Nippertown Reviews The Flaming Lips and Particle Kid
Nippertown has a review of a Flaming Lips/Particle Kid show from a little over a week ago. After raving about the Lips, the review delves into the opening set with some kind words. “Opener Particle Kid,” the site says, “was a pleasant surprise. When I last saw him at the Outlaw Festival, he was an artist with ideas, […]
Foamboy Curates A Party Playlist For Slumbermag
Foamboy‘s My Sober Daydream, according to Slumbermag, “is a collection of jazz-influenced pop songs that are as danceable as they are sharp.” The site has a playlist curated by the Portand-based duo, whose LP is at radio now. According to the band, “This playlist is for people having a bad time at the party. Maybe you don’t […]
New Music From Leif Vollebekk
Leif Vollebekk has shared a live version of “I’m Not Your Lover,” recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles in 2020. “This was the first time we played the song live, a couple of months before the lockdowns. It was a beautiful sold-out show at one of my favourite venues,” Vollebekk explains. “When I first heard the live […]
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. The band’s most recent album […]
American Songwriter Profiles L.A. Witch
American Songwriter has a feature on Sade Sanchez, the singer/guitarist who fronts L.A. Witch. The article gives a history of the band, including its origin story. “I love that it’s always a way to connect people,” Sanchez tells the site about the band. “And that it’s an escape for people. It’s a good escape for myself. It’s this […]
Lake 22 Releases “Style/Substance” Lyric Video
Lake 22 has a new lyric video for “Style/Substance,” one of the killer tracks on their new self-titled full length. The YouTube description tells us all we need to know, calling the clip a “high energy lyric video with a nostalgic view of a crazy world. The song kicks into high gear from the beginning bass […]
New Music From Rivi
Following 2019’s The Removal, Nightwing marks the second collaboration between filmmaker-musician Chris Hunt and self-described hermit Rivi. Written remotely and recorded near Yucca Valley, CA in July of 2021, Nightwing shifts between austere ambient tableaus and siren-like voices within brooding rhythm punctuated throughout by wistful moments of levity and nostalgia. Manipulated strings and hazy vocals […]
New Music From Alison Clancy
Alison Clancy is an artist in pursuit of beauty and catharsis. She hails from the mountains of Northern California and moved to New York City with dreams of dancing and creative collaboration, landing a place as a dancer at The Metropolitan Opera. Alongside her dance career, Clancy has continually written music and says “most days […]
Foamboy Speaks With Mundane Mag
In a recent interview with Mundane Mag, available here in full, Foamboy’s Katy Ohsiek said, “I want our music to be relatable and reassuring. I want the stories to feel as nuanced, confusing, and insular as the little anecdotes we tell our close friends. A lot of the stories in this album have no real conclusion. […]
Buzzyband Says Sun Atoms Straddles The Line Between Mysticism and Sci-Fi
"Sun Atoms is psych rock that straddles the line between spiritual mysticism and science fiction," writes Buzzyband, which continues, "although it is primarily in the psych space, there is a lot of darkwave and art-pop littered in this 8-track. Synths and washed guitar textures constantly weave around, performing inter-dimensional cartwheels while Atoms’ vocal provides a […]
Moon and Bike Comes to Oregon Music News
“Ambient meets Americana” on the new Moon and Bike LP, according to Oregon Music News. The site has a podcast interview with one half of the duo, Boone Johnson, who plays acoustic guitar alongside Michael Robert Swanson‘s electric guitar. According to OMN, “It’s an interesting pairing and brought into high relief when they just play […]
Rolling Stone Features Particle Kid
Rolling Stone recently featured the new Particle Kid single, which features contributions from Sean Ono Lennon and Mickey Raphael. Lennon told RS, “I think Micah and I both kind of like a kind of an instinct toward being a little more, I don’t know, off the beaten path, you know, alternative or whatever… I was […]
ATH Writes That La Bonte Hits A Sweet Spot
Austin Town Hall says "Don't Let This Define Me" by La Bonte drops "with endless emotion… When it opens, it definitely feels like something hanging in the territory between late 90s Jade Tree and Bedhead…. In the middle the song gives you a bit of respite, letting you breath for a moment before taking on […]
Saint Audio Highlights Foamboy’s “Succinct Yet Satisfying” Debut LP
Saint Audio has shared its review of Foamboy’s My Sober Daydream, calling the album “a succinct yet satisfying romp overflowing with danceable grooves and dazzlingly saturated soundscapes.” The record is “as accomplished a debut album as you are likely to hear this year,” owing in large part to the “slick, low-key instrumentals” created by Wil […]
Brooklyn Vegan Shares Sun Atoms Video and Chats With Jsun Atoms
Brooklyn Vegan has the video for Sun Atoms' "Half Robot Half Butterfly," along with an interview with Jsun Atoms about the many influences that went into the creation of new LP Let There Be Light. These influences include Morocco, 11:11 (the time), The Cure, and more… Read more here to get a better sense of […]
WXAC’s Charles Lull Recommends Sunny War
WXAC's Charles Lull digs the new Sunny War LP Simple Syrup and says it's "a perfect album for a dreary morning, a chill day or any day the you want to feel the blues." Lull reviewed the record for BCTV, telling readers that it's worth taking time with the album and navigating the difficult topics […]
New Music From G Bryant
Soft Assembly Of A Die Hard is the debut solo effort of LA-based multi-instrumentalist G Bryant. The 12-track LP reflects the array of influences in Bryant’s eclectic music-making, including indie post-rock, ambient soundscapes, psychedelic folk, dark Americana, musique concrete, traditional African music, and others. The album is rooted in warm synths and electric bass, spooky […]
Buzzbands Calls La Bonte “Endearingly Shambolic”
According to Buzzbands, the debut LP from La Bonte is "a collection of unfussy and at times endearingly shambolic indie-rock that allows Garrett La Bonte's narratives, imbued with a palpable but not mawkish melancholy, shine." The site has the video for "Francis Right," which La Bonte made "using a combination of After Effects and frame-by-frame […]
Brooklyn Vegan Says Half String is “Pure Sunshine”
According to Brooklyn Vegan, Half String‘s A Fascination With Heights is “a terrific record that definitely skews a little more toward the atmospheric postpunk of The Sound and Comsat Angels than what Ride, Swervedriver or My Bloody Valentine were doing. Poppier too. Choruses are loaded with “lah lahs” and “Bah bah bahs,” and songs like […]
Audiofemme Highlights The “Comfortable, Soul-Healing” Foamboy
“Warm, saturated, and bright, but not harsh,” Audiofemme writes, “Foamboy’s energy is ultimately as comforting as a soak in a bubble bath – the perfect soundtrack for a soul-healing, unplugged moment.” The site has an interview feature with the Portland-based duo, whose pandemic-produced LP My Sober Daydream is at radio currently. It also has the […]
