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 and put together a network of […]
Fruit Bats – #3 At NACC Adds This Week – Get Glowing Review From Glide
Glide Magazine has reviewed Fruit Bats‘ The Pet Parade, which was recorded remotely during the pandemic. “The support staff are a who’s who of the current folk-rock indie scene,” Glide notes, “and even though they were forced to record separately, the album as a whole is warm and fluid starting with the opening title track…The […]
MusicOHM Recommends Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains’ New LP
MusicOMH says “Banane Bleue is a contrast of blissful pop music and highly contemplative soundscapes, juxtaposing our ideal version of living and a difficult outer reality. This record captures the essence of ‘the blue banana’, a place too vast to navigate and too complex to fully understand.” The site awards four stars to the new […]
Buzzbands Appreciates Max Foreman’s “Hallucinated” Synth-Pop
Buzzbands has an embed and a review of Max Foreman’s Underground. “The six-song EP from the singer-songwriter-producer (known for being one-half of the duo Bouquet) offers understated and at times surrealistic observations from a year almost everyone, for better or mostly worse, felt ‘Underground.’ Stylish but minimal, Foreman’s synth-pop feels as much hallucinated as heard; […]
Paltrocast Interviews Mike Viola, Whose New LP Is Recommended By Powerpopaholic
Music industry insider Darren Paltrowitz spoke with Mike Viola, whose new LP Godmuffin is out now and currently at radio, for an October episode of his Paltrocast podcast on V13 Media. In addition to Viola, the episode features the legendary Chris Hillman (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Bros.) and Lizzy Hale (AXS TV). Enjoy the […]
New Music From Melpo Mene
Swedish-born, Los Angeles-based Melpo Mene (pronounced men-ay) brings an unparalleled authenticity and self-awareness to his music. His music offers warm synths, atmospheric guitars, sensitive vocals, and generous words for a sort of humble yet authoritative therapy. Mene has seen numerous successes over the past years; he wrote the original theme song for the second season […]
Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats, Playing Seth Meyers Tonight, Talks Twenty Years With American Songwriter
It’s now been two decades since Eric D. Johnson began putting out records as Fruit Bats. “It’s almost weirder that 20 years ago, I was 24,” he told American Songwriter in a recent interview. “I’m also marking 20 years of being an adult.. I feel like I didn’t even really get going until 2015. Usually […]
Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains Perform “At Home” For Break Thru Radio
Break Thru Radio has a brief set from Frànçois Marry of Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains, featuring “a cozy, intimate performance of two songs from the record [Banane Bleue, just released on Domino and at radio now], along with a conversation about the project’s development and the process for crafting this record.” Enjoy the performance, which […]
Zo Talks With Max Foreman About Creating A Lyrical Universe and More
In a recent interview, Max Foreman told Zo Magazine that “Making a solo record was a plunge I wanted to take since at least as far back as 2011 when I bought my first drum machine. I would wake up early in the morning and create these rich electronic textures, but I had no idea […]
Big Takeover Premieres Mike Viola’s Newest Video
Big Takeover recently premiered the third official video from Mike Viola‘s Godmuffin, for “We May Never Be This Young Again.” According to the site, “The song itself is done in the style of a 1950s dance ballad, with velvety vocal harmonies occasionally reverberating into the contemplative atmosphere. Viola’s lightly wistful, aching vocals float over the […]
Sunny War Compares Music to Drugs In American Songwriter
“What I love most about music is how it’s able to change your mood,” Sunny War recently told American Songwriter in a new feature. “I’ve always used it as a drug – I guess it was my first drug, just listening to music. I always needed a way to zone out, especially as a kid. […]
James Yorkston Makes A Mix For Indie Sunset In Rome
About The Wide, Wide River, his new album, James Yorkston told Indie Sunset In Rome, “This beautiful album [was] made with The Second Hand Orchestra, a Swedish band ran by Karl-Jonas, a man I have known for a few years now. The Second Hand Orchestra hadn’t heard any of these songs before the sessions. I […]
Vinyl Music Writer Says The New Pluralone LP Is “A True Gift”
Vinyl Writer Music says that “I Don’t Feel Well by Josh Klinghoffer, under the alias Pluralone, is a true gift that offers us a different glimpse into his musical soul. It’s more than deserved that Josh Klinghoffer was the youngest member to be inducted into the Hall of Fame at age 32 [as a member […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
“Hello from in here to all you out there.” Fruit Bats’ ninth LP opens with this invocation, this call from an isolated vocal room to your headphones somewhere out in the world. It’s a beckoning for your trust and attention, but also an assurance in lonely times—a distillation of melancholy wrapped in a danceable waltz. “The Pet […]
CLASH Interviews Frànçois Marry of Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains, Who Go For NACC Adds Next Week
CLASH Music calls the new album from Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains, Banane Bleue, a “subtle, absorbing, and timely” collection in a new feature. The site has an interview with the band’s leader, Frànçois Marry, who explains that “this album started off in Berlin, then we did a bit just outside of Paris. Then we finished it […]
Max Foreman, Going for NACC Adds Next Week, Shares “State Of Decay” Via Week In Pop
On single “State Of Decay,” Week In Pop writes, Max Foreman (Bouquet, Tenebre) “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 of erosion in connection to the human made world of concrete asphalt are […]
Samantha Sidley Talks E.T. With LA Weekly
Samantha Sidley recently recalled “the best gig [she] ever saw” for a feature in LA Weekly. “Every summer I go to the Hollywood Bowl to see my wife’s grandfather John Williams conduct the LA Phil,” she told the alt-weekly. “He does a mixture of pre-’70s film scores along with his own music and it always completely […]
York Calling Shares The Layered And Lovely New Daedelus Track
York Calling has shared the “layered and lovely” track “Brightest Star Tonight,” Daedelus’ contribution to the Road Angel Project series curated by Inara George of The Bird and The Bee. The song, according to the site, is “something of an electronic odyssey… punchy compared to a lot of his sprawling soundscapes.” Hear it here. As with […]
New Music From Max Foreman
Underground is the debut solo release from Los Angeles-based songwriter and producer Max Foreman. A figure in the West Coast music scene for two decades, Foreman is best known for his keyboard and vocal work in the electric pop duo Bouquet and as guitarist of the San Francisco math rock trio Tenebre. On his new […]
Mike Viola Tells Pandemic Stories To The Patriot-Ledger
Mike Viola has come “a long way from a Stoughton teenager cutting his musical teeth playing innumerable gigs at the old Scotch and Sounds lounge at Westgate Lanes in Brockton,” notes The Patriot-Ledger, which was once the musician’s hometown rag. The paper has an interview with Viola, a prolific musician and producer who used the […]
