Sacramento News & Review previews Tomten show

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Tomten are in Davis tonight at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen – Sacramento News & Review picks the show as one of the best of the week:

The Pacific Northwest is buzzing over Tomten, a still decently under-the-radar trio based in Seattle. With serious praise from public radio station KEXP, expect the band to move past playing cheap shows on small restaurant patios in the future. And obviously, act now. Tomten’s brand of baroque pop is playful and charming, arranged on dreamy organ, analogue synth and fuzzy guitar. You hear the ’60s Britpop influence, as well as singer-keyboardist Brian Noyeswatkins’ upbringing in sunny, ocean-breezed Carmel. Airy sweetness gets a little more psychedelic heft with Tomten’s latest work, along with achingly beautiful strings.

Folk World reviews Levi Parham’s new release ‘Avalon Drive’

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Folk World reviews Levi Parham‘s new release Avalon Drive:

Levi Parham sends us a six track promo-EP called Avalon Drive. Rocking the stars away, he brings a strong mixture of Americana, bluegrass and rock with occasionally some nice raw edges. Something happens on this EP. Parham has a nice, strong voice and I like the edgy way he writes, sings and arranges his compositions. Parham shows that he has all the ingredients to become a major name in the more underground sounding Americana-Rock styled music. Intriguing and definitely worth a listen at his webpage.

TOUR DATES: Bucket Full of Nails shares Tomten tour dates and new single

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Bucket Full of Nails shares Seattle trio Tomten‘s upcoming tour dates and new single “Bitter Pill” b/w “Humdrum Doom Song”:

5/3/15: Seattle, WA – Barboza
5/5/15: Portland, OR – Portland State University
5/6/15: Portland, OR – Liquor Store
5/7/15: Davis, CA – Sophia’s Thai Kitchen
5/8/15: Oakland, CA – Awaken Cafe
5/9/15: San Francisco, Ca – Hemlock Tavern
5/11/15: Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place
5/13/15: Fresno, CA – Peeve’s
5/14/15: San Diego, CA – Sycamore Den
5/15/15: Los Angeles, CA – Ham & Eggs
5/17/15: Los Angeles, CA – Origami Records (In Store)

VIDEO PREMIERE: Selective Memory Magazine premieres Weird Mob’s “Hang It Up” video

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Weird Mob‘s debut album Wizards is out today! Pick it up at bandcamp and head over to Selective Memory Magazine to see the new “Hang It Up” video. Check out the Q&A to find out what libraries and jazz fusion have to do with Elysium and Mars One.

Music for the intellectual masses, their debut full-length album Wizards (Hibernator Gigs) is unleashed today and it is an album for dreamers based off of the eclectic perception of reality and escapist means from true reality. This band bends prog and synth pop music and re-casts it into a modern brilliance filled with a bonfire of fantastical visions.

Central Track previews Christian Lee Hutson show

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Christian Lee Hutson is playing Small Brewpub’s Block Party in Dallas! Central Track previews the night:

Sardonic New York folkie, Langhorne Slim, sartorial Austin rockers, Quiet Company, along with semi-local country-tronica dabbler Christian Lee Hutson and Dallas folk collective Fox & the Bird will come together to help Oak Cliff’s Small Brewpub hold its first-ever block party. Raise a glass and check out the spot’s newly-opened back patio at this one.

ALBUM PREMIERE: Overblown premieres Weird Mob’s debut album ‘Wizards’

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Overblown premieres Weird Mob‘s debut album Wizards, with thoughts from the band on each track. Wizards is out on 4/21 on Hibernator Gigs Records.

Weird Mob is certainly an apt moniker for this Charlotte, Virginia synth pop group that seamlessly combines prog, new wave, electro pop, and a touch of post punk. Theirs is an eclectic, and definitely weird, mix, at times odd, at times lighthearted, always catchy.

VIDEO PREMIERE: The Boot premieres Levi Parham’s music video “Ruby”

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Levi Parham‘s new music video “Ruby” premieres today at The Boot, which praises “Parham’s soulful, gritty and tender voice [that] provides a cool contrast to the young boy’s innocence and vibrancy.”

Also:
Watch the “Never Coming Home To Me” video at CMT Edge
Listen to “Never Coming Home To Me” at The Bluegrass Situation
Listen to “Lola My Lovely” at Folk Radio UK
Listen to the Avalon Drive EP at Ghettoblaster Magazine
Read an interview with The Oklahoman
Read a show preview in The Kansas City Star