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 […]
Izzy Savides Chats With I Dream Of Vinyl
Izzy Savides, whose Potato World EP is at radio now, recently spoke to I Dream of Vinyl about the new release and more. Asked about influences, they said, “Fiona Apple, Radiohead, P-Funk, Amy Winehouse, Remi Wolf, Billie Eilish, System of a Down, Caroline Rose, Mamalarky and Orion Sun have had a really big impact on me, but the list is honestly so […]
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, […]
