Popmatters Says There In Fact Is A Cure For The Wintertime Blues: Fruit Bats
Once again, thanks to all the stations that helped Fruit Bats‘ The Pet Parade hit #3 at NACC last week! Each one of you made a difference: AM 1700, CHMR, CHYZ, CKUA, DMPulse Media, Inhailer Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Jefferson Public Radio, KALX, KAXE, KBLU, KCSU, KDUR, KEUL, KFFP, KGLT, KMUD, KNNN, KRBX, KRCC, KRJF, KRSC, […]
New Music From Braids
Less than a year after releasing Shadow Offering, which got plenty of radio support around North America, Braids is revealing two brand new songs titled “Slayer Moon” and “2020.” The new tracks were premiered by the band during their WWWorld Premiere live concert, a streaming event hosted on their YouTube channel. According to the band’s Raphaelle […]
Grimy Goods Appreciates The “Free-Flowing Radiance” Of Sunny War’s Songcraft
Grimy Goods writes, “Folk phenomenon Sunny War is an artist who fervently puts her all into her music. Her songs glide across your ears with a free-flowing radiance that sucks listeners in. Her new album Simple Syrup is aptly titled as it has that same light sweetness. Her innovative 11-track release touches on themes that […]
Exclaim Digs The “Clean, Purposeful, and Well-Constructed” Nature Of The New Beams LP
“Though the band is generally rooted in harmonious psychedelic folk,” writes Exclaim! about Toronto-based sextet Beams, “their third full-length album, Ego Death, is, as the name suggests, a more intense move. Instead of lacing the album with pastoral, banjo-based tunes, doom and gloom take precedence here, creating atmospheres that are more ominous and unsettling than […]
Spectrum Culture Says Fruit Bats’ New LP Is The Work of “Pros In Their Pocket”
On Fruit Bats‘ new LP The Pet Parade, Spectrum Culture writes here, “each song feels familiar in some sense, but Eric Johnson makes them his own. The Pet Parade essentially comes off like listening to pros in their pocket. Johnson and Josh Kaufman knew what they were doing when they recorded the album.” The Pet […]
Glide Mag Praises Melpo Mene’s “Vocal Charisma”
Glide Mag recommends the newest single from Melpo Mene. “Cutting with vocal charisma, we are warmly welcomed into Melpo Mene’s eclectic world on ‘Wrong At Last’ as he swirls in a sonic landscape encompassed by fuzz bass, acoustic guitar, and refined synthesizer shimmering. An enlightening effort, ‘Wrong At Last’ blends indie-rock vocal movement with a […]
Austin Town Hall Shares Max Foreman’s “Underground”
Austin Town Hall has the video for “Underground,” the title track from longtime Bouquet and Tenebre member Max Foreman‘s debut solo EP. “On the title track from his forthcoming Underground EP, you get a glimpse of the musical landscape he straddles on this release; he seems to draw from both his electronic background and his […]
Mike Viola Stitches Together Super 8 Clips For A New Video
Mike Viola just released a new video from his Godmuffin LP, and it can be seen on Rock and Roll Globe. “Sometime in the early 1970s, he tells the site, “my oldest brother Larry bought a Super-8 movie camera at this electronics store called Summit in Brockton, Massachusetts. Funny thing about the first rolls of […]
Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson, #4 At NACC, Talks to OPB
In a recent interview with OPB.org, Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson tells readers about what a Pet Parade is. “It was this thing that my grandma used to take me to. It’s like going to a costume party with your dog or cat, but also in parade form. It’s just the most Americana thing you’ve […]
New Music From Beams
Ego Death sees Beams – the psychedelic folk-rock band that formed in 2011 in Toronto, Canada – moving in a bold new sonic direction that puts loud guitars center-stage but still makes room for the airy acoustic instrumentation that has defined its sound until now. This evolution was the result of singer/songwriter Anna Mērnieks-Duffield choosing […]
Rolling Stone Features Sunny War’s “Mama’s Milk” From Simple Syrup, Which Goes For NACC Adds Next Week
