New Music From Dennis Coffey
Detroit’s legendary Westbound Records has teamed with vinyl specialist label Org Music to re-launch with a series of remastered, celebrated funk and soul albums. Next up is Dennis Coffey’s long overdue reissue of his 1975 funk guitar treasure, Finger Pickin Good (retitled from Finger Lickin Good). Remastered by Dave Gardner, the album includes the previously unissued bonus song “What It […]
Pitchfork Gives the innocence mission A Glowing Review
In a glowing 8.0 review, Pitchfork writes that the new album from the innocence mission, Midwinter Swimmers, is “an invitation to reclaim the assured and commonplace language of awe. This is what ‘beautiful’ was meant to describe… From the retro mellotron to the band’s steadfast use of tambourines with a cold echo, Midwinter Swimmers sounds like a forgotten folk album from the […]
The Big Takeover Cheers The “Mercurial And Inventive” PDX Band Sun Atoms
On new LP Everything Forever, The Big Takeover writes, Sun Atoms have cultivated a “mercurial and inventive sonic world. It is easy to throw around genre tags such as psychedelic, shoegaze, alt-pop, and indie, but none quite tell the whole story…yet all of them sort of fit, too. But such is their ever-shifting sound and fluid music-making world that even […]
Silent Radio Hails The “Poetic Precision” of the innocence mission
Silent Radio writes that “There is a great sense of detail in The Innocence Mission’s latest album, Midwinter Swimmers. It is apparent in lyrics that have a poetic precision… The music is imbued with a fragility reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan and mingles lo-fi charm with subtle shifts to create a cinematic palette. It is a minor key delight […]
Sun Atoms Get Real Gone
Real Gone has a glowing review of the new album from Sun Atoms, Everything Forever. “There’s a wealth of experimentation at the heart of the record’s eight songs; a willingness to try absolutely anything,” the site writes. “It’s to Sun Atoms’ eternal credit – and talent – that despite a variety of styles and a whole world of […]
ABC Puts Leif Vollebekk On Its Year-End List
“The richness of Revelation by Leif Vollebekk is in its simplicity,” according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which placed the album at #34 on its Top 50 albums of 2024 list. The site continues, “Vignettes of everyday experiences are brought to life with a vivid, emotional heft — speaking to the truth that sometimes the quietest moments speak the loudest.” […]
Laurie Anderson Tops Marraccini’s List
Laurie Anderson‘s Amelia was Albumism’s Mark J. Marraccini’s 2024 album of the year. Marraccini writes, “In the middle of an incredibly brash and super fun Brat Summer, Laurie Anderson’s tender Amelia album caught me by surprise. Backed by a Czech orchestra on the recording, Anderson softly unspools a narrative retelling of pilot Amelia Earhart’s final flight before she disappeared forever… […]
The Guardian Awards Four Stars To the innocence mission
The Guardian has a review of the innocence mission’s new album Midwinter Swimmers, which “is full of rich sensory songwriting… Sufjan Stevens once described his enduring love of Pennsylvania’s the Innocence Mission by explaining that for all his awe at big songs, Broadway musicals and all, he would always return to ‘small songs which make careful observations about everyday life.’” […]
Whisperin And Hollerin Gets Behind Sun Atoms
Whisperin and Hollerin has a glowing review of Everything Forever, the new album from Sun Atoms. Find it here. The site specifically recommends “space rock indie anthem” opener “Take this Love” as well as “Ceiling Tiles,” “Mandatory,” “Idiot Speaker,” and “Bus Stop Gospel.” Of “Narco Polo,” featuring Modest Mouse‘s Isaac Brock, the site writes, “you can’t wait up, you’ve nodded out again, […]
Greg Lisher Chats With Good Times
In an interview with Good Times, Greg Lisher explains how Independent Project Records got involved with releasing his new solo album Underwater Detection Method. “They put out the first Camper Van Beethoven record 40 years ago next year [Telephone Free Landslide Victory]. Bruce Licher is one of the owners of the label and he’s an amazing graphic designer. Originally, he did some of the artwork […]
