New Music From Torn Boys
1983, the first-ever release from Stockton, California’s Torn Boys, the now legendary band featuring Jeffrey Clark, Kelly Foley, Duncan Atkinson, and a 19 year-old Grant-Lee Phillips, is set to be released in 2024 by Independent Project Records. The comprehensive archival ten-track set of rare, unreleased studio and live tracks documents the short but eventful life of Torn Boys, a group […]
The Quietus Raves About Cloudward, Mary Halvorson’s “Upbeat, Curious, and Inquisitive” New LP
The Quietus is out with a loving review of Cloudward, the new LP from Mary Halvorson. “Upbeat, curious, and inquisitive,” the site’s Lottie Brazier writes, “Cloudward makes for a great city walking album. It strikes the perfect balance between being jazz that’s not too impenetrable, while also being full of interesting surprises (primarily in terms of the language of Halvorson’s own […]
Metal Sucks Shares The “Weird” Music Of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Metal Sucks offers the following vital information about Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: “If you’ve never hear of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, there’s one thing to know about ’em — they’re weird. Full stop. And with the release of their latest single, they keep that energy going with ‘Burn Into Light.’” Full stop, y’all. Weird. Thanks as always to Metal […]
Buffablog Shares Izzy Savides’ “Prison In The Suburbs”
Buffablog likes “Prison In The Suburbs,” one of the standout tracks on Izzy Savides’ new EP Potato World, which is at radio now. “Her boundless creativity, versatile talents for instruments, and soul-baring songwriting is on display on the newly released single, ‘Prison in the Suburbs.’ Izzy opens with a melody that stems from Bossa Nova hit […]
Post Genre Hails Mary Halvorson’s “Complex, Innovative Edge”
About Mary Halvorson, Post Genre writes, “The guitarist’s compositions have a complex, innovative edge, and Cloudward is more evidence as to why she deserves all the acclaim that comes her way… This album is a stellar showcase of forward-thinking jazz – the type of music that keeps the genre fresh.” Read the full review, which dives into several […]
Raven Sings The Praises Of Cactus Lee’s Caravan
Raven Sings The Blues calls Caravan, by Cactus Lee, “a studio fresh album that’s got one foot in the Americana crate and another in the country coffers. Produced again by Kyle Crusham, the record sidles into a ‘70s tangle of roots, letting the Rhodes run rampant, doused in the glow of an afternoon sun… Dehan seems intent on finding […]
New Music From Izzy Savides
Songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Izzy Savides has shared their eclectic debut EP Potato World, a dynamic work touching on alternative, R&B, pop, and grunge. Created at Detroit’s 54 Sound, where Eminem famously made many of his records, the set showcases Savides’ multi-instrumentalist talent and songwriting prowess at an incredibly young age. At 18, Savides can sing, produce, […]
Pitchfork Recommends Mary Halvorson’s Cloudward, Which Hit #6 At NACC Jazz This Week and Debuted on the Top 200
In a recent 7.8 review of Mary Halvorson‘s Cloudward, Pitchfork describes the avant-garde guitarist by explaining that “Halvorson’s guitar tone contains within it a microcosm of her entire practice as a composer and bandleader. She gives the impression, through her ingenious use of a particular delay pedal, that her instrument is inhabiting two states of matter at once, or […]
It’s Psychedelic Baby Shares The Video For Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s “Hush Hush”
It’s Psychedelic Baby recently premiered the video for “Hush Hush,” one of three advance tracks from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum‘s upcoming fourth full length, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, set for release on February 23. The site has a quote from bandmember Carla Kihlstedt, who says, “‘Hush, Hush’ is a celebration of dusk, when angels and demons […]
Bandcamp Notes the “Elasticity, Presence, and Imagination” of Mary Halvorson’s Band
Bandcamp Daily recently published an Album of the Day feature on Cloudward, Mary Halvorson‘s new album with her sextet Amaryllis, featuring trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, trombonist Jacob Garchik, vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and bassist Nick Dunston. According to the site, “Halvorson’s second album with the sextet includes plenty of indelible guitar playing, but it’s her astonishing growth as a composer and arranger that distinguishes the […]
Austin Chronicle Shares Cactus Lee’s Origin Story
Cactus Lee is at radio now with Caravan, which cracked the NACC Top 200 last week. The album has been generating a buzz because of its thoughtful, evocative lyrics and smooth, classic-sounding arrangements. Fans who want to learn more about Kevin Dehan, the man behind the band, should go back to an Austin Chronicle interview from last year. In it, […]
New Music From Bobby Bazini
Québecois artist Bobby Bazini has released a new remix of “Waterfallin’,” one of the highlights from his 2023 LP Pearl. About that album, Atwood Magazine wrote, “Cinematic, soulful, and smoldering, Pearl aches with heated passion and raw vulnerability as Bobby Bazini finds clarity and catharsis, making peace with his demons and rediscovering himself on a deeply intimate, yet undeniably universal […]
Brooklyn Vegan Covers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Brooklyn Vegan recently announced that “avant-rock weirdos Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are back and set to release their first album in 17 years… Lead single ‘Salamander in Two Worlds’ is as strange and uncategorizable as you’d expect from SGM.” Listen here. “Salamander In Two Worlds” is one of three advance tracks from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, set […]
Jazzwise Digs The “Often Complex, Yet Ever-Accessible Music” Of Mary Halvorson
Jazzwise is out with a review of Cloudward, the new release from Mary Halvorson. The site writes, “Halvorson plays in a dizzying array of set ups. So, it’s a pleasure to see how she’s maintained and nurtured the band that so illuminated 2022’s extraordinary Amaryllis. While the writing for that sextet occurred in the thrall of Covid lockdowns, Cloudward marks […]
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 […]
It’s Psychedelic Baby Shares “Lowell Mass” by Cactus Lee
It’s Psychedelic Baby recently posted “Lowell Mass,” one of the tracks from Cactus Lee‘s album Caravan, which is at radio now from Org Music and Aquarium Drunkard. The site writes that “The song’s searching-for-something rhythm takes listeners along a wind-blown path led by multi-percussionist John Bush.” Check it out here. Caravan made its debut this week on the NACC 200! Thanks to Jefferson Public […]
All About Jazz Calls Mary Halvorson The “Charles Mingus Of Guitar”
According to All About Jazz, “Guitarist, composer & raconteur Mary Halvorson could very comfortably (and rightfully) wear the sobriquet of ‘The Charles Mingus of Guitar’ if she wanted to. But even that open-ended comparison would limit her as she outdoes herself again on Cloudward… Composed yet amorphous, decisive yet laden with anxious questions such as ‘Where do we go from here?’ and […]
Michael Doherty’s Music Log Details Cactus Lee’s Caravan
In his Music Log, Michael Doherty writes, “in a relatively short time, Cactus Lee has released a lot of excellent music.” Doherty has a track-by-track rundown of the Austin-based band’s album Caravan, which is at radio now and going for NACC and NACC Folk debuts this week. Throughout his review, Doherty notes songwriter Kevin Dehan’s thoughtful lyrics. He also makes musical […]
June McDoom Chats With Byline
June McDoom recently told Byline a bit about her musical origin story. “I think I decided to go to school in New York because I knew that eventually I’d want to start making my own music. And I think truthfully, I got a little burnt out making jazz,” she explained. “Jazz is obviously very collaborative… I think as […]
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, […]
