NPR Music Shares Music Sunny War’s Mountain Stage Performance
See Sunny War’s performance of “Lucid Lucy,” as recorded at Mountain Stage, on NPR Music‘s website. The track comes from War’s 2020 album Simple Syrup, which is at radio now and available from our download page along with several of War’s previous releases. NPR Music also has a long history with War; follow the link, […]
The Project Room Features Bruce Licher and Independent Project Press
We’ve been sending out the recent releases from the newly relaunched Independent Project Records, including the Source compilation and the expanded reissues from Half String and Scenic. The music is great for fans of cinematic instrumentals, shoegaze, and post-punk; another part of the IPR story, however, is its intimate connection to Independent Project Press. Run by […]
New Music From Gus Englehorn
Gus Englehorn is an Alaskan singer-songwriter based in Quebec City. A former professional snowboarder Englehorn transitioned to music a couple of years ago. “My obsession with music grew too intense to ignore,” he says. “I’m a one-thing-at-the-time kind of guy.” His approach is visceral, subconscious and much like his snowboarding career: unafraid to take risks and unapologetic. Dadaism, […]
Louder Than War Praises Melvins’ New Experimental Acoustic Set
“With their new acoustic album Five-Legged Dog,” writes Louder Than War, “Melvins reveal how music can become wildly untethered from our expectations and experimentation can take new and unheralded forms… The album feels at once indelibly linked yet wholly untethered from the Melvins’ oeuvre, forcing the listener to reevaluate just what it is we think we […]
XS Noise Shares “Cat’s Eye” By Sun Atoms
XS Noise has the video for Sun Atom‘s “Cat’s Eye,” a highlight on the new LP Let There Be Light. The site describes the track as “ebbing and flowing like Love and Rockets under a Spiritualized raga” and says “the spirit of Bowie’s classic “Moonage Daydream” echoes through the track’s astral fabric. Interweaving superlative contributions […]
KCRW Awards Foamboy With Today’s Top Tune
Foamboy had KCRW‘s Top Tune this past Monday, October 25 with “Peach Smoothie.” According to the station, “For their debut album, My Sober Daydream, Portland-based duo Foamboy distilled their experiences working with other musicians in order to focus on one kind of musical aesthetic. This process helped them edit out the fat for a lean and […]
Sleeping Shamen Says Melvins Pass The Acoustic Smell Test
Says Sleeping Shamen, “Melvins need no introduction. I could make a pretty compelling argument that the Pacific Northwest legends are almost singlehandedly responsible for the creation of sludge, and grunge, and have had a massive influence on what went on to become stoner rock.” The band now has a massive, 36-song box set at radio […]
L.A. Witch Goes On Tour
L.A. Witch isn't just at radio now with their dope new Gun Club cover "Ghost On The Highway." The trio is also on tour around North America. These are the dates! See L.A. Witch, and get "Ghost On The Highway" on the air along with their 2020 LP Play With Fire. 10/26 – Phoenix, AZ […]
American Pancake Likes Sugar Nap
American Pancake is into Sugar Nap, writing that “singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, electronic music producer and engineer Caleb Kallander has a penchant for mixing things up literally. His latest ‘When She Comes’ takes organic folk sounds and bathes them in textured bits of electronica. The result is a brand of storytelling that has whimsical surreal edges. […]
MXDWN Says Sun Atoms Provides Much More Than A Psych Throwback
According to MXDWN, "It would probably be a bit reductive to slot Sun Atoms' Let There Be Light as a pure piece of psych-rock since elements of shoegaze, darkwave and other synth-based genres crop up across the project. But an undercurrent of psychedelia still runs through every track, from the cloudy textures to the cosmic […]
New Music From Moon and Bike
Moon and Bike is an instrumental guitar duo based in Portland, Oregon. Hard to pin down to a single genre, their use of acoustic and electric guitars to create lush, melodic soundscapes is at the core of their sound, which is influenced by the likes of Daniel Lanois, Michael Hedges, Cocteau Twins, and R.E.M. Boone […]
Melvins’ Dale Crover Tells Metalsucks About Five Legged Dog
Metalsucks is a podcast, Melvins drummer Dale Crover is their guest this week! Crover discusses the new Melvins set Five Legged Dog, "how the band narrowed down the song list for it, which songs the band attempted to rework but failed, and his thoughts on doing an acoustic tour." Enjoy that sweet podcast experience right here. […]
Volatile Weekly Shares Sun Atoms Video and Effusive Praise For The Project’s New LP
Volatile Weekly is into Sun Atoms' Let there Be Light, which it reviews in depth and calls "an album that refuses to be pigeon-holed… eight tracks that all loosely revolve around the star that blazes at the middle of the solar system; Let There Be Light fuses styles and sounds like a long-lost Basquiat painting […]
Jack Rabid Reviews Scenic For Trouser Press
Jack Rabid, whose Big Takeover Mag continues to highlight new, independent artists with passion, once wrote about Scenic for Trouser Press. According to Rabid, “The cold wind that blows through the East Mojave desert in Arizona and California blows through this whole album… Scenic plays nothing but instrumentals inspired by the lonely beauty of that desert… […]
Sunny War’s Mountain Stage Performance Broadcasts This Weekend
Sunny War recently played Mountain Stage, and the performance is set to air on Friday. Recorded in front of a live audience, Mountain Stage features performances from seasoned legends and emerging stars in genres ranging from folk and blues to indie rock, synth pop, world music, and beyond. War’s performance will be syndicated to hundreds […]
New Music From Foamboy
Foamboy is a Portland-based duo comprised of producer Wil Bakula and vocalist Katy Ohsiek. They met in Salem, OR and worked together for a number of years in the experimental musical collective Chromatic Colors, in which they collaborated with a wide variety of instrumentalists, released two full-length albums, and graced the stages of many outdoor festivals, […]
NW Music Scene Takes A Sugar Nap
Northwest Music Scene has shared the video for “Going Nowhere” by Sugar Nap. The site writes, “You can hear the significant impression Pink Floyd made on Sugar Nap in parts of ‘Going Nowhere,’ a synthesis of progressive, electronic, and psychedelic indie music with Caleb’s caramelly production and contemplative lyricism inspired by love, dreams, decisions, and […]
The Wire Engages With IPR’s Bruce Licher
We’ve been pretty stoked lately to be working with Independent Project Records, which has been reissuing classic music alongside unissued gems from the likes of Scenic, Half String, Lanterna, Savage Republic, Ophelias (SF), and more. Earlier this year, The Wire caught up with IPR’s Bruce Licher to discuss the reissue campaign, the iconic letterpress art […]
Punk News Speaks With Melvins’ Buzz Osborne
Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, writes Punk News, “will answer any question that you ask him. But, there’s the trick. His responses are direct, carefully spoken, and often short. In fact, because he usually speaks with a sort of force, you wonder if the question is annoying him, if he doesn’t like you prying into a certain […]
AllMusic Takes On Incident At Cima
AllMusic has an entry for Incident at Cima, the debut LP from Scenic that has just been re-released in an expanded edition by Independent Project Records. “Better recorded and more melodic than previous Bruce Licher projects,” the site reports, “there is a definitive cinematic scope to these dust-swept, minor-key compositions, which put his liquid, reverberant […]
