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 […]
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 […]
