Archive for March 2019

Today, John Butler Trio+ announces a U.S. summer headline tour where Trevor Hall, Yonder Mountain String Band, and St. Paul and the Broken Bones will join them on select dates. The tour begins on July 25 in Asheville, NC.  On stage, the genre-melding band is rowdy, passionate, ferocious, tight and simply, extraordinary.  Butler employs a…

    “NAVA are a new music project who are exploring the very peripheries of what it means to make a pop song.” – The Line of Best Fit “Artfully constructed pop of an electronic hue, NAVA match crunching neo-industrial sounds against digital glamour” – Clash “Ritual perfectly mixes elements of experimental electronics with the fascinating voice…

About SYML: Seattle based artist and producer SYML’s (aka Brian Fennell) eponymous debut album will be released on May 3rd, 2019. Simplicity is what moves SYML – pronounced “simmel,” it means “simple” in Welsh. A child of a closed adoption, Fennell only discovered his Welsh roots as an adult shortly before naming the project. Recorded in his basement studio, 20 miles…

“…the Los Angeles trio who’ve mastered the tropes of modern pop (or what the industry calls “indie-pop”)…stomping/galloping rhythms, finely crafted harmonies and feverishly enthusiastic choruses.” – Buzzbands.LA “WILD needs to be on your pop radar. The band exists in a lovely space somewhere between indie-rock and folk-pop, and has steadily been growing their following” – Idolator  “…large,…

    “An urgent, raucous affair, The Harmaleighs’ new single “Sorry, I’m Busy” captures the paralyzing power of social anxiety through intimate lyrics and raw indie rock.” – Atwood Magazine Nashville indie duo The Harmaleighs (Haley Grant and Kaylee Jasperson) have announced that their new full-length album She Won’t Make Sense will be released on…

“Dazzling songwriting with a pop bent…the sound of two people truly finding their role, and working with relentless confidence…” – Clash “Inviting the listener into a synth-filled sonic head trip … the album explores the undeniable chemistry between the duo and their aptitude for pairing velvety beats and feel-good melodies.” –Billboard “…dreamy yet danceable pop.” – WNYC…

“Bursting with attitude and style.” – The Line of Best Fit “A sound that recalls the early 00s halcyon days via the exuberance of The Runaways.” – Hero Magazine Danish sibling-rock-trio Velvet Volume have just shared a new video for the blistering anthemic song “I Think I Need You.” The video is a dramatic extension of their live gigs,…

  “Over dreamy production, lead vocalist Alex Hwang and keyboardist Sally Kang trade verses as they ruminate over fighting to win back a lost love…” – Billboard When they first formed several years back, LA-based band Run River North were called Monsters Calling Home. Years later, having evolved from a sextet, the trio of Alex…

Today, indie electronic dream-pop trio Vök shares the video for magnetic single “Erase You,” off their sophomore album In The Dark, also released today via Nettwerk. Frontwoman Margrét Rán explains the song, which is beautifully choreographed in the footage about a relationship that takes a sinister twist: “‘Erase you’ is a song about a person…