Sound Cloud Sunday – April 29, 2018 (Episode 13)
Sound Cloud Sunday April 29, 2018 (Episode 13)
One of the best things about hosting a new music show, you get to hear brand new music — all the bloody time! Here at Laurel Canyon Radio, we seem to be perpetually inside a new car, breathing in the exquisite leather interior so often we find ourselves hyperventilating. It’s Christmas morning as we tear open the (virtual) plastic wrapping on gift after gift, never knowing what new item will give our life meaning, inspire us to thanks, clutching it close to our chest and bringing us joy for weeks, months or for the rest of our lives. This week on Sound Cloud Sunday we chose to feature brand new music that (mostly) has been released in the last few weeks. And although we do a fair amount of genre hopping from the sultry pop-soul of Parisian artist Million Miles to the shaggy Burrito-inspired artistry of The Sheepdogs and beyond, one thing unites this music in common purpose with our station “raison d’etre”, music from a seminal era in music history and the artists that carry that tradition forward today. You hear echoes of our Southern California sound from artists all around the globe and from many different styles – playing real instruments, with lyrics that mean something. Here’s this weeks edition of Sound Cloud Sunday – a celebration of indie music from around the world.
Episode #13 – click below
Million Miles – Ice Cream And Cigarettes (aka Sophie Baudry)
Hometown: London via Paris
Album: From her debut EP “Berryhill” (self-released)
Review Snippet: A slice of sun-dappled soul that serves as the perfect showcase for her warm and distinctive vocals, Ice Cream & Cigarettes is an impressive a first offering as you’re likely to hear.
Web Site: https://www.millionmilesmusic.com
Jimmy Docherty And The Velvet Tinkers – Long Gone Suzie
Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland
Album: Their self-titled debut album was self-released on April 13.
Review Snippet: Like an early day Joe Cocker but he reminds me more of Cherry Ghost especially in the vocal department, as he plays a solo electric beneath his high flying vocals and extremely well designed melodies. Satisfying“.
Web Site: http://www.jimmydocherty.com/
Tally Spear – Just Don’t Know
Hometown: London
Album: From the EP “Fade To White” self-released in March.
Review Snippet: To many, Tally Spear may seem like a very clued up and driven 21-year-old. The talented songsmith has spent the last year building her name on the live circuit and earning critical applause her compellingly addictive and insightful folk country driven pop compositions
Website: https://soundcloud.com/tallyspear
Stillhouse Junkies – Meet Me Halfway
Hometown: Durango, Colorado
Album: Their debut album “Over The Pass” was self-released on April 20
Review Snippet: Born in a distillery in Durango, CO, StillHouse Junkies play a delirious, head-spinning mixture of original roots, blues, funk, swing, and bluegrass music. With all three band members sharing vocal duties and swapping instruments, the Junkies conjure a wide range of tonal landscapes that pay tribute to the iconic sounds of Gillian Welch, the Allman Brothers, Tim O’Brien, the Wood Brothers, John Hiatt, and countless others while breaking new musical ground with their genre-bending original material.
Website: https://stillhousejunkies.com/
Trampled By Turtles – I Went to Hollywood
Hometown: Duluth, Minnesota
Album: From the album “Life Is Good on The Open Road” out May 4 on Banjodad Records.
Review Snippet: Trampled by Turtles is a progressive folk outfit from Duluth, MN. Renowned for their live performances, they have a large following in their native state.
Next Time in LA: May 24 in Pasadena at Arroyo Seco.
Website: http://trampledbyturtles.com/
The Sheepdogs – The Big Nowhere
Hometown: Saskatchewan, ALB Canada
Album: “Changing Colors” (their 5th album on Dine Alone Records)
Review Snippet: From their cramped Saskatchewan jam space to gold and platinum records and shows with rock icons, The Sheepdogs haven’t strayed from their goal of sharing pure, passionate rock n’ roll with anyone who’ll listen
Website: http://www.thesheepdogs.com
Tyler Childers – Banded Clovis
Hometown: Lawrence County, Kentucky
Album: From the album “Purgatory” released last year on Hickman Hollar Records
Next Time in LA: Hot off a show at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio this weekend, Tyler will be at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara on Monday.
Review Snippet: In the tense “Banded Clovis,” a hardscrabble addict who shoots his friend over an arrowhead they find sifting through snow-hardened dirt on a Kentucky mountain, searching for treasure that might pay for their pills. “I was fiending so fierce, I was broke ass and busted,” Childers sings of the moment. Childers sets his eye for detail on a familiar form – the love song, the murder ballad – and pushes it into the present with specifics that are utterly plausible and seemingly unique.
Since he was 20, Childers has gained a reputation for his vivid music by touring incessantly from Ohio to Tennessee and onward throughout the South and the Midwest. He worked on his blend of bluegrass and hard country with his band, The Food Stamps, and sometimes performed with Sonora May, the lady whom he eventually wed, and whose grounding influence he celebrates throughout Purgatory.
Website: https://tylerchildersmusic.com/
Bermuda Triangle – Rosey
Hometown: Nashville
Album: Just this single on Blackfootwhitefoot Records.
Review Snippet: New “super” trio Bermuda Triangle have made serious waves among Americana and rock fans upon first announcing their formation in mid-summer 2017. Comprising Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Becca Mancari and Jesse Lafser, the band made their live debut at Nashville venue the Basement East in July and have been a closely watched act ever since.
