Legendary songwriter Vic Chesnutt teams with Elephant 6 psychsters Elf Power for a daunting sum of a record recalling the sounds of John Cale, Lou Reed and Nick Lowe.
A tuneful collision of Athens institutions finds fruition this fall when Orange Twin releases Vic Chesnutt’s collaboration with Elephant 6 psychsters Elf Power, Dark Developments. As intriguing as this combination may seem for hardcore fans of either act, the final sonic results reveal a daunting sum much greater than even the involvement of such esteemed parts would imply.
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Louisiana darling Brass Bed seizes the hearts of fans of The Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips, Wilco and The Kinks with its effervescent debut Midnight Matinee. East coast tour dates announced.
“Midnight Matinee is bursting with sunshiny California-style pop. Part Byrds, part Brian Wilson and part Flaming Lips, Brass Bed’s skillfully produced strata of psychedelia, Laurel Canyon country, doo-wop harmonies and light prog-rock brushstrokes seem almost too complex to be so effervescent.” – Gambit Weekly
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Tracy Shedd to release hot new disc Cigarettes & Smoke Machines via Teenbeat Records this fall
“It’s never too late to fight for what you want” -- Tracy Shedd.
Tracy Shedd’s helpful reminder on the opening track “Never Too Late” from Cigarettes & Smoke Machines, her latest album of smart, pointed pop is a direct and economic assertion backed by sharp musicianship and just the right amount of reverb. Cigarettes & Smoke Machines is Shedd’s most accomplished record in a career that has now spanned four full-lengths.
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"If love had a sound, this would be it." - Willamette Week on Super XX Man. Scott Garred's latest to be issued by Tender Loving Empire label in October.
After 13 years writing, recording, and producing, Scott Garred aka Super XX Man, has cultivated a mildly edgy modern rock sound in the new release Volume XII: There’ll Be Diamonds. Previous releases have garnered acclaim from the likes of Bob Boilen, host of All Songs Considered (“If we’re going to choose ten songs every week, let it be Super XX Man”) and Amy McCullough, music editor of Willamette Week (“If love had a sound, this would be it”).
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Brown Sound Clothing, Eenie Meenie and From Bubblegum To Sky join for release of A Soft Kill. Album becomes one of best reviewed records of the year.
“...an indie-pop masterwork...” – SPIN
“...echoes in your head as well as out of your speakers.” – Giant Robot
“...Hernandez’s best album.” – All Music Guide
“...a pop masterpiece...” – Reel Around The Fountain
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The Octopus Project prepares to launch West Coast tour kicking off at Lollapalooza, video for "Truck" racks up nearly 400,000 YouTube plays
“From gentle vibes and heavenly Theremin choirs to jaunty basslines and electro-static glitch-grooves to a wailing din of dying guitars and break-neck percussion, Hello, Avalanche is indeed a welcome disaster, an enchanting sonic cataclysm.” – Rolling Stone
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Negativland to release new song-based album -- its first in its 28-year history -- and remain subversive as ever.
Anyone familiar with the long-running culture-jamming subversive audio collage outfit Negativland would not be surprised to hear that the band has gone and challenged itself and listeners for yet another album. However, what’s truly remarkable about its forthcoming new album Thigmotactic is that it’s the first song-based release of its 28-year history.
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Rolling Stone "surprise find" My Education to give off Bad Vibrations on new album to be released in June.
Formed in Austin in 1999 by Brian Purington, Eric Gibbons and Sean Seagler, three refugees from San Angelo, TX, My Education flirted briefly with the idea of vocals but soon decided they were never necessary to begin with and became a purely instrumental outfit.
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Neither Elf nor Cat: mr. Gnome delivers Creature power to the U.S. and throughout the blogoverse.
The music of mr. Gnome has been described as utilizing elements of AltRock, Metal, Post Punk, and Prog, but lands in a realm of their own making, crafting a compelling sonic-psychedelic melange of indie rock.
