Today, Tulsa, Oklahoma-based musician Jesse Aycock shares the video and single, “Sadder Than a Sunset,” from his upcoming self-titled album, out April 16th on Horton Records. Of the 13 tracks on the album, “Sadder Than a Sunset” felt the most cosmic. Sometimes songs feel like they come from another place in time. This is one of those songs to me. It kinda wrote itself. All of these images started flooding in, and it was just a matter of getting them down on paper. I was feeling some heavy things at the time, and this song seems to capture that in…

Salton Sea by Marjorine Nicholas Comaratta spent the last ten years playing in psych bands and experimenting with hardware-based electronic music. When the pandemic hit, he had to deeply re-think his creative approach and figure out a way to balance and marry the worlds he’d been liminally wavering between. On the anniversary of Sgt. Pepper last year, Nicholas spent the night reading about the record and its creation until the wee hours. This deep dive made him realize that “if the Beatles could make all of this incredible music melding guitars, keyboards and samples back in 1967 with tape loops,…

When it comes to songwriting, few compare to Bill Callahan. He has a rare gift for telling the truth without much fanfare, gut-punching tenderness and understated depth, prismatic stories of vivid characters sometimes in the guise of objects or animals. Bill captured my attention when I was just a teenager with his brilliant A River Ain’t Too Much Love when he was recording as (Smog) and every release has just built upon the last. It’s hard to put into words how much his music means to me! Bill’s unique lens can change the way you look at anything – from…

Portuguese label The Slow Music Movement rounded up 13 songs by artists (some already Petal Motel faves, some soon to be Petal Motel faves) to make songs that explore their respective folk roots but simultaneously look ahead and incorporate fresh, musical innovations to carve out the Future of Folk. Longtime Petal Motel favorite The Howard Hughes Suite teamed up with Geir Sundstøl to create this illuminated first single from the compilation. tHHS’s thoughtful guitalele picking pairs seamlessly with Sundstøl’s expansive, atmospheric pedal steel playing to ensure listeners that folk indeed has a bright and promising future. Afterglow by The Howard…

Today, Petal Motel favorite Jeffrey Silverstein unveils a new track and accompanying video for “Trip Sitter” from his upcoming EP Torii Gates, out 4/16 on Arrowhawk Records. Replete with a heavy layer of acidy, fuzzed-out guitar work, layered with Barry Walker Jr.’s cinematic pedal steel work, this song is a perfect sampling of what to expect from the heady, robust EP – and the video a promise that it will take you to another plane. “A trip sitter is a sober person you trust to keep you safe while under the influence of a psychedelic. The goal is to ‘hold…

Jeffrey Silverstein has teamed up with Perpetual Doom to curate a full-length tribute compilation, featuring a createive array of artists to celebrate Ted Lucas, the largely underground Detroit psych-stoner-rocker of rock and roll’s golden era, the late 1960s and 1970s. Lucas was Motown’s “exotic string” specialist before he moved to LA and started several bands like the Horny Toads, the Misty Wizards, the Androids, and Boogie Disease. He released a self-titled solo album that largely flew under the radar until it resissue by Yoga Records in 2010. Today, Jeffrey Silverstein and Perpetual Doom are sharing the first two singles from…