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David John Morris
David John Morris found himself taking Red River Road to Gambo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada and smiled to himself. It was one fortuitous signal among many along the way that led him to this place. Inside the Abbey, the Cornish songwriter became a temporarily ordained Buddhist monk and spent several months inside sans musical means of expression. After several months, he made a compelling argument to the elders and…
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Ifeanyi Elswith – “Fefestyle”
Last week, 22-year-old rapper Ifeany Elswith shared the music video for “Fefestyle” from last year’s Everything Festyle with Rosebud Allday. The video is the result of the need to create during pandemic-induced inertia. The video reflects the mood of Ifeanyi’s music as well – namely, cruising with your friends with good tunes blaring. Ifeanyi’s most recent album is a radically cool, elegantly produced vocal-forward R&B gem. Her voice takes center stage,…
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Stevie Weinstein-Foner – “Give Me A Song”
Stevie Weinstein-Foner shares the video for the gorgeous second single, “Give Me A Song” off upcoming album Wondering, out 6/18 on Wild Kindness Records. Stevie’s music is Californiana at its finest. With lovely, canyon-country acoustic strums, Blythe Gruda’s climbing complementary vocals, and a Bluebird-like picked coda, “Give Me a Song” is a cinematic marvel, and a promising taste of what to expect from the full-length record. “Give Me A Song”…
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Cameron Knowler announces Places of Consequence, premieres “Puerto Suelo”
Petal Motel is so excited to announce the release of Cameron Knowler’s upcoming solo album, Places of Consequence. The album will be out on American Dreams on July 16th (>>Pre-order here!<<). Knowler’s musical vision is strongly tied to location, and the album acts as a transportive vessel, exploring the intersection of place and sound. On the heels of the highly acclaimed album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, and following two previous…
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classic and modern new age essentials : Guest Mix by Luke Schneider
You may have noticed that my interest in electronic, ambient and new age is growing, and Nashville Ambient Ensemble is partially to blame for that. In my conversation with Michael Hix and Luke Schneider a few weeks back, Luke mentioned that *all* he listens to is private issue new age music. As my interest in the genre grows, and considering my fondness for Luke’s solo work as well as my…
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Johanna Samuels – Excelsior!
Johanna Samuels’s latest release, Excelsior!, makes good on its promise. Johanna’s previous releases have all sparkled with her brilliant harmonies and clever lyrics, and Excelsior continues Johanna’s musical trajectory, ever upward. Samuels recorded the album at Sam Evian’s studio near Woodstock, with Evian producing; vocal contributions by Courtney Marie Andrews, Hannah Cohen, Olivia Kaplan, and more; and Samuels’s band including Harrison Whitford (guitars), Garret Lang (bass), and Sean Mullins (drums).…
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wake up – “i gotta getaway”
Today, Highland Park’s wake up releases the video for “i gotta get away” from their album tigers can’t be choosers released via Paul Is Dead records in February. The video features the band’s frontman’s fiancé Kathryn Grace as a young woman fed up and frustrated with city life, who decides it’s time to flew the coop and live the cowboy life. wake up is the recording project of multidisciplinary artist Evan Mui and a…
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Greg Loiacono – “What Can I Say”
Our favorite NorCal crooner is back with another retro-pop swooner, streaming everywhere today via Blue Rose. “What Can I Say” is the third single in a series of four Greg recorded last summer. Loiacono is accompanied on “What Can I Say?” by Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco), Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave), Charles James Gonzalez and Emilie Raines, while it was recorded at Coyote Hearing in Oakland, CA and mixed at Echo Magic…
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Charles – “Impudent Hussy”
Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and video director Charlotte Ercoli Coe, aka Charles, has released a new single from her brilliantly weird upcoming album, Let’s Start a Family Tonight (out 5/21 on Babe City). I wrote this wonderfully bitter song on the second darkest day of my life. I felt like Quasimodo / permanently marked territory that no one would ever come near again. It’s about feeling imprisoned and capitulating to the idea…