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Multinational, multi-instrumental, multi-faceted surrealist pop group Sunny Day Sets Fire primes summertime launch of debut album.
Ostensibly a band founded in London, Sunny Day Sets Fire is a group with many homelands, many talents and many sounds. The quintet’s unique brand of hummable surreal pop is a perfect soundtrack to summertime that could perhaps best be compared to artists like Blonde Redhead, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki and Band Of Horses. The mid-summer release of its IAmSound full length debut Summer Palace will certainly establish Sunny Day Sets Fire as a reference point unto itself.
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The Pharmacy tours with Japanther in support of new album Choose Yr Own Adventure, is honored by new Terrordactyls EP covering five Pharmacy tunes.
“...art-punk tunes combined with earworm-worthy pop sensibilities and rhyming Seuss-like lyrics ready for blissful sing-alongs.” – Spin
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A Soft Kill, the latest album by From Bubblegum To Sky ain't no sunny pop affair it just sounds like it.
“…a plateful of promise, a cool treat for the coming dog days of summer.” – San Francisco Weekly
“…what pop sounds like in my little fantasy world.” – There Stands The Glass
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HEALTH goes disco? Not exactly, L.A.'s "beautiful noise" group announces release of HEALTH//DISCO remix collection.
“HEALTH make extremely pleasant noise music.” -- Vice Magazine
“It’s a challenging, loud vision of rock yes, but it’s not nearly as tough as it at first seems.” -- 8/10, NME
L.A.’s beautiful-noise quartet HEALTH has set a May 27th, 2008 release date for HEALTH//DISCO, the companion to the band’s phenomenally popular self-titled debut on the Lovepump United label.
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Will JK Rowling appear at Freddie Stevenson's record release party in NYC this weekend? According to his hit tune "Easy Now," maybe...
“This happy-go-lucky Don Juan 2008 sounds like the lovechild of Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell...” – Pensatos
“…so darn catchy… you'll want to hear more.” – USA Today
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Adolescent girls and writerly boys agree: This Is Ivy League ain't just a Cobra Starship side project.
“If you guys don’t play ‘A Summer Chill’ on the 14th, I might cry. Just saying.” – Valerie (via MySpace)
“The Brooklyn-based duo fit neatly between recent cozy-pop faves The Whitest Boy Alive and Peter, Bjorn & John, working the same seam of homely beauty and prematurely autumnal sentimentality.” – Pitchfork
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Legendary hiphop collage producer Steinski and Illegal Art announce career retrospective - What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006.
Steve Stein is one of the most influential producers in hiphop, sampling, and cut & paste. Better known by his nom-de-tune Steinski, his legendary Tommy Boy Records releases known as “The Lessons” are cited as definitive influences by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Fatboy Slim, among others. This spring, Illegal Art will release the first and only definitive Steinski collection, What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective.
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Groundbreaking garage-blues duo having influenced artists like Jack White, Chan Marshall, Neko Case and more, to unveil soundtrack to documentary film
From the late ‘80s to mid-90s, the intrepid garage-blues duo -- that’s right, such a thing did exist before the White Stripes -- the Flat Duo Jets paved a rollicking path with its raw intensity and soulful charm. While the band is now long gone, the duo has announced the release of Two Headed Cow, the soundtrack to the 2006 documentary of the same name. The disc contains seventeen unreleased tracks recorded in 1986, ranging from early FDJ favorites (“My Life, My Love”, “Mexicali Baby”) to jaw dropping cover tunes (The Collins Kids’ “Hoy Hoy”, Ray Charles’ “Mary Ann”).
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Bing Ji Ling impersonators spotted around Manhattan -- see the real deal onstage in NYC this week. New EP June Degrees In December out now.
“I saw Bing Ji Ling riding a bike near the Bedford stop in Brooklyn.” – Jenn de la Vega, Fanatic Promotion
“I saw him at the bus stop at 11th and A, and then the next day at Whole Foods.” – Josh Bloom, Fanatic Promotion
“I wasn’t at either of those spots... I was on tour with Lynard Skynard.” – Bing Ji Ling.
