Philip Selway plays drums and provides backing vocals for Radiohead. He’s also just about to release his second gorgeous and atmospheric solo record. It’s called Weatherhouse and it’s out October 7th. “Coming Up For Air” is the first single – the melancholy tone and whispery vocals hooked me on the first listen. I’m not sure what’s going […]
Being a part of the Sound It Out experience brings the promise of both hearing and writing about new music, which is an aural island I’d floated away from of late. So I’m not sure what it says about me that this, my second post, while new by definition of “to be released November 18, […]
The Chocolate Watchband. Blue Öyster Cult. Meat Puppets. The Jesus Lizard. Many bands could never live down such an absurd, goofy juxtaposition of words; only some can live up to the aesthetic challenge posed by their names. Australian psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard now join this select group. Their new video, the […]
In the present day, San Francisco’s Dirty Ghosts comprise singer/guitarist Allyson Baker, drummer Tony Sevener, and bassist Erin McDermott. But their history is a complicated one: the band’s 2012 debut release Metal Moon was a long-in-gestation work made by Baker and bassist Carson Binks, and produced by Baker’s then-husband Aesop Rock. Metal Moon is […]
There are only so many more-or-less perfect albums out there and, for me, one of them is The Byrds’ “Sweetheart of the Rodeo.” Maybe it’s because it was a favorite of my Dad’s, maybe because it perfectly captures that fascinating fringe of hippie culture that embraced real country music – or maybe it’s because it’s […]
Remember Smoosh? They were the adorable sisters out of Seattle that released their first record in 2004 when they were 10 and 12, and got a lot of attention for being talented and bouncy and charming. You know, these girls: Well, Asya and Chloe are all grown up and now are called Chaos Chaos. Asy […]
Go ahead, ask the question: “Has Daniel Lanois made a live EDM album?” The answer is no — or at least, his new Flesh and Machine isn’t that album. It marks the storied music producer’s return to the instrumental ambient projects he undertook in the 1980s under Brian Eno’s tutelage, now informed by state-of-the-art sampling […]
Legendary New Zealand musician Peter Gutteridge died earlier this week, at the age of 53. Gutteridge was a dedicated musical explorer, and one of the key figures in the development of the “Dunedin Sound” of the 1980s, closely associated with Flying Nun Records. He was a founding member of several of my favorite bands- The Clean, […]
God, I love Pond. They’re from Perth, Australia, they share a couple of members with Tame Impala, and I assume they smoke copious amounts of weed. If, like me, you read Highlights magazine as a kid, imagine Pond as the “Goofus” to Tame Impala’s “Gallant”. They’re goofy and affable and don’t spend a lot of […]
Daniel Pujol makes stripped-down, high-energy garage rock with artful lyrics and a wry sensibility. His vocal and instrumental style evoke Rocket From the Crypt and Supergrass, but his sound is more idiosyncratically lo-fi and his material more eclectic than either. His band Pujol has produced a varied collection of 7” singles, EPs, and albums. The […]