New Music From Melvins
Melvins, formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington by singer/guitar player Buzz Osborne – with stalwart drummer Dale Crover joining the following year – is a hugely influential band that has been credited with merging the worlds of punk rock and heavy music and forming a new subgenre all its own. They’ve released over 30 original albums, numerous […]
Torn Boys Have A Bandcamp “Essential Release”
Bandcamp says Torn Boys’ 1983 is an essential release and writes that “1983 makes a solid case that the group’s scant output warrants re-examination. Imagine a cross-wiring of Bauhaus and the Soft Boys and you’re close to approximating the group’s distinctly spooky take on ‘80s psychedelia. Frontman Jeffrey Clark’s doomy vocal style and skeletal, spiky guitar work make every second feel as ominous as a […]
David J Shares Video Clips From The Attic
David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) has released videos for both pre-release singles from Tracks From The Attic, his upcoming, career-spanning 3xLP release from Independent Project Records. Both clips are available on IPR’s Youtube page. See “Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!” here, and see “Small Death of a Broken Doll” here. David J will undertake a West Coast tour in […]
New Music From Rejoicer
Yuval Havkin, also known as Rejoicer, is inspired by the fusion of jazz and hip-hop. Born in Israel and raised in England, he has a background in classical piano but mostly learned his skills ”on the job” working with musicians he met in Tel Aviv, a local scene that nurtured a sense of community and emulation. […]
Spill Says Torn Boys’ “Music Is Great”
Spill Magazine has a review of 1983, the newly-released record from Independent Project Records and Torn Boys. Spill spills, “The music is great, and there are moments of real inspiration and ingenuity, such as ‘Fountain Of Blood’ which has a brilliant opening and goes into a fantastic song… Like New Order, they were able to combine guitars and synthesizers to great effect.” The […]
Flood Heralds The “Eccentric” Woo
“To call eccentric English brothers Clive and Mark Ives an enigmatic delight only scratches the surface of their work with Woo,” Flood writes. The site has a review of the band’s new releases on Independent Project Records, explaining that “Two of Woo’s latter-day archival efforts, 2016’s Robot X and 2017’s Xylophonics, have been cobbled together by Los Angeles’ Independent Project Records as a completely […]
SPIN Goes Deep With The “Austere and Surreal and Absurdist” Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
A recent SPIN article goes deep with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. “Eccentrics, rejoice,” the venerable magazine writes. “Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s doors are open to the public once again! With their new album, Of the Last Human Being, the recently reactivated band returns to the road and to the maximalist, forward-thinking rock music that made them cult heroes in the 2000s… […]
Treble Zine Says “Burnout” By foamboy Is Essential
Treble Zine writes that “Burnout,” a standout track that’s included on foamboy’s new Eating Me Alive LP, is “essential.” According to the site, “Sublime pop—earworms that can make you hit repeat more than the refresh button on the doom-scrolling device of your choice—can materialize from the most quirky, nerdy places… Equipped with a full grooving band, foamboy encapsulates […]
New Music From David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Independent Project Records and David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) have announced the release of the triple album Tracks From the Attic on digital, CD, colored vinyl LP, and Supreme Deluxe Box Set Art Edition formats on May 3. The newest single and video, for “Small Death Of A Broken Doll,” has just been released and joins the first advance […]
Electronic Sound Interviews Woo
Electronic Sound explains, “Since 1972, Mark and Clive Ives have been recording splendidly odd music under the collective name Woo, amassing a truly extraordinary archive of home recordings along the way. The albums that have actually been released – over 30 of them – barely scratch the surface of a body of work that playfully embraces folk music, dub, […]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Brings Joy To Angry Metal Guy
Angry Metal Guy calls Sleepytime Gorilla Museum “one of the most beautifully bewildering bands to ever grace the globe” and that after a long hiatus “its music still has the same unique apocalyptic quality, even if it feels just a tad safer than the band’s prior output. As a reviewer, I am just as happy to be able […]
New Music From Torn Boys and Bandcamp Listening Party Today With All Four Members
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 out now from 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 comprising future members […]
Itzhak Ventura Shares Behind-the-Scenes Look
Itzhak Ventura‘s new album Ein-Sof is at radio now from Raw Tapes, and the flautist has taken to Instagram to share behind-the-scenes looks from the making of the LP, crafted in collaboration with Rejoicer. “What magic it is to realize an idea that I have formed and turn it into a real creation,” Ventura writes. He continues, “To go with […]
WBUR Recommends foamboy
Boston’s WBUR included foamboy’s Eating Me Alive on its January list of seven albums to listen to this winter. The station wrote, “foamboy is like if Sade was from… Portland. The jilted, house-like grooves on their new album ‘Eating Me Alive’ are an introspective ode to queerness and society at large, helping usher in the new wave of electro R&B made […]
CBS News in San Francisco Profiles Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum just completed a US-wide reunion tour with a couple of dates in their home region of the San Francisco Bay. In advance of the shows, the local affiliate of CBS News published a feature on the cult heroes that explored their history and explained the story behind their “rebanding.” According to CBS, “The new album […]
New Music From Itzhak Ventura
A simple piece of wood with seven holes — that’s what Itzhak Ventura uses to transport listeners to another time and place. Inspired by street performers in Spain, Ventura dug deep into the lineage of a Middle Eastern flute called the ney, slowly developing his own style by studying with teachers in Turkey, Israel and the United […]
The Vinyl District Grades Woo On A Curve
The Vinyl District recently gave an A- to Independent Project Records‘ new release of Woo’s Xylophonics an Robot X. The site gives the bulk of its attention to Robot X, writing that the album “stands outside the New Age genre while maintaining a few loose ties to the kosmische root. Using snippets of ’80s 4-track Woo recordings as a foundation and with Terry Gilliam’s […]
The Honey Pop Shares Mia Dyson’s “Dragging Me Down”
The Honey Pop recently shared a track from Tender Heart, Mia Dyson‘s new LP. According to the site, the song, “‘Dragging Me Down,’ is from the unfiltered perspective that acknowledges that sometimes, we are the only barriers to our own success and positive well-being. From the delicate instruments to Mia’s tender vocals, it truly showcases everything we adore […]
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, […]
Chorus.fm Premieres SGM’s “Salamander In Two Worlds” Video
Chorus.fm has the video premiere of “Salamander In Two Worlds” by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, as well as a short interview with the band. Asked how the song fits within the overall arc of new album Of The Last Human Being, member Nils Frykdahl said, “Certainly the straddling of worlds, of loss and preservation, of survival in the face of ‘eating […]
