By: Tom Roth There’s something about having a challenging name that seems to empower people to achieve great things. Take Englebert Humperdinck, Coco Crisp, or my high school English teacher, Mr. Poindexter, as prime examples. Then there’s Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson. Anyone burdened with the doubly unfortunate monikers of “Ingrid” and “Egbert” can be expected […]
Phantogram’s new cut “Bill Murray” marks another track they’ve released online from Voices, their new album that’s out 2/18. You can check out “Fall In Love“, “Celebrating Nothing“, “Nothing But Trouble” and “Black Out Days” too. Apparently, the band had Murray in mind while crafting the track. “We named it ’Bill Murray’ because we always pictured a […]
Beck’s new album Morning Phase arrives 2/25 via Capitol. Beck already shared album track “Blue Moon” following a few, different non-album tracks last year. He’s dropped another Morning Phase cut this week. You can stream “Waking Light” below. It harkens back to the slow build vibes of Sea Change, which seems consistent with the idea that Morning Phase is somewhat of a […]
Following an opening performance for fellow Oakland act Trails & Ways, Waterstrider have caught my attention and ears. If you’re unfamiliar with Waterstrider, I recommend checking out single “Constellation” and their hypnotic cover of Little Dragon’s “Twice“. Today, they released their first original new track in a year and a half. This comes at an […]
England’s Yuck decided to make their Christmas a productive one and apparently got the jump start on a new EP. Yuck will release their four song Southern Skies EP later this spring, tracklist below. They’ve shared “Athena” from the album, plus some thoughts on Southern Skies: Hey everyone! Instead of staying in and watching TV this Christmas, we […]