The Budos Band Performance From KEXP’s Live Lounge!
This past weekend, The Budos Band performed at KEXP’s Live Lounge during the Bumbershoot Festival! Check out their performance of “Black Venom” here or at KEXP.org!
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Can’t get enough of Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside? It is time for a very literal interpretation. Take an instagram photo (or as many as you want until June 1!) of your untamed hair and tag it #untamedbeast for a chance to win merch + hair products!
Watch this heartwarming video for the Baptist Generals’ “Dog That Bit You” via Spin!
So stoked about Partisan’s latest signing, Pure Bathing Culture! Preview “Pendulum” off their forthcoming record Moon Tides via gorilla vs bear.
Stream Secret Colours’ “Blackbird (Only One)” via SPIN (and ADD it at CMJ on 5/28)!
Read The Wall Street Journal’s feature on John Grant and his new album, Pale Green Ghosts.
The album is at radio now and going for spins!
Did you catch “Fireflies” by Still Corners as The Current’s Song Of The Day? Keep spinning Strange Pleasures!
The lovely Yasmine Hamdan is being featured on Radio Milwaukee’s Sound Travels as some of the best new world music! Ya Nass is at radio now!
The folks at WFUV have decreed that the new record by Treetop Flyers is one of their best new releases of the week! The Mountain Moves is going for adds this week, so get on it!
South African/Dutch artists Skip&Die were featured on Radio Milwaukee’s Sound Travels as some of the best new world music! SKIP&DIE are at radio now!
“The band’s talent for crafting deceptively simple, hook-studded tunes that run both the stylistic and emotional gamut is again underlined, most strikingly on the segueing of the goodtime, Supergrass-toned ‘Tearing The Arches Down’ into gorgeous, soft grey lament ‘The Sober Scent Of Paper.’” - eMusic’s review of Alone Aboard the Ark
Read the full review of The Leisure Society’s Alone Aboard the Ark! The album is going for spins at radio now!
Catch Dungeonesse on The Poplist, watch the video for “Drive You Crazy,” and spin the record at radio NOW! <3
MTVU has a Required Listening feature on Foreign Talks, dubbing them “the band you wish you formed in high school.” Read the whole feature here to see what else they had to say.
Check out this Kickstarter to fund a documentary about the “rise, fall, and reemergence of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame radio personality Marco Collins!”
“Dungeonesse’s sound is poised somewhere between the past and present. Their take on the poppier side of modern R&B would sound at home on a playlist with Jessie Ware and Solange, but they’re also trying to reanimate a very specific mid-90s vibe— think Jock Jams for a private party rather than a whole bleacher-rocking stadium. They embrace their influences wholeheartedly, enough to bring the past vividly into the present moment.” - Pitchfork’s review of Dungeonesse
Read the full Pitchfork review of Dungeonesse’s self-titled debut! It’s at radio now!
The time is almost here! Heliotropes’ A Constant Sea will be released on Manimal in just a few weeks (adding at radio on 6/10)! Download “Psalms” and read up on our favorite Brooklyn psych “band of sisters (not actual sisters, sisters in rock solidarity)” on Impose!
Stream The Baptist Generals’ Jackleg Devotional to the Heart via American Songwriter!
Vogue featured Harper Simon’s release party for his sophomore solo record, Division Street!
“Grant’s neuroses arrive dripping with honesty and forthrightness, mostly expletively and with alarming impact. Grant writes marvelously personal lyrics, full of gusto and self-awareness and a semi-hidden sneer that make even his demure compositions seem like some kind of super-mature punk rock performance art.” - Paste’s review of Pale Green Ghosts
Read the full review of John Grant’s Pale Green Ghosts on Paste.
John Grant is at radio now; keep on spinning the record!
Jonny Fritz is Rolling Stone’s Artists to Watch! Head over to Rolling Stone’s site for their article and to watch the video for “Have You Ever Wanted to Die?”
The AV Club premiered Secret Colours’ video for their song “Blackhole.” They’ve also got a list of Secret Colours tour dates on their site.
Peach, Secret Colours’ new album, adds on 5/20!
NPR featured Nick Jaina on Heavy Rotation. Head over to the NPR site to hear “Don’t Come to Me” and read a write up on Nick by OPBmusic’s Jeremy Petersen.
Nick’s new album, Primary Perception, is going for spins at radio!
The New Yorker previewed Charles Bradley’s show at the Apollo tonight! Are you going? Come rock out with Caroline and Terence!
Charles’ sophomore album, Victim of Love, is going for spins at radio now!
Going for Adds 5.21
To download, stream, or get more info on the releases below, visit www.distillerpromo.com.
Camera2 - This is Not a Sad Song EP (Unfiltered)
Vieux Farka Touré - Mon Pays (Six Degrees)
Foreign Talks - Foreign Talks (Expunged)
Radical Dads - Rapid Reality (Uninhabitable Mansions)
Second Sky & Thomas Blondet - Remixes (Rhythm&Culture)
Treetop Flyers - The Mountain Moves (Partisan)
Dungeonesse is Stereogum’s album of the week! Read their absolutely killer review of the band’s self-titled debut, and check out the official video for “Drive You Crazy” on Stereogum.
Dungeonesse is at radio now and going for spins!
“Pale Green Ghosts is defined by Grant’s willingness to broadcast directly from his hell; he’s a bit of a serial confessor, and the confessions are marked by blitheness that belies just how much he did care…Grant’s ease of disclosure can be unnerving, but it’s this sense that nothing is (seemingly) too private for him to share in a song that makes Pale Green Ghosts so potent and, ultimately, accessible.” - Pitchfork’s review of Pale Green Ghosts.
See what else Pitchfork had to say in its great review of John Grant’s Pale Green Ghosts here.
