Great Dark Wonder Digs Beams’ “Vibraphone-Focused Sound”
Summer may be winding down, but it’s not too late to peruse the list of “Essential New Releases: Summer Shorts” that Great Dark Wonder published last month. It includes The Spark In Your Eye, the newest set of songs from Toronto seven-piece Beams. The site’s staff says the band has put “smiles on our faces with their guitar, violin, and vibraphone […]
Broadway World Highlights Ghost Party
Broadway World has the new single from Ghost Party, writing that “‘Yankee Reaper” borrows its name from a Van Dyke Parks album, conveys a sense of nostalgia and loss through the guise of the surreal, and is treated with a vintage sounding gospel stomp arrangement, where barrelhouse piano, soaring pedal steel, fuzzed out guitar, and hand claps all create […]
From The Strait Interviews Beams
From The Strait recently interviewed Beams, the Toronto-based seven-piece whose EP The Spark In Your Eye is at radio now. Over the course of the conversation, the group members discuss how they got together, what they look like in a venue, and what Canadian bands they are currently enjoying. Go here to learn more about Beams and get their recommendations. Beams […]
Milly Raccoon Posts “I’m Gonna Feed You” Clip
Milly Raccoon’s Frankincense and Myrrh is going strong at radio, hitting a new peak of #14 last week at NACC Folk. Thanks to all of the stations that have been supporting the record! One of the highlights of the LP is “I’m Gonna Feed You,” a sweet ode to Raccoon’s dog friend Georgia. Georgia is the star […]
The Ladies Of… Gear Up For Fall Shows
The Ladies Of… are hitting the road soon and have added a couple of new shows to their itinerary. The hard-rocking band of Southeastern musical luminaries released its new album Coming Out Of Our Tenderness earlier this year, which includes the singles “Vouch For Me” and “We Are The Wu Wu.” See them perform their […]
Sunny War Continues To Traverse The US For Shows
Sunny War, whose album Anarchist Gospel topped the NACC Folk Chart, hit #4 at NACC R&B Soul, and made it into the Top 15 at the NACC Top 200, is going back on tour. Her US dates include stops all across the country, with festival dates as well as headlining shows. See Sunny War live, and support […]
New Music From Ghost Party
From Houston, Ghost Party is an indie psych revival group consisting of singer-songwriter/guitarist McCullough Ferguson, who has shared stages with Roky Erickson, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Night Beats as the lead guitarist of Flower Graves (Wallflower Records); drummer Victor Sanchez; and bassist/keyboardist Kendrick Ballard. Ghost Party pays homage to the godfathers of psych rock while advancing the form with a few modern twists and turns. […]
York Calling Walks Readers Through Beams’ “Soul-Warming” New EP
York Calling has an overview of Beams new offering, The Spark In Your Eye. The EP, writes the site, is a “soul-warming trilogy that kicks off with ‘Morning Waits.’ It has a moody instrumental opening before Anna Merniecks-Duffield’s charismatic vocals come in. Things build to a dramatic rock chorus which will have your heart bursting. “‘ See a Spark […]
Twisted Soul Says Maya Dunietz and Company “Evoke Wonder And Exploration”
Twisted Soul has the video for Maya Dunietz‘s “Dear Major,” from her newest album Thank You Tree. “A colourful, abstract world emerges in the music, with Dunietz letting her imagination run wild. With her new compositions, improvisation follows jazz roots while being inspired by other sources such as bird and forest sounds. Accompanied by Barak Mori on bass and Amir […]
Lefuturewave Has Praise For Beams’ New EP
Lefuturewave has the scoop on The Spark In Your Eye, a new three-song EP from Beams that’s at radio now and going for NACC chart debuts this week. “‘Morning Waits’ opens the EP, ” the site explains, “gaining interest right away. It blooms beautifully with intricate melodies. The second track, ‘I See A Spark,’ has a lighter […]
Milly Raccoon, Who Plays Nashville This Week, Shares “That Girl I Left Behind Me” Via Americana Highways