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Don't Stop Believin' Records Featured In The Stranger and issues new albums by The Pharmacy and Pleasureboaters as well as a Pharmacy covers EP by The Terrordactyls.
“Yeah, it’s from the Journey song,” Don’t Stop Believin’ Records proprietor Megan Birdsall explains in the pages “Seattle’s only newspaper” The Stranger. The publication recently featured Birdsall in its pages, detailing the Vashon Island native’s achievements with her one-woman record label, including the recent release of records by local and Seattle-affiliated bands The Pharmacy, Pleasureboaters and The Terrordactyls. Read the article HERE.
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Fanatic Promotion at South By Southwest 2008. Featuring Performances from Die! Die! Die!, The OaKs, HEALTH, Freddie Stevenson, Shunda K of Yo Majesty, Saint Bernadette, The Terrordactyls, Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden, Steve Smith and more.
CLICK! To view and hear the Fanatic SXSW 2008 E-CARD. CLICK! To print a flyer with Fanatic SXSW 2008 INFO.
The indie music marketing company of choice, Fanatic Promotion, is pleased to announce a slew of events taking place this week at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
Fanatic has long been known for giving artists of tomorrow their first mainstream exposure today witness the success that followed these bands after their performances at Fanatic's SXSW 2007 showcase: Black Moth Super Rainbow toured the US opening for The Flaming Lips, 65daysofstatic is set to tour arenas this summer with The Cure, and Girl Talk is an international star on the cover of all manner of magazines. Once again, Fanatic will present its best and brightest stars of tomorrow.
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Who loves Freddie Stevenson? Scottish singer to make 2008 debut at the Fanatic Promotion South-by-Southwest showcase.
Freddie Stevenson is a Scottish afro'd punk poet who might remind you of a character from Fraggle Rock. It's not much of a coincidence considering his mother was the co-creator of the groundbreaking Jim Henson-helmed children’s show. Some might think such a creative pedigree would give an aspiring musician a leg up. Luckily, Freddie doesn't need it. His upbeat, tongue-in-cheek, highly melodious and expertly played pop songs speak for themselves.
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65daysofstatic kicks off massive five-month European and US tour supporting The Cure.
Band to release new Dance Parties EP, 2004 debut The Fall of Math and subsequent Hole EP to receive first U.S. release.
“Kicking off with their trademark electric crackle, it’s clear that with their third album 65daysofstatic have resisted the urge to tone down their quite frankly mental tsunami of noise and make a play for the mainstream sales potential of an ever scene-conscious world. Instead, they have done what they’ve always done -- thrown the rulebook out the window and grown organically. With such clinical conviction 65DOS are utterly peerless in their chosen field of post-rock.” -- Kerrang Magazine
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The OaKs brings its forest of sound from Orlando to Afghanistan to NYC for an appearance on Public Radio International’s “Fair Game."
Band lyricist Ryan Costello details the story behind “Masood” -- the hypnotic, hopeful tale of an Afghani teen and a mythic hero. Fans of Paul Simon’s Graceland, Steve Earle, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens abide.
“The OaKs have earned an enthusiastic following due as much in part to their cunningly complex music arrangements as to their epic, humanitarian-based back story.” – Metromix
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The Shondes debut praised by Spin, CMJ and more - Brooklyn based politically charged quartet compared to Sleater-Kinney, Patti Smith and Rasputina.
“...radical politics, inspired riffs, textured harmonies and pure sex appeal” – Curve Magazine
“Seamlessly fusing art and politics” – Punk Planet
“Hard-driving, politically savvy rock ‘n roll” – Flavorpill
“A powerful new sound” – Heeb Magazine
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An ambitious band of high school students, Please Quiet Ourselves offers irresistible push-your-buttons-in-just-the-right-way pop on Mushpot debut.