Rolling Stone likes “Mama’s Milk” from Sunny War, calling the Simple Syrup single one of the “best country songs this week.” The site writes, “Folk-punk singer-songwriter Sunny War suffers no fools in the charmingly loose ‘Mama’s Milk’ from the upcoming album Simple Syrup, out March 26th. “I’ll spit ya back up again/Like ya did mamma’s […]
Paste Praises Pluralone’s Creative Personality
About I Don’t Feel Well, from Josh Kinghoffer’s Pluralone project, Paste Magazine writes, “[It] has the mark of a passion project—those kind of heady, heavily worked over sessions that take years to complete. Klinghoffer was able to knock it out in about a month. That’s the mark of a creative personality constantly trying to scratch […]
Burning Wood Places Mike Viola’s Godmuffin Among The Best of The Year
Burning Wood applauds Godmuffin by Mike Viola, calling the LP one of 2020’s best while lamenting that it was released after they’d already made their Top Five list for the year. The record contains “some of the most heartbreaking and heartfelt pop tunes I’ve heard in a while” and is “full of lovely melodies and […]
AllMusic Applauds The “Homespun” Nature Of The New Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains Album
AllMusic says that on Banane Bleue, Frànçois Marry of & Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains “has crafted a more personal and cohesive pop album with an engagingly homespun feel that is quite refreshing to listen to… Less busy than some of the group’s mid-2010s albums, Banane Bleue opts for more minimal arrangements with softly pulsing synths, […]
New Music From Sunny War
When Sunny War speaks, her mind roves endlessly, jumping between topics and spilling out rapid fire thoughts like her wildly inventive guitar playing. The pandemic has driven many away from their creative centers, but War has been uncommonly busy. She founded a Los Angeles chapter of the nonprofit Food Not Bombs, marched for Black Lives […]
Fruit Bats’ New LP, Hailed By Brooklyn Vegan As One Of EDJ’s Best, Hits Number 4 At NACC
Thanks to all the stations that helped Fruit Bats’ The Pet Parade slide into the NACC Top Five this week. Here’s looking at you, AM 1700, CHIRP, CHMR, CJAM, CKUA, DMPulse Media, Inhailer Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Jefferson Public Radio, KALX, KDHX, KDUR, KEUL, KFFP, KGLT, KMUD, KNNN, KRBX, KRUA, KRZA, KUMD, KVMR, KWLC, KXCI, […]
New Sick Music Appreciates Melpo Mene
New Sick Music likes Melpo Mene’s newest song. According to the site, “Driving guitars and subtle percussion greet you in ‘Wrong At Last,’ followed by warm, atmospheric synths that ground the song. Melpo’s gorgeous vocals come in with a confidence that’s comforting and authoritative as he muses about humanity and all the different ways we interpret […]
FLOOD Recommends The Journey Of The Pet Parade, Which Is Hovering Outside The NACC Top Ten
Fruit Bats’ new LP The Pet Parade, writes FLOOD, “opens with the title track and leads us to question what the purpose of it all is. As you listen through each song on the album, you see the self-discovery and journey of figuring out your truest purpose in life. Through ‘Discovering’ to ‘All in One […]
Afropunk Shares Sunny War’s “Quiet” Punk Rock
Afropunk writes that “there’s something about Sunny War’s music that makes it the quietest punk rock it’s possible to make. Though her guitar work is rooted in blues, soul, and folk, Sunny’s songwriting packs a stronger punch than whole discographies of reactionary punk traditionalists.” The site has War’s video for “Mama’s Milk,” one of a […]
Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains’ Frànçois Marry Performs For Radio France Internationale
We love Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains’ new LP Banane Bleue. So, even though we can’t understand very many words in Radio France Internationale’s recent French language interview with the band’s Frànçois Marry, we are stoked about the live performances offered over the course of the session. If you’ve been enjoying the album as well, check it out […]
