Leif Vollebekk’s New Video Premieres Via Photog Mag
Photog Music has the video for “I’m Not Your Lover,” the new live single from Leif Vollebekk. Director Kaveh Nabatian says, “I love working with Leif because sometimes we get to make videos like this, simple and full of vibes. We find a landscape that evokes the energy of the song, bring a minuscule crew, some nice lenses, and just […]
Immersive Atlanta Premieres Rivi Clip For “Nightwing”
Immersive Atlanta has the new video for “Nightwing,” the title track of Rivi‘s new LP produced by Chris Hunt. “On the album’s chilling title track, Hunt constructs a backdrop of spectral ambient and sluggish minimalist electronica that pulses almost menacingly. It’s more rhythmic perhaps than the majority of his solo work, but it remains steeped in the same noirish […]
SPIN Says Combo Chimbita Just Might Save Rock ‘N’ Roll
“Psychedelic cumbia band Combo Chimbita just might be the planet’s top candidate for the saviors of rock ‘n’ roll,” wrote SPIN in a recent roundup of the “50 Best Rock Bands Right Now,” linked right here. The site explains that “the band members listened to punk and metal early on in Colombia before exploring Afro-Caribbean music as […]
The Honey Pop Wants To Cuddle Leif Vollebekk
“Close your eyes and enjoy the special universe that Canadian artists have offered us lately” writes The Honey Pop, which recently shared Leif Vollebekk’s new live single. “The experimentations of Radiohead are close enough to the artistry of Vollebekk’s new single ‘I’m Not Your Lover.’ What about having a surprise live version of said hit song? The Canadian singer-songwriter […]
Alison Clancy Shares “Mutant Gifts” Live At St. John’s Performance Video
Alison Clancy‘s live “Mutant Gifts” is at radio now from Independent Project Records, and a video of the song’s performance earlier this year is now on Vimeo. Amidst the chaos of the past two years Alison, like so many artists through the ages, found creative refuge in a Church. Alison was invited to live as an […]
CoS Gets Behind La Bonte
“With an indie rock sound that hearkens back to emo, slowcore and Pedro the Lion, ‘Don’t Let This Define Me’ sees La Bonte carving out room for himself to build, then pause, breathe, and build again,” writes Consequence of Sound, which recently featured the song’s video. “Though the melancholy of the song and its accompanying video are on full […]
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 […]
