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 […]
Willfully Obscure Touts Half String’s Sophistication and Musicianship
A decade ago, the Willfully Obscure blog ran a sweet review of A Fascination With Heights by Half String. “Inspired into action by woozy, across-the-pond exports Ride and Lush, this Tempe, AZ unit opted for a less-drowsy formula that was more in tune with Springhouse, and proto-shoegazers Pale Saints. A Fascination With Heights boasts a wide […]
New Music From Sugar Nap
Pacific Northwest-based singer / songwriter / producer Caleb Kallander has adopted a varied assortment of musical instruments and consumes an eclectic mix of music, allowing him to experiment with a consistent flow of new ideas and sounds. As Sugar Nap, he presents a progressive, psychedelic, and cinematic effort self-written, performed, produced and engineered as a tapestry […]
American Songwriter Talks To Buzz Osborne About The Epic Melvins Set Going For NACC Adds Next Week
About Melvins‘ Five Legged Dog acoustic anthology, American Songwriter writes, “The new collection of 36 songs (which coincidentally is the same number of holes in two rounds of golf, Buzz Osborne’s preferred sport) showcases what the band does well: writing, arranging, and performing music. Especially music that howls… For a band that’s put out around […]
Post-punk.com Premieres Half String’s New “Apathy Parade” Clip
Post-punk.com, which included Half String‘s 1996 release A Fascination With Heights in its 2018 list of “Essential Dream Pop Releases,” recently premiered the band’s new video for “The Apathy Parade.” The video accompanies the recent Independent Project Records re-release of the record, which has a whole lot of bonus material tacked onto it. Post-punk.com writes […]
Lake 22 Shares “Control” Video
Lake 22 has released the video for “Control,” from their new self-titled album. Check it out here. The band says, “The latest video from Lake 22, recorded with 3D animation, deals with the challenges of staying in control of things in your life from health concerns to relationship issues. The song, an outlier from their […]
New Music From Melvins
So here we are. A four-album acoustic retrospective that somehow evades nostalgia. Did you expect something predictable? This is Melvins, after all. Keep an eye out for this Five Legged Dog, this frothing mongrel, as it stalks roadside – ready to kill or maim to protect its maggot-covered bone. The set is the band’s most […]
CMJ’s Douglas Wolk Reviews Scenic’s Incident At Cima
Remember CMJ – the magazine? So do we! In the mid-Nineties, it was the authority on left-of-the-dial music and those little CDs in the back were super influential not only to college DJs but to alternative-minded adolescents all around North America. If you read the June 1995 issue, you might’ve seen the magazine’s initial review […]
Two Story Melody Praises Gregory Ackerman’s Evocative Autumnal Sound
Two Story Melody writes that Gregory Ackerman‘s song “Seasonal Living” evokes several specific feelings, including the feeling of “sleeping with your window open, so you can hear the cars blaze by. That sense of comfort and togetherness, even as you lie in your bed alone.” The site calls the Still Waiting Still song “a twisty, layered […]
The Flaming Lips, On Tour Soon, Share Videos For All American Head Songs
The Flaming Lips‘ American Head is a dizzying and colorful aural experience that ranks high on the psychedelic pioneers’ catalog of accomplishments. Did you know it was also a visual album? The band made videos for every track on the LP, which is at radio now. See them all now, in order, via The Lips’ […]
Gregory Ackerman Describes Music To Visual Atelier 8
In a recent interview with Visual Atelier 8, Gregory Ackerman spoke about how he feels when he listens to music. “When I’m listening to music, I am transported to a complete new world within my own self, within my own brain, where I find the center of all things. It’s a place where nothing really […]
New Music From Half String
Independent Project Records is proud to reissue the 1996 debut shoegaze/dream pop album by beloved Tempe, Arizona band Half String, A Fascination With Heights. The long out-of-print album was originally only available via Compact Disc and is now on vinyl and streaming services for the first time. The expanded CD / 2xLP reissue adds more than 35 minutes […]
Maximum Volume Turns Sun Atoms Up
Maximum Volume bestowed Band Of The Day honors on Sun Atoms this summer when the project announced the release of Let There Be Light. Lead single “Take Me To Your Leader,” the site wrote, has “lush, languid textures and a low-slung attitude [and] traverses the astral planes between Arcade Fire and The Dandy Warhols with an entrancing, psychedelic mellowness all its own.” Listen now here, and […]
NextMosh Shares Melvins’ “Pitfalls In Serving Warrants”
“’Pitfalls In Serving Warrants’ is one of my favorites,” says Melvins’ Buzz Osborne about one of the three advance singles we’ve digitally serviced from the iconic heavy band. According to Osborne, it’s “a severely underrated song and one that works very well on acoustic.” Hear it now via NextMosh, here, and prepare yourself for the massive 3-disc Five Legged Dog set […]
New Music From Scenic
Independent Project Records has reissued Scenic’s 1995 instrumental debut album, Incident at Cima, available via Darla Records as an expanded edition reissue on CD, vinyl, and digital platforms. The release adds 11 previously unreleased tracks of early demo recordings and rough basic tracks from the period and includes new artwork based on the original album […]
