New Music From Julia Bhatt
From September 2019 to early March 2020, Julia Bhatt experienced a whirlwind of life-changes: she released her first three singles “Tall,” “Marco,” and “I’m Cool;” turned 18; and graduated high school. Just as she was really getting started – with the announcement of her first-ever tour, nonetheless – the COVID-19 pandemic brought everything to a […]
Color Green Goes On Tour
Color Green, who just released their debut LP via ORG Music and Aquarium Drunkard, are about to embark on a tour of the US. The record, which Raven Sings The Blues calls “a cosmic American gem,” is at radio now and made its debut on the Top 200 at NACC this week. Get it spinning on your station, especially if […]
Jammerzine Shares The New Builders and the Butchers Video Along With High Praise
Jammerzine has the premiere of “God Help Us,” the new video from The Builders & The Butchers‘ album Hell & High Water. According to author Ryan Martin, “The visual of ‘God Help Us’ is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure totally outside of the box and into that open space of creativity, originality, and a concept that gives the band a […]
Raven Sings The Blues Says Color Green Has Forged ‘A Cosmic American Gem’
According to Raven Sings The Blues, “L.A.’s Color Green have forged a Cosmic American gem that’s draped in a desert decadence. The first single found the band vamped and swinging, but on “Ruby” they let the heat overwhelm them and sink into a jazz-stung slow saunter that shows off the band’s slide work and patient pacing. The song […]
Gus Englehorn Curates A Mixtape for Casbah Records
Casbah Records writes that Gus Englehorn is “halfway between Ezra Furman and Ian Svenonious” and tells readers that the “Canadian former snowboarding champion delivered Dungeon Master in 2022, an unclassifiable album.” Englehorn made a mixtape for the site, which he prefaces by saying, ”My musical tastes seem to swing wildly from week to week and even from day to day. I am as the […]
Higher Plain Praises Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s Debut LP
Higher Plain Music is out with a review of Caitlin Cobb-Vialet‘s Endless Void, which is at radio now from War Chant Records. The site says the LP is “a patchwork quilt of emotional revelations and inner reflections… Each track on Endless Void feels like its peeling back a layer of exposing self confidence. The opener ‘Not Enough’ is all about not […]
Pluralone Debuts “Fight For The Soul” Video
Pluralone has a new music video, for This Is The Show track “The Fight For The Soul.” Directed by Styles Wolff Baker, the clip features Josh Klinghoffer interspersed with time lapse footage of Los Angeles and quick cuts of nature. See it here. This Is The Show is at radio now from ORG Music, and Pluralone is going back on the road with Pearl Jam next month. […]
Today’s Outfit Has Shows
Today’s Outfit has shows. The new three-piece has just released their debut EP Your Perfect Self, and they’re promoting it with performances in New York. The band features new wave 80s-influenced keyboards, post punk and classic rock heroics on a bass ranging anywhere from 6 to 10 strings, and slight grunge on the drums. See Today’s Outfit: […]
The Go-Go Radio Magic Show Interviews Gus Englehorn
Gus Englehorn was a guest on CJLO’s Go-Go Radio Magic Show back in April, on the occasion of his Dungeon Master album release. According to the show’s hosts, “This was one of our favourite interviews we’ve ever had the pleasure of doing. Our special guest, Gus Englehorn, talks about his childhood that was split between small town Alaska and rural […]
Westside Current Profiles Particle Kid’s “Ambitiously Sprawling” New 2xLP
Westide Current writes that Particle Kid‘s “Time Capsule is an ambitiously sprawling patchwork of freak folk and fuzzed-out indie anthems punctuated by short tracks of numbered “Time Capsule Themes” of experimental and field recordings… Recorded over the course of five to six years, Time Capsule understandably has a temporal theme. Nelson likens music to time travel, in the […]
New Music From Color Green
