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01/24/2025

The Alternate Root cheers the "sheer beauty" of the new album from The Innocence Mission.

http://www.thealternateroot.com/all-reviews/the-innocence-mission-from-the-album-midwinter-swimmers

https://youtu.be/sQYWGDh_iAY

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). illustrated and animated by Karen Perishttps://www.theinnocencemission.comhttps://theinnocencemission.bandcam...

01/23/2025

Leif Vollebekk in Minneapolis for The Current ~~

The Canadian singer-songwriter swung through Steady Pour in northeast Minneapolis for a special performance on Friday, Jan. 17.

01/22/2025

Ink 19 praises the "evocative and meaningful" new release from The Innocence Mission, at radio now!

https://ink19.com/2024/12/magazine/music-reviews/hgp7fj-the-innocence-mission

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/20/ink19-praises-the-evocative-and-meaningful-new-release-from-the-innocence-mission/

https://youtu.be/sQYWGDh_iAY

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). illustrated and animated by Karen Perishttps://www.theinnocencemission.comhttps://theinnocencemission.bandcam...

01/22/2025

Post-Punk.com compares the new Sun Atoms album to work by David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, and Elliott Smith. At radio now from Little Cloud Records.

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/20/post-punk-digs-the-pomp-and-pretense-free-sounds-of-sun-atoms/

https://youtu.be/RRm1eOHDIJM

Ceiling Tiles written by Peter G. Holmström, Jsun Atoms, June Kang, Derek Spencer Longoria-Gomez, Mars de Ponte, Eric RubalcavaProduced and Engineered by Pet...

01/22/2025

Denise Lasalle's seminal 1972 LP 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘺 𝘈 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 introduced a storming force in R&B and funk and Chicago blues. Remastered and reissued by Westbound Records and Org Music, it's at radio now!

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/22/new-release-from-denise-lasalle/

https://youtu.be/s7qvvJWkUXk

Trapped by a thing called love.....

01/18/2025

KLOF Mag says The Innocence Mission have made "13 albums of sparkling clarity and coherent vision since their debut, and they show no sign of slowing up" on new LP .

https://klofmag.com/2024/11/the-innocence-mission-midwinter-swimmers/

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/16/klof-lauds-the-innocence-missions-sparkling-clarity/

https://youtu.be/sQYWGDh_iAY

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). illustrated and animated by Karen Perishttps://www.theinnocencemission.comhttps://theinnocencemission.bandcam...

01/18/2025

Jsun Atoms, of Sun Atoms, speaks with Wildfire Music. Excellent new LP is at radio now via Little Cloud Records.

https://wildfiremusic.net/2024/12/20/interview-jsun-atoms-of-sun-atoms-on-the-bands-adventurous-approach-to-making-everything-forever/

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/16/sun-atoms-chats-with-wildfire-music/

https://youtu.be/RRm1eOHDIJM

Ceiling Tiles written by Peter G. Holmström, Jsun Atoms, June Kang, Derek Spencer Longoria-Gomez, Mars de Ponte, Eric RubalcavaProduced and Engineered by Pet...

01/16/2025

Goldmine: The Music Collector's Marketplace highlights the Westbound Records reissues from Org Music, which "prides itself on precision reissues for some of the most rare and desirable music..."

At radio now: Ohio Players, Eramus Hall, & Dennis Coffey!

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/15/goldmine-honors-westbound-records/

https://www.goldminemag.com/columns/goldmine-top-10-soul-and-r-b-albums-for-2024

https://youtu.be/5otcb6vq9vI

Provided to YouTube by Virgin Music Group"If You Can’t Dance to This You Got No Business Havin-Feet" · Dennis CoffeyFinger Pickin Good℗ 2024 Westbound Record...

01/16/2025

According to The Ringmaster Review, Sun Atoms' new LP " an encounter that should not be passed by especially by those with adventurous psychedelic/dark wave/electro pop nurtured appetites." At radio now from Little Cloud Records.

https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/sun-atoms-everything-forever/

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/15/the-ringmaster-review-digs-sun-atoms-sound/

https://youtu.be/RRm1eOHDIJM

Ceiling Tiles written by Peter G. Holmström, Jsun Atoms, June Kang, Derek Spencer Longoria-Gomez, Mars de Ponte, Eric RubalcavaProduced and Engineered by Pet...

