
The Vinyl District features Borrowed Beams of Light single “On The Wings Of A Bug”!
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The Vinyl District features Borrowed Beams of Light single “On The Wings Of A Bug”!
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Largehearted Boy features Borrowed Beams of Light single “On The Wings Of A Bug”!
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The Northern Iowan features Annalibera and MR NASTI’s Cedar Falls show at The Octopus!
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Buzz Weekly highlights Grandkids in advance of their performance at Pygmalion Festival:
Grandkids are fresh off the release of their first full-length album Timeshare and are in full-stride, coming off an East Coast tour. The four-piece indie-pop band is in full bloom and this year’s Pygmalion may be the best time to ever catch them perform.
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Faronheit features the new Borrowed Beams of Light single “On The Wings Of A Bug”:
So much good stuff this week, to the point where it was difficult to whittle it down…As part of today’s Pick Your Poison, you’re probably not going to want to miss tracks from Borrowed Beams of Light, Death valley Rally, Hot Peach, Lucy Rose, Mansions on the Moon, Raccoon Fighter and Thundercat.
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32ft/second features “Battle World” by Annalibera, saying “The hooks, Gebhardt’s lilting voice, emerge as immediately singable” and comparing the song to “some of the riot grrrl pop of Le Tigre and the mid-tempo progressions of bands like Fleetwood Mac.” Read the whole piece here!
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Kick Kick Snare premieres the title track from Borrowed Beams of Lights forthcoming album On The Wings Of A Bug!
On The Wings Of A Bug is a three minute burst of glittering indie pop, ushered along by driving guitars, big harmonies and witty lyrics. It feels more mature than past releases, but in the sense that the songwriter has experienced more. The youthful bounce and well rounded hooks are still present in abundance, but they feel more calculated and well traveled. The track showcases a strong tendency towards Fleetwood Mac and will easily appeal to fans of the Elephant Six Collective.
Check out the track at Kick Kick Snare and pre-order the album here!
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Band Bombshell caught up with Annalibera to discuss twenty-year-old confusion, Schubas, and the IA diaspora in Nashville, among other things. Read the Q&A here!
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Des Moines Cityview interviews Anna Gebhardt of Annalibera in advance of their tour kick-off show at Vaudeville Mews – on the intersection of her training and instincts, her comfort level with the speed of their local ascent (“you don’t get to decide when people like you”), and performing her own compositions:
When I’m singing opera, I choke up,” she said. “I think it’s because I’m not the authority on those songs. Some amazing composer is. But when performing my songs, this is how I want them. I can sing them with bad technique if I want to, but I don’t get nervous. I’m comfortable on stage then.
Read the whole interview here.
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen premiere their version of blues staple “John The Revelator”, which “takes shape amidst a stormy build, with the layered swell of theremin, electric mandola, and moody baritone sax punctuated with expectant gongs and torn open by the chillingly rabid call and sweetly echoing response that imbue the prophet’s declaration with terror and excitement.”
The Peculiar Pretzelmen lurk in the shadows emitting eerie sounds and spectral lights luring the curious and adventurous down dark alleys and untrodden lanes to flashy Cabaret’s and conspiratle Pubs. Whispers from unseen corners rise to a claterous chant Deeper, Darker, Weirder. Deeper, Darker, Weirder. Here at Popa’s Tunes world headquaters we are fixated on things Deeper. Darker, Weirder, and The Deacon with his ‘Felix the Cat’ bag of magical intruments and the mysterious M. Incroyable of The Peculiar Pretzelmen have a voodoo spell on us and everything they do gets us dancing like banshees with rubber chickens around ceremonial fires…
Check out “John The Revelator” over at Popa’s Tunes!
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The Peculiar Pretzelmen have premiered their new track “Howling Gale” from the forthcoming Gentlemen Scoundrels: Rule Book Volume I EP with The Deli Magazine KC! Michelle Bacon of The Deli describes the song as
a bare bones but vicious three-minute attack that is simultaneously sparse and mammoth. M. Incroyable’s aggressive vocal phrasings tower over his austere banjo riff. The Deacon drives each song with unique percussion, which, according to their bio, is “less drum kit and more spoils of an old man’s work bench.” The chicks and booms of various found objects round out the gritty, in-your-face vibe of the track.
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InForty music zine features The Van Allen Belt video for the new track “Songs”!
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The Van Allen Belt recently released a 7” entitled “Songs”, and have just finished the video for the title track, which Decoder Magazine is premiering today, saying “‘Songs’ is a busy piece of hallucinogenic pop from one of the Steel City’s most underrated bands.”
Vocalist Tamar Kamin describes the concept of the video:
“We shot this on location at an abandoned level floor of what was once a Woolworth’s in Youngstown, OH. It is rumored to be the first existing location of the business chain. We complemented the old-fashioned look of the set and props with a unique process that Scott [Taylor] developed using analog and digital video feedback. The result is evocative of our group’s collaborative style, patching modern visual effects onto historic foundations. Many of the effects you’ll see here were captured in a live setting and were visible to the crew as we stood beside the camera…We explored how the duality of our group dynamic interacts, arranging snapshots of our influences in a playful way to mimic the sampling of music using film language.”
Check out the “Songs” video at Decoder Magazine!
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Jenny Dalton performs at Vaudeville Mews on Thursday, July 18th! Details and show mentions can be found at Des Moines Cityview, Des Moines Is Not Boring, and Des Moines Music Coalition.
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Alarm Magazine features Daikaiju and the new single “Double Fist Attack”:
Taking the simple and expressive side of classic surf rock and mashing it face first into a stack of mathy, proggy influences, New Orleans-based Daikaiju can really work an instrumental track. The tones are all spring reverb and early-’60s Fender, and the four-piece also doesn’t skimp on the campy theatrics, taking a page from the Man or Astro-Man? book of stage presence and drawing from Japanese monster-movie tropes.
Read the whole piece here!
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Thanks to Pop Shifter for giving a nod to Daikaiju’s “Double Fist Attack”!
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