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Sally Anne Morgan Shares New Single 'Diamond Joe' With Ripley Johnson
by Michael Major - September 06, 2023 Sally Anne Morgan's rich, intimate and modern music blooms outward from the fertile grounds of American folk and country traditions. Morgan is sharing the dazzling new single 'Diamond Joe' featuring labelmate and fellow cosmic country traveller Ripley Johnson (Rose City Band, Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo...
Rose City Band Share New Single 'Slow Burn'
by Michael Major - March 09, 2023 The project of acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band has extended beyond the studio and lives in tandem as a live ensemble featuring some of the finest players in contemporary rock: pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker, keyboardist Paul Hasenberg, bassist Dewey Mahood (aka Pl...
Rose City Band to Release New Album Garden Party in April
by Michael Major - January 31, 2023 Recorded at Johnsons’ Portland home as well as The Center for Sound, Light, and Color Therapy and mixed by John McEntire, Garden Party features guest appearances by Moon Duo bandmates John Jeffrey on drums and Sanae Yamada on synths, as well as Rose City Band live performers Hasenberg on keyboards a...
Psychic Ills and Moon Duo Announce 'Live at Levitation Albums'
by Michael Major - August 24, 2022 The Reverberation Appreciation Society will release the next two entries in the Live at LEVITATION series, with Psychic Ills and Moon Duo. The 5th LP features New York neo-psych legends Psychic Ills’ spellbinding appearance in 2012, capturing the band’s desert-bleached psychedelia live in Ill’s home...
Rose City Band Announces U.S. East Coast/Midwest Tour
by Michael Major - July 19, 2022 The band draws on guitarist Ripley Johnson's (Wooden Shjips/Moon Duo) deep links into the Portland underground music scene, featuring Thrill Jockey labelmate Dewey Mahood (Plankton Wat) on bass and Mahood's collaborator Dustin Dybvig on drums, alongside Barry Walker on pedal steel, Paul Hasenberg on...
Rose City Band Shares New Single 'Silver Roses'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 16, 2021 Setting an introspective tone for the record, Johnson here colors Rose City Band's country-rock twang with a wistful, melancholic undertone....
Rose City Band Share Single 'Real Long Gone'
by Kaitlin Milligan - April 29, 2020 Ahead of the release of new album Summerlong, out May 15th, Rose City Band has released the single 'Real Long Gone'....
Mayflower Madame Releases New Single 'Swallow'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - March 11, 2020 Psychedelic post-punk outfit Mayflower Madame present their darkly sinister single 'Swallow', the second taste of their new album 'Prepared for a Nightmare', a dark and distinctive blend of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia. French label Only Lovers Records will be releasing this long-play in coll...
Rose City Band Shares Single 'Only Lonely'
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 04, 2020 Rose City Band has shared the first single, 'Only Lonely', from upcoming album Summerlong, out May 15th. The song's lighter-than-air guitar, glistening lap steel, and rollicking pace captures the summer spirit of the album, calling to mind sunshine sparkling off the water of a lazy river. In contras...
Rose City Band Sign to Thrill Jockey
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 14, 2019 Rose City Band have announced their signing to Thrill Jockey Records. The group's self-titled debut album, produced by Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips / Moon Duo) and mixed by Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks / Deerhoof) will be re-issued by Thrill Jockey Records on limited-edition red vinyl on January 17...
New Single MIRROR SONG Out From UK Noise-Gaze Outfit Burning House
by Tori Hartshorn - January 14, 2019 Alt-rock outfit Burning House present their new single 'Mirror Song', providing a psychedelic power-gaze preview of their long-awaited album 'Anthropocene', due out in early 2019. The accompanying videowas produced and directed by Callum Scott-Dyson CSD Videography....
UK Noise-Gaze Outfit Burning House Announce New Single MIRROR SONG
by Tori Hartshorn - November 08, 2018 Alt-rock outfit Burning House present their new single 'Mirror Song', providing a psychedelic power-gaze preview of their long-awaited album 'Anthropocene', due out in early 2019. 'Peach' is also offered as a second track for this single, offered exclusively via Bandcamp. These are the first signs ...
Vive la Void Share New Single DEATH MONEY From Their Debut Album Out May 4
by Macon Prickett - April 12, 2018 Vive la Void, the solo project of Sanae Yamada of Moon Duo, has shared the new single 'Death Money,' along with an accompanying video directed by Yamada herself. The track is taken from Vive La Void's self-titled debut, out May 4th on Sacred Bones. 'Death Money,' is a multi-layered, propulsive explo...
Vive la Void Announces Self-Titled Debut Album Out 5/4
by Macon Prickett - March 20, 2018 This spring Sanae Yamada, keyboardist for Moon Duo, will release her debut solo album as Vive la Void. The self-titled release is out May 4th on Sacred Bones. As Vive la Void, Yamada foregrounds synthesizers and her own voice, stripping away the excesses of psychedelic music to its bedrock hypnotic ...
Vive la Void Signs to Sacred Bones For New Album This Spring
by Macon Prickett - February 07, 2018 Senae Yamada, co-founder and keyboard player of Moon Duo, has announced details of her new project, Viva la Void. Yamada wrote and recorded her debut album over roughly a two-year period, during windows of downtime in Moon Duo's substantial touring and recording schedule. The synthesizer-driven albu...
The Soft Moon Signs to Sacred Bones, Announces New Album & October Tour
by Caryn Robbins - October 16, 2017 The Soft Moon today announces his signing to New York record label Sacred Bones and announces his 4th studio album Criminal, out February 2, 2018. The former Oakland-based, now Berlin, musician also shares lead track Burn, which can be heard here... |