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 […]
Louder Classic Rock Shares L.A. Witch’s New Vid
Louder Classic Rock says “let us pump rock medicine into your official listening orifices,” which is kind of gross and not really an image they ought to have conjured. Nonetheless, their taste is at least good in the sense that they like L.A. Witch, whose “Motorcycle Boy” made their recent list of “Tracks Of The […]
New Music From Samantha Sidley
Samantha Sidley‘s 2019 debut album Interior Person, recorded in her childhood bedroom by her wife Barbara Gruska and featuring intimate songs penned for Sidley by Gruska, Inara George, and Alex Lilly, put the Los Angeles-born chanteuse on the map. The Los Angeles Times called it “a sweet, funny, tastefully arranged vocal-jazz disc about same-sex romance” and […]
The Scotsman Gives Four Stars To James Yorkston And The Second Hand Orchestra
The Scotsman gives four stars to The Wide, Wide River, the newest release from countryman James Yorkston. “The Wide, Wide River is the product of a three-day recording session in Stockholm in December 2019 with the Second Hand Orchestra, a freewheeling Swedish string band who approached the session with next to no prior knowledge of […]
The Smoking Flowers Share “Patriocrisy” Video
The Smoking Flowers have released a video for “Patriocrisy,” the title track of the newest EP from the East Nashville duo. The video came out on January 20, when the band wrote on Facebook, “Today was the final day of the 45th POTUS’s tenure in office, but as we all are aware, hypocrisy in patriotism […]
Analogue Trash Shares “Get A Rocket” By Melpo Mene
Analogue Trash recently shared “Get A Rocket,” one of three singles recently released by Melpo Mene. “The Swede spent much of the last few years in America, working in TV and pop, but here he returns to his indie roots,” the site notes. “The song reflects on mortality and questions surrounding religious tradition, he says, […]
New Music From The Smoking Flowers
There are not enough words to describe the intrinsic chemistry Kim and Scott Collins possess. As The Smoking Flowers, the East Nashville-based couple has discovered what some duos spend their entire careers trying to find: a fascinating marriage between artistic talent and subtle sensuality that pierces the attention of anyone in the same room as […]
Folk Radio Lauds James Yorkston As One Of The Greats
“There is space all over” The Wide, Wide River, writes Folk Radio UK about the new album by James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra. “Thinking space, breathing space – space to be interpreted by the musicians and also by listeners. It is a minimal aesthetic that owes something to the determined restraint of krautrock, […]
Cheers To The Vikings Says Skål To Melpo Mene
Cheers To The Vikings recommends the “unique” sound of Melpo Mene. “The minute we heard this song (“Once Had It All,” which we digitally serviced last week to radio), we couldn’t get it out of our heads! Melpo has a voice that stays long in your head after the song ends. The guitars are wonderful […]
Flaming Lips Plot More Bubble Bops
The Flaming Lips continue to be the only viable live band in America, thanks not only to a catalogue full of dope jams but also to their longstanding use of plastic bubbles as part of their stage extravaganza. We’ve been reporting about the handful of bubble shows the band has been performing in Oklahoma City, […]
Alt Citizen Explores L.A. Witch’s New Clip
Alt Citizen writes that “L.A. Witch subvert the solitary mythos of the traditional motorcycle narrative on their latest single, ‘Motorcycle Boy,’ into a tragic expression of devotion to the restless outcasts compelled to practice the thundering art of rebellion.” The site has a great feature on the video for the new song, noting that “L.A. […]
B. Wurtz Duets With Himself At Home
Acclaimed visual artist B. Wurtz, who just released his first musical album via Hen House Studios, recently performed a duet of one of the songs on the LP… with himself! See Wurtz’ “duet home video,” featuring him playing along live to a live recording of himself playing along… whoa. It’s right here! Some Songs is […]
Vanyaland Digs L.A. Witch’s “Motorcycle Boy”
“L.A. Witch hit the desert highways alongside the ghosts of the past in their new visual for ‘Motorcycle Boy,” writes Vanyaland, joining the chorus of websites singing the praises of the trio’s new video. “If 2021 becomes the year of the rock and roll motorcycle video,” the site writes, “then we’re in for a fun ride.” […]
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 of […]
Wayne Coyne Tells Popmatters About Worry, Freetime, and American Head
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips is often very generous during interviews, and a recent one with Popmatters is no exception. The conversation took place last year, as the band was beginning to promote new LP American Head. “Like the best work the band have done, there is an honest quality to it, a sense […]