Effervescent acoustic-guitar-clad Jojo Brandel easily handles on-stage banter well, a skill with which most seasoned artists struggle. Dubbed the California bay area's "Baby Modest Mouse", it is impressive how Brandel brought together seven other talented 15 to 16-year-old high schoolers to create a textured blanket of sound, at times, akin to that of Broken Social Scene.
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Wooden Shjips debut album receives high praise in Rolling Stone, Harp, Paste, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, et al.
San Francisco psjch-rock quartet to play All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by Pitchfork in 2008.
“Tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch with spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev-like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood.” -- Byron Coley, The Wire
“Wooden Shjips (not a typo) are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases — a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single (“Dance, California”) — arrives via the Seventies Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone
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The sampling power couple Oh Astro reveals sources. Highly addictive, seizure inducing Illegal Art album Champions of Wonder out now.
Married duo Jane Dowe and Hank Hofler are both rooted firmly in experimental music, but with the Oh Astro project they continue their move towards odd interpretations of popular forms. Club music, children’s songs, and fragmented samples of pop/rock all intersect on their first full-length album, Champions of Wonder, under the Oh Astro banner.
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Bing Ji Ling channels Elvis Costello through Luther Vandross on his upcoming EP June Degrees In December, a between-the-sheets classic in the making.
Bing tickles the keys and channels early Prince, Mick Hucknall, and Earth, Wind & Fire, while bringing his funk squarely into the 21st century” - XLR8R
“Some cats are born in the wrong decade. Others are late on purpose, to cast light on past riches and link them to the present. Bing Ji Ling, funky soul brother of the 21st century is that and more” - Planet Magazine
“Bing is funkier than Fudgie the Whale with a blunt in his blowhole. If Sly was a one-man family or if Beck and Prince took a double dip, it would taste something like this.” - Pitchfork
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Sweetheart duo Dan Bejar of Destroyer and Lady Sydney Vermont conjure a timeless collection as Hello, Blue Roses. Debut LP upcoming on Locust Music.
The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have announced the release of their first album. The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music. The self-titled disc draws on everything from an unabashed love of 80's AOR ala Prefab Sprout and Kate Bush to prime Aquarian-age femme folk of the 60's and 70's to create an infectious, readymade classic.
Listen to ''Shadow Falls'' by Hello, Blue Roses HERE.
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Culture-jam your Christmas! Negativland's greatest hits DVD release date gets bumped into holiday season - band releases controversial statement.
"Declared heroic by their peers for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make art that has any depth within commodity capitalism..." The New York Times
"Twisted genius...compelling...parody and satire as a grassroots weapon of consumer resistance." Rolling Stone
"Negativland isn't just some group of merry pranksters; its art is about tearing apart and reassembling found images to create new ones, in an attempt to make social, political and artistic statements. Hilarious and chilling." The Onion
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Illegal Art sampler of upcoming releases surfaces on Pitchfork -- features tracks from Girl Talk, Steinski, Oh Astro and Realistic.
The Illegal Art record label continues to birth its Negativland-inspired, Deconstructing Beck credentialed and Girl Talk reinforced releases into a world where copyright laws are beginning to crumble. Case in point the label will release new albums from two of its roster artists Oh Astro and Realistic in the coming weeks.
Also on deck for Illegal Art is a career spanning collection from hip hop pioneer Steinski and an album of brand-new material from Girl Talk. A sampler featuring tracks from these upcoming records (save for Girl Talk the track featured on the sampler is from a long out-of-print compilation) was recently made available for free download by Illegal Art in hi-resolution MP3 format. A post by Pitchfork linking users to the sampler download promptly crashed Illegal Art's server. The problem has now been remedied read the story (LINK) and download the sampler (LINK).
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A beautiful new voice arrives on the national scene in the form of Kate Tucker. New album with The Sons of Sweden out soon.
Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden plays a brand of melodic indie pop that springs from a melancholy hope. On her self-titled debut, Tucker sings stories of loves, lost hours, inevitable ends, and broken towers. The songs alternate between night-blue longing and emerald sparkle, borne on the wings of Tucker's haltingly rich voice. One of the album's featured tracks, "Faster Than Cars" (MP3) has ended up on repeat for just about anyone that has heard it. Tucker's self-titled debut was recorded and produced by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, Holy Ghost Revival, The Octopus Project) at Bear Creek Studio and features guest vocals by Seattle folk luminary Damien Jurado. This is the first collaboration between Kate and the Swedes.
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Hip Hop tag team featuring Mae-Shi-mash-upper Yea Big and professional-stuntman-by-day Kid Static to release debut album of "retro-futuristic" comic book beats and rhymes. Live dates in NYC, Philly, Chicago and more forthcoming.
"It basically sounds like Prefuse 73 gone retarded." Mundane Sounds
"Rolls along like the greatest party of your life upside down." Tangents (UK)
"What Andy Kaufman did for comedy, Yea Big has done with their new album..." Treblezine
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Clipd Beaks announces extensive North American tour in support of upcoming debut full-length, Hoarse Lords. Band that began playing together as kids, now plenty old enough to drive cross country.
"Highly recommended if you like to slap yourself in the face while you boogie." The Fader
"The whole '90s noise-punk sound is pretty tired, but Clipd Beaks is one of the few bands around that gives the wavering genre hope." XLR8R
"Supermax-tight monolith monsters of psychedelia." L.A. Weekly
"Dark and noisy and messy." Vice
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Zombi keyboardist/bassist Steve Moore brings solo debut to life via Relapse Records. Fans of Goblin, Tangerine Dream, Popul Vuh, Phillip Glass and (of course) Zombi rejoice, ask for "more brains."
Steve Moore, best known for his work as one half of the sci-fi instrumental duo Zombi, has announced the forthcoming release of his first solo effort The Henge via extreme music label Relapse Records (Mastodon, Pig Destroyer, High On Fire.) In contrast to Zombi's tightly structured nightmare epics, The Henge is a huge, sprawling, psychedelic symphonic affair. Over the course of its five tracks, the album treats listeners to a blissful dose of audio vertigo, by mixing vast ambient dronescapes and soaring beat driven melodies with Moore's patented cinematic brand of keyboard virtuosity.
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Yip-Yip launches extensive tour with HEALTH, AIDS Wolf and The Locust, announces release date for upcoming album, Two Kings of The Same Kingdom.
Orlando based electronic (spaztronic?) duo, Yip-Yip launched an extensive nationwide tour this week that sees the pair on the road into December with fellow hellraisers HEALTH, AIDS Wolf and The Locust. The duo is touring in anticipation of the release of its latest record, Two Kings of The Same Kingdom, which will be released February 5th, 2008 by the California-based S.A.F. (Die!Die!Die!, Junius) label. Two Kings of The Same Kingdom is the follow-up to the critically praised Yip-Yip album In The Reptile House.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow adds more dates to tours with Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock, announces upcoming reissue with bonus tracks of its first two out-of-print albums Falling Through A Field and Start A People.
With so much free time to spare, band leader Tobacco, bassist Power Pill Fist to issue solo releases.
"A lot of neo-psych bands get the trippiness right, but can't find that magical mix of tunefulness and sonic invention that makes listeners want to take their trip more than once. On Black Moth Super Rainbow's third album, Dandelion Gum, the mysterious Pennsylvania combo builds songs out of scratched fragments of roller-disco, sunshine-pop, and what sounds like intercepted interstellar broadcasts. Even though Dandelion Gum opens with "Forever Heavy," one of the best mind-bending album-starters since My Bloody Valentine's "Only Shallow," Black Moth Super Rainbow is effective because it isn't afraid to let songs float off like brightly colored balloons." Noel Murray, The Onion
"It's hard to imagine that any other artists are treading ground anywhere near this. Hell, it really doesn't matter anyways - because if anyone was, it sure as hell couldn't be as good as this." Delusions of Adequacy
Pittsburgh's buzzed about band Black Moth Super Rainbow has added additional dates to its upcoming tours with The Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock that will keep the group out on the road from early September through Thanksgiving-time. The band will be supporting its much praised third album Dandelion Gum, out now on up and coming Chicago label Graveface Records (The Appleseed Cast, The Loose Salute.)
