New Music From Shiva Burlesque
Independent Project Records will release the two-CD Mercury Blues + Skulduggery collection from Shiva Burlesque in February 2022. Hear two singles – “Do The Pony” and “Paul Is Dead” (Demo) – now. Creators of what Uncut Magazine editor Allan Jones lauded as “…timeless, brilliant music” Shiva Burlesque was founded by transplanted northern Californians Jeffrey Clark and Grant-Lee Phillips, emerging from the alternative music scene of subterranean […]
The Joy Of Violent Movement Has The “Expansive, Elegant” New Song From the bird and the bee
The Joy Of Violent Movement has the video for the new song by the bird and the bee. The site writes, “‘Lifetimes’ is centered around an expansive and elegant arrangement that starts with angular post-punk guitar that slowly builds up to include blown out beats, twinkling keys, fluttering synths, a dreamy Bossa nova and jazz-like bridge, and […]
Treble Zine Describes Combo Chimbita’s New Record As “Vital”
“IRÉ,” writes Treble Zine about the new Combo Chimbita release, “is a vital record, spotlighting Combo Chimbita’s sharp energy and vast aims… Until their live sets return this spring—where you can catch the most sublime manifestation of the band’s power—IRÉ provides something close to an immersion in Combo Chimbita’s divine and enigmatic world.” Read the site’s full review here! Thanks to all the […]
Ghettoblaster Shares Gus Englehorn’s “Tarantula”
Visit Ghettoblaster for the video for the “stomping, paranoid” new Gus Englehorn track “Tarantula.” The site notes that the song comes from Englehorn’s debut for Canada’s Secret City Records, an album called Dungeon Master that is due in April. As Englehorn explains, “I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things into your ear. Most of the […]
Spill Reviews Leif Vollebekk, Who Goes For NACC Adds Next Week
Spill Magazine is up with a review of New Waves, the Leif Vollebekk live EP released as a surprise earlier this week. The site tells readers that “Vollebekk is a deeply emotive musician, whose passion is fully expressed in his live performances. It can be heard in the interplay between his vocals and the string melody on ‘Transatlantic Flight’” […]
New Music From Yael Meyer
Yael Meyer has been a staple of the Latin American and US indie pop scene for more than a decade. “Known to belt out music and combine electronica, pop and folk sounds in unprecedented ways,” according to Thread MB, her music has been described by Entertainment Weekly as a “bouncy, ebullient electropop that should appeal to the considerable number of […]
Bandcamp Daily Highlights Combo Chimbita’s New LP
“There’s an air of both mystery and peace throughout IRÉ, the latest album from Combo Chimbita,” writes Bandcamp Daily, which has a nice feature on the new LP. Bandcamp writes that “Its songs balance between two extremes: the needs of the body and mind, and the pull of nature… The group conjures a whirlwind of genres: hip-hop breaks, […]
American Songwriter Asks Sunny War About Touring While Black
American Songwriter has a feature on “Touring While Black,” and one of several artists interviewed is Sunny War. She’s candid. “I would say,” she says, “the majority of the shows I’ve played since the release of my first LP With the Sun in 2018 have been sort of scary for me. A lot of my gigs are in predominantly white […]
New Music From Leif Vollebekk
New Waves (Live Recordings ‘19-’21) is a collection of recordings from Leif Vollebekk’s live performances from between 2019 and 2021. The set includes five songs from his 2019 LP New Ways as well as “Long Blue Light,” released as a single in 2020. Of the album, the Montréal-based songwriter states, “Last year I had a chance to revisit these songs and I realized […]
BPM Shares Combo Chimbita’s “reflective” track “Oya”
Beats Per Minute states that “Oya,” from the new Combo Chimbita record IRÉ, is “a reflective, slowburn affair, sneaking up on you until you’re entirely ensnared by its gorgeous, gleaming tendrils.” The site quotes singer Carolina Oliveros, who says that “Oya is a very powerful feminine deity, goddess of storms and winds, guardian of cemeteries, and an entangled duel between […]
Buzzbands Tells The Story Behind The New Single from the bird and the bee
