From the forthcoming EPs "Gilded Pleasures" (in North America) and "Not. Psych!" in UK and Europe.  Out this fall

The Growlers - Humdrum Blues

Dragon's Blood

Umber, Then Umber Again

Eyes Of The World

One Among Many

Prelude To The Many

Eventually, Good Comes To Pass

Baby Tears

African Violet

From the forthcoming EP Gilded Pleasures on Everloving Records 11.12.13

The Growlers - Dogheart II

New Jersey outfit The Jack Moves present ‘Somebody’s Watching You,’ the debut single from their soon-to-be released third album. 

Known for their distinctive take on East Coast r&b and soul, the duo’s latest track is their most ambitious yet when it comes to genre-skipping—infused with 80s instrumentals that nod to The Manhattans and Blue Magic, and a grooving rap outro by Jersey local (and frequent collaborator) Panama Brim. 

With its infectious, ebullient hook and jaunty flute, ‘Somebody’s Watching You’ might seem like a sweet paean to longing, to desire—but it’s also an ode to looking in its many forms, to the interplay of gazes online and IRL, to observing, being observed, and performing for the eyes of others.

Out March 18th.  On Tour March 25th.

Purchase all tickets for upcoming shows here.
03/23 - Boise, ID - Linen Building
03/25 - Seattle, WA - High Dive
03/26 - Spokane, WA - The Lucky You
03/28 - Portland, OR - The Jack London Revue
03/29 - Bend, OR - The Volcanic Theatre & Pub
03/30 - Reno, NV - The Loving Cup
03/31 - San Francisco, CA - Zeitgeist
04/01 - Los Angeles, CA - The Paramount
04/02 - Phoenix, AZ - Yucca Tap Room
04/03 - El Paso, TX - Love Buzz
04/04 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
04/05 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
04/06 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
04/07 - Atlanta, GA - Southern Feed Store
04/08 - Savanna, GA - El Rocko
04/09 - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor

The Jack Moves - Somebody's Watching You

Adan Jodorowsky had led the kind of charmed life that will leave you shaking your head in wonder. As a youngster, he was given his first dance lesson by the Godfather of Soul James Brown, got his first guitar lesson from none other than George Harrison, and was the star of a feature film (Santa Sangre, directed by his father, famed surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky) by the age of 10. 
Now at the age of 34, he is a bona fide rock star in his native France and throughout South America, able to sell out the 10,000-seat National Auditorium in Mexico City and to perform alongside Foo Fighters and MGMT as part of 2012's Lollapalooza Chile. 
Add all that experience and excellence up, and it is long past time for folks in the U.S. and beyond to take notice of this singular talent. And he has just the album to help get the rest of the world to shine the spotlight in his direction. 
Recording under the stage name Adanowsky, the French popster has taken a sharp left turn away from the lush folk pop of his 2011 U.S. debut Amador, an album that found him collaborating with Devendra Banhart and exploring the deepest romantic desires and heartbreaks of the titular character (the name translates to "The Lover"). 
With his latest full-length ada, he has put aside the emotion and is purely concentrating on physical pleasures. "I wanted something sweaty and gross," Jodorowsky says. "I wanted to feel the drugs on this album. I'm not a drug addict at all but I wanted you that same feeling in the music." 
Recorded at [TK] studio in the suburbs of Paris backed by Vincent and Xavier Polycarpe of the French pop group Gush, ada is a sexy throwback to the early work of icons like Prince and Michael Jackson replete with shimmy-shake disco rhythms, vintage '80s R&B pulsations, and a whole lot of glammy attitude. 
To aid in their role of creating a record that sounds as luscious as possible, Jodorowsky and the Polycarpe brothers played everything live in the studio using equipment made before 1975. That also meant spending a long time poring over mixes with engineer David Lerner (Daft Punk, N.E.R.D.) to capture that perfect Controversy/Off The Wall spirit. But as ada's collection of slinky, dance party starters proves, all that effort was more than worth it. 
"I want to give hope with this record," Jodorowsky explains. "I want people to have fun listening to it. I want you to wake up in the morning and put this record on, or put it on in their car, and dance and feel the power!" 


From the forthcoming album, ADA, out in the USA on Everloving April 1st.

Adanowsky - Dancing To The Radio

The Jack Moves’ latest single ‘Seabra', is the second offering from the band’s forthcoming project ‘Cruiserweight’(?). ‘Seabra’ is a breezy and romantic, mid-tempo ballad, harkening back to Philly soul acts like Teddy Pendergrass or Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, but infused with a Brazilian samba rhythm, à la Astrud Gilberto. This hybrid of sweet soul & samba, combined with lush arrangements, a head-nodding beat, and soaring emotive vocals could easily conjure a moment from The Avalanches joyous sample catalog. ‘Seabra’ could comfortably sit among contemporary tracks by artists such as Silk Sonic, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, or Durand Jones & The Indications, yet still manages to bring something unique. The Jack Moves enable disparate elements to coexist within sweet soul/R&B, much like the Brazilian community in their home-base of Newark, NJ has become an intrinsic part of the city's character. Seabra is perfect for summery playlists.

