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Tan Cologne
Tan Cologne is Lauren Green and Marissa Macias, two interdisciplinary artists living in Taos, New Mexico. Last year they released their debut album, Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico on Labrador Records, followed by a single “Heretic Porcelain” last October. With their sweeping, kaleidoscopic soundscapes that emulate the New Mexico horizon, Tan Cologne’s music has an intoxicating, visual quality. Lyrics work to invoke sensations, vocals becoming another instrument…
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Thanya Iyer – I Like These : Guest Mix
Canadian musician Thayna Iyer’s 2020 album KIND made our albums of the year list and I enjoy it more and hear new things with every listen. KIND goes beyond exploring interconnectivity, sense of place and identity and invokes the need for community care and support. It’s a reminder of what can be achieved with nurturance. Sonically, Thanya’s voice is honeyed and unclouded, an eclectic blend of indie folk, jazz, orchestral…
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Jeffrey Silverstein : Trip Sitter
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…
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Nashville Ambient Ensemble : Interview
The Nashville Ambient Ensemble, one of the most exciting new projects of Nashville’s continuously burgeoning experimental scene, is releasing their debut tomorrow on Centripetal Force Records. Layers of otherworldly vocal, synth, guitar, steel, delicately mingle and merge into celestial, cinematic soundscapes. The seven-piece ensemble, spearheaded by composer Michael Hix and featuring many of the stars of the scene in their own rite, like Kim Rueger (Belly Full of Stars), Jack…
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Vortex Variations : Playlist
Inspired by a recent conversation you’ll be hearing soon! Here’s a mix of songs both traditional and Morricone-inspired, and post-modern psychedelia, which capture the cosmic, mysterious energy spirals only found in Southwestern landscapes, made by musicians in New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, and of course California. You can listen on Mixcloud or on Spotify. TRACKLIST:Hacienda Brothers – SaguaroTrummors – Peacock AngelMIEN – RopesAndrew Collberg – FrontierUay – Para Entrar en la…
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Greg Loiacono and Jamie Drake – Bound To Fall
Greg Loiacono and Jamie Drake share their latest duet, “Bound to Fall” out today via Blue Rose Records. Their smooth crooning was first heard together on Loiacono’s 2019 single “San Felipe,” but this song was cowritten together by the talented pair. The track features also features Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and was mixed by Scott Hirsch. The duo’s voices pair like a strawberry milkshake with whipped cream and two straws.…
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Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Friends, roadmates, and instrumental guitarists Cameron and Eli are putting an album out tomorrow on American Dreams Records. The record, influenced by a wintry tour in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, features six transcendent originals, and three interpretations of “folk” songs (using that word loosely – “Cumberland App” is a post-modern arrangement of Cumberland Gap, and Eli’s rendition of Michael Chapman’s “Caddo Lake” with imaginative accompaniments by Cameron is truly…
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Jerry David DeCicca
I’m late to the game when it comes to the music of Jerry David DeCicca, but he’s a true veteran of the modern music world, having lived on the road for many years with his band Black Swans before opting for a “Quiet Life” (get it? that’s a song title) when he moved to Texas with his partner a few years back. In addition to making music, he’s also produced…
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It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing) : A Tribute to Ted Lucas
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…
