Complex Distractions Recommends Put Up The Lights
According to Complex Distractions, Put Up The Lights by The Bird and the Bee “is one of the most unique Christmas albums you’ll likely hear this year.” After comparing the group to everyone from ABBA to Jamiroquai over the course of the review, the site concludes that “Put up the Lights is one of those […]
PolyheDren Shares Video For “Buckroo Moon”
See “Buckaroo Moon,” the newest video from Dren McDonald’s collaborative project PolyheDren. The track features vocals from Sangin’ Sara and Daria Novo, and the video includes some animation from polyheDren pal Nathan Moody along with a mystery dancer in an inflatable orange costume. As always, 100% of all PolyheDren streaming and sales goes to support […]
Sol Y Canto Performs For Celebrity Series Of Boston
See a full-length concert from Sol Y Canto on Vimeo! The intimate at-home performance, from May, celebrates the release of the En Vivo, En Familia featuring Rosi and Brian Amador with their 24-year old daughter, Alisa. The performance was part of Celebrity Series of Boston, a series committed to supporting local talent and making the […]
The Dartmouth and Pitchfork Media Put The Microphones on Their “Best Of” Lists
The Dartmouth – America’s oldest college newspaper – awarded The Microphones in 2020 as the tenth best album of the year, writing that “even though the lyrics relate to Phil Elverum’s life, they contain universal themes of existentialism and nostalgia. The instrumental, while sparse and repetitive, creates a haunting and beautiful mood that endures for […]
Dan Bern Is On Relix
Relix recently shared Dan Bern’s contribution to The Road Angel Project, “Birthday.” According to Bern, whose listeners may know from movies including Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Get Him To The Greek, “I wrote ‘Birthday’ a few years ago during the sessions for the ‘Drifter’ record back in 2012. I was back in LA […]
L.A. Witch Is Number Five On Douglas Menagh’s List
Douglas Menagh of New Noise Magazine says Play With Fire by L.A. Witch is the fifth-best album of 2020. The LP, Menagh writes, is “a slick rock ‘n’ roll record. Gritty landscapes of drone effects and desert vibes percolate the atmosphere of this record. Fluctuating between chill numbers and hard, fast headbangers, Play With Fire […]
Rock Cellar Treats Readers To The Bird And The Bee
Rock Cellar likes the new holiday album from The Bird And The Bee, Put Up The Lights, noting that “there was also a bit of 2020-mandated surrealism behind this project, which initially came about after the Bird and the Bee released Interpreting the Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen in 2019. Unable to […]
NPR Hails Miss Colombia As One Of 2020’s Best
NPR Music placed Miss Colombia, by Lido Pimienta, at #3 on its Top 50 Albums of 2020 list. The site writes, "Pimienta's performance is often playful, and here, she is the emcee of her own quinceañera, a celebration she was never able to celebrate with her mother in her youth. Pimienta's subversion of pageantry is […]
Everything Is Noise Says Pluralone Is Josh Klinghoffer’s Best Project Yet
Josh Klinghoffer recently left the Red Hot Chili Peppers after a ten-year stint, and Everything is Noise says “Klinghoffer is better off without the band.” The site recommends that listeners check out I Don’t Feel Well, Klinghoffer’s second LP release as Pluralone. “Pluralone is probably Klinghoffer’s best project yet, a place which was taken by […]
Stereogum Praises The Microphones On Year-End List
According to Stereogum, The Microphones in 2020 is the 31st-best album of 2020. “Eschewing nostalgia and solipsism as much as possible,” says the ‘gum, “the Mount Eerie mastermind revived his long-dormant Microphones moniker to scour that era of his life for wisdom. He came away with epiphanies about meaning, impermanence, and ‘the true state of […]
Elmore Shares Posthumous Mr. Banjo Track
Elmore Magazine recently shared “Give It Some Time,” a “beautiful, bittersweet tune” from Mr. Banjo. The posthumous release appears on The Road Angel Project Volume 4, curated by Inara George as a fundraiser for Sweet Relief’s COVID-19 fund. The site notes that Mr. Banjo, whose real name was Tony Fernandez, “passed away July 1st, 2020, […]
New Music From PolyheDren
Dren McDonald is known for crafting the diverse soundtracks to video games such as Counterstrike Global Offensive and Transformers: Age of Extinction. His second music kit (“Gunman Taco Truck”) for Valve Software’s Counterstrike Global Offensive game (which enjoys over 20 million players) sold over 100,000 units in the first month of the Masterminds Music release this […]
Brooklyn Vegan Says, “Put Up The Lights!”
It’s December, and Brooklyn Vegan recommends The Bird And The Bee‘s Put Up The Lights to listeners on the lookout for new holiday music to ride out the year. The record includes eight choice cuts — two originals along with some classics, with a healthy dollop of Dave Grohl on one track. It’s embedded here, […]
The AU Review Picks Leif Vollebekk For “Track Of The Day”
The AU Review recently selected Leif Vollebekk’s “Long Blue Light” for a Track Of The Day feature. “As we’ve come to expect from the Canadian,” the site writes, “‘Long Blue Light’ is a beauty. Largely understated and introspective, with an ever-present touch of melancholy, the single slowly beguiles its listener over its approximately three minute […]
Treble Digs Another Bummer
The Road Angel Project Volume Four is at radio now, and Treble Zine has shared the opening track. According to the site, “Outside” by Another Bummer is “a gorgeously dreamy, gently psychedelic country-pop song with a sense of dusty openness and a kind of melancholy romanticism.” Listen to it here! Like all installments of The […]
Rolling Stone AU Says You Need To Hear Naked Giants
Rolling Stone AU says “(God Damn!) What I Am” is a song you need to know. It “sees Naked Giants at their most raw. With grunge-inspired garage rock dripping from every single second of track, and boasting a chorus that seems almost tailor-made to be screamed by their legions of followers at a show, it’s […]
BUST Hails The Grit Of L.A. Witch
BUST recommends Play With Fire from L.A. Witch, writing that the Southern Californian trio’s “sophomore LP adds lots of grit to the reverberated sound they embody by taking inspiration from grunge, psychedelic, Western, and punk genres, and melding them in a surprising way. The ever-cool vocals of lead singer Sade Sanchez blend seamlessly with the […]
Secret Meeting Tells Listeners About Patrick Watson
Secret Meeting recently told listeners to check out the new single from Patrick Watson. “Exactly one year on from his stunning sixth LP, Wave, this latest release finds him in similar sonic territory. Like the opening to a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, creaking pianos ebb and swell, as the Montréal native’s trademark voice flutters up into […]
Wayne Coyne Shares Fast Food Fish Store Horror Story
Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips is used to putting himself against technicolor backdrops, yet a recent video is striking for its lack of color. In it, Coyne tells fans stories, including about the time he was working at a Long John Silver’s (a job he says was quite fun) and was the victim of […]
New Music From The Road Angel Project (Various Artists)
Inara George, the multi-talented artist perhaps best known as one half of The Bird And The Bee, has curated Road Angel Project: Volume 4 in partnership with Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which will receive all the proceeds. “I reached out to some of my musician friends to see if anyone had a track that they’d like […]
