The Fat Angel Sings

Beach Bunny Lili Trifilio talks feeling things in a big way on the Chicago outfit’s sophomore album, out now via Mom+Pop Records she is back with “Blame Game” EP — their first new music since their breakout debut album “Honeymoon“. Take a listen to the riveting collection of four tracks below, along with a brand new music video for the EP’s title track “Blame Game.”

Plus, don’t miss Beach Bunny’s late night TV debut performing the EP’s first single “Good Girls (Don’t Get Used)” on Jimmy Kimmel.

Following their 2021 album “A Billion Little Lights“, Wild Pink released a couple transcendent one-off singles “Florida” and “Q. Degraw” to tide us over until their next release, seems we didn’t have to wait too long. Today, they’ve announced their fourth full-length “ILYSM” and shared the titled track, which feels urgent and grand like an anthem rivalling those of U2 or Arcade Fire. The album out October 14th on Royal Mountain Records, was co-produced by the group’s John Ross with Justin Pizzoferrato (Pixies, Speedy Ortiz). “ILYSM” also features an exciting line-up of a guest musicians including: J Mascis, Julien Baker, Ryley Walker, Yasmin Williams, and Samantha Crain.

“This song, like a few others on this record, takes place where I live and the field next to it,” Ross says about the new single. “A full moon will light up all the rooms here in a way I’ve never really seen and I feel like this song wrote itself a little bit. This album is about love in its many forms and this song in particular is a metaphor for love and obsession.”

The track also comes with a visualizer by John Smith that used the Dall-E 2 AI system to make the art. “The imagery of the specific clips were directly inspired by different lyrical lines or references, then edited together to make an experimental animation,” Smith said. “Perhaps one of the first animations using this new model. Early in the pandemic I started a deep dive learning about how I could use and utilize machine learning in my creative practice, and I found that it can be a very exciting and expressive tool for image making.”

Songs written and produced by John Ross

John Ross: Vocals, Guitars and Keys
Dan Keegan: Drums and Percussion
Arden Yonkers: Bass and Keys
David Moore: Piano, Banjo and Farfisa
Jeremy Viner: Saxophone and Clarinet
Peter Silberman: Vocals, Guitars and Keys
Mike ‘Slo Mo’ Brenner: Pedal Steel
Julien Baker: Vocals on “Hold My Hand”
Samantha Crain: Vocals on “St. Beater Camry”
J Mascis: Guitar on “See You Better Now”
Julia Steiner: Vocals on “ILYSM” and “See You Better Now”
Ryley Walker: Guitar on “Simple Glyphs”
Yasmin Williams: Guitar on “The Grass Widow In The Glass Window”

The album, which is out October 14th on Royal Mountain Records

Los Angeles based artist Young Jesus has announced the follow-up to 2020’s “Welcome to Conceptual Beach” and it’s called “Shepherd Head“. The first glimpse at the album, which is out September 16th via Saddle Creek, is the sublime single “Ocean” featuring vocals from labelmate Tomberlin. The single comes with a video directed by Stuart McClave.

The music of Young Jesus has always been about change. Bandleader and sole original member John Rossiter is a restless spirit, always moving, always seeking new sounds, new thoughts, new methods of working. Young Jesus’ new album “Shepherd Head” is a dramatic departure for the band, delving deeper into the themes that have always fascinated Rossiter—love, loss, and God—approached in a completely new direction. It’s a record of growth and exploration, pushing forward into the future with hope while still holding the pain and regrets of the past, seeking a balance for the present.

“Ocean” opens with babbles of water before John Rossiter’s gentle, somewhat weepy vocals command: “Stay” he sings, letting the silence be over overridden by delicate finger-plucked guitar and Marcel Borbón Peréz’s pronounced bass. “Where I’m at is where I’m not,” he continues. “God is just the ocean where I’m lost.”

Immediately, Young Jesus surrounds us with intricate instrumentation that swells as Rossiter’s poetically weary observations move toward acceptance. It’s gorgeous how Young Jesus transforms a sense of being lost into an encouragement to wonder without question.

There’s a new compilation out that celebrates the legacy of pop greats The Everly Brothers. “Hey Doll Baby”, released earlier this year, includes hidden gems and rarities from the American rock pioneers. The 17-track project was compiled by Tom Petty’s daughter Adria Petty, and it was the last contribution from the last living brother Don Everly, who passed away last year. Today, we’re sharing a tribute to The Everlys from Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino and Butch Walker covering “Bye Bye Love.”

“The Everly Brothers were a big influence to the early Best Coast sound, so when my friend Butch Walker asked me to cover this with him—I of course said yes,” Cosentino says. “I can’t think of a more quintessential Everly Brothers track than ‘Bye Bye Love’ either—a perfect catchy melody that will be lodged in your brain for days, and some of the most beautiful vocals ever. It was super fun to get to sing this as a duet with Butch and harmonize together, I love singing with him.”

Walker adds, “My love for the Everly Bros. goes deep, and when I told Bethany I was doing ‘Bye Bye Love,’ she said she would kill me if i didn’t ask her to sing it with me. So here we are. I love how we sang it together!”