According to Buzzbands, “The Bird and the Bee have carved out a niche with their space-age indie-pop, releasing three full-lengths of original music, two in their Interpreting the Masters series and, in 2020, a holiday album.” Now, the site continues, “the duo is back with the new single “Lifetimes,” a guitar-driven glance over their shoulders with lyrics referencing anecdotes from […]
SPIN Profiles Pluralone’s New Single
SPIN has shared the new Pluralone single, noting that “‘Claw Your Way Out’ features former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery and Dot Hacker bandmate Eric Gardner on drums [and] was produced by another Dot Hacker bandmate, guitarist Clint Walsh.” According to the site, “Its dreamy synths surround sharp beats and Klinghoffer’s high-pitched drawl, and as a whole, renders his growth in musicianship as a solo artist. The chorus allows […]
Glide Reviews L.A. Witch
Glide has a review of L.A. Witch‘s show last week in Portland at Mississippi Studios. According to the site, “The lilting bass lines provided by bassist Irita Pai quickly lulled the energized crowd into a hypnotized frenzy, balanced perfectly against the click track-perfect beats of drummer Ellie English. Lead singer and guitarist Sade Sanchez was engaged and fed […]
Live For Live Music Hypes Particle Kid’s New Jam
According to Live For Live Music, new Particle Kid single “Someone Else’s Dream” is “a stylistic introduction to Time Capsule,” the upcoming album from the musical polymath and son of Willie Nelson. “The song,” writes the site, “hears the country royalty heir embracing his alternative side with a wash of lo-fi, fuzzed-out guitar. Roots still pervade the track by way […]
New Music From Pluralone
For the better part of the past two-plus years, Josh Klinghoffer has been creating. He released his first solo album, To Be One With You, under the Pluralone moniker in late 2019 to plaudits and landed an opening slot on the first leg of Pearl Jam’s Gigaton world tour. Then the pandemic struck. Instead of wondering and wallowing about missed opportunities, […]
Tone Deaf Explores The Dinosaur Jr. Connection In Particle Kid’s New Video
Tone Deaf explores the new single from Particle Kid – “Someone Else’s Dream,” which features J Mascis, Sunny War, and Paul Bushnell – in a recent post. “There are plenty of Dinosaur Jr.-inspired flourishes in ‘Someone Else’s Dream,’” honing in on the Mascis connection. “The psychedelic rock rhythm is inflected with wheezing harmonica and flashes of dirty shoegaze. The experimental fuzz […]
Music & Riots Gives Combo Chimbita A Nod
Combo Chimbita goes for NACC chart adds next week with IRÉ, their new LP out tomorrow via ANTI- Records, and the quartet is set to go on tour with Lido Pimienta soon. Music & Riots has the video for a song that will likely be a highlight of the upcoming tour: “Yo Me Lo Merezco.“ The site notes that the video “features Black […]
Vancouver Sun Posts Interview With L.A. Witch, Who Are On Tour Now But No Longer Playing Vancouver
L.A. Witch’s upcoming January 29 performance in Vancouver has been canceled over COVID concerns, but the Vancouver Sun still has a Q&A with the garage rockers that it posted in advance of the star-crossed show. Visit the site here to learn about the making of Play With Fire and their “Ghost On The Highway” single, the band’s love of classic LA band The […]
Expectador Shares Yael Meyer’s “Huracán” Video
Chilean website Expectador has Yael Meyer‘s video for “Huracán,” which the site describes as “an epic of emotions.” According to Google Translate, they say: “Sailing on a sea of sensibilities, this new composition unites [Meyer’s] unmistakable authorship, along with new sound perspectives, wrapping her singing with a sophisticated production work, to which is added the emotional display of […]
New Music From Combo Chimbita
Combo Chimbita is a visionary quartet that draws from ancestral mythologies and musical enlightenment. Comprised of Carolina Oliveros’ mesmeric contralto, illuminating storytelling and fierce guacharaca rhythms, Prince of Queens’ hypnotic synth stabs and grooving bass lines, Niño Lento’s imaginative guitar licks, and Dilemastronauta’s powerful drumming, the lure and lore of Combo Chimbita is intense and undeniable. Their cathartic new album IRÉ continues […]
