Decked out in polychromatic tees, unabashedly hip San Francisco band Painted Palms lit up KEXP with a vibrant live set back in July. The band, brainchild of Louisiana-born cousins Christopher Prudhomme and Reese Donohue, released their new album, Forever, on Polyvinyl Records earlier this year. The group has been compared to the work of Noah Lennox (of Animal Collective and Panda Bear), as well as definitive 60's psych/surf/pop group The Beach Boys. What these bands all seem to have in common is their willingness to push pop out of the conventional realm through elaborate layers of sound. During Painted Palms' set, the group played new tracks from Forever, an album largely developed by the cousins in isolation then communicated online. This internet-based method of creating music was originally the result of living states apart, but endured even once all members united in the Bay Area. While they may have a counterintuitive strategy for putting an album together, their separate creative processes come together live in a dynamic way. Watch the group play a few new tracks and cover Spectrum's "How You Satisfy Me" on the Midday Show below:
Despite the miles between songwriters Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, The Rosebuds continue to bloom on their sixth full-length album, Sand + Silence. Crisp currently resides in New York as Howard continues to live in North Carolina, but the two met up in the woods of Wisconsin to record with their fr…
For those lamenting beloved NYC band The Walkmen's indefinite hiatus, rejoice in the band's bassist Peter Matthew Bauer's solo album, Liberation!. Don't be offended by the title, it's not an enthusiastic goodbye to the band Bauer has dedicated 13 years of his life to. The album marks an opportune m…
