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Indie Minded Premieres ‘Another Town’ by Kat Myers & the Buzzards

Los Angeles-based indie rock-Americana band Kat Myers & the Buzzards are happy to premiere their new track “Another Town” here at Indie Minded, a track that appears on their upcoming EP release, Owe Everybody Money, out November 17th.

Sometimes you have to take the leap of faith if you feel strongly about something, and Kat Myers did just that:

In 2012, Kat Myers had a solid, stable job in New York City, a steady, long-term relationship, a great apartment, and a dog. She though she might even get engaged before too long. “This is about to be my life,” Myers thought. For many people, checking off these boxes would be enough. But Myers wanted something more.

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Radnor & Lee Create Playlist for Tidal

Radnor & Lee (musician Ben Lee and actor Josh Radnor) are out with their debut, self-titled album on November 10. To celebrate their partnership, the duo put together a playlist of uplifting tracks to get you through the gloomy months.

Ben Lee

Jonathan Richman, “My Love is a Flower”
For me, Jonathan Richman was the beginning of understanding that being happy and positive was sometimes the most punk rock choice you could make. I would say he might be my single biggest influence. His whole attitude was just glorious, childlike and positive. I love the vulnerability of seeing our ability to love as a flower just beginning to bloom.

Donovan, “Happiness Runs”
This song was written by my father-in-law and is almost like a meditation on the way that positive mindset changes the world, one thought at a time. ‘Happiness runs in a circular motion…everybody is a part of everything, anyway.’ These are important mantras to lift us up when we are down. It always makes me smile.

Daniel Johnston, “Speeding Motorcycle”
This song, and especially the version Daniel recorded with Yo La Tengo live on radio, affected me profoundly as a teenager, and it still does. The sense of freedom, possibility and the unknown is so palpable in this recording. Of course, being a Daniel Johnston song, there is a feeling of being slightly unhinged not too far from the surface. But above all, this song makes me feel like a puppy putting my head out the window of a car and enjoying the wind in my face, smiling ear to ear.

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PopMatters Premieres New Video from Kat Myers & the Buzzards for ‘Reluctant Love’

It’s been a whirlwind past few years for Kat Myers. Just five years ago, you could’ve thought that the Buzzards’ frontwoman was living the dream between a steady job, steady relationship, and a steady place to live out amongst the throngs of New York City. Yet, she just wasn’t happy.

Rather than stick around, she “realized that you don’t have to do what your parents think you should do; that there are other paths”, took a transformative trip to Southeast Asia after leaving her past behind, and wound up in Los Angeles. Now, she’s a full-time musician following her dreams, right at the precipice of releasing a debut album.

Ahead of the upcoming EP, Kat Myers & the Buzzards are releasing a music video for their single, “Reluctant Love”. The rolling Americana tune is driven forward by Myers’ soulful alto, carrying the song with a particular vocal yearning for the greater sense of awareness in the modern world that it’s lyrically centered around.

The video, directed by Thomas Smith, keeps the selling point of the song going as it follows an individual’s struggles — and eventual success — at finding a meaningful connection in a wired world full of distraction.

“I feel that nowadays, people have a much harder time committing to things than they once did. Whether it be a relationship or just meeting a friend for coffee,” says Kat Myers. “People seem to be more self-involved than ever and many times prefer the company of their phone and computer over a human being. The song isn’t necessarily about love, it’s about all types of relationships and being present.”

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Hollis Brown Q&A with the Ocala Star-Banner

Rock band tunes up for Saturday’s music and food truck festival in Ocala

The band Hollis Brown is named after the Bob Dylan song “The Ballad of Hollis Brown.” They are from Queens, New York, but have a sound shaped by many corners of the country.

They are called an Americana band, independent roots rockers. But when it comes right down to it, they are just a straight-up American rock band. They have a penchant for long guitar solos and songs about trains and girls.

Hollis Brown will headline the Blues/Americana stage at 6:15 p.m. Saturday at Harvest Fest, the free music and food truck bash presented by the city’s Feel Downtown LIVE series. Country star Aaron Tippin and rock band the Georgia Satellites will headline the Country stage.

So who is Hollis Brown the band? Co-founder, singer and guitarist Mike Montali called in last week to answer that question and a few more…

[FULL INTERVIEW HERE]

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PopMatters premieres new video for Neon Moon’s “Smoke”

At first glance, you may have never expected Neon Moon’s Josh Bohannon and Noelle Bohannon to ever come together as a musical duo, let alone as a couple. They were cut from two separate clothes, with Josh pursuing the Los Angeles metal scene while Noelle came out swinging with soulful leanings in Tennessee.

Eventually, though, they found each other following a year-long stay in Nashville for Josh and one of the hard rock projects he was a part of. They hit it off as friends, pursuing a musical output of cover songs on YouTube where they discovered that they worked well together on rootsier tunes.