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Old Time Relijun receives early praise from rock-crit legends for forthcoming album Catharsis In Crisis. Band launches seemingly endless tour in support.
"Unless I read them wrong (and I may; the music itself is the opposite of describing it: it's wet, and bloody, and it smells like fresh earth and red cinders, and it's a good goddamn time, is what it is) Old Time Relijun's theory is that the underground' (I know. I know. I know.) isn't an identity that reinvents itself once or twice per generation, but a permanent place within a culture maybe within all cultures where styles don't go in and out of fashion but are always floating around in the air just above our heads." -- John Darnielle, Last Plane To Jakarta
"The music kicks ass: brutal, fluid, funky, spasmodic, violent, sexual
I wish there were more visionaries like Dionysio around." -- Everett True, Village Voice
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West Coast psychedelic noisemakers Clipd Beaks sign to Lovepump United, label to release band's debut full-length Hoarse Lords this fall. Extensive U.S. tour to follow.
"Profoundly psychedelic
makes you feel grateful just for being alive." XLR8R
"Supermax-tight monolith monsters of psychedelia." L.A. Weekly
"Dark and noisy and messy. Which is cool, if you like strange shit." Vice
Groundbreaking record label Lovepump United (HEALTH, Ghengis Tron) announced today the upcoming release of Hoarse Lords, the debut full-length by Clipd Beaks on November 6th, 2007.
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Former Mineral and The Gloria Record front man returns to his songwriting roots for debut album with new band, Zookeeper. Tour with Umbrellas and The Good Life upcoming.
"I'm just thrilled to have another entry in Simpson's canon. He's been gone too long and this is a welcome return from one of my favorite songwriters." Liepaper.com
Sometimes, taking a break can be a very good thing.
Chris Simpson, former songwriter and frontman for two influential late '90s bands, knows a few things about breaking up. After disbanding post-punk emo progenitor Mineral just after the band signed to a major, and taking an indefinite hiatus from shoegazer follow-up The Gloria Record midway through recording a fourth record, he virtually disappeared from the music scene for two years.
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The Octopus Project Announces Details of New Album and Tour.
"The lovely Theremin lead, like Florian Schneider's processed flute on the second side of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, suggests that technology just might save us after all. Pitchfork on I Saw The Bright Shinies' (MP3) from the upcoming album by The Octopus Project.
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Legendary culture jam-band Negativland announces upcoming release of Our Favorite Things DVD.
"Declared heroic by their peers for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make art that has any depth within commodity capitalism..." The New York Times
"Twisted genius...compelling...parody and satire as a grass roots weapon of consumer resistance." Rolling Stone
"Negativland isn't just some group of merry pranksters; its art is about tearing apart and reassembling found images to create new ones, in an attempt to make social, political and artistic statements. Hilarious and chilling." The Onion
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65Daysofstatic to support The Cure on fall tour.
"Kicking off with their trademark electric crackle, it's clear that with their third album 65daysofstatic have resisted the urge to tone down their quite frankly mental tsunami of noise and make a play for the mainstream sales potential of an ever scene-conscious world. Instead, they have done what they've always done -- thrown the rulebook out the window and grown organically. With such clinical conviction 65DOS are utterly peerless in their chosen field of post-rock." -- Razio Rauf, Kerrang Magazine
"65daysofstatic have made their masterpiece, or something close to it; three albums in, in the most dirty, shallow decade of music we've known, who else can say that? A handful, not enough. The Destruction of Small Ideas is a weight, a tower of babel, a journey, learnings, understandings, communication, evolution. I've been waiting. I was promised this or something like it. The rise and fall. All so deep, so rich, so comically dynamic and detailed and powerful for it that it makes me want to cry. How to make a record. Play loud." -- Stylus Magazine
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Copperpot, KRS-One, members of Tortoise and other special guests want to know: What're You Looking At?
