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Jeff Mix and The Songhearts’ “Speed of The Sound of Loneliness” from upcoming John Prine tribute, Kiss My Ass Goodbye
Nashville label Devil’s Tower Records and Portland’s Groove Family Records have announced a limited vinyl release of Kiss My Ass Goodbye, an official Record Store Day release (7/17) featuring legendary and emerging artists from Nashville, Las Vegas, Athens, Seattle, Chicago and beyond paying tribute to everyone’s favorite songwriter. Proceeds benefit the Nashville Rescue Mission. On Friday, the first single from the compilation was released, Jeff Mix and the Songhearts’ “Speed of the Sound of Loneliness.” “I tried to imagine, ‘What if The Killers were to do a John Prine song?’ The track listing includes Nashville A-listers who have worked with…
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Greg Loiacono – “Last Day of June”
Happy last day of June! Today, Greg Loiacono shares his new instrumental tune of the same name, a heartfelt tune about hope, patience and dedication inspired by a Takoma Records compilation Greg found in his father’s collection at a young age. This song will be part of an entire album of instrumental music that Greg will be releasing on Blue Rose Music next year. A new turn for this California rock dude with a deep sensibility and appreciation for folk music and classic AmPrim. The song is a result of reflecting on impermanence and how no matter what kind of…
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Cameron Knowler – “Kuyina”
The third single from Cameron Knowler’s visionary Places of Consequence premiered today on Deepest Currents and because Places is teed up to be one of our albums of the year, we’re sharing it here too. Places of Consequence by Cameron Knowler Knowler is a highly skilled technical player, academic and focused, but emotion shines through on his arrangement of this song from Congolese accordionist Camille Feruzi and late, legendary fiddler Jon Bekoff. His “Kuyina” is a tribute to his late mother, and like the rest of Places of Consequence, there’s a duality at play in Cameron’s music. There’s the sharpness of discipline, the…
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Pony Hunt – “That Feelin”
New Orleans band Pony Hunt’s second album, VAR! is out July 23rd via Wing and Wing. Pony Hunt’s celestial retro vibe- self-described as “cosmic doo-wop” reflects upon queerness, gender identity, and self-awareness. Today they premiere their latest single from the album, the dream-like “That Feelin'” with a stop-you-in-your-tracks opening beat and singer and songwriter Jessie Antonick’s devastating voice, singing straight from her heart to yours. Born in California and raised in Chicago, Jessie followed inspiration from Oakland to New Orleans where she continued to refine and define her voice. As Pony Hunt, VAR! explores this concept of home – whether…
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Damon & Naomi share “Sailing By” and announce “A Sky Record” with Kurihara
Damon and Naomi are back with A Sky Record, releasing July 22nd. Today they premiere the first single from the album, “Sailing By.” A Sky Record by Damon & Naomi “Sailing By” is also the title of a light classical waltz that’s played every night shortly before the 1am end of the broadcast day on BBC Radio Four, followed by the “Shipping Bulletin” (and then “God Save the Queen”!). The Shipping Bulletin is simply the weather forecast for the sea around the UK. But it’s also a mesmerizing list of place names (“Viking” and “Tiree” are examples) and slightly coded…
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Soft Sailors – “What We Live”
LA’s Soft Sailors share their video for “What We Live” today, featuring bandleader Geoff Geis being followed by a haunting, human-sized crow played by Jenna Heffernan, who may or may not be a figment of his imagination. Adam Boren Bennett shot the footage during flower season at Deb’s Park on a cheap toy camera with the assistance of Jenna and friend Benton Stephen. The pandemic put a pause on production, but Geoff eventually taught himself to use editing software to complete the project. “What We Live” was released as a single before the pandemic and premiered via LA Record, which…
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Evolfo – “Drying Out Your Eyes” (Live Performance)
Sharing a live performance of the Brooklyn-based Evolfo’s “Drying Out Your Eye” days before their album Site Out of Mind drops (June 18th on Royal Potato Family.) Equally jazzy as it is acid-drenched, the 7-piece band set out to ascend from their previous release, the acclaimed 2017 Last of the Acid Cowboys, aiming for the ontological on Site Out of Mind. Inspired by science fiction, psychedelic field trips, and recorded in guitarist and vocalist Matt Gibbs’s Ditmas Park apartment where an exorcism took place years earlier and unexplainable phenomena regularly occurs, Site is reminiscent of Tame Impala meets Meat Puppets,…
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Joe Bourdet – “Mantra”
This is the first post on Petal Motel about Joe Bourdet, but it won’t be the last. Joe’s putting out an instant classic of an album, Meadow Rock, on June 18th and I’ve been waiting impatiently since the moment I heard a pair of singles he’d previously released, “Seamist” and “El Capitan.” The full album is an aural tour of California – shooting you from sprawling meadows, to the pristine beaches of northern Malibu, to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the sparkling cities and back to the vast expanses of rolling meadows and super blooming wildflowers in between. Today, Joe…
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Cameron Knowler – “Lena’s Spanish Fandango”
Places of Consequence by Cameron Knowler It’s your lucky day because there’s a new Cameron Knowler track out. “Lena’s Spanish Guitar” showcases the musician’s versatility and unique adaptability to various styles although Cameron can probably tell you everything about the roots of every kind of music that ever was, where it came from, what it shares with contemporary music, who made the rules, the commonalities that destroy arbitrary delineations between genre, etc. etc. etc. He’s that kind of artist. “I sourced this version from the great Missouri guitarist, Lena Hughes, scoring it with mandolin and a Casio synth guitar on “organ”…
