At The Barrier Praises The “Maelstrom Of Creation” Displayed On Sun Atoms’ Debut LP
“I feel like I’m tasting a fine wine in one of those old-style foody TV shows with Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke as I listen to Let There Be Light and make sense of what I’m getting on my aural palette.” These are the impressions of Mike Ainscoe of At The Barrier, who has a robust […]
Pluralone Dishes to SPIN About “Across The Park” and “Sevens
SPIN has behind-the-scenes details from Josh Klinghoffer about the new songs from Pluralone, “Across The Park” and “Sevens,” both of which are at radio now. “The music (all apart from the bass) [on ‘Across The Park’] was recorded on my Tascam cassette 8-track at home. Oh, and it features beyond beautiful strings written and arranged […]
MetalSucks Has Melvins’ New Acoustic “Revolve”
MetalSucks has “Revolve,” from Melvins‘ upcoming massive Five Legged Dog acoustic collection. According to Buzz Osborne, “I wrote ‘Revolve’ on an unplugged electric guitar in a hotel room in San Francisco and it sounded great! Obviously then it wasn’t hard to make an all acoustic version of ‘Revolve’ work. It’s a great riff.” MAybe it […]
APIND Takes On Occurrence’s New LP
A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed compares Occurrence to Curve, Nine Inch Nails, The Cardigans, Goldfrapp and Garbage in a review of the band’s new LP I Have So Much Love To GIve. “Vocals from Cat Hollyer anchor the title cut and others here, with her pristine delivery elevating what could be fairly routine progressions through […]
Glide Mag Continues To Support Gregory Ackerman
Glide Magazine is on the Gregory Ackerman train. The site previously shared the Still Waiting Still cut “Full Grown,” and now it has “All This Thinking.” The site says that “Ackerman’s voice is warm and wide, delivered from the vantage point of the great narrator, with richness and poignant lyrical wit. Harmonies blend and float […]
New Music From Pluralone
There’s a lot of exciting news on the Josh Klinghoffer front. The ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers member’s debut live performance as Pluralone is this Friday, October 1, at Ohana Encore. Klinghoffer is also now a touring member of both Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder’s new band The Earthlings, which also features the Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith as well as Andrew Watt, Pino Palladino, and Glen Hansard. He also made contributions to Vedder’s […]
Glide Mag Gets “Full Grown” With Gregory Ackerman
Glide Mag has the video for “Full Grown,” from the new Still Waiting Still LP by Gregory Ackerman. “Featuring mournful harmonica and a beautiful string arrangement from violinist Gabriel Wheaton,” the site notes, “the song carries a sense of nostalgia that is only amplified by Ackerman’s deep and hushed vocal harmonies and slowly strummed guitar. He also conveys this feeling […]
Lake 22 Shares “Backseat Driver” Video
Lake 22 just released the video for “Backseat Driver,” a standout track from their self-titled sophomore LP. The live-action video was directed and edited by Portland’s Lance Hofstad. Enjoy it here. Lake 22 is the musical culmination of the best about growing up in the Pacific Northwest. The band’s music is shaped by punk music, the grunge rock of […]
Acoustic Guitar Breaks Down Simple Syrup
Acoustic Guitar Magazine has a breakdown of Simple Syrup, the new record from Sunny War, that will be of interest to any guitar geek who has heard her music. “Big Baby is actually War’s nickname for her workhorse guitar, a 1989 Guild True American dreadnought that she’s played since her days busking on the boardwalk at Southern California’s […]
New Music From Sun Atoms
Let There Be Light by Sun Atoms is the debut solo effort from Portland, Oregon’s Jsun Atoms, produced by The Dandy Warhols’ guitar pedal maestro Peter Holmström and mixed by London’s legendary Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, The Cranberries). The rich pedigree is evident in this eight song LP, Let There Be Light, an incredible combination of psychedelic dark wave and postmodern pop, due in […]
