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 […]
Music For The Misfits Shares Melpo Mene
Music For The Misfits enjoys the newest single from Melpo Mene. “With lyrics pondering the cyclical nature of life and the universal nature of human experience, ‘All Of This Is True’ feels like a familiar dream worth revisiting again and again,” the site writes, hailing Melpo Mene’s duet with Spanish vocalist Russian Red and their […]
MAGNET Chats With Naked Giants
MAGNET has a Q&A with Naked Giants, the Seattle band whose excellent sophomore LP The Shadow was released last fall. As the site says, “The members of this Seattle trio—Grant Mullen (guitar, vocals), Gianni Aiello (bass, vocals) and Henry LaVallee (drums)—might be familiar to you because of the time they spent as part of Car […]
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 […]
Samantha Sidley Answers Questions For Esthetic Lens
Esthetic Lens recently asked Five Questions of Samantha Sidley, whose cover of the Cinderella soundtrack staple “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes” goes for NACC Chart Adds next week. Find out what Sidley is worried about, excited about, and working on with her wife/music producer Barbara Gruska. Read the whole article here, and […]
Clash Reviews The Wide, Wide River From James Yorkston And The Second Hand Orchestra, Which Goes For NACC Debuts Next Week
According to CLASH Music, “It’s contagious joy to hear players with such abandon and intuition,” on the new album from James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra, “braiding their lines together: brass, brushed drums, the lyric of a singing fiddle. ‘Choices Like Wide Rivers’ flows gentle to its destination (‘Semaphore Your Love’); ‘Struggle’’s optimistic look […]
Nordic Music Review Praises Melpo Mene
Nordic Music Review is a fan of Melpo Mene, and the site recently shared the Swedish-American artist’s new track “All Of This Is True.” According to the site, the “gorgeous, flowing and delicately phrased track” is “lovely. He’s a really fluid songwriter, expressive acoustic guitar opens, and it tumbles forward with momentum, yet instrumentally everything is […]
