Providence Journal Recommends Sunny War At Newport Folk
According to the Providence Journal, Sunny War is one of the artists to see at this year’s Newport Folk Festival. Her new album Simple Syrup, the paper writes, “exhibits a unique approach to songwriting that incorporates soul, R&B and punk into the folk realm.” Learn more here. War was scheduled to play the legendary festival […]
New Music From Always You (fka Ablebody)
Brothers Anton and Christoph Hochheim of the LA-based project Always You – formerly known as Ablebody – are releasing their second album, Bloom Off The Rose, which was produced by Jerry Paper (aka Lucas Nathan), via Shelflife / Discos de Kirlian. The pair, who were previously part of the New York synthpop group The Pains […]
The Indy Review Shares Left Vessel’s Storybook-style Video For “Your Winter”
The Indy Review writes that those “looking for a short and sweet tune” should “look no further” than “Your Winter,” from Left Vessel‘s excellent new LP One (and Driftless). Radio people are often on the hunt for short and sweet – so maybe this will be a good fit at your station! Indy Review has […]
Dive Index Tells Magnetic About The Gear Behind Refolded
Refolded, the new collection of Dive index remixes sourced from last year’s Waving At Airplanes, is one lush set of tunes. The project’s mastermind, Will Thomas, recently walked Magnetic Magazine through the gear used on the record and how it was employed. If you’re a fan of modular synths, this is an article for you! […]
Kristof Interviews Pluralone’s Josh Klinghoffer For Trinity FM
Pluralone’s Josh Klinghoffer – who is also a member of Dot Hacker, a former member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and part of tons of other musical projects as well as an inductee to the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame – was a recent guest for a phone interview on Trinity FM in Dublin, […]
Week In Pop Shares “State Of Decay” by Max Foreman
Earlier this year, Week In Pop premiered “State of Decay,” one of the songs on Max Foreman‘s debut solo EP Underground. According to the eloquent blog, “Foreman focuses on the micro and macroscopic perspectives that observe change, alterations and the various shifts that occur in the material realm during the narratives of existence. The natural cycles […]
Petal Motel Premieres Soft Sailors Video
Petal Motel recently premiered the video for “What We Live” by Soft Sailors, a single we sent out a while ago to radio. Produced during quarantine, the lo-fi video stars bandleader Geoff Geis being chased by an animorphic crow that may or may not be a figment of his own imagination. Check it out here.
Echoes Picks Lanterna For CD Of The Month
Echoes has picked Lanterna‘s Hidden Drives as its CD of the Month for July. The program describes the project thusly: “Lanterna was at the leading edge of Ambient Americana. It’s a sound passed down from Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas through Brian Eno’s Apollo, Bruce Kaphan’s Slider and mostly recently emerging in groups like SUSS. While […]
Bend Source Speaks With Left Vessel About Recording In Nature
Bend Source recently spoke with Nick Byron Campbell, the man behind Left Vessel. His new album, One (And Driftless), was created partially in a studio and recorded partially in the wilderness of Minnesota. “Regarding the natural sounds [that appear on the album],” Campbell tells Bend Source, “I’ve been tinkering a lot with recording in unique environments […]
Bandsintown Talks To Megan Palmer About Live Streaming
Megan Palmer is currently promoting a new EP, Take Good Care, but last year she learned a lot about live streaming during the pandemic. She talked recently with Bandsintown about what she learned from the experience, including how it helped her connect with people from her past and how good it felt to inspire generosity […]
Schwey, Among KCRW’s Favorites of 2021, Chats With Georgia Straight
We love Schwey, and apparently we’re not alone. The Vancouver-based band’s new LP Schwey 2: Cyber Soul is getting love at radio, including from Morning Becomes Eclectic Co-Host Anthony Valadez. The longtime KCRW DJ says he can’t “believe the progression within each song and into the next,” writing that the LP “feels like the perfect […]
Folk Radio Interviews Left Vessel and Shares Video of The Arbow
Folk Radio UK has not only an interview with Nick Byron Campbell, the man behind Left Vessel, but a video of him at work. The site notes that, “while artists have been known to record in nature, and some have even recorded the sounds of nature, on One (and Driftless), Left Vessel uses nature as the […]
Backseat Mafia Hails Patrick Watson’s “Gentle, Clever Beauty”
Backseat Mafia describes Patrick Watson‘s new three-song EP a “gentle, clever beauty… Made with vocalist Teresa Salguerio, the triptych consists of the beautiful duetted Portuguese-language fragment, ‘Se tu soubesses’ (‘If you knew’); a centerpiece of swooning orchestral lusciousness, the title track, ‘A Mermaid In Lisbon,’ as romantic as modern, recherché, intelligent pop could ever strive to […]
Associated Press Profiles Megan Palmer and Take Good Care
Last summer, as registered nurse and veteran musician Megan Palmer was both tending to COVID patients and working with fellow nurses on the songs that would become Take Good Care, she was profiled by the Associated Press. The site’s feature goes into the process behind making the album, and it also takes readers behind-the-scenes of […]
Stereo Embers Loves Lanterna’s New LP
Stereo Embers calls Hidden Drives, the new album from Lanterna, an “ever-unfolding epiphany… Instrumental throughout as has been nearly all of Lanterna’s material, this is music that, via innovative if unforced turns and some purposeful detours, gets out of its own way.” The site has a review of the LP, full of effusive language that […]
Americana UK Says The Contraptionists Succeed
About the Contraptionists' new LP Working Man's Dread, Americana UK writes that "Paul Givant and Stephen Andrews have set out to create a big and robust sound whilst playing as many instruments as possible between the two of them. In best one-man band tradition, they share vocals, play guitar, bass and banjo whilst using their […]
WHRO Applauds The Fratellis
Earlier this year, WHRO‘s Paul Shugrue featured The Fratellis in an album of the week feature. On Half Drunk Under A Full Moon, “more elaborate sonic touches to go along with their sometimes lunatic lyrics. Phil Spector’s wall of sound is a definite influence on the new album with their long-time producer Tony Hoffler layering […]
Melpo Mene Shares Newest Video
Melpo Mene has a new video out for "Wrong At Last," one of the songs from his new LP Vernalagnia. Filmed by Logi Hilmarsson, the clip follows Icelandic Selkie as she traipses around beautiful landscapes. Enjoy it here. Melpo Mene's album is at radio now and going for airplay.
Secret Meeting Says Three Is Patrick Watson’s “Magic Number” Of Songs
“Three is the magic number,” writes Secret Meeting, “for Patrick Watson on A Mermaid in Lisbon. A true return to the CD single style format – showing three very different, but equally immersive cuts, which all deserve our attention.” The site describes the collection in detail here. Get A Mermaid in Lisbon spinning now!
Megan Palmer Performs “Take Good Care” At Bowery Vault
Megan Palmer enlisted a group of supremely talented musicians for Take Good Care, her new EP of songs co-written with her fellow registered nurses during the pandemic. Recently, however, she performed the title track all by herself at Bowery Vault in Nashville. See the stripped-down performance here, and get Take Good Care spinning now.
