David J Speaks With Outside Left
David J – of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets renown – recently spoke with Outside Left magazine and explained, “I think [art is] vitally important, and it’s much more than an escape. It can be that, but it’s also a vital outlet where the artists can voice their feelings and opinions about the stuff that’s going on in the world. That can […]
48 Hills Calls foamboy The “Dopest Musicians In The Pacific Northwest”
48 Hills writes that “Portland’s foamboy is motivated to dance you through whatever the hell is your next episode. Whether it’s a breakup, feeling like a fraud in math grad school, navigating the ups and downs of a hard and devastating relationship, discovering your own queer identity, rejecting heteronormative narratives…However, the pocket of this jazzy disco-pop act—producer Wil […]
Sputnik Music Regards Tarantula Heart As A Return To Form From Melvins
Sputnik Music says Tarantula Heart is a return to form for the venerable Melvins. According to the site, “What Tarantula Heart represents for Melvins, at the end of everything, is a fresh start, a new look that eschews the half-baked gimmicks of the past few decades and seeks to play around with those familiar tools that have worked so well in […]
New Music From David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Attics have always exerted an irresistible allure on David J’s imagination. They can unveil luminous jewels that time and dust have rendered all but lost. With Tracks from the Attic, the Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder invites us to join him and climb up the ladder. A most fascinating journey ensues: we’re looking through boxes of tapes, getting reacquainted with […]
Pandora Stories Features Torn Boys
Pandora Stories has a feature with Torn Boys! According to Pandora, “Their first-ever release, 1983, chronicles a year in the life of the short-lived but influential adventures of Torn Boys, comprising future members of Shiva Burlesque, Gary Young’s Hospital and Grant Lee Buffalo. Listen to the new Pandora Stories as Jeffrey Clark, Grant-Lee Phillips, and Kelly Foley take a track-by-track journey through […]
The Heaviest Of Art Interviews (the) Melvins
The Heaviest Of Art has an interview with (the) Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, as well as longtime producer Toshi Kasai, about the new Melvins LP Tarantula Heart. According to Osborne, “We found [Kasai] a long time ago, I guess in the early 2000s, and it just clicked. He gets what we’re doing. He liked us immediately because we met him and […]
Canadian Beats Shares The “Elegant” New Bobby Bazini Single
Canadian Beats notes that “With an elegant arrangement, as uplifting and gentle as the arrival of spring, [Bobby Bazini‘s new single] ‘Hometown (Take Me To)’ follows the release of the first single ‘Maia,’ which has already garnered radio support across Canada, the US, and the UK.” The site quotes Bazini, who offers, You can feel the […]
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 record was produced by Dillon Casey (Weyes Blood, Jack […]
Ultimate Classic Rock Hails The “Chaotic Noise” Of The New Melvins LP
Ultimate Classic Rock says that, on Melvins’ new album Tarantula Heart, “Buzz Osborne leads the band – this time featuring Ministry drummer Roy Mayorga and guitarist Gary Chester from Austin psych-rockers We Are the Asteroid – through some of the most rhythmic tracks of their nearly four-decade career. But chaotic noise rock remains Melvins’ Priority No.1. ‘Working the Ditch’ and ‘Allergic to Food’ play loose with a familiar template, […]
JJA Nominates Mary Halvorson
The Jazz Journalists Association has nominated Mary Halvorson for 2024 Guitarist of the Year. The Nonesuch Records website notes that “her new album, Cloudward, features eight new compositions she performs with her sextet Amaryllis—the improvisatory band that performed on her acclaimed 2022 albums Amaryllis and Belladonna: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Laurie Anderson is featured on the […]
Everything Is Noise Approves Of Melvins’ New LP
According to Everything Is Noise, “The Melvins grab chaos and noise by their eight furry legs and wrestle them into submission on Tarantula Heart… While the opening track moves to and fro in terms of tone, the balance of the album is a more cohesive experiment with noise – the busier sonic elements deftly wrangled into a more streamlined, albeit […]
Outside Left Calls Woo’s Twin IPR Releases “Well-Executed”
Outside Left calls Woo’s Robot X and Xylophonics, “eclectically weird albums compiled from 4 track snippets and re-workings of material drawn from their archives and experiments down the years – ‘electronic uniqueness’, as they put it, or ‘experimental retro-futuristic electronica’, even… well-executed, impeccably presented, artefacts and examples of a weirdly out-there style that labels like Independent Project Records are a tailor made […]
AndersonVision Profiles Torn Boys’ 1983
AndersonVision has an overview of 1983, the album from Torn Boys. The site says, “1983 offers a comprehensive set of rare and previously unreleased studio and live tracks that chronicle the brief yet vibrant existence of Torn Boys. Known for their unique blend of dreamscape lyricism with synth-driven rhythms and eclectic guitar textures, the band’s members went on to shape […]
48 Hills Profiles Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum recently spoke to 48 Hills. According to co-founder Nils Frykdahl, “This technology of Zoom, the things that were sort of imposed upon us during the pandemic years, made it possible to organize [the band’s regrouping to record and release new album Of The Last Human Being and tour behind it]. That’s why every morning now we start […]
New Music From Bobby Bazini
With over a decade of success in the music industry, including multiple JUNO and ADISQ Award nominations, Platinum records, tens of millions of streams and sold-out shows Bobby Bazini made a triumphant return last year with his fifth studio album Pearl. “Maia” is the first single from Bazini’s follow-up four-track EP Stone of June, due out June 7 via Spectra Musique. Conceived […]
Music Connection Profiles Woo’s New Releases
In a recent blurb, Music Connection notes that “Woo is a cult UK project composed of brothers Mark and Clive Ives that has been active since 1975. Their ambient folk-jazz saw them experiment with electronic instrumentation at a time when few others were doing so — they might not get the plaudits of Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream, but Woo were certainly pioneers.” Woo’s Robot […]
JB Hi-Fi Hails Tarantula Heart As (The) Melvins’ “Most Audacious” LP
(The) Melvins have had a long and illustrious career up to this point, so it means something when JB Hi-Fi calls their new album their “most audacious record to date.” The site says, “Tarantula Heart is exactly what you’d expect of a Melvins record: raw, uncompromising, and utterly exhilarating. The fact that it was essentially composed from scratch in […]
Woo Is Reviewed By The Answer Is In The Beat
The Answer Is In The Beat is out with a review of Xylophonics and Robot X, the two LPs from Woo that are at radio now via Independent Project Records. “Xylophonics is heavy on shimmering synths and bright, interlocked percussion,” the site writes. “It seems like it’s evoking the music of some distant tropical paradise, but it’s hard to imagine […]
Northern Transmissions Transmits foamboy’s “Exit Sign”
Northern Transmissions shared foamboy‘s “Exit Sign” in advance of the Portland duo’s new album, Eating Me Alive, on which the song appears. The site quotes bandmembers Wil Bakula and Katy Ohsiek about the record, the latter of whom said, “I am so happy with how this album turned out. Unlike our last release, which we created over email during the first year of […]
Gregory Ackerman Makes It On TopMusic.News
TopMusic.News says Gregory Ackerman’s single “Brand New Life” is a “banger…. This single exhibits not just his prowess in crafting edgy, indie melodic pop rock, but also his skill in embedding relaxing, slacker rock vibes that resonate with fans of dream pop and alt-rock pop. Such a versatile mix ensures ‘Brand New Life’ stands out […]