01/16/2025

theartsdesk.com calls The Innocence Mission's "the musical analogue of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, where the familiar is depicted in a way which brings new meaning."

https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-innocence-mission-midwinter-swimmers

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/15/the-arts-desk-compares-the-innocence-mission-to-claude-monets-paintings/

https://youtu.be/sQYWGDh_iAY

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). illustrated and animated by Karen Perishttps://www.theinnocencemission.comhttps://theinnocencemission.bandcam...

01/16/2025

New from Independent Project Records & Springhouse: "Moving Van" goes for NACC adds next week!

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/15/new-release-from-springhouse/

https://youtu.be/2Ox5Bdmow1c

From the album From Now to OK, out on 14th March on Independent Project Records.Pre-save/pre-order From Now to OK: https://orcd.co/fromnowtook

01/14/2025

AlisonClancy recorded her EP in a church. "I could feel how so many people had come to this space & invested it with prayers, hopes, dreams, grief, & celebration." At radio from Independent Project Records

More: https://www.creativeprocess.info/creative-works-11/alison-clancy

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/13/alison-clancy-goes-to-church/

https://youtu.be/UxEfopbWC2E

Independent Project Records is pleased to present Mutant Gifts, a live performance video from interdisciplinary artist Alison Clancy. Amidst the chaos of the...

01/14/2025

Can't wait for Leif Vollebekk's upcoming Canadian tour? CBC Music has video of his 2022 concert at Massey Hall in Toronto. New LP is at radio now from Secret City Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6z8aTsIO9M

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/13/cbc-shares-leif-vollebekk-concert/

01/14/2025

For Folk's Sake has a review of the "miraculous" new LP from The Innocence Mission, which debuted on the NACC Top 200 Chart last week!

https://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/41606/album-the-innocence-mission-midwinter-swimmers

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/13/for-folks-sake-calls-the-innocence-mission-miraculous/

https://youtu.be/sQYWGDh_iAY

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). illustrated and animated by Karen Perishttps://www.theinnocencemission.comhttps://theinnocencemission.bandcam...

01/14/2025

Check out the ripping guitars on Dennis Coffey's cover of David Bowie's "Fame," from Finger Pickin Good, at radio now from Westbound Records and Org Music and going for NACC adds this week!

https://youtu.be/YYchmOY8yFc?si=tG9prjNhMBmHf9fs

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/09/new-music-from-dennis-coffey/

Detroit’s legendary Westbound Records has teamed with vinyl specialist label Org Music to re-launch with a series of remastered, celebrated funk and soul albums. Next up is Dennis Coffey’s long overdue reissue of his 1975 funk guitar treasure, Finger Pickin Good (retitled from Finger Lickin Good...

01/11/2025

On new LP , Big Takeover Magazine writes, Sun Atoms have cultivated a “mercurial and inventive sonic world."

https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/sun-atoms-everything-forever-little-cloud-records

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/09/the-big-takeover-cheers-the-mercurial-and-inventive-pdx-band-sun-atoms/

https://youtu.be/RRm1eOHDIJM

Ceiling Tiles written by Peter G. Holmström, Jsun Atoms, June Kang, Derek Spencer Longoria-Gomez, Mars de Ponte, Eric RubalcavaProduced and Engineered by Pet...

01/11/2025

Pitchfork reviews The Innocence Mission: "Beautiful... like a forgotten folk album from the ’60s or ’70s... with all the hope, promise, and desire records of that era tend to hold.”

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-innocence-mission-midwinter-swimmers/

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/09/pitchfork-gives-the-innocence-mission-a-glowing-review/

https://youtu.be/RLfTDnFAheE

from the album Midwinter Swimmers (11/29/2024). A song of looking ahead to the arrival of a dear and loved person, and of the mysterious beauty of people and...

01/09/2025

Going for NACC adds next week, the next Westbound Records reissue from Org Music, Dennis Coffey's (formerly ). A tour de force in funky guitar wizardry unlike anything else.

https://amanaplanacanal.com/2025/01/09/new-music-from-dennis-coffey/

https://youtu.be/5otcb6vq9vI

Provided to YouTube by Virgin Music Group"If You Can’t Dance to This You Got No Business Havin-Feet" · Dennis CoffeyFinger Pickin Good℗ 2024 Westbound Record...