The Globe and Mail Details Patrick Watson’s Story
The Globe and Mail has a new feature on Patrick Watson, whose Better In The Shade is at radio now from Secret City. in it, Watson explains how a Justin Bieber TikTok helped make his song “Je te laisserai des mots” an Internet phenomenon. The article also explores Watson’s career, during which “he’s managed to […]
Upstarter Recommends David Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7
Upstarter recommends Plague Doctor, the newest release from David Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7, for anyone “interested in expanding your Ska/Rocksteady collection.” The site says that “mid-tempo, danceable instrumentals are the bread and butter of this release, which makes for great direct listening as well as more casual ambient listening. If you were to throw this […]
Americana Highways Highlights Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s Joan of Arc Fixation
Americana Highways writes that “Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s songs create the powerful feel of desperation that confronts us all too often in life.” The site has the video for “Joan To Catherine,” a standout song on Cobb-Vialet’s new Endless Void LP. “Joan of Arc was one of my quarantine fixations,” she tells the site. “I wrote ‘Joan To Catherine’ from […]
Plainly and Painfully Touts the “Visceral and Vehement” Gus Englehorn
Plainly and Painfully is way into Gus Englehorn’s track “Exercise Your Demons.” The site writes that “the Alaska by-way-of Montreal singer-songwriter has bottled a sample of corrosion and blood in this one, a cocktail forged from the extraction of the heart and its subsequent erosion… The tissue sample of a track is a pleasantly scalding synthesis […]
Bandcamp Lauds Zachary Cale’s Songwriting Chops
Bandcamp writes that “Zachary Cale’s brand of folk rock sits somewhere near the midpoint between Kurt Vile’s breezy, mystical jams and the quietly simmering intensity of Amen Dunes. And therein lies his magic: Cale is a multi-dimensional song-conjurer, capable of crafting songs that saunter and shimmer on the surface, but hold deeper, darker insights that reveal themselves upon […]
Mike Wagner Interviews Low Level Clouds
The Mike Wagner Show has a long, conversational interview with Christopher Coats of Hawaii’s Low Level Clouds. LLC’s self-titled LP is at radio now, and while it is a debut it isn’t the first chapter in Coats’ long musical story. He tells a bit of that story on the show, and also gives details about the writing and recording […]
The Arts Desk Celebrates The Meticulous Details In IPR’s Half String Reissue
The Arts Desk compares Half String to The Smiths, Slowdive, and Chapterhouse in a review of the band’s new Fascination With Heights reissue, at radio now from Independent Project Records.The review – here – pays special attention to the gorgeous and intricate packaging by IPR, writing that “even the most ardent fan could not ask for more!” The digital version of the LP is at radio now […]
New Release From Savage Republic
Welcome to the world’s first (and only) post-punk-industrial-trance-psychedelic-surf album! The fact that it takes so many adjectives to describe Savage Republic‘s Tragic Figures lets you know just how unique of an album it is. Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde […]
Punk News Says David Hillyard Makes “Solid Ska”
Punk News recommends the newest David Hillyard & the Rocksteady 7 album, which “shows [Hillyard] coming into his own as a band leader. On their latest release, Plague Doctor… the combination of ska, jazz, and what sounds like South American rhythms made this the perfect album to check out as temperatures started rising [this spring]. This sounds poised to […]
Americana UK Shares Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s “Gorgeously Tuneful” Track “Ask Me”
Americana UK has raved about Caitlin Cobb-Vialet. “The San Francisco songwriter delivers intriguing lyrics,” the site writes, “full of personal details and images, in a gorgeously tuneful but conversational style that feels like she is baring her soul to you, sharing her secrets and herself. It is this exposed vulnerability and intimacy that makes her music so […]
Exclaim! Says You Oughta Know About Gus Englehorn