The end result is Neon Moon, an Americana band that takes those unlikely influences and gives them a dose of twang along with it. The full studio results of that effort are out now in their album, 6:53, and they are celebrating its release with a music video.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

“‘Smoke’ is essentially about wanting someone that is just barely out of your reach,” says Noelle. “We all know the feeling of wanting a true connection with a specific person, but that person is not interested, or they only view you as a late-night call.”

“You take what you can get, hoping it leads to an actual relationship, only to wake up alone and no closer to that person than you were the night before.”

She goes on, “For ‘Smoke’, we wanted the musical tension and lyrical tension to really work together. We use the word “ghost” in the song, so we tried to reflect the eeriness and mystery of that through the production. If Fleetwood Mac had put out a twangy country song, we feel like it would sound similar to this!

The idea was truthfully inspired by the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Bem says in reference to Sirius Black, “It’s like trying to catch smoke… like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands.” The lyrics are written more metaphorically, but the video takes the ghost story vibe very literally! We’re so excited to be able to share this! ”

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Glide Magazine premieres MERCH’s new single, “Marriage”

MERCH is the recording monicker of Joe Medina, who creates richly grand cinematic vocal music. On the new MERCH LP Amour Bohemian, which out November 3rd, is an immense project featuring contributions from 65 different artists, including the 30-piece Prague FILMharmonic, who have collaborated with everyone from Werner Herzog and Quentin Tarantino to the Arcade Fire, Joanna Newsom and Adele. Members of The Growlers and The Blank Tapes are also featured on the album, which Oh Sees’ John Dwyer is already calling “a ren-rock masterpiece.”

When Medina began work on Amour Bohemian, he wanted to record with a symphony orchestra. “I did some of the basic arrangements myself,” Medina says, “but I needed help, so I tracked down arranger Richard Hieronymus to an island off the coast of Washington. He was the string arranger on the cult classic 1968 album The Grey Life, by singer-songwriter and psychedelic pioneer of The Blue Things, Val Stoecklein. He also wrote scores for Roger Corman’s films, Phil Spector, and the Wrecking Crew, the L.A. session band responsible for so many of the ’60s songs you hum, from the Beach Boys to Nancy Sinatra.”

A densely layered, wildly ambitious record rooted in Medina’s love of vintage film soundtracks, Scott Walker and Lee Hazlewood, Amour Bohemian‘s cinematic sound is a brilliant fusion of classic pop, psych and garage that’s peppered with reverent nods to the old-school crooners, Mexican ranchero, French chanson and ’30s big-band jazz. Medina shrieks and howls like a descendant of The Mothers of Invention and croons like Leonard Cohen, evoking a serendipitous combination of love and estrangement.

Today Glide is excited to premiere “Marriage”, one of the heartwarming crooner tunes on the album. Accompanied by a simple yet elegant string section, Medina’s vocal bring to mind poetic navel-gazers like Lee Hazlewood, Burt Bacharach and Leonard Cohen. With the choral backing, the song sounds like it would fit right in at a Las Vegas showroom in the Sin City heydays of the 1960s. There’s also a loping, country groove to the song that adds a rougher edge to the tune and makes it just as fit for the dive bar as it is for the velvet-lined lounge.

Joe Medina has plenty to say about the song:

“With ‘Marriage,’ I wanted to create a song that questions our modern society’s rituals of love and how what we take in can reinforce outdated notions, even if we logically know better. So it starts with a feel like one of those old familiar tunes, whether it’s ‘Earth Angel’ or ‘We Belong Together,’ or a hundred other songs from that era that use the idea of ‘owning’ your partner as some sort of romantic ideal. ‘Earth angel, Earth angel, will you be mine?’ or ‘You’re mine and we belong together.’ I think any rational person in the modern age can look at that and think that does not equate a healthy union, but the way those songs sound just really tug at you, right?

So with my song, I wanted to take those kinds of sounds and just really throw them at you (the melody, the orchestra, the slack-key-style guitar solo, the opera singers, and so on)–making you open to suggestion by thinking you are hearing a certain kind of song but really just questioning the whole thing altogether, and our motivations for holding onto these institutions and traditions in our lifetime.

That being said, it was vitally important to me to show the distance we’ve come from that time by making the song gender neutral. Originally, there was a line that went ‘Where they’d pray for the bride and groom.’ I stayed up many a night trying to figure out what to do with that lyric to make it not a she/he thing. Thankfully, a friend of mine named Claire blurted out one night, “How about ‘for the happy two?’”

Of course, being that the notions that have been instilled in us are tough to shake (as much for me as anyone else), the song ‘Marriage’ takes the approach of ‘Won’t you say with me forever, though we both know it isn’t likely.’”