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. […]
B. Wurtz Performs “Water” on IGTV
B. Wurtz, whose new LP Some Songs is at radio now from Hen House Studios, has been uploading great content to his Instagram account – find and follow him at @bwurtz4. Most recently, he’s shared a home performance of the song “Water” from Some Songs. That record is notable, in part, because it features a […]
Samantha Sidley Shares Her New Video For “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes”
Samantha Sidley has unveiled a new music video for her cover of the Disney classic “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes.” According to Sidley, “I’ve always had a fascination with Disney. Especially the older classics. The animation is so beautiful – how you can make a rat the most lovable sympathetic creature is […]
Swede and Sour Selects Melpo Mene
According to Swede and Sour, “Swedish-born but Los Angeles-based Melpo Mene channels a transcendental, otherworldly sound as witnessed through his latest single ‘All of This is True.’ Sharing the stage with the sweet, childlike vulnerability of Russian Red’s (aka Lourdes Hernández González) vocals, the track’s façade of distant textures and combing guitar ease peers through the […]
Irish Times Awards Four Stars To James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra
Irish Times writes that “James Yorkston’s 10th record for Domino Records reveals both a playful looseness and a radiant warmth. Recorded and mixed in three days, it is the culmination of a long friendship between Yorkston and Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the Swedish music producer, and leader and conductor of The Second Hand Orchestra. Taking in songs about […]
New Music From Mike Viola
Mike Viola’s Godmuffin follows Viola’s 2018 album The American Egypt, and it is his return after more than a decade to the more conventional rock and pop sound that he first broke through with as front man of The Candy Butchers during that band’s string of major label records in the late-90s to mid-2000s. Perhaps […]
Traveller’s Tunes Enjoys L.A. Witch
Traveller’s Tunes recommends L.A. Witch, the L.A.-based trio that just released a new music video for Play With Fire standout track “Motorcycle Boy.” According to the site, “the guitars are simply divine. Freer than any Black Rebel Motorcycle Club track, beefier than The Byrds, and cooler than Steppenwolf, they are set to titillate even the […]
Neon Music Shares The “Emotional Whirlpool” that Is Melpo Mene’s “Get A Rocket”
"Get A Rocket," the single by Melpo Mene, is an "emotional whirlpool" that will engulf listeners, writes Neon Music. "The Swedish indie-pop artist had me at hello with this soaring song filled with luscious layers of shimmering instruments, atmospheric harmonies, airy vocals, and rich lyrics. It creates a euphoric experience with its warm, spacious soundscape […]
Aquarium Drunkard Interviews James Yorkston
“I can’t get involved with politics,” says James Yorkston in a recent interview with Aquarium Drunkard. “It distresses me too much. I can’t get involved with the nearing…with the forthcoming end of mankind, the environmental apocalypse. I just can’t get involved with these things. I think that I’m in this position where I can make […]
New Music From Fruit Bats
Eric D. Johnson —who has played in The Shins, composed film scores, gone solo and returned back to the moniker that started it all, and most recently, earned two GRAMMY® nominations with Bonny Light Horseman— celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. “I’m still really excited to make records,” he says. “Lucky and happy and maybe happier that things went slower […]
The Evening Standard Awards Four Stars To James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra
“Even when bleak,” The Evening Standard writes, the new LP from James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra is “a joy…. everyone sounds like they’re enjoying themselves immensely.” The paper has a four-star review of the LP, The Wide, Wide River, which is now at radio from Domino Recording Company. Learn more about the project when […]
Flood Premieres The “Lucid Lucy” Video From Sunny War
Last week, Flood Magazine premiered the stop-motion music video for “Lucid Lucy.” The track opens Sunny War‘s upcoming new LP, Simple Syrup, which is due at the end of March. According to Flood, this advance single is “a soft guitar meditation on the appeal of lucid dreaming.” Enjoy it here.
JAZZIZ Covers Samantha Sidley
JAZZIZ recently shared “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes,” the newest song from Samantha Sidley. It’s a take on the Disney classic, originally sung by Ilene Woods, that JAZZIZ describes as “haunting” and “sensual.” Find it here. The track is at radio now – get it in your rotation!
B. Wurtz Shares The Video For “The Bridge”
Yesterday, B. Wurtz shared the music video for “The Bridge.” The song appears on Some Songs, the first album from the septuagenarian singer-songwriter who is better known for his long career in visual art. “The Bridge,” like the new video for Sunny War’s “Lucid Lucy,” is a Randi Malkin Steinberger production. See the video on IGTV […]
For Folk’s Sake Recommends The New James Yorkston LP
“The Wide, Wide River is exactly the album we need in January 2021,” writes For Folk’s Sake about the new album from James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra. “It’s full of warmth and comfort, from the gentle instrumentation, through the sublime harmonies and to the sanguine vocals. Yorkston has described the album as fast-footed […]
