Portland, Oregon musician and sound artist Ethan Rose has announced select US tour dates in support of Ceiling Songs, an album of bindingly gorgeous electroacoustic compositions released last Tuesday, Sept. 12th, on Chicago’s acclaimed Locust Music label. This news comes on the heels of an appearance in yesterday’s Sunday edition of the New York Times, in which Ethan was profiled as part of Kelefa Sanneh’s regular playlist feature. See below for the review and tour dates, and please get in touch regarding reviews/interviews, or if you’d simply like to check out one of the shows.

KELEFA SANNEH, THE NEW YORK TIMES:

“Last year this Portland, Ore., tinkerer released “Ceiling Songs,” an enticing homemade album that used short sounds to create long ones. Flickering snippets of instruments — “sources include player pianos, music boxes, strings, brass, percussion & electronics,” according to the liner notes — overlap and accumulate to create restless but mellow collages that sound vaguely nostalgic. Locust Music (locustmusic.com), a Chicago label that specializes in music too weird to be considered old-fashioned, is reissuing the album on CD: two long tracks and one short one, all of which function equally well as background music or as foreground music.”

ETHAN ROSE TOUR DATES:

* with Small Sails

09/28 Missoula, MT - Higgins Alley *
10/08 Detroit, MI - Detroit Film Center *
10/12 Ithaca, NY - Cornell Cinema *
10/29 Shreveport, LA - Minicine *
11/01 Houston, TX - Aurora Picture Show *

Click here for more on Ethan Rose.

Portland, Oregon folk duo Horse Feathers will be making their debut Los Angeles appearance as part of a special Music For Robots showcase this Friday, September 15th. The band will also be appearing live on KXLU 88.9 FM at 4pm the day of the show. This news comes on the heals of a string of high praise from bloggers and online press, including a recent NPR Song of the Day pick in which NPR’s Stephen Thompson called the forthcoming Words Are Dead, "one of the year’s most accomplished and stirring debuts."

Details and quotes are below. Please get in touch regarding possible reviews and features, or if you’d simply like to check out the show!

Music for Robots & Fonogenic present:

Pink & Nosworthy
Horse Feathers
Hour of the Shipwreck

+DJ Robot Mark

Friday, September 15th
21+ $10
Tangier Lounge - 2138 Hillhurst Ave. Los Angeles

Praise for Words Are Dead:

"A virtually unknown duo from Portland, Oregon, Horse Feathers’ Justin Ringle and Peter Broderick have crafted one of the year’s most accomplished and stirring debuts in Words Are Dead. Often recalling the rustic delicacy of Iron and Wine — if it were soaked in strings and robbed of some of its stark clarity — Horse Feathers’ music radiates homey intimacy, as Broderick fleshes out Ringle’s voice and guitar with all manner of warmly unamplified instrumentation." - Stephen Thompson, NPR

“Hear hear! I hear Cat Power and M. Ward in the singer’s voice, but more than anything else, [“Finch On Saturday”] reminds me of Arthur Russell’s exquisite “A Little Lost”. As with “A Little Lost”, here the violin plays outside of all the dominant violin traditions: not as a classical instrument, nor as a fiddle, nor as part of a pop string section. Here it is a pop lead, playing slow and lovely riffs that define the song’s melody.” - Said The Gramophone

"A band like Horse Feathers has confidence. These two boys aren’t worried, and there is an assuredness that vibrates out of the strings. There is a purpose to every flick of bow, every crash of cymbal. The production is pin-drop perfect, and sometimes the sounds of the instruments themselves are enough. […] It’s not often I find myself coming back, again and again to an album. And I listen to this one at least once a day. It’s got just the right combination of melody and timelessness to make it infinitely listenable. It’s highly recommended." - Music for Robots

"At the risk of making extravagant claims on behalf of something that would likely never make such claims for itself, Words Are Dead is one of the best albums this year." - Shake Your Fist

"Due out at the end of this september is the absolutely phenomal debut from Horse Feathers. This duplet from Portland, oOegon have captured a beautiful folk sound across the twelve tracks of this album. Every once in awhile a great album sneaks up on you and knocks your socks off. their debut words are dead has done exactly that to tmwsiy*." - tmsiy*

"With a unique sound caught somewhere in between rustic American folk and acoustic intimacy, Horse Feathers are quickly becoming one of my favorite new bands." - I Guess I’m Floating

Following a year-long hiatus that found Acid Mothers Temple main man Makoto Kawabata recording heavy rock with the newly launched Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno and collaborating with like-minds Afrirampo, Acid Mothers & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. have reconvened on Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?, released June 13th on Ace Fu Records.

Featuring new vocalist Nao alongside an all-star cast of Japanese experimental musicians, including former members of The Boredoms, Ghost, Zeni Geva, and Gong, this newly reenergized ensemble has created one of the most blindingly transcendent releases in the 10+ year, 25+ release history of the Acid Mothers Temple collective.

The collective is currently touring Europe in its Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno formation, and is also scheduled to take part in the Japanese New Music Festival, in which Ruins and Acid Mothers Temple will play individually and together as seven separate acts on September 8th at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco.

Makoto Kawabata is currently accepting interviews, and promos are on the way. Please get in touch regarding possible features and reviews. We hope you’ll join us in getting psyched for this next stage in the on-going evolution of the one and only Acid Mothers Temple collective.

Click here for more on Acid Mothers Temple.

PS: I AM SO STOKED TO BE WORKING ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE!!!!

In support of the their forthcoming KIN EP, the GoShos acoustic duo, featuring group mainstay Adam Kline on guitar and Todd Roper on drums, will be embarking on an eight day tour of the Pacific Northwest territory. The dates are as follows:

06-09 Sacramento, CA - Old Ironsides #
06-10 Arcata, CA - Sacred Grounds
06-11 Eugene, OR - Stonehenge *
06-12 Portland, OR - Towne Lounge
06-13 Portland, OR - The Funky Church $
06-14 Olympia, WA - KAOS 89.3 FM (early)
06-14 Olympia, WA - Yes Yes Alliance
06-15 Seattle, WA - UW’s Rainydawg Radio (early)
06-15 Seattle, WA - Dearborn House
06-16 Anacortes, WA - The Department of Safety ^

#- with Knock Knock
*- with Karl Blau, Your Heart Breaks
$- with Alela Diane
^- Velella Velella, Sweaty Sweaters

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It’s a proud day for us here at Matt Wright PR, as not one but TWO members of our band fam have been named as part of Willamette Week’s annual Best New Band Awards. Copy bagged top honors (yes, a dude with a keytar can totally be a “band”), while Alan Singley & Pants Machine placed a none-to-shabby seventh. Click here for the full article, and don’t miss the glorious cover shot below.