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Bobby Lee – “Reds for a Blue Planet”
Good news! The always enchanting Bobby Lee returns with a third album, Endless Skyways, out this spring on Tompkins Square. Endless Skyways is Bobby Lee’s third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Returning to the full band sound of his debut, the name Endless Skyways is borrowed from a line in Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, one of the cornerstones of American music. That song’s mix of the terrestrial (“ribbons of highway”)…
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New! Fruit Bats! Album!
Goooood morning! Nothing like waking up to an announcement that Eric D. Johnson has been at it again. “Over the years there’s been a lot of geography in my music, a lot of landscapes,” Johnson says. “Sometimes the places are real, sometimes they’re emotional. I’ve always liked the idea of songs and albums that exist in a continuum with one another. I’m not talking about some kind of deep series…
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Hibernation
Hello Petal Motel friends! This blog is entering a formal sleepy time/hibernation period for the next several weeks as we get through the holidays and prepare something extremely special for you to be released in Q1 2023, featuring several of your favorite artists and then some. Please stay tuned and thank you for all your support. We love you!
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Hataałii on writing “Presidents Got Me All Night Long” and more
In the second single of a pair from Hataałii (produced by Joel Jerome, a favorite LA-based indie rock producer), he weaves a dreamlike, sensuous poetic world. The prolific young musician continues on his musical trajectory after several previous full-length releases including Banana Boy, Painting Portraits, his latest self-titled record, and a duet record with Jakob. Hear the song here – and read about Hataałii’s creative process in his own words.…
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Gold Dust – “Mountain Laurel”
Today, Petal Motel is pleased to share the last single from Gold Dust’s LP The Late, Great Gold Dust, out 11.4 on Centripetal Force. Gold Dust’s Stephen Pierce gives his heavy-yet-shimmering treatment to what’s arguably his most introspective song about the connection of the inner and outer world, how they coalesce, and searching for acceptance throughout it all. The B-side of this song is a stunning cover of our beloved…
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Droneroom – A Little Lighter
From the album Easy Payday out 11.11.22 on Moonlight Cypress Archetypes, droneroom shares his heavier, pensive side with a meditative composition along with a video featuring shots familiar and unheimlich. The album Easy Payday is a full on collaboration with Nashville’s Josh Byrd. Josh was given 4 pieces with the instructions to ‘destroy them’ and he did so in the most beautiful way. Guitars are processed, reversed, dragged through a…
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Tino – For the Stratus Family
I followed Tino first for his stunning visual artworks, but became captivated by the way his sound collages provided an essential complementary component for them, most recently Interpreting Clouds from Sound as Language, so I’m extremely honored to present the video for “For the Stratus Family,” a sound collage that might echo our benevolent space brothers calling to us. “Here, fragments of forgotten VHS tapes and the kind of video…
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Elkhorn behind the scenes
Shots of Drew Gardner & Jesse Sheppard and friends recording Distances, out 9/16 on Feeding Tube. I don’t like the word “choogle” because it feels a bit like “hysteria” to me – a meaningless catchall; you know what it means, but basically it’s a descriptor for something rocking. Well, Elkhorn is choogling and I can’t deny it. This is much less meditative and much more rollicking than a lot of…
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The Late, Great Gold Dust
Stephen Pierce, aka Gold Dust, released an incredible record late last year and wasted no time announcing a follow up, titled The Late Great Gold Dust, a nod to Townes Van Zandt whom the record emulates only lyrically. Stephen’s years playing in hardcore and shoegaze bands inform his gauzy sonic weavings, but with much more subtlety and power. The first single, “Proof of Life,” sounds like Stone Roses meets J.…
