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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…
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Red Ribbon – “High”
Today LA-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Danner, aka Red Ribbon, shares the haunting single and video for “High” off upcoming Planet X out June 11 via Danger Collective Records. It could just be about drugs, or it can be about whatever in your life makes you high. I lost my first love to an opioid addiction and I was a user of opiates in my youth. My whole life I’ve been…
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192kbps of Pure Vibes : A Guest Mix by Bobby Lee
If you haven’t dug into Bobby Lee’s specific brand of time-traveling, astral plane exploration soundtracks, it’s time. Bobby Lee’s desert edge is like an east-of-the-Atlantic, ayahuasca-tasting J.J. Cale through a prism, the sound of your mind expanding featuring plenty of chromatic bottleneck guitar and resplendent reverberation. Last year, Bobby Lee released Shakedown in Slabtown, a dusty study in western-worn meditation. Only a few months later, in March of 2021, he…
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nasimiYu – P O T I O N S
P O T I O N S by nasimiYu I’m new to nasimiYu but was immediately spellbound by her ekphratic, expressive poetry. Every single sound on this album was made by nasimiYu herself, although her unique use of forward vocals may be the standout, from the opening vocal-chords of “Watercolors,” layered with her own honeyed vocals singing melodies over doo-wop highs and lows. “Immigrant Hustle” is another stunning feat of…
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Fiver with The Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition – Jr. Wreck
Fiver is the alias of the enigmatic musician Simone Schmidt, a masterful songwriter and storycrafter, a legend in Canada, who today releases their final single prior to the release of their self-titled album on Friday, May 7th via You’ve Changed. Throughout 2017-2018, Toronto-based Simone Schmidt (Fiver) arranged the music in a small white house in Scotch Village in unceded Mi’kma’ki, along with the Bianca Palmer (drums, percussion), Nick Dourado (lap…
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Heavy Mellow : A Mix by Greg Loiacono
This Saturday, sharing this amazing mix curated by our friend and musical favorite Greg Loiacono. He didn’t make it for us specifically but it’s got so many favorites we asked if we could share. Also, I’m kind of on vacation so keepin’ it easy and breezy with this excellent soundtrack. Thanks so much to Greg, who has most recently released a single with Jamie Drake, the doo-wop duet “Bound to…
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Sarah Louise
I first became a fan of Sarah Louise’s floral fingerstyle acoustic guitar playing on her albums Deeper Woods and Field Guides, and remained intrigued by her more maximalist turn on 2019’s Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars, but nothing prepared me for Earth Bow. Sarah’s latest album is a sparkling, expansive exploration of meaning and melody, and also Sarah Louise’s most electronic record yet. As an admitted die-hard, erm, curmudgeon about electronic music, this conversation…
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Wes Tirey : An Interview by Lou Turner
Petal Motel is pleased to publish our first contributor who isn’t Lara. Musician, poet, and writer Lou Turner was kind enough to conduct this wonderful interview with the most talented Wes Tirey about his latest album, The Midwest Book of the Dead, out April 30th on Dear Life Records. The Midwest Book of the Dead by Wes Tirey Like most of us, Wes Tirey had a tough 2020. The Asheville-based…