The Jack Moves "Seabra"

The third album from Newarks, The Jack Moves.

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The Jack Moves -  Lionel Richie

The Jack Moves -  Somebody's Watching You

From the 45 vinyl release out for Record Store Day.   On tour now

The Entrance Band . I Want You

Gulp - Season Sun
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Optimism can be a hard quality to come by, especially in a world that seems to pride itself on cynicism and negativity. But that’s exactly why we need a band like Gulp in our lives. The lush Welsh/Scottish pop group is happy to consider itself an antidote to the creeping pessimism of modern life.
“It’s what comes out of us naturally,” says Gulp’s vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Lindsey Leven. “Everything that you’re writing from the heart is a reflection of what’s going on in your life.” Her husband and bandmate Guto Pryce agrees, “It’s even in times of adversity that we try to remain optimistic.”
In 2014, Gulp has plenty to be enthused about! Pryce has a musical legacy to be proud of, having spent the past 20 years as a founding member of UK pop superstars Super Furry Animals. And Pryce and Leven are both glowing from the joy of writing and recording music together.
But even amid that, there could have been a turn towards more moody and desperate material. Instead, the pair, with bandmates Gid Goundrey (guitars) and Gwion Llewelyn (drums/vocals), came out with Season Sun, a fuzzy, buzzing upbeat ode to the changing seasons, watching plants grow, dancing, and as they sing on “Vast Space,” being willing to “open up your heart and let the love flood in.”
The “vast space” isn’t just the one within, either. The natural world played a key part in the creation of these songs, some written while Pryce and Leven were vacationing in the California desert, others while road tripping through the Scottish Highlands (you’ll find images of these adventures with the album art) .
There’s some connection to be found between these sounds and what Pryce accomplished as a member of the Furries – the two projects share a love of warm vintage synth sounds and a burnished brand of psychedelia. But Gulp expresses itself with almost throwback sentiments. Apart from a few moments, Season Sun could easily be mistaken this for a lost gem of the late ‘60s unearthed by a studious crate digger.
For as verdant as Gulp’s sound is, the core belongs the musical relationship between Pryce and Leven. When the project began back in 2012, their first efforts centered on just the couple and their trusty drum machine, a Roland 505 donated to them by Leven’s yoga teacher. And even amid the fine contributions of Goundrey and Llewelyn, the heart of each song is the harmonic interplay between Levin’s Leven vocals and the warming synth and bass notes from her musical co-pilot.
Gulp’s humble beam of multicolored musical light has already made its way through the band’s native UK thanks to a well loved lead single “Game Love” and a tour supporting Django Django. The quartet is now looking to taking their message of optimism through the US with their first stop being this year’s SXSW Festival and hopefully some more touring to round out the rest of 2014.

Gulp - Vast Space

Guy Blakeslee (The Entrance Band) delivers his first solo album in ten years. Produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah, Yeah Yeahs), Ophelia Slowly, takes a step back from the dense rock sound his LA-based neo-psychedelic trio is known for, delving instead into a sparse, spooky dreamscape where drum loops, synthesizers, and the occasional acoustic guitar frame his always haunting vocal delivery. Recorded in New York in the fall of 2013, the album focuses on Blakeslee’s recent descent; wrestling with demons and angels alike, he has come through it victoriously, expressing the hopeful message of a modern day spiritual. 
If this album conveys a type of conversion, Blakeslee doesn’t want you to forget his appreciation for tragedy; the title itself is a reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet heroine. Recording under his own name for the first time, Blakeslee seems to hint that the intention for this project is intimate and vulnerable, and as anyone who has caught his recent solo dates opening for Spiritualized or Cat Power will attest, he delivers on that promise. 
Blakeslee has always been a re-interpreter of early American Delta blues. On Ophelia Slowly, his love for the genre is felt not only in his upside down, left-handed electric guitar playing, but also in his soulful howl: needing no accompaniment at all, it’s as comfortable in an Echo Park nightclub as it would a 1920’s Mississippi street corner. “In a way, the words and the vocal performance are the focus of this record,” explains Blakeslee. “The music is there to create a mood for the voice to exist in. It’s the first time there’s not a lot of effects on my vocals, there’s a little reverb, but it doesn’t sound far away. In the past I was covering up my voice, turning it down and drowning it out.” 
Allowing his vocals to appear front and center, as opposed to his impressive guitar playing, seems to be a decision inspired, in part, by Chris Coady, who not only recorded Blakeslee’s last solo album, Wandering Stranger (Fat Possum), but was the first person to record him at all. The two grew-up together in Baltimore and seem to share an unspoken communication, having collaborated on music together since high school. “[Coady] came to see me play in New York last April and said, ‘I had chills the whole time you were playing.’ He was emotionally connected to the project in a way that I couldn’t find in anyone else,” explains Blakeslee. “It’s great to go back and work with an old friend. His work gets increasingly better every time,” says Coady. 
Ophelia Slowly was recorded almost entirely at Coady’s studio in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood that informed these eight songs as much as anything else. During the first part of the production, Blakeslee was sleeping in the studio and at night he would walk around Tompkins Square Park and the surrounding neighborhood, listening to the day’s recordings and finishing up lyrics in his head. The opening number, “Haunted City,” written originally about Los Angeles, explores the idea of returning to one’s old stomping grounds, but no longer feeling as if you belong, which hits close to home for Blakeslee -- “I used to live in NY and I haven’t spent more then a couple days there in many years. So there’s ghosts of things that happened in the past in that area.”

