Sound Cloud Sunday June 23

Sound Cloud Sunday – June 23, 2019

Sound Cloud Sunday June 23, 2019

Happy summer from your pals at Laurel Canyon Radio. We have to admit that curating an indie show every week when you want to listen and do so many other things in the summer can be trying – especially when you don’t want the quality of your discoveries to lag simply because you are pressed up against deadlines. However, we are back with another great assemblage of new music we hope you will enjoy at the beach by the pool, in the car…wherever….click below to listen to the whole show.

Los Coast – Chesepeake

Hometown:      Austin, TX 

Album:  From the debut album “Samsara” released June 14 on New West Records.    

Review Snippet:  On their eagerly awaited debut album Samsara, the visionary Austin, TX combo Los Coast delivers a fresh blast of punchy psychedelic-pop-soul that effortlessly incorporates a wide range of genres. The band’s seamlessly soulful songcraft incorporates the band’s distinctive grooves along with the inventive compositions and commanding vocals of principal members Trey Privott (lead vocals, guitar) and John Courtney (guitar, keyboards, vocals).

Website: https://www.loscoast.com/

Canyon Sounds – Grey That Night

Hometown:      Boulder, CO

Album:  From their self released,self-titled album released on April 23.    

Review Snippet:
” Canyon Sounds believe in music’s power to connect with people, even if they’re just hearing the echos set over Mark Harmon solving yet another Navy related crime.  

Website:   https://canyonsounds.bandcamp.com/releases

Rye – The Toast

Hometown:

Album:  From her album “My Reality” released in May on Girafe Records. This may be a re-release of a 2008 album.   

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Aaron Beckum – Cosmic Technology Vapors

Hometown:   Los Angeles

Album:  From the album “Obsolete” released in May on Swamp Moth Missionary Records. 

Review Snippet:  lo-fi cosmic country/western break-up album about heart break, technology, ancient Egypt and new beginnings. “Obsolete” wears its traditional American music influences on it’s sleeve with nods to Buck Owens, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and many others…

Website:  https://aaronbeckum.com/

James Xerxes Fussel – Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Hometown:      Durham, North Carolina

Album:  From the album “Out of Sight” released June 7 on Paradise of Bachelors Records.  . 

Review Snippet: Jake’s 2015 self-titled debut record, produced by and featuring William Tyler, transmutes ten arcane folk and blues tunes into vibey cosmic laments and crooked riverine rambles. Collaborating with Tyler and engineer Mark Nevers in Nashville was a conscious decision to depart cloistered trad scenes and sonics for broader, more oblique horizons. Tyler, a guitar virtuoso known for his own compositions that untether and reframe traditional six-string forms and techniques, helmed the push boat in inimitable fashion, enlisting crack(ed) Nashville session vets Chris Scruggs (lap steel, bass, mandolin: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Marty Stuart), Brian Kotzur(drums: Silver Jews), and Hoot Hester (fiddle; Bill Monroe, Ray Charles) to crew.

Next Time in LA:  October 8 with Daniel Norgren at the Teragram Ballroom. 

Website: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/jake-xerxes-fussell/

Cut Throat Finches – Other Space

Hometown: Fort Worth, TX 

Album:   Their 2^nd album “Polite Conversations” was released in May on HandDrawn Records.

Review Snippet:  Cut Throat Finches. An ironic name for a tiny bird, and conversely, for a Texas band with a giant British rock, to ‘barely blues’ sound. Singer-songwriter Sean Russell, a proud resident of the Ft Worth, Texas music scene, formed the band mid-2015 with a group of much-lauded players from the area. This band shares an affection for eclectic music that is intentionally woven for the discerning ear. Their studio writing blends together like flavors in a hand crafted cocktail, to be savored as familiar sonic hints, with finishes that tend to beg for the next long drink. Cut Throat Finches lay out a trail that plays like a soundtrack to an epic film, a myriad of styles, intended for bigger story.

Website: http://www.cutthroatfinches.com/

Dee White – Way Down

Hometown:  Slapout, Albama      

Album:  His debut album “ Southern Gentlemen” was released on Easy Eye Sounds/Warner Nashville. 

Review Snippet: FOLKS CLOSE TO THE MUSIC SCENE IN NASHVILLE HAVE BEEN AWAITING DEE WHITE’S DEBUT ALBUM WITH BATED BREATH. THAT ANTICIPATION STEMS FROM BOTH THE ALABAMA NATIVE’S EXCELLENT LIVE PERFORMANCES AND THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE BLACK KEYS’ DAN AUERBACH, WHO PRODUCED WHITE’S DEBUT SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN ALONGSIDE DAVID “FERGIE” FERGUSON (JOHNNY CASH, JOHN PRINE). BOTH AUERBACH AND FERGUSON HELPED WHITE CRAFT AN IMPECCABLE TAKE ON CLASSIC COUNTRYPOLITAN, UPDATING THE SOUND SLIGHTLY FOR TODAY’S MODERN TASTES BUT TAKING CARE TO PRESERVE WHITE’S SINGULAR VOICE. THE SINGER CAME TO THE PAIR VIA REVERED ALABAMA PRODUCER HAROLD SHEDD, WHO, A FEW YEARS BACK, DISCOVERED WHITE’S MUSICAL TALENTS AND CONNECTED HIM TO FERGUSON, WHO THEN BROUGHT AUERBACH ONBOARD. THE A-SIDE OF SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN IS STREAMING NOW, WITH THE LATTER HALF OF THE ALBUM EXPECTED IN 2019.

