DSM Shows reviews Karen Meat & the Players new EP

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DSM Shows reviews the new Karen Meat & the Computer EP by Karen Meat & the Players, out on March 3rd on cassette and digital formats on Red Nude Tapes.

For an album that contains songs that are mostly about pizza, beer, and dysfunctional relationships, Karen Meat’s latest offering, ‘Karen Meat & The Computer,’ is utterly and unrelentingly adorable. In the span of just five tracks, from three different songwriters, they manage to articulate a unified theme and a fresh, challenging take on the world that is vexingly rooted in both the kitschy and the macabre. Somehow it is both cute and gritty, exhibiting pop sensibilities in equal measure to it’s hooligan nature.

Read the rest of the review at DSM Shows and pre-order the cassette or pick it up in Des Moines at Vaudeville Mews on Friday, February 27th.

VIDEO PREMIERE: The Wild Honey Pie premieres Annalibera’s video “Black Cat White Cat”

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The Wild Honey Pie premieres the first video from Annalibera‘s debut album Nevermind I Love You – check out the video for “Black Cat White Cat,” created by Deft, which looks back at the trials and errors of teenage experience, and pre-order the vinyl, out March 24th on Sump Pump Records.

“Beautifully moody…Its emotive vocals ebb and flow, reaching a climax during the chorus while a slow-burning mesh of synths, percussion and carefully plucked guitar swirl overhead.”

Get It On Vinyl reviews Annalibera’s debut album “Nevermind I Love You”

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Get It On Vinyl reviews Annalibera‘s debut album Nevermind I Love You, out on March 24th on vinyl from Sump Pump Records.

Call Annalibera anything you like. Call them rock, pop, shoegaze, chamber rock, whatever. Certainly somewhere in their debut album, Nevermind I Love You, you are bound to find influence. However no matter what you label their music, make sure you use other metaphors like original, unique, and spectacular…some amazing energies that pour out of these eight tracks.

Nooga.com reviews Frogbelly and Symphony’s song “Patch of Blue”

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Nooga.com reviews Frogbelly and Symphony‘s new single “Patch of Blue” from their forthcoming debut album Blue Bright Ow Sleep, out on March 24th on Labelship UK:

Dense guitar riffs, a thudding percussive backbone and singer Liz Hanley’s powerful voice lead us along this road of opaque rhythms and mercurial instrumentation—the song incorporates bits of experimental noise and sound, all blended together in a jarring suite of music that feels like the tail end of a terrifying trip through Frankenstein’s laboratory.

Free Times interviews Christian Lee Hutson

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Free Times goes deep with Christian Lee Hutson in advance of his show in Columbia at Conundrum Music Hall:

Hutson’s most recent LP, Yeah Okay, I Know, is exactly the kind of record you want to unknowingly stumble upon. Loaded down with wry and reflective lyricism and enviable melodies, its elegantly layered arrangements foreground the acoustic-and-vocals approach Hutson takes during his solitary live shows while also demonstrating the breadth and depth of his compositional abilities.

Greenville News previews Christian Lee Hutson show

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Greenville News previews Christian Lee Hutson‘s show celebrating his sophomore full-length Yeah Okay, I Know:

Singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson is only a few years removed from his teens, but his music distills decades’ worth of pain and angst. Hutson’s music blends folk, blues and plain-spoken emotional truths. His second album, Yeah Okay, I Know, was just released, and Hutson will perform at a record-release show at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Horizon Records.

KUTX Song of the Day: The Lonesome Heroes’ single “Long Time Coming”

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KUTX Austin features The Lonesome Heroes‘ single “Long Time Coming” as today’s Song of the Day! Catch the band on tour now, and pick up the sophomore full-length Can’t Stand Still, out now on CD and digital formats and out on vinyl later this month from Whatbang Records.

ALSO:
Listen to “Future Ghost Town” on Folk Radio UK.
Listen to “Long Time Coming” on Pop Press International.
Listen to Can’t Stand Still at Ghettoblaster Magazine.

Fingertips reviews Annalibera’s single “Black Cat White Cat”

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Fingertips pens a beautiful review of Annalibera‘s single “Black Cat White Cat” from the forthcoming debut album Nevermind I Love You, saying:

Holding everything together are two related things: the interval-oriented melody, which floats us up and down the octave via archetypal arpeggios; and singer Anna Gebhardt’s soaring, searing voice, in which I hear rich echoes of the perennially underrated Tanya Donelly. (And if that comparison means anything to you, seriously, don’t miss this song.)

ALSO:
Song of the Day on KDHX
Annalibera on Birp.fm
Annalibera on AudioFemme
Annalibera on The Von Pip Musical Express
Annalibera on Distant Records
Annalibera on Bucket Full of Nails
Annalibera on Buzznet
Annalibera on Comic Pop Library
Annalibera on 32 ft/sec

KDHX features Annalibera’s “Black Cat White Cat” as Song of the Day

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KDHX features Annalibera‘s “Black Cat White Cat” as Song of the Day!

With an eerie and intimate ambience, the new single “Black Cat White Cat” by Annalibera seduces on the strength of Anna Gebhardt’s searing alto and dreamy imagism.

ALSO:
Annalibera on Birp.fm
Annalibera on AudioFemme
Annalibera on The Von Pip Musical Express
Annalibera on Distant Records
Annalibera on Bucket Full of Nails
Annalibera on Buzznet
Annalibera on Comic Pop Library
Annalibera on 32 ft/sec