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 […]
IPR Tells The Story Behind The Alison’s Halo Remix of Half String’s “A Fascination With Heights”
IPR‘s website features a lush post documenting the history and creation of Half String‘s new collaboration with Alison’s Halo that appears on the reissue of the former’s A Fascination With Heights. Both stalwarts in Arizona’s “ethereal and difficult pop” music scene in the 90s, the artists attempted to work together then and were unsuccessful. Yet, “Whoever keeps saying that […]
Forbes Profiles Particle Kid’s “Marijuana Anthem” With Willie Nelson
Particle Kid and Willie Nelson are currently touring the US as part of the Outlaw Music Festival, and Forbes has coverage of their new duet. “Die When I’m High” is a “marijuana anthem,” writes the site, which was written during the pandemic “for Particle Kid’s famous father, he said that there is also a message for critics who believe […]
Joyzine Hypes “Mirrorball,” Kathleen Hanna’s Contribution to the LAND TRUST Comp
According to Joyzine, the Kathleen Hanna contribution to Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler‘s LAND TRUST compilation is one of the album’s many highlights. It “features her trademark rally to arms vocal, and harks back to the more electronic punk of Le Tigre. With catchy lyrics and strong guitar hooks from Vice Cooler, it doesn’t take long to fall in love with this song.” Check it […]
Alaska Public Media Interviews Gus Englehorn
Alaska Public Media tells the tale of Gus Englehorn‘s transformation from professional snowboarder to wildly creative indie musician. “His clips were arguably some of the most fun and interesting to watch because of his creative thinking and physical ability… [yet] the 35-year-old former Anchorage resident didn’t go riding once this last year — a first since he […]
Refinery29 Hails Pizza!’s “Penchant For Deft Hooks”
According to Refinery29, Pizza! isn’t “much concerned with how smoothly they go down,” yet “Riding Through The Jungle” is one of the band’s “easiest-to-digest songs.” Calling the track “Butthole Surfers’-indebted psychedelia,” the site writes that “when Pizza! occasionally shake off their choral singing and spastic rhythmic shenanigans, they emerge with a penchant for deft hooks and a genuine […]
Grateful Web Covers Particle Kid’s New Collaboration With Willie Nelson
Grateful Web has coverage of Particle Kid‘s new single with his father, Willie Nelson, which can be found as a bonus track on the new 2xLP Particle Kid record Time Capsule. About Willie, Particle Kid’s Micah Nelson says, “We are both freaks, in our time. I’m no prodigal son. I am HIS Particle Kid. I would […]