In fact, Ophelia Slowly is bookended with songs that examine cities and the idea of home. The slightly more optimistic closer, “City in the Rain,” speaks to resolution and as Blakeslee explains, “getting back on the journey where it all began.” “I took the final mix of “City in the Rain” to the park in the morning,” says Blakeslee, who has an eye for serendipity and a love for the notion of transcendence. “It began raining just as the rain sound [that appears as an intro to the song] came through my headphones.”

Blakeslee’s 2003 version of Skip James’s “I’m So Glad” is currently heard in the soundtrack for Spike Jonze’s Academy Award nominated film ‘Her,’ appearing as the infectious song Scarlett Johansson’s O.S voice/character shares with Joaquin Phoenix, confessing she can’t stop listening to it. Hopefully Ophelia Slowly will produce a similar result.

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Guy Blakeslee -  "Smile On"

From the album "Chinese Fountain" out Sept 23 on Everloving Records.  Also on FatCat in Europe and Smack Face in Australia and NZ.

The Growlers - Dull Boy

Big Toe is the first track from the forthcoming album 'Chinese Fountain' by The Growlers.  Out September 23rd on Everloving Records

The Growlers - Big Toe

"Good Advice" is from the forthcoming album "Chinese Fountain" out September 23rd on Everloving in North America, Smack Face in Australia / New Zealand and on September 29th on FatCat in Europe.  Pre-order the album and get this track instantly from iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chinese-fountain/id902676152

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The Growlers - Good Advice

The title track  from the forthcoming album "Chinese Fountain" out September 23rd on Everloving in North America, Smack Face in Australia / New Zealand and on September 29th on FatCat in Europe. Pre-order the album from iTunes.
http://smarturl.it/27913r

Pre-order

The Growlers - Chinese Fountain

Longtime friends Adan Jodorowsky (Adanowsky) and Xavi Polycarpe (Gush) have been musical co-conspirators for some time, working together previously on Jodorowsky's acclaimed 2014 album ADA. Adan & Xavi Y Los Imanes is a dusky and beautiful exploration of mutual appreciation and mutual heartache, with both Adan and Xavi inspiring one another to new artistic heights. 

To fully capture the sound that the men were looking for—warm, intimate pop with a wintry edge—they recorded directly to eight track tape, in the living room of a castle in the French countryside that belonged to a 19th century piano maker. The proof is in the mix as Adan & Xavi sounds rich and raw, delivering performances reminiscent of Harry Nilsson, Badfinger and the guitar work of George Harrison (who, incidentally, gave Jodorowsky his first guitar lesson as a child). 

Both men are native to Paris, though Jodorowsky spends a fair amount of his time in Mexico City. As with the swooning Spanish-language romanticism of his 2011 album Amador, the Mexican influence feeds the lyrical direction of Adan’s tracks on Adan & Xavi. Xavi’s are primarily sung in English, as he has done with Gush since the beginning, including 2010’s Everybody’s God (nominated for a French Grammy). 

Adan & Xavi is a lovely work that maintains an easy rhythm found only between old friends. Though their influences and recording methods are rooted in the past, Adan & Xavi Y Los Imanes is a thoroughly modern take on classic song craft. 

 Alubm out March 4th

Adan & Xavi Y Los Imanes - Along The Way

Meet Deepakalypse. A forward thinking, inward looking, biofueled songwriting autodidact. He’s wandered across America, guitar in hand, doing everything from veggie oil conversions on vintage Mercedes diesel engines to fabrication of large scale art installations and lived to write about it. Floating On A Sphere, his first with Everloving, compiles work from previously self-released material that rides the rails between lo fi acoustic punk and agit folk a-la Jonathan Richman or Billy Bragg.