LOBF and Gigwise Cover L.A. Witch’s New Gun Club Cover
Several outlets have picked up on L.A. Witch‘s new split 7″ with The Coathangers, on which each band covers an iconic song from punk’s past. For their side, L.A. Witch picked The Gun Club‘s “Ghost On The Highway” and covered it with aplomb. Hear it via The Line Of Best Fit here, or here at Gigwise. Get the song from our download page, […]
Gregory Ackerman and Illuminati Hotties Tackle Heartbreak on “Losing Sense,” Shared Recently Via American Songwriter
“Losing Sense” – a Gregory Ackerman bonus track featuring Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties – recently got some coverage in American Songwriter. Ackerman told the zine that the song is for “the heartbroken, the lost-in-love, the wayward children of the romantic world… I wrote it after the abrupt end to an abrupt start of a beautiful thing with a beautiful neighbor. […]
Rolling Stone Has The Scoop on Melvins’ Massive New Set
Rolling Stone has the scoop on Five Legged Dog, a 36-song acoustic retrospective coming next month from Melvins via Ipecac Records. The band’s Buzz Osborne tells RS, ““Since we weren’t touring we had the time to do something of this size. I’m very excited about this record. Dale [Crover] and Steven [McDonald] did a fantastic job on this. I think it’s […]
Folk Radio UK Premieres “Good Song” By Gregory Ackerman
Folk Radio UK calls “Good Song,” from Gregory Ackerman‘s newly-released LP Still Waiting Still, “an infectious laid-back hazy number, lyrically sincere and couched in more than a little ray of that west coast sunshine.” The site shared the track in advance of the album’s release, and also spoke to Ackerman, who highlighted “some of the battles songwriters face […]
Goldmine Describes Lanterna’s Sound As “Lush, Pastoral Shoegaze Artistry”
Goldmine Mag has a review of the new Lanterna album. “Turn off the GPS and throw away the maps,” the site writes. “Where Lanterna’s going on Hidden Drives, their seventh album of lush, pastoral shoegaze artistry, it’s best to just follow along with guitarist Henry Frayne and get blissfully lost in instrumental, bucolic daydreams of dusty roads, rolling hills, fields that […]
New Music From Melvins
Melvins have announced their most ambitious project yet: Five Legged Dog a 36-song newly recorded, acoustic anthology from Ipecac Records featuring a career-spanning collection of songs from 1987’s Gluey Porch Treatments to 2017’s A Walk With Love & Death. The entire gamut of the legendary band’s catalogue is represented and despite the ‘acoustic’ designation, this is not a […]
Gregory Ackerman Chats With Stereo Embers
Gregory Ackerman, whose just-released new LP Still Waiting Still is at radio now, was recently a guest of Alex Green‘s on the Stereo Embers podcast. “Still Waiting Still,” according to Green, “is shimmering with delicacy and strength. Buoyed by shadowy backbeats, sneaky melodies and Ackerman’s inimitable and unforgettable delivery, sonically Still Waiting Still falls somewhere […]
BPM Cheers The “Serene” Pet Parade From Fruit Bats
Beats Per Minute contends that “never have Fruit Bats sounded so serene” as on new LP The Pet Parade. “Eric D. Johnson and company sound completely comfortable throughout The Pet Parade, as if they’re working from a home-field advantage… Over 20 years in, it’s clear that showcasing experience is where Fruit Bats shine. For some […]
When You Motor Away… Recommends Dive Index’s Refolded
When You Motor Away… has shared some tracks from Dive Index‘s Refolded project, explaining that “Last year producer Will Thomas released the album Waving at Airplanes, and over the time between then and now, he took the songs apart, sort of dub style, and with the help of several fellow producers and remixers, came up […]
New Music From Gregory Ackerman
“I used to feel like I was the only one that should have a say in my process,” says Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Gregory Ackerman of his music. “I’ve since discovered that both life and music get better the more people you share them with.” Ackerman’s latest work, Still Waiting Still, embraces this discovery. […]
