KCRW Features David Newton On Its Deirdre O’Donoghue Podcast
Visit KCRW for a podcast featuring David and Bekki Newton, who reminisce about the legendary DJ Deirdre O’Donoghue and her importance in the rise of Newton’s classic 80s band The Mighty Lemon Drops. The feature ought to fascinate any fan of the band or anyone excited about the history of college radio. You can also check out more episodes of Bent by Nature: […]
Echoes Lists Lanterna Among Its Top Albums of 2021
Lanterna‘s Hidden Drives landed on Echoes’ Top 30 Albums of 2021 list, which is here along with a nice Spotify playlist. Earlier in the year, the show said Lanterna makes “a sound that seems right for these times, one made up of a few simple elements, but crafting an organically complex music that plays like the soundtrack for the view outside […]
Christmas Underground Shares David Newton’s New “Winter Tragedy”
“Winter Tragedy,” the new one from David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels, is what Christmas Underground describes as “a toe-tapper of a holiday song.” According to the site, “plenty of hooks and handclaps infuse this joyous romp with enough energy to get you through a whole afternoon. But then you listen to the lyrics – and that is […]
Visions.de Compares Alison Clancy To Harvey, Wolfe, and Nadler
Visions, a website in Germany, recently shared Alison Clancy‘s “Mutant Gifts,” which she recorded at a church called St. John’s in New York’s West Village. According to Google Translate, the site says “Her songs and sounds are mostly of a shady nature, and her guitar is often a tool for creating smooth drones. In part, her pieces […]
New Music From Shiva Burlesque
Independent Project Records will release the two-CD Mercury Blues + Skulduggery collection from Shiva Burlesque in February 2022. Hear single “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 Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles in the […]
KCRW Recommends “Winter Tragedy” From David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels
“Pucker up,” advises KCRW, because “David Newton from legacy psych-rock outfit The Mighty Lemon Drops is back with a new release that’s custom made for the season. It’s a California Christmas jam, laden with irresistible rock standards like guitar solos, hand-claps, and harmonies — plus, sleigh bells and a sitar. Update your holiday gathering with this winky track.” […]
Riff Lord Buzz Osborne Shares His Secrets
Five Legged Dog, the new collection of Melvins acoustic versions, demonstrates just how good of a guitarist the band’s Buzz Osborne is. Now, he has appeared in a new episode of Gibson’s Riff Lords series. Learn about how Osborne has crafted some of his most iconic ragers. As Music Radar notes, “Playing his black Les Paul Custom through a Mesa/Boogie Fillmore head and […]
Relix Shares Pix From Flaming Lips’ Show With Particle Kid
Relix has photos from Flaming Lips‘ recent show with Particle Kid in Boston, on November 15. The technicolor shots give a preview of what fans can expect when the two come back together for a grip of tour dates. Check them out here. Particle Kid is at radio now with a new single, “Velocirapture,” that features Sean Ono Lennon and Mickey Raphael. Get […]
Backseat Mafia Calls Alison Clancy The Real Deal
Backseat Mafia writes that Alison Clancy “is absolutely the real deal.” The site has her recently-released new live video, and it advises viewers to “immerse in the monochrome footage for this live take of ‘Mutant Gifts,’ an incantatory masterpiece of drone-psych Americana… Expansive, avant-garde, brooding, it’s a helluva way to announce your arrival. But then, as Alison herself […]
PUG Features Sun Atoms
“At the center of the Sun,” writes Psychedelic Underground Generation, “atoms under intense pressure from gravity undergo a process.” Sun Atoms‘ new LP Let There Be Light, the site professes, “is an incredible combination of psychedelic dark wave and postmodern pop.” Read the full review here. Let There Be Light is at radio now and seeking spins. Get it!
New Music From The Ophelias
The Ophelias burst out of the San Francisco indie rock scene in 1985 and their first, self-titled LP appeared in early 1987 to widespread acclaim. “Almost every reviewer has considered them the most innovative band out of San Francisco in many years,” wrote Bob O’Brien in the LA Times. Soon they were signed to Rough Trade US and two more […]
Foamboy, Writes Willamette Week, Combine the “Grungiest And Most Elegant Bits of The 80s”
According to Willamette Week, Foamboy is cool. “A name like Foamboy suggests softness, inefficacy, the quality of being a punching bag—a neat contrast with the muscular post-disco that the duo has been pursuing since changing its name from Chromatic Colors. Their recently released debut, Sober Daydream, sets Katy Ohsiek’s sangfroid against a jazzy, hard-hitting backdrop from producer Wil Bakula and a boatload […]
L.A. Witch Adds West Coast Tour Dates
L.A. Witch has updated their tour itinerary to include a West Coast jaunt at the beginning of 2022. The band will start in their hometown of Los Angeles before galavanting all the way up to British Columbia. See their full show schedule below – tonight they’ll be hitting up Atlanta, and tomorrow it’s Carrboro, NC. L.A. […]
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. Continuing their mystical saga, […]
New Music From David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels
Wolverhampton, UK-born David Newton was the guitarist and songwriter behind C86 popsters The Mighty Lemon Drops, who starred on the front cover of an issue of NME and crossed over to top the charts at US alternative/college radio. Following a brief stint with The Blue Aeroplanes after the break-up of the Drops in the early 90s, Newton relocated to Los Angeles in 1995 where […]
L.A. Witch Tells New Noise About Making Cover Songs Unique
L.A. Witch’s Sade Sanchez recently told New Noise about the band’s new Gun Club cover, “Ghost On The Highway.” According to Sanchez, “It’s challenging to do a cover and make it your own thing. You wanna do the original justice, you know? We approached the song in so many different ways, like tried to slow it down or play the rhythm […]
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 […]
