Popmatters Reviews The Microphones In 2020
According to Popmatters, “Phil Elverum‘s music, both as Mount Eerie and his earlier project The Microphones, exudes myth without fabricating image. He doesn’t sell listeners on an ideology or a way of life, though he details the mundanity of day-to-day life with lines alternatingly simple and metaphorically charged, promoting nothing save for quiet introspection. He […]
New Music From B. Wurtz
New York-based artist B. Wurtz, born in Pasadena, California in 1948, has made a name for himself over the past four decades by transforming the minutiae of daily life into poetic sculptures, drawings, and assemblages. Yet the renowned visual artist is also a musician who began studying piano as a child and taught himself guitar […]
Treble Premieres Figg’s New Clip
Recently, Gilden Tunador of the band Figg gave Treble Zine an intimate look into the lyrical inspiration behind “Bundleweed Motherwort,” a standout track on their self-titled debut LP. “The lyrics were inspired in part,” she says, “by N.C. Wyeth’s painting ‘The Giant,’ which is of Wyeth’s children and his pupil, William Engle, playing on the […]
Bumming On Quar? WLUW Says, “Try L.A. Witch!”
WLUW in Chicago says the new album from L.A. Witch can kill the quarantine blues. "Staring at the same walls for days on end as I complete Zoom calls and endless reading assignments has made me desperate to feel something, anything," wrote reviewer Josie Stahler, describing a feeling that's likely familiar to many of her […]
KTXT Adds Naked Giants To the Mix
Calling it “solid from track to track,” Lubbock’s KTXT recommends Naked Giants’ new LP The Shadow. Comparing the Seattle-based trio to Nirvana, the reviewer praises the band’s “rebellious message” and ability to craft anthemic rockers. Thanks for the support! Read the review right here. Naked Giants are doing great at radio, thanks in part to […]
NOVA Previews Pluralone’s New One
Last year, Josh Klinghoffer left The Red Hot Chili Peppers when the funky foursome brought John Frusciante – whose guitar playing helped define Mother’s Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magick, and Californication – back into the mix. Yet NOVA writes that “it looks like Klinghoffer has an exciting future ahead.” Indeed, we’ve already promoted his debut LP […]
The Morning Star Gives Four Stars To David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels
The Morning Star set the stage for a recent review of A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment, the new album from David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels, by telling a bit of Newton’s history. “The Mighty Lemon Drops were a central part of the 1980s C86 scene that saw a simple cassette tape compiled by […]
The Morning Call Selects Naked Giants As A Top Music Pick
“Even if things feel a bit dizzying on The Shadow,” The Morning Call writes, “chances are you’ll enjoy the musical ride.” The website digs that the band takes a varied approach on its second full-length. “On the one hand, this band has an affinity for grungy garage rock. But the band also seems enamored with pop […]
The Flaming Lips Go Ivy League
The Harvard Crimson writes that The Flaming Lips’ American Head – the 16th studio record from the seminal, acid-drenched, psych-pop progenitors – “confronts the complex legacy of their past with openness and warmth.” The record has a “nostalgic mood,” the paper writes, and it focuses its gaze in a more different direction than previous Lips […]
New Music From Dennis Davison
The Book of Strongman is the debut solo album by Dennis Davison, who was the lead singer and songwriter in the Grammy-nominated band The Jigsaw Seen and also the lead vocalist for neo-psych pioneers United States of Existence, whose catalogue will get a vinyl release in 2020 on Spanish label Guerssen Records. Inspired in part […]
Imperfect Fifth Praises The Sonic Variety Of David Newton And Thee Mighty Angels
David Newton – the multi-faceted musician and producer best known for his work with the seminal British group The Mighty Lemon Drops – has released his first solo album. According to Imperfect Fifth, A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment “is a prime example of the variety in Newton repertoire, mixing genres and stepping outside […]
The Miami Student Praises The “Entrancing” New Microphones Album
The Miami Student – which has the distinction of being the oldest college newspaper west of the Alleghenies – writes that The Microphones in 2020 is the “entrancing culmination of a storied artist.” The paper informs readers that the “single 44-minute track, aptly named “Microphones in 2020,” serves as a memoir of Phil Elverum‘s life. […]
Hysteria Catches Up With Naked Giants
Hysteria Mag recently caught up with Naked Giants, the young trio from Seattle whose sophomore LP The Shadow is at radio now. Learn all about the band’s last few years, from the creation of their debut album SLUFF, through their time both opening for and performing as part of Car Seat Headrest, and into their […]
Obscure Sound Digs Pekoe Cat
Obscure Sound likes “Menace,” the title track from Pekoe Cat‘s new EP, calling it a “mesmerizing psych-rocker” and praising its “thumping bass and trickling guitars” as well as the “haunting vocals” that emerge before the song pushes into “frenzied rock territory.” The site says it’s “another successful showing from Kyle Woolven, who debuted as Pekoe […]
KRUI Favorites The Microphones, and KEXP Talks To Phil Elverum
Iowa City’s KRUI highlighted The Microphones’ The Microphones in 2020 as one of its favorite releases of August, writing that “the continuous building and receding of the instrumentation lulls the audience into a sense of peace that is both disconcerting and comforting. Phil Elverum softly ambles his way through the narrative of his life and career, […]
Wall Of Sound Writes That Naked Giants Have a Classic-Yet-Modern Sound Reminiscent of Early Sub Pop
Wall Of Sound compares Naked Giants‘ sound on new LP The Shadow to the early days of Sub Pop, saying it sounds like it was recorded by Jack Endino. “The Shadow drips with influences from the likes of Mudhoney and Tad,” writes Wall Of Sound, but it fuses them with “a strong 80’s post-punk vibe – think […]
All Music Applauds American Head
“On American Head,” AllMusic contends, “The Flaming Lips use their storytelling skills to their fullest, combining some of their purest moods and most beautiful melodies with some of their most overtly autobiographical songwriting… At the time of American Head’s release, the band compared it to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin, and it’s […]
Rawckus and Essentially Pop Review David Newton and Thee Mighty Angels
David Newton & Thee Mighty Angels‘ A Gateway To A Lifetime Of Disappointment, the first solo LP from the former Mighty Lemon Drops member, is getting rave reviews. Rawckus says it’s “superb, chock-full of happy-go-lucky pop colors and David Newton’s tasty Brit-flavored voice.” Read that review here. Go here to see what Essentially Pop has […]
The Irish Times Praises The “Punk Pyrotechnics” of L.A. Witch
The Irish Times recently reviewed Play With Fire, the new LP from L.A. Witch. “Musicians whose influences include Joy Division, The Cramps, Nirvana and (lead singer Sade Sanchez has said) “any band Nick Cave was ever in” are bound to create an identifiable sound. Influences notwithstanding, Play with Fire sifts through genres with aplomb – […]
New Music From Pluralone
Amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic, political unrest, and wildfires raging across the western United States, Josh Klinghoffer hunkered down and found the inspiration to complete the sophomore album for his latest project, Pluralone. The release, aptly titled I Don’t Feel Well, comes on the heels of Pluralone’s critically-acclaimed debut album, To Be One […]
