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…
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
Wyatt Blair – Boys Night Out (Lolipop Records)
The Black Lips – Odelia
Mail the Horse – Purple Yellow Shade (Baby Robot Records)
Sudan Archives – Glorious (Stones Throw)
The Exbats – 2027 (Burger Records)
Jeff Rosenstock – Beating My Head Against the Wall (Live off of Thanks, Sorry!)
Lindy Vision – N’girls
Verite – think of me
Duncan Barlow – Le Seul Amour
Leonard Cohen – Happens to the Heart
Saw Black – I Know What I Want – The Toys
Pond Diver – Over the Hill
POLICA – Driving
Stephie James – Silent Film
Panda Bear – playing the long game
Hollis Brown – Do Me Right
Robert Glasper, YBN Cordae, Bilal, Herbie Hancock – Gone
Man Man – Witch (Sub Pop)
illiterates – Hat Trick (Baby Robot Records)
Nuclear Tourism – Subatomic
The Menzingers – Strain Your Memory
Allah-Las – Star (Mexican Summer)
clipping. – Aquacode Databreaks
Merkules, Hopsin, Tech N9ne – Bass
Porches – rangerover
White Reaper – Hard Luck
Screaming Females – No Being Disgusting
Homeboy Sandman, Quelle Chris, Your Old Droog – Lookout
K Michelle Dubois – Feast or Famine
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Clandestino
Why? – We Are Real
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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…