"...easily stands up to other noted producer discs of late, like Prefuse 73's and RJD2's." Time Out Chicago
"...the Roc's golden boy [Kanye West] has all the accolades, the Grammys, the sales and the buzz. But there's another beatsmith in the Windy City that hip hop fans should be looking out for..." Elemental
"Rookie Chicago beatmaker Copperpot puts more bounce in the step of underground rap than it has seen in many a moon. [Four Stars]." Remix
"With many producer projects still on the way for 2007, it would look to be the year of the beat smith. To even be a face in the crowd would be a compliment, but Copperpot surely stands out." rapreview.com
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Los Angeles bloggers hail Frankel as one of the city's best kept secrets.
"Absolutely an artist to watch out for in 2007." Aquarium Drunkard
"Lullaby For The Passersby is going to remind you of a lot of great bands but never borrows a single lick. Frankel's songwriting holds its ground because there are so many quirky bits stapled to the melodies without ruining the feel. For an album that is so refreshing, I'm dumbfounded that a city buzzing' with multitudes of forgettable indie-pop-folk bands hasn't discovered Frankel's obvious musical talent." Little Radio
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UK buzz band The Lodger to release debut album Grown-Ups stateside via classic California pop label Slumberland Records. Single "Kicking Sand" available for download now.
"They may be the perfect three-piece pop operation" Artrocker
"...a clattering, Buzzcocks-like classic..." NME
"When it comes to mastering the art of getting tunes stuck in heads, few in Leeds can rival The Lodger" Leeds Guide
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Blair Psych Project: Black Moth Super Rainbow's creepy home video posted exclusively on Rolling Stone web site, magazine dubs band "Artist To Watch." Tour dates with Architecture In Helsinki announced for June.
The rural Pennsylvania psych-damaged bubble-gum-pop enigma known as Black Moth Super Rainbow continues to tantalize and melt minds with its stellar forthcoming third album Dandelion Gum and mesmerizing live shows -- which fans on the east coast can catch this June when the band tours with Architecture In Helsinki (See complete dates below.)
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The Berg Sans Nipple announces U.S. tour with The Faint in support of Team Love release, Along The Quai.
"...The Berg Sans Nipple played an amazing set last night at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. The half-French, half-Nebraskan duo had a setup that could have easily belonged to a pretentious noise band; each member sported drums, keyboards, and a host of other various electronics and instruments (a steel drum, a melodica, cornet, etc.). However, The Berg Sans Nipple use these elements to create beautiful, sweet melodies." CMJ.com
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Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears To Embark On Filter-Sponsored Nationwide Tour. Look For The Mysterious, Theatrical, Bombastic Band As Featured MySpace Artist In June.
"Bryan Scary's debut album rocks the candy shop, pillaging it for as many audio confections as possible. It's adventurous, fully fleshed, and catchy as hell." Pitchfork
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San Francisco Super Producers The Rondo Brothers' Deliver Post-Apocalyptic Love on Seven Minutes To Midnight, Newest Collection of Hits Fit for Both Clubs and Commercials.
The Rondo Brothers, San Francisco's leading producer team, is preparing to release its second album, entitled Seven Minutes To Midnight on May 22nd, 2007. The recording combines skillful songwriting, great performances and top notch beat-driven production along the lines of Air, Massive Attack and Neptunes. The Brothers' first album No Time Left On Earth (War Chant 2005) established the Rondos firmly in the collective music consciousness as a force to be reckoned with: a U.S. and Europe tour with Handsome Boy Modeling School put their eclectic live show to the masses, and since then the Rondos have been in such demand on the production side that they have hardly been out of their studio.
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