Americana Highways recently shared “That Girl I Left Behind Me,” from Milly Raccoon‘s Frankincense and Myrrh LP, which has spent the last four weeks on NACC’s Folk Top 30. The site notes that the song features “brilliant string playing, long winding old time jams, and a timeless song about the girl with the rosy cheeks and the curly hair […]
Ondarock Digs Fruit Bats
Italian site Ondarock digs the new album from Fruit Bats, A River Running To Your Heart. It says, “The eleven songs do not linger on a clear geographical-stylistic identity, in fishing in the roots of American music, Eric D. Johnson alternates the joys of power-pop with the intensity of the Californian folk tradition, pleasantly pushes the sounds towards electronics […]
New Music From Maya Dunietz
Maya Dunietz is a prodigy pianist, avant-garde sound artist, award winning composer, dubious character, and mom of four. Her career has been abundant, from playing with Habiluim, Midnight Peacocks, Boom Pam and countless projects worldwide; through presenting her sound installations at Centre Pompidou in Paris; to her work with Emahoy Tsegue Mariam Guebrou. On their second trio album, Thank You Tree, Dunietz, Barak […]
Exclaim Enjoys The “Bright and Menacing” Sound Of Beams
Beams’ new EP The Spark In Your Eye is a Staff Pick over at Exclaim.ca. “Moving further away from their folksier-leanings of yore, Toronto’s Beams returned in August with their psych-rock-adjacent three-track EP follow-up to 2021’s aptly titled Ego Death. Written in lockdown and recorded live off the floor from a 13-song session at Hudson Valley, NY’s Marcata Recording with producer […]
Document Journal Shares A Lush Feature On Sunny War, Whose LP Is #4 At NACC Soul
Document Journal has a long feature on Sunny War, whose new album Anarchist Gospel topped the NACC Folk charts for several weeks earlier this year and is now sitting at #4 on the NACC R&B/Soul chart. Calling her “Americana’s brightest star and biggest skeptic,” the magazine speaks with war about her politics, her relationship with Nashville and Americana, and so […]
Block The Noise Peeps The History Behind Milly Raccoon’s “That Girl I Left Behind Me”
Block The Noise magazine recently shared Milly Raccoon’s hand-animated video for “That Girl I Left Behind Me,” one of the standout tracks on her new LP Frankincense & Myrrh, which is at radio now. The site notes that “the song’s roots can be traced back to Elizabethan England when the tune was sung by British soldiers,” […]
Musoscribe Describes the “Lush, Trance-Heavy” Vibes of A Produce
Musoscribe says “There’s a lush quality to Land of a Thousand Trances, the 1994 album from A Produce that has been newly reissued and expanded. A majestic, wide-screen feel redolent of Alpha Centauri-era Tangerine Dream (with a bit of early post-Syd Barrett Pink Floyd and a dash of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” aesthetics) characterizes some of the music. The instrumentation is conventional, […]
New Music From Beams
Beams is a Canadian band out of Toronto comprised of six members who have been making music together and touring for over a decade. They take their name from the architectural term: the beams that support a building. Each member—Martin Crawford (electric guitars, lap steel), Mike Duffield (drums), Keith Hamilton (vibraphone, singing saw, vocals), Heather […]
Milly Raccoon Gives Behind-The-Scenes Looks On Her YouTube Page
Milly Raccoon is having a nice run on the NACC Folk charts, as her album Frankincense and Myrrh just logged its third week in a row on the Top 30 there. But one thing radio airplay doesn’t demonstrate is her skill as a visual artist and animator. That’s on full display on Raccoon’s YouTube page, which […]
Last Day Deaf Hails The “Euphoric” New Ghost Party Single
Last Day Deaf recently shared the new Ghost Party single, “Lonesome Breath.” The site writes, “This cosmic country psych masterpiece harks back to the golden era of Flying Burrito Brothers and the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street. A lighthearted summertime romp, adorned with harmonies, pedal steel, and vintage vibes, this track is the soundtrack to open the cosmic portal and […]
