Kansas City’s the Pedaljets will issue Twist the Lens on 14 February 2020 via Electric Moth Records. This marks the second new release from the group since they reunited in the late 2000s. Initially formed in 1984, the group‘s particular brand of what was then known as college rock led the quartet out of the Midwest and on to national stages with acts such as the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, and the Flaming Lips. READ MORE…
Photographs can be “electro-magnetic,” as multi-instrumentalist Jen Starsinic observes with her new song and video “Picture in a Frame,” premiering today on American Songwriter. The track serves as the first offering to an indie-rock record called Bad Actor, expected February 7, 2020.
“Visible wavelengths from back when we were fun / Printed out on paper to have you when you’re gone,” she sings. She waxes nostalgic for a time gone by, and together with fuzzy guitar work and a steady rhythm, she also tries to heal along the way. “I wrote ‘Picture in a Frame’ when my dad was first starting to get really sick,” she explained, “and I was also pretty fresh out of a relationship that I would later learn to recognize as having been emotionally abusive, a relationship dynamic that I was already quite familiar with.”
I always make sure to bring my laptop also along with an external hard drive so I can continue being a boss in the back office while on the road. READ MORE…
Melissa Frabotta, aka Mosa, considers her pair of new singles — “Hard Times,” premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Nov. 26), and “Mama’s Got Brand New Shoes” — to be the new, and true, start of her recording career.
The Brooklyn-based Frabotta released a Mosa album during October of 2018 but acknowledges to Billboard that “it was a very soft release. We didn’t promote it much. We just had a lot of old recordings and people were saying, ‘Hey, we want to get your stuff’ that we were playing at shows. But by the time those songs came out they were older and less fresh in my brain.
“These [new songs] are the first release that I feel I’m really proud of. They resonate more with me. They reflect where I’m at as an artist now.”
Shane Palko brushed thick, red dust off of a cloth guitar bag and unzipped a side pocket to see how many Ugandan Shillings were left. They exchanged so weakly into Tanzanian Shillings that he’d be surprised if there would be enough to get to his concert at the Slow Leopard in Dar Es Salaam. READ MORE…
New York alt-folk act Mail the Horse have had a lot of songs released already with only one LP, Planet Gates. For a large band which is such a live oriented one, this is less surprising than the fact they vary so much from clean and sweet numbers, “Oh, Jamie”, “In Our Time” or “Dorothy” to the folky Magnolia EP, and now, on the new self titled release, chalk full of rock ‘n’ roll. READ MORE…