Alec Tension From Afterimage Hits Up Mike Watt Via Skype
Dan Voznick, aka Alec Tension, of Afterimage was recently a guest on Mike Watt’s Watt From Pedro Show. Check out their discussion, as well as a sick playlist of tunes, here. Once called “LA’s Joy Division” by the Los Angeles Times, Afterimage was a pioneering post punk group whose existence was too short. Faces To Hide, collecting music from their entire vanishingly short career, […]
Tipula Shares “Wake Up” Clip
Tipula‘s video for ‘Wake Up” was animated by the group’s Eldar Brantman and features a disco-dancing leaf figure. It’s just wild; see it here. The track opens Greening, Tipula’s Raw Tapes debut, which took shape as Brantman and Dana Dunietz began playfully fusing trip-hop, vocal jazz and classic funk in Brantman’s home studio.These eight tracks sound like two friends enjoying each other, trading […]
Leif Vollebekk Plays KINK
Leif Vollebekk recently stopped by the studio at Portland’s KINK 101.9 FM for a performance of “Peace Of Mind,” from his new LP Revelation. See the performance here. Revelation is at radio now via Secret City Records, and our digital servicing includes two additional versions of this track. Vollebekk tours Canada early next year: 2/14 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl 2/15 – […]
Ohio Players Inspire Funky Fossil Name
Ohio Players‘ huge 1973 hit “Funky Worm” – remastered and at radio now via Westbound Records and ORG Music – is one of the most-sampled records in the history of hip hop. As reported last year by Dayton Daily News, the song was also the inspiration behind the name of a newly-discovered species of fossil amphibian discovered by paleontologists from Petrified Forest […]
Sun Atoms Gets Four Stars From Spill
Spill Magazine recently reviewed Everything Forever, the new Sun Atoms album at radio now from Little Cloud Records. “Throughout, Sun Atoms give us a heady alt-rock combination of The Dandy Warhols and LCD Soundsystem – like rhythms that take inroads elsewhere with both rhyme and reason sounding sometimes like an updated version of New Order. Quite a tricky thing to achieve, but Sun Atoms seem to be […]
New Music From Eramus Hall
Eramus Hall was a soul/funk group from Detroit, whose debut “Your Love Is My Desire” became one of the most sought-after records of the modern soul era, coveted by DJs and record collectors alike. The group only recorded the one album for Westbound Records, home of funk heavyweights Funkadelic and Ohio Players, before moving to Capitol for their second and final album […]
New Music From the innocence mission
The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, Midwinter Swimmers (due November 29, 2024) sounds immediately like an old friend. At the same time, it’s a new kind of adventure for the beloved Pennsylvania band of high school friends Karen Peris, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts, having both an expansive, cinematic quality and the strange, lo-fi beauty […]
Bandcamp Tells The Westbound Records Story
A man A plan A canal is excited to help promote the new reissue series from Westbound Records and ORG Music, which is shining a light on the influential Detroit imprint that pushed the limits of soulful funk. We recently sent the remastered edition of Ohio Players‘ Pleasure, which is at radio now and features the massive hit “Funky Worm” that […]
PDX Pipeline Is Giving Away Sun Atoms Tickets
Psyched-out gaze wavers Sun Atoms (featuring a member of The Dandy Warhols) will perform an all ages show in Portland, OR on December 11 at the Mission Theater, and PDX Pipeline is giving away a pair of tickets. It’s not only Sun Atoms on the bill; it also features LSD and the Search For God, known for hypnotic shows built upon swirling […]
Plastic Mag Hails Leif Vollebekk’s “Quiet Triumph”
Plastic Mag has coverage of Leif Vollebekk’s new “Peace of Mind (Morning),” the new single that is included – along with “Peace of Mind” (Evening) – in our new digital servicing package of his album Revelation, which is at radio now via Secret City. Plastic says this version “is a quiet triumph, capturing the serenity and searching that define […]
