LoveyDove, the creative partnership of “Queen of Lo-Fi” Azalia Snail and LA producer/musician Dan West, are preparing to release their new LP, Rude Dawgs, a nine-track collection of noisy art-rock songs about love, politics and community. READ MORE…
Glide Magazine debuts the latest “hard-biting” new single from Ditchbird, “Heads Up,” saying it “swarms with crushing lyrics, stomping folk, and to finish it off – an acrobatic guitar solo.”
Glide is premiering the hard-biting “Heads Up,” which swarms with crushing lyrics, stomping folk, and to finish it off- an acrobatic guitar solo. Ditchbird has cemented himself as an artist who refuses to be “soundcast” into a particular genre corner and instead raises his musical middle finger with a glorious take mixing both the electric and organic.
The All Scene Eye interviews Washington DC psych/post-punk artist Binding Spell
When it comes to production, DC artist Roger Poulin, aka Binding Spell, is a proponent of making do with what you have. Though his new album English Basement makes him sound like an interstellar voyager moving at time-dilating speeds, voice echoing off space capsule walls, it gets its name from the underground apartment he’s been confined to since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic–a modest setup, but with everything he needed to construct a pocket post-punk universe. READ MORE…
Under the Radar debuts Radiator King’s new video for “Haunts Me Now,” compares frontman Adam Silvestri’s work to holy trinity of Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen & Joe Strummer
New York-via-Boston troubadour Adam Silvestri returned last year with his third full-length album as Radiator King, Unborn Ghosts. The record sees Silvestri distilling his mix of punk, dusty Americana, and blues into his sharpest pastiche yet, pulling touchstones like Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, and Joe Strummer into a more cohesive whole. Now Silvestri is back sharing the video for one of the record’s highlights, “Haunts Me Now,” premiering with Under the Radar.
“Haunts Me Now” finds Silvestri grappling with the ghosts of the past, haunted by faces and names of his youth. The spectral folk ballad breaks into a raw punk howl by the end, carried by Silvestri’s sandpaper vocals and powerhouse drumming from Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls and Violent Femmes. The accompanying video gives vision to these memories, tracking through carefree teenage escapades and an ensuing haunting tragedy.
Glide Magazine calls the new single from Takénobu an “enrapturing effort”
Cello and violin aren’t exactly the lead instruments one would expect to drop stunning indie-rock compositions. Yet Takénobu brings an explosive mix of art-rock and all-encompassing new-wave that sounds as if Arcade Fire unplugged and holed up in a coffee bar.
Takénobu is the middle name and band and artist name for Nick Takenobu Ogawa. It is a combination of the Japanese Kanji characters in his father and grandfather’s names, and loosely translated means “Iron Will”. He is joined in live performance and on the new album Always Leave a Note by talented wife Kathryn Koch.
Glide is premiering “Peachy Keen,” which takes simple pop new-wave pleasures and mingles those hooks with an artistic flair reserved for jazz and symphonic works. Call it neo-classical-wave, yet we’re digging on this enrapturing effort due off Takénobu’s upcoming LP Always Leave a Note.
Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly share exclusive new single + video for “Wade in the Water” over at Americana Highways
Americana Highways brings you this video premiere of Walter Parks’ version of the spiritual song “Wade in the Water,” from their forthcoming album Unlawful Assembly, due out on Sept 10th on Atomic Records. Walter Parks was the sideman for Richie Havens for a decade. Unlawful Assembly was produced by Stephen Williams (Sade, David Byrne, De La Soul), recorded at Atomic Sound in NYC, and mixed recorded and engineered by Merle Chornuk.