to have a good voice – “it takes nuance and charisma to stand out; blaring pipes aren’t enough.” […]
A man A plan A canal At Lollapalooza
Everyone excited for Lollapalooza? For those of you who have been living under a rock these last few months, Lollapalooza is a spectacular 3-day music festival happening this weekend, August 3rd-5th. Held in the heart of Chicago, Lolapalooza makes the city come alive with some of the biggest names in music, not to mention great […]
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Onuinu – “Ice Palace” (BadCopBadCop/Bladen County) The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends (Warner Bros Records) Cut Chemist – “Outro [Revisited]” (A Stable Sound) Gaz Coombes – Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit) Imaginary Cities – Temporary Resident (Votiv) George Sarah – Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group) Dr. […]
Praise For The Daredevil Christopher Wright
The second album from The Daredevil Christopher Wright has had many stations enamored with its incorporation of hymnal choral melodies, primal percussion, and nontraditional structures. Canadian website Southern Souls said “The Nature of Things is neither proud nor ashamed. Accidents happen.” This is evident on the end of lead single “Divorce” as the music comes […]
Cut Chemist’s “Litmus Test” Mix
The anticipation for the release of Cut Chemist‘s first studio album in 6 years continues to build. The DJ/producer has been kind enough to hold us over this past year by offering special nuggets like “The Soft Sell” mix which he created through the use of a loop pedal and one turntable. Now Cut Chemist […]
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The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends (Warner Bros Records) Onuinu – “Ice Palace” (BadCopBadCop/Bladen County) Infantree – Hero’s Dose (Vapor) The Endangered – The Endangered EP (self-released) Gaz Coombes – Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit) George Sarah – Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group) Dr. John – […]
Catching Up With Graham
I had a lot of fun this past week with my friends Dave and Helen in town from the UK. A group of us went to the Tottenham Hotspur vs. LA Galaxy game last Tuesday. It was a blast going to see The Big Lebowski at the Hollywood Forever cemetery on Saturday night. Jeff Dowd, […]
Imaginary Cities Daytrotter Session – “Purple Heart” Video Premiere
Winnipeg group Imaginary Cities visited Daytrotter to record a 4-track session of songs off their album Temporary Resident. “The songs that the…group perform here are rainy day laments. They are odes to the unraveling of relationships – disintegrations that aren’t too bitter or questionable – just ones that were seen coming from off on the […]
Top 10: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
Thanks to all of the stations that helped take The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends into the Top 10 at CMJ this past week. We’d love it if you could keep pushing it at your station and help us reach another new peak this week! There are so many great tracks to choose from. Some […]
Onuinu “Ice Palace” Video
Portland’s Dorian Duvall aka Onuinu (pronounced: on you, in you), will be releasing his debut full-length album Mirror Gazer in September. We recently digitally serviced you “Ice Palace” from the record and we’ve been getting great feedback so far. For today, we give you the “Ice Palace” official music video. In the video, there is quite a lot […]
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Infantree – Hero’s Dose (Vapor) The Daredevil Christopher Wright – The Nature Of Things (File Under: Music) George Sarah – Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group) The Endangered – The Endangered EP (self-released) Mystery Jets – Radlands (Rough Trade/Truthpaste) Gaz Coombes – Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit) Imaginary Cities – Temporary […]
The Daredevil Christopher Wright is Radio K’s Weekly Release Spotlight
Radio K recently praised The Daredevil Christopher Wright’s newest album, The Nature of Things, commending the band for songs that are stripped down and simple, but deceivingly so. Upon further inspection, the tracks on The Nature of Things “turn into deeper and deeper pools of wisdom of what it truly means to be alive in the 21st century.” This […]
Infantree’s “Skinny Bones Jones” Featured as KCRW’s Top Tune
Infantree have been enjoying considerable attention following the release of their sophomore album, Hero’s Dose, out on Vapor Records, and for good reason. Their “moody tunes” are “driven by three-part harmonies”, making them hard to resist. They recently performed on Conan, will be opening up for Los Lobos and Neil Young & Crazy Horse this fall, […]
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The Flaming Lips– Heady Fwends (Warner Bros Records) Mystery Jets – Radlands (Rough Trade/Truthpaste) The Endangered – The Endangered EP (self-released) George Sarah – Who Sleep the Sleep of Peace (Pusan Music Group) Gaz Coombes – Here Come the Bombs (Hot Fruit) Imaginary Cities – Temporary Resident (Votiv) Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch) Cut […]
Catching Up With Graham
Vinyl lovers rejoice: this weekend another new record store opened up in Los Angeles called Mount Analog. The shop is also the US headquarters of British label Finders Keepers and B-Music. I highly recommend checking it out when you’re in the neighborhood. Plenty of burgers and carne asada have been getting cooked up on the grill lately, […]
Going For Adds – Onuinu’s “Ice Palace”
Onuinu’s (pronounced “on you in you”) Dorian Duvall is no stranger to music. The Cleveland-bred, Portland-based artist spent his childhood in church pews listening to his mother sing and play piano, and watching his grandparents perform, who in the 50’s toured the country as a honky-tonk gospel act. It’s no surprise then that Onuinu’s transition […]
Going For Adds: Lianne La Havas’ “Is Your Love Big Enough?”
Lianne La Havas is a London based artist whose Jamaican-Greek upbringing is as unique as her sound. Taking the alternative soul of India.Arie and Corinne Bailey Rae and enhancing it with the smoky indie-folk pop of Feist, she was invited by BBC‘s Later…with Jools Holland to perform her song “Age” last year. It was there where she […]