Hey Doll Baby Virtual Festival: Celebrating The Lives & Music Of The Everly Brothers 2022

Silversun Pickups have shared the second single off their upcoming album “Physical Thrills”, and this one’s an ethereal, climactic song fuelled by a powerful vocal performance by bassist Nikki Moninger who says she was channelling her inner Kate Bush for this one.

In a few weeks, Silversun Pickups will unveil their sixth studio album titled “Physical Thrills“, which was produced by Butch Vig and will be released on August 19th through the band’s own label New Machine Recordings. With the buzzing and vaguely funky lead single “Scared Together” featuring vocals from bassist Nikki Monninger on the chorus, the title of the second single “Alone on a Hill” reflects Monninger’s solo vocals on the track. 

“This song exposes a side I didn’t know I had in me,” she shares of the more stripped-back tune. “It felt freeing, especially with everything going on in the past couple of years. I’m grateful everyone gave me so much support during the recording process as I am a bit timid when it comes to hearing the sound of my own voice. [Lead vocalist Brian Aubert] just kept telling me to channel my inner Kate Bush.”

A friend that was finally introduced to Butch Vig, once we got vaccinated, and blew through his studio like a tornado made of cotton candy, leaving little pieces of residue everywhere. But most importantly, this friend really doesn’t give a fuck. I know. That sounds brash. I just mean it’s a thing that is truly free. And now, this little living headspace no longer visits me. I visit it through this album. I hope you like it. My friend wouldn’t care. Little rascal.

New album “Physical Thrills” out August 19th! 2022, New Machine Recordings

Sorry are currently on tour across North America opening for Sleaford Mods. Get down early enough and catch them performing their new song, written about the ways we all become clichés the moment we feel even the slightest bit alone.

North London’s Sorry have shared new single “There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved” – a thrilling first taste of a new body of work slated for release later this year. The exciting return of Sorry comes with a video, directed by Sorry’s Asha Lorenz and frequent collaborator Flo Webb and produced by Asia Amad.  

Lorenz on the new track: “’There’s So Many People…’ is supposed to be a bit of a sad-funny love song! When we’re out of love we can feel detached and think ‘oh we’ll never be in love again… cry, cry’ but also try and laugh a bit… It’s easy to laugh or think you’ll never be That person then the next moment you can feel like the loneliest person in the world.” 

“There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved” is the first taste of new music to emerge from Sorry since the “Twixtustwain” EP arrived in February 2021, alongside the official digital release of their 2017 mixtapes Home Demo/ns Vol I. and Home Demo/ns Vol. II. The single will be pressed as a limited 7” with “15’4” featured as the B-side.  

Comprised of best friends and co-conspirators Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen, joined by drummer Lincoln Barrett, multi-instrumentalist Campbell Baum, and Marco Pini on electronics, Sorry rose from a thriving scene of bands in London; unveiling a series of mixtapes, sporadic singles and generally experimenting with the disparate tastes and sounds that would eventually give their March 2020 debut album “925” its distinctively modern and apocalyptic sound. 

Woodstock riff rockers The Bobby Lees will release new album “Bellevue” on October 7th via Ipecac. “I named the album “Bellevue” because when I listen back, I hear someone going through that stuff, who is now able to laugh about it and have fun re-telling the stories,” says bandleader Sam Quartin. “It’s a reminder for me that the most painful and intense things I go through end up being the most rewarding creatively.” New single “Monkey Mind” is fun.

Proudly outspoken and riotously loud, The Bobby Lees are Ipecac Recordings’ newest signing. Following on from the success of the “Hollywood Junkyard” EP and their Summer tour dates, the band announce their brand new full-length album, “Bellevue“, thirteen tracks of uninhibited rock and roll arriving on 7th October.

Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Henry Rollins…these are just a few of the punk icons who have shown support for Woodstock, NY based band The Bobby Lees. Sam Quartin [vocals, guitar], Macky Bowman [drums], Nick Casa [guitar], and Kendall Wind [bass] — make music that is punk in spirit and soul; unfettered and resolutely honest. To say their sound is wild and untethered is an understatement. It’s the kind of aural exorcism any listener can tap into, something that struck a chord with Henry Rollins who brought them to Ipecac Recordings where Mike Patton and Greg Werckman signed them. The latest single “Monkey Mind” explodes with a head-crushing hook, seesawing back and forth with manic intensity. Sam expands, “It’s about your head talking to you too loudly or being mean to yourself.”

The Bobby Lees are: Macky Bowman (drums) Nick Casa (guitar) Sam Quartin (vocals/guitar) Kendall Wind (bass)

The new single from the new album, “Bellevue“, coming October 7th.

2021 year marked 11 years of The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label, and we’ve updated this 60 track compilation, which spans over a decade of releases. Download it for free or pay what you want. Thank you for listening, thanks to all the great artists we’re lucky enough to work with. We’re looking forward to many more great records.

This label & Levitation fest are really what still make Austin the music capitol of the world. Austin City Limits definitely isn’t doing it haha These 60 tracks are like VIP tickets for those that have no idea what’s going on.  

They are among all my “favourite tracks”. Of all the Psych music, I’d have to say The Reverberation Appreciation Society captures best the current sound I’m into the most. Every band is full of high level musicianship. This compilation is quite a gem to own (name your price!). Looking forward to more Levitation sessions, releases from these bands, and new bands signing onto the label that fit the feel and vibe of groovy psych scene.