Dinner is Danish producer and singer Anders Rhedin. Following the release of his EP collection and last year’s debut LP Psychic Lovers, the now LA-based artist presents New Work. Dinner worked with Josh da Costa in the nighttime at off-hours producing the album at a studio in an industrial part of downtown LA. The songs were recorded on the spot with no preparation time. In-between studio sessions, Dinner recorded and...
Naomi Punk don’t do things halfway. Therefore it’s no surprise the Olympia, WA band have released not one, not two, but three new videos. Watch ‘Cardboard’, ‘Journey To The Top’ and ‘My Shadow’ below! The tracks are off their newly released double-album Yellow, which contains 25 tracks clocking in at almost 75 minutes. The album was recorded by the band beginning in 2015 at various locales throughout Olympia. Naomi Punk is singer/guitarist...
MOURN have released their new EP Over the Wall, a collection of four covers and an unreleased track from their recent album, Ha, Ha, He! Listen below! The group of Catalonian teenage wunderkinds are making authentically great guitar-based music in an era when it’s considered almost unfashionable. The four covers featured on Over The Wall are by various heroes and influences that belie the band member’s ages (The Replacements, Husker Du, The Sound, and Echo & The Bunnymen)....
Widowspeak have released their full-length album Expect The Best, which sees the band finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm. At the heart of the band, there is a palpable duality, a push and pull between the delicate and the deliberate: the contrast of lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton’s strikingly beautiful voice and poignant melodies with the terrestrial reality of being a four-piece rock...
Reptaliens, the Portland lo-fi pop band led by husband and wife Cole and Bambi Browning, will release their debut album FM-2030 on Friday 6 October. Listen to the first single ‘If You Want’ below! Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi’s lulling vocals. The pair’s songwriting mirrors their strong connection. FM-2030 was recorded...
Widowspeak have revealed their latest single, ‘The Dream’, from forthcoming full-length Expect The Best out August 25. Listen below! Expect The Best sees Widowspeak finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm. The album was written while lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton was living in Tacoma, Washington after previous stints in upstate New York and Brooklyn. So much moving around, and specifically a...
Alex Calder announces his self-titled LP, to be released Friday 20 October. Calder also shares the album’s first single ‘Morning Ritual (feat. Caroline Levasseur)’. Listen below! He notes, “‘Morning Ritual’ is the first song I wrote off of the new album. It wasn’t properly recorded until most of the rest of the album was done though. It’s essentially your typical song about being lazy and not wanting to change. Pretty simple stuff.”...
Naomi Punk have shared two new singles, ‘Cookie’ and ‘Cardboard’, taken from their forthcoming double LP Yellow, out 4th August. Listen below! Naomi Punk got their start in 2012 with the release of their debut The Feeling. They seamlessly transfer what they create in the studio to the stage putting on intense, dynamic shows that tend to require the use of earplugs – they mean to be loud, and they are. On...
Widowspeak announce their new album, Expect The Best, to be released Friday 25 August, along with revealing a video for the first single, ‘Dog’, filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA. Watch it below! Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton says the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always...
Brooklyn trio B Boys have today released their full-length debut Dada. Featuring singles ‘Energy’, ‘Walking’ and ‘Discipline’ the band create effortless punk, sun beaten guitars and bass riffs twist around each other, sharp turns and jagged edges careen wildly, making for a breathless record.
Naomi Punk have shared 2 new singles ‘Tiger Pipe’ and ‘Chains’ with the news of their Double LP, Yellow, to be released on Friday 4th August. Listen below! In these two new singles, the trio shows a fascinating sort of artistic progression from their Television Man era. ‘Tiger Pipe’ is a kind of new age – pop – Royal Trux impression that is truly weird and sounds like no other single heard lately. ‘Chains’ brings us back...
Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album, This Old Dog, is out today! It was a little space—in time, location and method—that inspired DeMarco while making This Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos he’d written in New York, he realised after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving...
B Boys hit us with their new single ‘Walking’, a song the band explains is “about trying to be tender and acknowledging that masculinity is a prison written after a whirlwind of emotions of being on tour.” ‘Walking’ follows the band’s first single ‘Energy‘ from their upcoming full-length debut Dada, out Friday 16 June. Listen / purchase ‘Walking: https://remotecontrol.lnk.to/walking
What better way to get a final peek of Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album This Old Dog before hearing the whole darn thing, released next Friday, than through one of the album’s most soulful numbers. Listen to ‘One More Love Song’ below! As Mac told Sirius XMU, “Sometimes [love songs] come from a specific place, but in a lot of instances they could just be plucked out of the air. Have...
With under a month to go until Mac DeMarco’s new release, This Old Dog, out Friday 5th May. Mac offers up another taste of what’s to come with ‘On The Level’, listen below! Following the more acoustic-minded ‘This Old Dog’ and ‘My Old Man’, Mac revels in the high-gloss synth-pop of ‘On The Level’ showing once again that he’s at his best with the slower jams. It’s another number giving a further glimpse...
After sharing two singles ‘My Old Man’ and ‘The Old Dog’, Mac DeMarco offers up a self-directed video for the latter track, filmed in his new hometown of Los Angeles. Read his statement about the video below: “A devoted dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and love. Reincarnated as multiple canines over the course of five decades, the...