Exclaim! digs Gus Englehorn‘s “intriguing, off-kilter vocal delivery and melodic sound reminiscent of ’90s indie rock and ’80s post punk. His Dadaist and surrealist subject matter is often mirrored by the eerie visuals courtesy of his partner and drummer Estée Preda.” According to the site, Englehorn’s one of eight emerging Canadian artists you oughta know this month. Get the […]
Backseat Mafia Shares Patrick Watson’s “Better In The Shade” Video
Backseat Mafia has the video for Patrick Watson‘s “Better In The Shade,” off his new LP of the same name. According to the site, “You sense a new urgency here, an urge to get things shared while things are fresh. Previous single ‘Height of the Feeling’ a soulful, floaty ballad with Ariel Engle (aka La Force), burbled with […]
CLOUT Says Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s Music “Bleeds With Authenticity”
On “Disco Ball,” writes CLOUT, “Caitlin Cobb-Vialet reminds us, yet again, why her unique sound has the artist lauded by so many. ‘Disco Ball’ is a slow-burning track that bleeds with an authenticity and sense of heart, something that is especially alarming when you consider that the artist is something of an actor herself. Whether this comes from […]
Americana UK Says The Builders and The Butchers Are Likely To Leave Listeners “Breathless”
Americana UK writes that “Montana,” from the new Builders and the Butchers LP Hell and High Water, “sees the band at full pelt on a tale of death and destruction on a careening night-time journey in the dead of Winter. The Builders And The Butchers get occasional comparisons to The Decemberists, and you can hear why that might happen on […]
Tome To The Weather Machine Shares Particle Kid’s Duet With Willie Nelson
Tome To The Weather Machine has a feature on “Amerikan Lyfe,” one of the standout tracks on Particle Kid‘s new double LP Time Capsule. The track, according to the site, is a “fractured, deeply woozy trip… A loose, held-together-with-neon-string composition with a huge, swelling chorus is graced by Willie Nelson’s vocals as both take a Gonzo trip right into […]
Also Cool Praises Gus Englehorn’s Surrealist Spirit
“Gus Englehorn’s Dungeon Master,” writes Also Cool Mag, “gives organized existence to Dadaism’s deliberate irrationality… Expect bright strumming patterns resemblant of Blur’s Britpop years, vocal theatricality, and manic, oblique lyrics in the album’s surplus of nine tracks. Disguised in the most avant-garde of metaphors, a constellation of themes are canvassed in Dungeon Master: the lunacy of songwriting, a […]
New Music From David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7
David Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 are back with Plague Doctor, their first release since their 2018 album The Giver. The New York-based group features some of the best players in the current ska/reggae scene, including longtime percussionist Larry Mcdonald (Toots & The Maytals, Gil Scott-Heron, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Taj Mahal, Bad Brains) and members of New York ska staples The Slackers. […]
MAGNET Premieres Caitlin Cobb-Vialet’s “Disco Ball” Video
MAGNET Magazine is enjoying the new album from Caitlin Cobb-Vialet. “A former musical-theater kid, Caitlin Cobb-Vialet couldn’t be farther off-Broadway if she tried. With a voice that’s as malleable and conversational as it is riveting and unconventional, the 25-year-old singer/songwriter has invited comparisons to Regina Spektor and Fiona Apple with Endless Void, a surprisingly poised, brutally honest debut that blows by in […]
Glide Mag Praises The “Starkly Emotional” New Record From The Builders And The Butchers
Glide Magazine writes that “the performances on Hell & High Water are starkly emotional, both the vocals and the playing for the band’s most impactful record yet in their almost two decades together. You can hear it in the sonic doom of ‘West Virginia,’ a character song about hiding out from the cops and in the beautifully subtle […]
At The Barrier Says Gus Englehorn is “Great Fun”
The new Gus Englehorn LP Dungeon Master is “great fun,” according to At the Barrier, “and a chance to escape into an alternative reality with fleas, rabbits and horses accompanying Gus at various points. Dungeon Master could be the new cult – or maybe not. Take a tip from Gus’ book; let loose and let your subconscious do the driving.” Read […]