Citing The Subhumans, Elvis Costello, the Pixies and Modest Mouse as musical influences, the songs on Floating On A Sphere also clearly owe a spiritual debt to Calvinistic hoboism, the open road and the Californian storytelling traditions of John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie.

Deepakalypse grew up in Ventura, CA skateboarding and playing punk music. A road trip across the United States at age 21 landed him in New Orleans for an extended stay, soaking up the city’s history via his aunt, a costume maker married to a Santeria priest. It was pre-Katrina, but the buildings were already sunken into the below sea level ground. There were no long views to be found unless you went to the river or a levee. Deepakalypse heard fast jazz for the first time there and became a fan of that as well as other styles of music local to the region. It was then he started writing music more seriously and performed at open mics.

Back in Ventura County, Deepakalypse continued to play. Sometimes with a band, punk or otherwise, but he remained solo more often than not. A friend in Oxnard owned a dilapidated shack on a 20 acre strip of flower fields, in an agricultural region surrounded by strawberry fields. It became a way station of sorts for friends to move in and out of and touring punk bands that only played house shows would come through. Deepak would bounce back and forth between there and Louisiana, annually returning to NOLA to pick up work every Spring between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. At the flower farm, the minimalist lone wolf would spend his time there working on music and developing an interest in alternative fuels. He powered his car with trash, occasionally sleeping in it. It was a harsh but carefree reality.

“Drummers,” calling for revolution, imagines a present where the people have taken to the streets and “Floating on a Sphere” takes a softer approach to the same mindset with a psilocybin-y assertion that the world is simple and we’re all connected. “A to B” is a detuned saunter through the aimless confusion of figuring out what do to with your life. Dim Sum, the lone love song on the album is sweet, romantic and bare while avoiding treacle with a clear eye. Love still has a seat at the table, even if it’s only temporary.

As a debut, Floating On A Sphere is a modern take on the itinerant wanderer living freely under the hobo code. Political and prickly without resorting to nihilism, Deepakalypse has taken an honest approach to songwriting that’s influence is obliquely rooted in the American experience.

Deepakalypse - Drummers

Something Someone Jr.

The Paris - New York Sessions

Adan & Xavi Y Los Imanes "Seabird"

from the digital ep "Don't Lie About Me" on Everloving 

Herman Dune - Dont Lie About Me

The title track from Dana Buoy's upcoming album. A polished and atmospheric examination of missed connections and altered states, where the thrum of 21st century psychedelia meets European dance floor chic. Dana Buoy deliver sweaty, late-night pop with analogue 4 on the floor heartbeats throbbing at the center.

Ice Glitter Gold

Dana Buoy - Ice Glitter Gold

From the album, Totally, on Everloving Records

Jeans Wilder - Limeade

The first single for the forthcoming album "Free Money" by The Jack Moves.   Out October 19th on Everloving.

Money Clouds

Free Money

The Jack Moves - Money Clouds

Jeans Wilder - Spanish Tile

Get Nasty is a sexy nod to the early days of MTV, Prince, Sylvester.. from Newark's The Jack Moves.  It's the latest single from the forthcoming album Free Money out October 19th.

Nasty

The Jack Moves - Nasty

Red Lights

Red LIghts

The Jack Moves - Red Lights

from the forthcoming album "Hung At Heart."  Out Jan. 22.

the Growlers - One Million Lovers

The Growlers "Use Me For Your Eggs" from the album "Hung at Heart" out Jan 22, 2013 on Everloving Records.

The Growlers - Use Me for Your Eggs

The self-titled debut by Soft Palms is the brainchild of Julia Kugel (The Coathangers, White Woods) and Scott Montoya (formerly of The Growlers). The album is a feast of rich sounds and simple, comforting melodies threading together scrappy dream pop and ethereal torch songs into a sultry, spacey, and sublime journey towards brighter horizons. Kugel and Montoya’s unflappable positivity in Soft Palms serves as the creative arm of their ongoing behind-the-scenes work in the Long Beach music community, such as planning Happy Sundays free music festival, running the arts non-profit Studios for Schools, and organizing Long Beach POP local events calendar.

Soft Palms

Soft Palms - Rainbows

Jupiter & Okwess - Izabela

Everloving is an indie label and artist management company in Los Feliz, Ca.  Starting in 2001 with Jack Johnson's debut, Everloving has grown into a finely curated boutique label of eclectic albums ranging from the lo-fi surf goth of The Growlers to Inara George and Van Dyke Park's baroque orchestral masterpiece 'An Invitation.'  Everloving has a taste for releasing beautiful music from around the globe and recently released Adanowsky's US debut 'Amador' and will continue their French invasion with Don Cavalli's forthcoming sophomore release.  If you loved Metric's first album, preferred the Dogtown and Z-boys documentary to the Big Hollywood version, or think Cornelius is a genius,  then you'll probably find something you like here.

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