Color Green is an American rock and roll duo based in Los Angeles and consisting of Noah Kohll (Current Joys, Young Guv, Surf Curse, Dark Tea) and Corey Madden (Richard Rose, Grave Flowers Bongo Band). The fleet-fingered guitar gurus formed the group in Ridgewood, Queens in 2018 after jamming their way through a lengthy modal excursion into a particularly kaleidoscopic […]
Bandcamp Highlights LAND TRUST And Tracks Featuring Brontez Purnell, Rachel Aggs, and Emily Retsas
Bandcamp counts the new LAND TRUST compilation from Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler among the best punk releases on the platform from June 2022. According to the site, it’s “an electric and eclectic compilation of new songs, written by Lyle, Cooler, and dozens of invited collaborators, ranging from newcomers The Linda Lindas to feminist icons like Alice Bag and The Raincoats. The tracks are largely upbeat […]
Postcard Elba Says Today’s Outfit Feels Fresh
Postcard Elba recently had six words to say about Today’s Outfit, whose debut EP Your Perfect Self is at radio now: “Vintage alternative vibes, yet feels fresh.” The site included the band’s single “Follow Me” on a recent Friday 6×6 playlist along with other up-and-coming indie talents. Check the full thing out here and get Today’s Outfit spinning at your station.
IPR Profiles Alison Clancy And Her Mutant Gifts
“Mutant Gifts,” writes Independent Project Records, “is the sound of Alison Clancy coming to terms with both her muse and technology. And while the latter could feel somewhat intimidating (she grew up in a solar-powered cabin in the woods), it also proved an exciting new kind of collaborator. Alison spent a lot of time with computers and pedals, getting […]
Skope Says Pizza! Is “Unique, Surprising, and Expansive”
Skope Mag says that Pizza!‘s We Come From The Swamp, which is at radio now in an expanded, reissued form, is “a meticulously-orchestrated lo-fi pop album that will inspire listeners to wish that the band was still gracing the stages of LA’s DIY scene. True to Pizza!’s reputation, the album is aesthetically diverse. Keyboard-heavy, New Wave-inspired tracks like […]
IPR Chronicles The Ophelias and Their Times
According to Independent Project Records, “The Ophelias were a continuously mutating outfit that could sound like a lost end-of-the-60s cult favourite one moment, and present themselves as godfathers of today’s all-embracing indie rock the next. Ophelias songs feel out of time and ahead of their time all at once. The Leslie Medford-led group blended psychedelic rock’s kaleidoscopic curiosity […]
Ernesto Garcia Marques Interviews Bruce Licher About Savage Republic
In an interview with Ernesto Garcia Marques, Savage Republic founding member Bruce Licher explains, “The Tragic Figures album is kind of a mishmash of various recordings and styles. Most of it was recorded at Radio Tokyo Studios, which was a small eight track studio by the beach in Venice, California that had been recommended by some friends. I had originally started trying to […]
Beams Go On Tour
Beams, whose epic LP Ego Death we promoted last year, hit the road in support of the record soon. After a couple of July dates in Ontario, the group heads to the US in August and September. Find the dates on the band’s website, here. Higher Plain Music called the album “an exceptional psyche folk-rock album,” while Exclaim […]
New Music From Today’s Outfit
Today’s Outfit is Mark Garufi, Andrew Wood, and Grant Zacharias — a new trio that deftly employs 80s-influenced keyboards, post punk and classic rock heroics on a bass ranging anywhere from six to ten strings, slight grunge on the drums. Listeners may know Wood from his New York-based indie rock project Bridges and Powerlines, which released five records between 2006 […]
Three Founding Members Discuss Savage Republic’s Tragic Figures LP
Visit Independent Project Records‘ website for an intriguing conversation with three of the original members of Savage Republic, whose debut LP Tragic Figures has been reissued in expanded form by Real Gone Music and is now at radio. Along with the full spectrum audio conversation, which takes place over an hour, the accompanying post includes a rad behind-the-scenes photo gallery documenting the […]
