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“There are moments when he approaches the sounds so often attributed to folksy storytellers, but... He’s a singer-songwriter whose work pointedly defies characterization.” The Southern Sounding with a new single from D.B. Rouse. His latest about getting your shit together is called "Get My Shit Together," and it's a sing-along dose of toe-tapping tough love.
"It’s as if the late Michael Hutchence decided to partner with Joy Division and create a driving, emotional opus." Sound Vapors premieres the music video for "Syn Illusión," the title track from the new EP by J Hacha De Zola, out now. It's an all-Spanish language, 80-era synth-driven, Berlin-evoking love fest.
“‘Practical Jackets’ will get itself in your head and not let go.” Check out the single from the upcoming Jane Frank debut album over at Indie Minded.
"Think Madonna with a more poetic bent." Thanks to PopMatters for that welcomed insight. New single from Alex Lilly drops tomorrow and you can hear it right now at PopMatters or below. Debut album 2% Milk arrives Jan. 11th.
Jonathan Frahm at For Folk’s Sake says about "Practical Jackets" by Jane Frank: "If Weezer wrote a smash hit called ‘Buddy Holly’, Jane Frank inhabits a space in her sound that blends the former’s knack for captivating with breezy matter-of-factness with the actual Buddy Holly’s pure sense of confounding cool. She owns the song and its message with unwavering confidence and inveterate wit." Debut album The Big Squeeze is out Dec. 14th.
Offering up all the sincerity, none of the pretense, D.B. Rouse is America’s least-earnest traveling troubadour. “A superb musician,” (Austin American-Statesman), Rouse is armed with a guitar (nicknamed “Meal-Ticket”) and a kazoo. A poet with an absurd sense of humor, the Milwaukee-based (but always touring), former cruise ship lounge singer, goat farmer, and cabana man, will release a new album Choices Were Made on February 1st.
Alex Lilly is Keyboard Magazine's TALENT SCOUT Artist of The Week! Spolier Alert: her fave keyboard is the KORG microKORG. Look out for Alex's debut album 2% Milk out in January on Inara George of the bird and the bee's new Release Me Records label. Lead single "Distracting Me" is streaming everywhere now!
“I asked her how to write a song,” Boston-based musician Jane Frank recalls. Frank is currently prepping the release of her eclectic debut album, The Big Squeeze, arriving Dec. 14th.
Frank interviewed Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley when the former was a reporter for her college newspaper. Frank was thinking about becoming a songwriter herself – she had been writing her whole life – journals, stories, and now journalism – but the process of songwriting baffled her. Fortunately, Frank figured it out.
Look out for The Big Squeeze by Jane Frank on Dec. 14th, preceded by the single and music video, “Practical Jackets”.
"Pretty freaking awesome," says The FADER of the Alex Lilly single "Distracting Me," out now. In its premiere coverage of the song's music video, Myles Tanzer writes, "It's a weird Los Angeles fantasy world where the digital realm crosses into real life and there's a lot of cats all around." Take a look, and watch out for Alex's debut album 2% Milk, arriving Jan. 11th via the Release Me Records label, recently formed by Inara George of the bird and the bee.
John Andrew Fredrick, leader of Los Angeles-based, the black watch, is currently out on a short tour supporting the band’s 16th (true!) studio album, Witches!, out now on the Atom Records label. A video for the single “Georgette, Georgette” recently premiered via UK website XS Noize, along with a lengthy interview and review of the album.
the black watch - On Tour
10/25/2018: Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
10/27/2018: Bizbee, AZ @ The Quarry
10/29/2018: Denver, CO @ Seventh Circle Music Collective
10/30/2018: Wichita, KS @ Kirby's
11/01/2018: Normal, IL @ Nightstop
11/03/2018: Minneapolis, MN @ Nomads
11/06/2018: Chicago, IL @ Elbo Room
11/09/2018: Dayton, OH @ South Park Tavern
J Hacha De Zola's four-song, all-Spanish language, synth-driven EP "Syn Illusión," is out Nov. 16th. It's a diversion from the "urban junkyard" sound that J will return to on his next album. Says PopMatters of the title track: "As songs on the matter go, this is one that's bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators."
Get distracted: The first single from the upcoming debut album by Alex Lilly is streaming now over at BuzzBands.LA.
You may be familiar with Alex Lilly from her work with the bird and the bee and The Living Sisters, or her gigs as part of the touring bands behind Beck and Lorde. On Jan. 11th, Lilly will release her first solo album 2% Milk via Inara George's newly-formed Release Me Records. The first single "Distracting Me" arrives tomorrow and the L.A. Record has premiered it today, calling out its "punchy beat and engaging twisty-turny melodies, written about how romance re-orders priorities."
"There is a post-punk sound here that brings to mind groups like The Pixies and Interpol complete with spiraling guitar solos that reach a climax with the infectious and anthemic shouted chorus at the end of the song." Thanks to Glide Magazine for posting "Desire" from post-truth, the upcoming album by Houston-based band The Wheel Workers.
Bakersfield-based married dreampop duo Fawns of Love will release its sophomore album Permanent on Jan. 18, 2019 via Test Pattern Records. The album’s first single “Someday” premieres today at Ghettoblaster ahead of hitting all streaming services tomorrow.