Website:  https://www.deewhite.com/

Chris Staples – River In Reverse

Hometown:      Seattle, WA 

Album:  His new album “Holy Moly” will be released June 28 on Barsuk Records.       

Review Snippet:   
Staples started out making much noisier music in the mid ’90s as the singer-guitarist for the Pensacola, Fla., rock band Twothirtyeight. After the group split in 2003, he relocated to Seattle and started making more introspective acoustic music. He found his voice by writing narratives that were plainspoken and universal, with simple, disarming arrangements and delicate melodies that seemed to float on air.

Website:  https://chrisstaplesmusic.com

Eric Brent West – Home Routes  (featuring Emily Vay)

Hometown:    New Westminster, BC 

Album:  From the self-released album “Can’t Go Home This Way” released in March. 

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Website:  https://www.ericbrentwest.com/

Jack Willow, Jr. – Breakfast (You Can’t Take It With You)

Hometown:      Carrboro, NC 

Album:  His debut album “King Fear” was released May 24 on War Admiral Club Records. 

Review Snippet:  
An ambitious survey of our time, the album’s depth is brought to life by the band’s live show. With three part harmonies, danceable rhythms, and a self-taught quirkiness, they deliver what one reviewer called “the musical energy to make you move, and the lyrical gravity to fix you to your seat.”

Website: http://jackwillowjr.com/

The River Arkansas – Mona

Hometown:      Pueblo, Colorado      

Album:  Their second album (their first since 2015) “Any Kind Of Weather” was released on May 30.  (self-released).    

Review Snippet:  He “The River Arkansas is made up of the evocative lyric writing and the penetrating vocal talent of Mike Clark, smoky upbeat jazz club bass playing by Macon Terry, Mozart-meets-wagon-train fiddle playing by Rachel Sliker, drumming reminiscent of Keith Moon’s form by Robin Chestnut, and The Doors-style keys by Ben Gallagher. The River Arkansas hail from various towns in Colorado and have two albums under their belt. Clark’s lyrics cover the joys and pitfalls of love, life, and the oddball bike theft, with each song channeling power to drastically change the mood of the room“- Lou Flesh, No Depression Magazine

Website:  http://www.theriverarkansas.com/

TK & The Holy Know Nothings – Emmanuel  

Hometown:      Portland, OR 

Album:  From the album “Arguably OK” released May 24 on Mama Bird.    

Review Snippet:  Following this lineage on their debut album Arguably OK, TK & The Holy Know-Nothings cites Doug Sahm, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Flatlanders, Dan Reeder, and Jeffrey Frederick & the Clamtones as strong influences. For Kingman, though, it’s Terry Allen’s 1979 art country gem Lubbock (on everything) that’s most affected his songwriting. Like Allen, Kingman writes with delicacy about indelicate things. The songs on Arguably OK are about dead ends, addiction, self-sabotaged relationships, drug trips gone bad (or good? or both?), and, above all, holding out for the real thing. His lyrics are tightly crafted and profoundly paradoxical; simultaneously self-deprecating and unapologetic, clever and crass, irreverent and tender; and sometimes riotously funny. Each song takes you somewhere unexpected, every phrase crafted with the same signature combination of dirtbag revelry and haltingly poignant poetry. He brings all of himself to these songs–the honest, unglorified truth.

Website:   http://www.mamabirdrecordingco.com/tk-and-the-holy-know-nothings

Justin Rutledge – Allisonville

Hometown:     Toronto 

Album:  From the album “Passages” released May 31 by Outside Music. 

Review Snippet: Rutledge’s roots are in alt-country, and like the best country songwriters he has a knack for lyrics full of doubt and loss, set to jaunty tunes. It’s angst you can hum along to.

On “Passages,” his eighth studio album, Rutledge worked with a new band and producer Chris Stringer (Timber Timbre, the Wooden Sky). Guitar-dominated, but seasoned with piano and strings, the album sometimes achieves an Eagles-y Californian vibe: layered and ambient, with an intoxicating sheen.

Website: https://justinrutledge.squarespace.com

Bouse – Mowing Me Down

Hometown:     Fort Lauderdale

Album:  From their debut album “Early Girls” self-released in May. 

Review Snippet:  
I write music because it’s the most effective and beautiful vessel I’ve found for expressing my understanding/misunderstanding of the world. Since high school my guitar and voice have empowered me to speak my mind, to fall in and out of love, to educate and make people laugh, and to be free. I dream to make music a determinant in my life to act as a sail and catch the wind that moves me during my time. My repertoire consists of folk and blues heavily steeped in poetry and simplicity. Message me for rates and opportunities. I’ll play anywhere for just about anybody–bars, theaters, weddings, living rooms.

Website: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkGA1zYfxM5pt-Uhqb7ewDHdGAebtuYkZ

Justin Klump – The Other Side

Hometown:      Vancouver, WA 

Album:  New single. 

Review Snippet:  “I’ll keep holding onto you, darling,” Justin Klump sings during “The Other Side,” a gentle folk-pop song inspired by a friend’s bravery in the face of an upcoming operation. Written on the piano and laced with light instrumental touches, the song is driven forward by a steady percussive pulse, as though it’s meant to evoke the heartbeat of a patient who refuses to give up.”

Website:  http://www.justinklump.com/