Pluralone Shares “The Report” With Spin Magazine
We suspect that Josh Klinghoffer, the man behind Pluralone, is happy that William Barr's time as Attorney General is coming to a close. Last month, Kinghoffer told SPIN that the song "The Report" – which is featured on his new album, I Don't Feel Well – was written as Barr gave his duplicitous reading of […]
Salon Interviews Wayne Coyne
In a recent interview with Salon, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne said that “writing songs is just, I mean, the word I use, it’s just a motherf***er. You think the more you do it, the better you get at it, but it’s not true. It’s a mystery as to why these words in this motion […]
Lolo Meares Tells Bad Copy About “Another Year”
Lolo Meares recently spoke to Bad Copy about “Another Year,” which is featured on the new third volume of The Road Angel Project series curated by Inara George for the benefit of Sweet Relief’s COVID-19 Fund. “I began writing this song late one night around the new year,” Meares told the site, “trying to articulate […]
Stereo Embers Approves Of Dennis Davison’s New LP
Stereo Embers says Dennis Davison‘s new LP is “quite well done.” “If you were a fan of The Jigsaw Seen,” the site writes in its review of The Book Of Strongman, which can be read here, “you’re a fan of this album. If you’re a fan of records from the late 60’s early 70’s that melded slightly […]
AV Artvoice Gives Details On The Good Ones’ New Song
AV Artvoice shares some insight into the recording of “Soccer (Summer 1988),” a new single from The Good Ones that is at radio now. “It is a first-take without overdubs, recorded in bandleader Adrien Kazigira’s barn. At this particular meeting, Adrien and co-lead singer Janvier Havugimana played each song together for the first time. Yet, […]
New Music From Patrick Watson
Montréal-based musician Patrick Watson is thrilled to unveil his new track and video entitled “Lost With You.” During the current pandemic, Patrick felt the urge to reach out to his fans with a recording and offer comfort. “I hope it keeps you good company,” writes Watson. This is his first new material since the release […]
Flaming Lips Get Bubbly In New Video
The Flaming Lips have a celebratory video for their nostalgic, reflective single “Assassins of Youth” taken from their September psych-pop masterwork American Head. Directed by Wayne Coyne, the clip was filmed at a recent socially distanced performance the band gave in Oklahoma City where both band and crowd members were encased in plastic bubbles. The […]
Atwood Shares The “Shiver-Inducing” New Song From MAIZE and Wendy Wang
Atwood Magazine recently premiered “Cracks In The Ceiling” by MAIZE and Wendy Wang, which the site describes as “a shiver-inducing outpouring of haunting emotion – the kind that one might bury deep down during the day, only to have it rise and overwhelm the senses come nightfall.” The song comes from the third installment of […]
Sol Y Canto Will Play RIA House Benefit Next Week
Boston’s Sol y Canto will be performing at a virtual concert next week to benefit RIA House, an organization dedicated to “supporting and standing with women with experience in the commercial sex trade and its associated exploitation, trafficking and prostitution.” The seventh annual RIA House Features concert series is being held Thursday, November 12 at […]
Guitar World Chats With L.A. Witch
Guitar World recently caught up with Sade Sanchez, whose guitar heroics are front and center in her band L.A. Witch. Sanchez told the magazine that she started by learning Jimi Hendrix‘s “Purple Haze,” and she recommends that others pick up an axe and start picking now that the pandemic has packed us all inside. Read […]
MWE3 Talks Strongman With Dennis Davison
MWE3 has an interview with former Jigsaw Seen leader Dennis Davison, whose first solo album The Book Of Strongman “is filled with all the power-pop meets rock magic that marked the best of the Jigsaw Seen records.” The site asks Davison how he’s coping with 2020, what it was like playing all the songs on […]
Wayne Coyne Talks Music and Serums With October
The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne recently told October that “music Is a truth serum. It can get in there and it can say things that you wouldn’t dare say if you didn’t have the music with you. I think when we’re singing about our regrets and our pain and our uncertainty and our being scared and all […]
David Newton Talks To C86 Podcast
David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels‘ debut LP A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment is at radio now. But while this is Newton’s first solo LP, it’s far from the first record he’s made. Newton has played in multiple bands, including The Blue Aeroplanes, and he’s also an accomplished producer who has helmed productions […]
Pluralone Does Reddit AMA
Josh Klinghoffer recently did a Reddit AMA with fans of his solo work as Pluralone as well as his time in bands including Dot Hacker and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pluralone has released two albums in the past year, most recently I Don’t Feel Well. According to Alternative Nation, one of the most interesting questions […]
New Music From The Road Angel Project
Inara George, the multi-talented artist perhaps best known as one half of The Bird And The Bee, has curated Road Angel Project: Volume 3 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 […]
Dagger Zine Loves Dennis Davison
Dagger Zine has great stuff to say about the new record from Dennis Davison, formerly of The Jigsaw Seen. “The Book of Strongman,” writes the zine, “is a truly wonderful record! If you’ve ever listened to any Jigsaw Seen’s records then you know it’s pop music, but not in the most traditional sense and The […]
Wayne Coyne Talks To Marc Maron About Aging, Death, and Long John Silver’s
Wayne Coyne was in Los Angeles earlier this month, where he participated in “a rare pandemic-era in-person chat with Marc Maron,” who hosts the wildly popular WTF Podcast. According to the summary on the site, “It’s been a long time since Wayne and Marc hung out last. Since then both dealt with deaths of people […]
New Music From The Bird And The Bee
The Bird and The Bee are thrilled to announce Put Up The Lights, a collection of the duo’s favorite holiday songs alongside new and original compositions, out via No Expectation/Release Me Records. Since forming in 2005, The Bird And The Bee have brought a breezy elegance to their music, putting their own idiosyncratic twist on time-bending […]
CV Independent Interviews L.A. Witch
“While many bands struggle to develop a sound that is both unique and comfortingly familiar,” The Coachella Valley Independent writes, “L.A. Witch seems to do it with ease.” The site recently interviewed the LA-based three-piece, whose sophomore release Play With Fire has been getting tons of radio love. The band is used to touring incessantly, […]
The Big Takeover Hails Dennis Davison As “Refreshingly Original”
The Big Takeover says Dennis Davison‘s debut solo LP is “earnest, and refreshingly original. Across ten tracks, Dennis takes the listener on a journey, one which becomes more absorbing on each visit. The songs themselves have a great depth, although not laden down to the extent they require work, or stifle the enjoyment.” The reviews […]
