Trailblazer Interviews Sunny War
“I’m just dying at home,” Sunny War recently told Trailblazer in an interview “It’s just unnatural for me to be home this much. I’m so used to traveling and touring. For the last two years, before Covid, I was touring so much that I don’t think I know how to live if I don’t have […]
MXDWN Enjoys “Southern Nights” By Michael Andrews And Inara George
MXDWN has a feature on “Southern Nights,” the new duet between Michael Andrews and Inara George that appears on the fifth edition of the Road Angel Project series. “The cover is a softer version of Allen Toussaint’s 1975 psychedelic soul classic, which was fairly mellow to begin with. Passionate piano playing is replaced by Andrews […]
New Music From Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains
Banane Bleue is the newest album from the British-French act Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains, led by François Marry. Banane Bleue (French for “Blue Banana”) is a nomadic and truly European record, hailing from rented workspaces in some of the continent’s key cities – Berlin, Athens, Paris – and recorded with instruments that were often borrowed […]
Mike Viola Shares Nostalgic Lyric Video With MAGNET
About Mike Viola’s new record, MAGNET writes that “Godmuffin’s warmth, intimacy and playfulness are at least partly derived from the recording process. All of it was written, played and recorded by Viola at his home studio and mixed on a vintage Auditronics console (think Big Star) with zero digital editing.” The site has the lyric […]
Buzzbands Applauds Sunny War’s Work Ethic While Sharing New Single “Lucid Lucy”
“Does it seem like there are more than 24 hours in a day for certain people?,” Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands asks, identifying singer-songwriter Sunny War as one such person. Bronson notes that “she’s released three albums (one a split effort with Particle Kid titled “Particle War”) and two EPs since 2018, engaged in other noteworthy […]
Wayne Coyne Speaks With The US Sun
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips spoke to the US Sun recently, attempting to dispel any fears that the band’s recent run of bubble shows was in any way irresponsible from a health perspective. “These Flaming Lips shows are safer than anywhere, once you leave the house,” he says. “I wish attendants were so attentive at […]
Mike Viola Remembers His Late Friend Adam Schlesinger In An Interview With Broadway World
Broadway World has a long, insightful interview with Mike Viola, who recorded his new LP Godmuffin in the aftermath of losing his longtime friends and collaborator Adam Schlesinger to COVID-19. Viola and the late Fountains of Wayne frontman worked together on the soundtrack for That Thing You Do! in the 1990s, and were still close when Schesinger died. […]
If It’s Too Loud Says Sunny War’s New Single Ably Blends The Sounds Of Nashville And LA
“Sunny War was born in Nashville but has been in Los Angeles for a while now,” writes If It’s Too Loud, which recently covered her new single “Lucid Lucy.” The song, according to the site, “has all of the Americana/folk that you would expect from Nashville, but covered in LA sheen. What’s amazing about the […]
James Yorkston and Peter Morén Chat For Talkhouse
“James Yorkston gathered a big group of musicians for The Wide, Wide River, which is credited to Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra,” Talkhouse tells us in a preface to a recent feature. “Among those contributing to the album is Peter Bjorn And John’s Peter Morén, who plays guitar and sings on four songs. The […]
Phil Maq Says “Yes” To Fruit Bats
Phil Maq – the radio host, music aficionado, musician, and voice-over artist – says “yes” to Fruit Bats. “After one of the worst cold spells in almost a hundred years for great sections of the country,” Maq writes, “the warming trend that is starting up will make the rest of this week feel like a winter […]
Secret Eclectic Says Melpo Mene Takes Listeners On A Stroll Through His Mind
In a review of “Once Had It All” by Melpo Mene, Secret Eclectic wonders if the Swedish-born, Los Angeles-based artist made the song less to attract listeners and more out of a deeply-felt, compelling need to conjure it to existence for its own sake. “It seems like a song that is the outcome of a […]
New Music From The Road Angel Project
Starting last year with “Sex In Cars,” a single release by Inara George featuring Dave Grohl, George’s Release Me Records has been consistently putting out bundles of new music by a variety of artists under the Road Angel Project banner. The point of the project is to raise funds and awareness for The Sweet Relief […]
KCRW Picks Sunny War’s “Lucid Lucy” As Today’s Top Tune
Sunny War‘s “Lucid Lucy” is KCRW‘s Today’s Top Tune. The track is on War’s upcoming LP Simple Syrup, which is being released next month from Hen House Studios. War, who was born in Nashville and cut her teeth playing music on the streets of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, is a prolific songwriter known for […]
Petal Motel Praises Fruit Bats’ “The Balcony”
Petal Motel likes what it’s hearing from Fruit Bats on new single “The Balcony,” from the upcoming LP The Pet Parade. The song “proves that Eric D. Johnson’s albums consecutive albums continue to top one another. The lyrics give hope to those of us waiting out grey, sequestered, winter days. Fruit Bats consistently delivers the kind […]
Under The Radar Premieres Mike Viola’s “Ordinary Girl” Video
Under The Radar has shared the video for “Ordinary Girl,” one of the singles on Mike Viola‘s new Godmuffin LP. According to the site, “The song recalls the sweet choruses of the best of Big Star, filled with heartfelt instrumentation and emotive vocals that bring to mind the Laurel Canyon pop rock of the 1970s… […]
IMR Praises Melpo Mene’s “Unique Soundscape” On “All Of This Is True”
Of Melpo Mene‘s “All Of This Is True,” Independent Music Reviews writes, “This is a song about being where someone else has been, that perhaps nothing is new, or hasn’t been expressed before. I think there is comfort in these thoughts, and it’s a little serendipitous that Melpo Mene has created such a unique soundscape […]
Rolling Stone Premieres Mike Viola’s “Drug Rug” Video
Rolling Stone premiered the video for “Drug Rug,” from Mike Viola‘s new Godmuffin LP. The video, part of a trilogy of Viola clips that take campy inspiration from horror flicks, features Viola dressed as a down-and-out vampiric version of himself wandering around Hollywood after getting kicked out of Mandy Moore’s pool. Fans may also recognize […]
The Bay Area Reporter Praises Samantha Sidley’s “Witty and Unique” Style
Samantha Sidley’s LP Interior Person was released in 2019, and its anthemic opener “I Like Girls” is still turning heads. The iconic Easy Bay Area Reporter just featured the song in a recent roundup of “New Music By LGBT Artists.” According to the site, the song “could not be clearer in its sapphic intent. But […]
See Fruit Bats’ “The Balcony” Video Via Jambase
Jambase has the video for “The Balcony,” the advance radio single from Fruit Bats‘ upcoming LP The Pet Parade. Eric D. Johnson – aka Fruit Bats – co-directed the video with his wife Annie Beedy and told Jambase, “‘The Balcony’ is a song about patience in isolation, waiting for the world to change while staring out […]
Northern Transmissions Transmits The New Video From James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra
Northern Transmissions recently shared the video for “Ella Mary Leather,” from James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra‘s new LP The Wide, Wide River. Though it “is titled after a Herefordshire based folk song collector in the early 20th Century, [the] song is not about her. Yorkston explains: ‘No, it’s not about Ella Mary Leather. […]
