Chicago Reader Raves About Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
According to Chicago Reader, “If you aren’t still in thrall to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from their first go-round, then I can only assume you don’t know who they are—and now that they’ve reunited after 13 years, you have the enviable opportunity to see them for the first time. SGM play ‘rock,’ in a certain sense, but their gloriously […]
Dusted Digs Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward
Dusted Magazine notes that, on Mary Halvorson‘s new album Cloudward, the celebrated guitarist “has worked with a band dubbed Amaryllis: Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Over the course of their relatively brief tenure, they have cohered into a formidable ensemble, energetically collaborating with stalwart commitment to Halvorson’s compositions. There are […]
Particle Kid Announces Tour
Micah Nelson, also known as Particle Kid, has announced a new tour. According to a four-star All Music Guide review, Particle Kid’s most recent double album Time Capsule “collates five years’ worth of songwriting, sonic investigation, and whim-chasing… There is something a little charming about Micah Nelson‘s warts-and-all behemoth, which, in this age of singles designed for maximum virality, feels like […]
New Music From Gregory Ackerman
LA-based Gregory Ackerman, who was once signed by V2 off of a cold email back in 2018, is following 2023’s EP Mhm Okay, which was featured on platforms like For Folk’s Sake and appearing in major editorial playlists, with another folky gem: the Brand New Life EP, due in May 2024. The first single, “Breaking My Heart,” was produced […]
Cactus Lee Announces Tour
Cactus Lee, whose album Caravan is at radio now from ORG Music and Aquarium Drunkard, will be on tour this April. KUTX calls the group “an Austin based Americana project crafting modern music akin to the generation-spanning sounds of quintessential Texas music. Featuring ornate arrangements similar to the likes of Gene Clark, Caravan is their most sonically expansive version of the project […]
Presto Music Reviews Mary Halvorson
According to Presto Music, “Mary Halvorson is, in many ways, a fully-fledged embodiment of living, breathing talent and skill — and not simply on account of her receving the prestigious MacArthur Grant in 2019. Breaking down musical boundaries as instintly as she concocts and identifies them, listening to her work is akin to undertaking a blindfolded taste-test in an […]
New Music From David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Independent Project Records and David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) have announced the release of the triple album Tracks From the Attic on digital, CD, colored vinyl LP, and Super Deluxe Box Set Art Edition formats on May 3. The first single and video, for “Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!,” are out now. Hand-picked by David J himself, Tracks From […]
Double J Cites Mia Dyson’s “Mature and Thoughtful Perspectives” In A New Review
Double J writes that “From where we stand, it seems like Mia Dyson has never had too much trouble writing incredible songs. Since exploding out of the gates with her glorious 2003 debut Cold Water, she’s gifted us with a string of incredible albums that have shown off her enviable guitar skills, and her mature and thoughtful perspectives on […]
Decibel Premieres Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s Track “El Evil”
Decibel writes that “after 13 years of inactivity, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has returned weirder, heavier and more off the chain with studio album number four, Of the Last Human Being.” The site recently premiered the album track “El Evil,” which it describes as “a rhythmically coruscating beast that combines vocal chants, wavelength baroqueness, Sunday morning church bell round-ups and […]
New Music From Mia Dyson
Mia Dyson had just started working on her new album the night her heart stopped. In the aftermath of an earthquake that rattled her Los Angeles home, Dyson experienced an undiagnosed arrhythmia which caused her to suddenly and unexpectedly stop breathing. As she recalls, she was somewhere else entirely in the fateful moments that followed – […]
Silent Radio Reviews Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Silent Radio enjoys the new Sleepytime Gorilla Museum album. The site writes, “An out there experience almost unexplainable to anyone, …Of The Last Human Being is like the under our nose, mystical and magical woods finally deciding to swallow the rest of the world whole. Overall, I’d say this record is a triumphant return of one of the most interesting […]
New Commute Shares Cactus Lee’s “Ambitious” Single “Pale Rider”
New Commute says “Pale Rider” is Cactus Lee‘s “most ambitious single to date.” According to the site, Caravan – the album from which the cut is culled – “expand[s] the range of their spit-shined outlaw mysticism and heartland folk balladry.” Read about “Pale Rider” here now. Caravan is at radio now from ORG Music and Aquarium Drunkard.
Mary Halvorson Speaks With Jazzwise About Collaboration and Much More
Mary Halvorson recently told Jazzwise a bit about how she was able to truly collaborate with the other members of her sextet on her new LP Cloudward. “Having total trust in the musicians, I could leave decisions up to them,” she said. “I did that a little on the first album, but I really didn’t want to dictate who solos […]
New Music From Woo
Woo‘s albums Robot X (2016) and Xylophonics (2017) have been reshaped and newly conceived with updated artwork for release as, for the first time ever, a two-for-one album release via Independent Project Records on two-compact disc and double vinyl set, as well as digital formats. IPR and Woo first worked together in 1988 with the release of Whichever Way You Are Going, […]
Exclaim! Reviews The New LP From “Weirdo Rock Messiahs” Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
In a new review, Exclaim! writes that “it’s Sleepytime Gorilla Museum‘s fearless boundary blurring between music, theatre, humour and visual art, along with Dadaist impulses — irrationality, absurdity, unorthodoxy and a revolutionary vision teetering between terror and triumph – that helped them amass their cult-like following… [New LP Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being] the collection is atypically […]
All Music Gives Mary Halvorson A Four-Star Review
According to the All Music Guide, “Mary Halvorson’s compositions on Cloudward are impressive. She accounts for individual players’ strengths as soloists while counting on them as ensemble players. She grafts and threads striated post-bop harmony, edgeless dissonance, and kinetic drama simultaneously, then blurs the edges expressionistically in crafting a detailed, multivalent, resonant, deeply satisfying whole from seemingly disparate […]
New Music From Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM), the gloriously uncategorizable American band, has regrouped after 13 years to complete a fourth studio album titled Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being. Due on February 23, it will be the very first release of AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings. Originating in Oakland, California, the […]
Relix Highlights Mary Halvorson’s Collaborators In Its Review Of Cloudward
In its recent overview of Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward, Relix notes that “It’s not until about halfway through Cloudward (Nonesuch), the second album by her band Amaryllis, that Mary Halvorson unleashes the gnarly, distorted potential lying in her signature array of pedals and DL4 Delay Modeler. Until “Desiderata,” the guitarist-composer has played a subtler, more enmeshed role amid this exhilarating lineup […]
Under The Radar Shares Izzy Savides’ “Autumn In Atlantis” Video
Under The Radar recently premiered “Autumn In Atlantis,” one of the standout tracks on Izzy Savides‘ debut EP Potato World. “After the stacked harmonies, veering chord progressions, and grunge guitars of ‘Prison in the Suburbs,’ ‘Autumn in Atlantis’ finds Savides instead settling into a more psychedelic mode, guided by layered textures and a hypnotic, pulsing bassline. The track […]
Jazz Trail Calls Mary Halvorson’s New LP “Delightfully Unpredictable”
Jazz Trail recently reviewed Mary Halvorson‘s new release Cloudward, writing that “while this collection exudes a warmer and more accessible vibe compared to Amaryllis and Belladonna, it remains delightfully unpredictable, fearlessly embracing chances without hesitation or defensiveness… For anyone harboring doubts about Halvorson’s compositional prowess, Cloudward stands as compelling evidence. Here, she rides high waves of inspiration alongside peers that understand her advanced musical […]