Next Time in LA: Could be soon, catch them at the Newport Folk Festival.
Website: None yet.
Sammy Strittmatter – All I Hear Is Go
Hometown: Los Angeles
Album: From his 4th album “Get Out Of The City” out May 18 on Palo Santo Records.
Review Snippet: There is a cinematic majesty to Strittmatter’s thoughtfully constructed soundscapes that never makes you feel they are being rushed through a song. They lift, swell and heave like a hazy tide rolling in. “All I Hear Is Go,” the first single from and opening track on Get Out of the City, sets the tone. On first pass, it is a fuzz-driven straightforward rock song in the vein of Fleet Foxes with a wall of harmonizing vocals and swirling guitars, but on closer examination of the lyrics, the conflict between the sorrows of leaving and the enchantment of the unknown-which is the heart of Get Out of the City-is revealed
Website: https://sammystrittmatter.bandcamp.com/
Cicada Rythym – Kaleidoscope Rose
Hometown: Athens, GA
Album: From their second album “Everywhere I Go” on Dead West Records (out Friday April 27)
Review Snippet: Born and raised in Georgia, this talented pair imitates and modernizes folk music to a rejuvenating degree. The sound of Andrea DeMarcus and Dave Kirslis exhibits skilled and articulate guitar picking honed in the dive bars of Atlanta over rolling Julliard-trained bass lines. Expect chilling harmonies, unbridled enthusiasm, some wholesome tunes and a sincere performance
Website: https://www.cicadarhythm.org/
Joe Newberry and April Verch – Will You Wait For Me
Hometown: April is from Ottawa, Canada, Joe is from North Carolina.
Album: From their first collaboration “Going Home” released last May on Slabtown Records.
Review Snippet: With ten albums under her belt, April Verch is well-known as an acclaimed Canadian fiddler and step-dancer. Joe Newberry, a North Carolina-based singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist, is becoming well known to us too. Through Transatlantic Sessions, joyful banjo and vocal harmony workshops at SoreFingers Summer School and tours with Mike Compton, Joe has earned a place in many of our hearts. This is a good quality CD to get to know these two stellar musicians. Having performed together many times, it’s their first recording collaboration
Next Time in LA: Some house concerts up in San Luis Obispo in October.
Website: http://aprilverch.com
The Malingerers – Lying on The Ground
Hometown: East Anglia, UK
Album: “The Rivers Will Flow” their 3rd album came out this month on Fat & Bulbous Records.
Review Snippet: Whilst clearly influenced from a melting pot of traditional country, blues, folk and jazz (Hank Williams, Merle Travis, Leadbelly, Woodie Guthrie, Bob Wills etc.) their music somehow manages to combine these influences with typically British and Irish flavours, cynicism and warped sense of humour and history!
Website: http://themalingerers.co.uk/
Letitia Van Sant – Sweetbay Magnolia
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Album: Her debut album “Gut It To The Studs” came out in February (self-released).
Review Snippet: “Letitia VanSant‘s soothing and melodious voice shines in her folk-Americana music. Her observant songwriting focuses on stories of people, and her melodies are earnest and beautiful.”
Website: https://www.letitiavansant.com/
Matt Tanner – Dead Man’s Island
Hometown: Somewhere in New Jersey
Album: His eponymous album was released in March on CD Baby.
Review Snippet: Tanner’s music is a combination of country, rock and blues blending the Americana of Sturgill Simpson, and the contemporary rock of Dawes. Matt’s style draws heavily from country while featuring rowdy rock n’ roll guitars in all the right places creating a sound that is classic and current. Previously, Matt successfully placed tracks on MTV’s Road Rules and Making The Band, and his song “Josephine,” featured on his debut album, won a songwriter’s competition on Ourstage.com.
Website: https://www.matttannermusic.com/
Cary Brothers – Cool City
Hometown: LA via Nashville
Album: “Bruises” (his 7th) came out yesterday (April 27) on Procrastination Music
Next Time in LA: Should be back at the Hotel Café (or somewhere nearby after touring China and Australia this spring and summer) soon.
Review Snippet: Skilled at his craft, Brothers delivers his brand of Rock in nine songs that wander the range of emotions fans love. This critically-acclaimed artist is a craftsman, and it shows from the opening track, “Nothing in the World/The Path.” Beautifully emotional, a connection is made from the start with listeners. Simple with an orchestral feel, this is an elegant introduction to what is to come; honest and heartfelt, a stripped back connection to the second half of the cut is another path to the rest of the album. Intensely vulnerable, this is real Rock with crystal-clear vocals. Powerful to say the least. Finding a way to get up again is the soul of “Bruises,” where everyone can relate to the anguish that comes from the pain of love; lyrically brilliant, this song is an example of why Brothers is so skilled at pulling heartstrings along with strumming his guitar
Website:
Red Shahan – Culberson County
Hometown: Bluff Dale, TX
Album: “Culberson County” on Thirty Tigers Records
Review Snippet:Culberson County,’ a slow-burning ballad about heading west, may be the only song in existence to pair spacey, Pink Floyd-esque slide guitar with a truly Texas pronunciation of the word ‘coyote.’”
Next Time in LA: Harvelle’s In Long Beach on May 2
Website: http://www.redshahan.com/
