Jatun is featured on the next Club AC30 Never Lose That Feeling compilation alongside other excellent artists including Ulrich Schnauss, Hihgspire, Rumskib and Pia Fraus!
11.04.08
Nice is proud to welcome the experimental Chicago ensemble, Male, to our roster. Their album All Are Welcome will be out in early '09 on Other Electricities (CD) and Arkonow (LP)!
11.03.08
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10.30.08
Dokkemand recevies praise in Norwegian Print magazine Spirit!
Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns - Berezka/Monkey Lament Split LP is out today on Other Electricties. Here's a little bit about it by Undomondo!
10.27.08
Dot Tape Dot's Tomavistas was the #9 Electronic album on Canada's Chart Attack for the week ending 10/25!
10.22.08
The Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns split receives an 8/10 from Foxy Digitalis!
10.21.08
Yoome's excellent The Boredom of Me is out today. Check out what Okayplayer's Blogarythms has to say about it. Why not pick up a copy? And to celebrate next week's release of the Gultskra Artikler/Lanterns Split LP by Other Electricities, Limited Edition Vinyl is holding a contest to win a copy, along with O.E.'s other vinyl-only releases. Find out how to win!
Left Hip has a great new review of Try Me Bicycle. Speaking of TMB, they add to radio this week along with Baja and Dot Tape Dot. Request them at your local college and community radio stations!!!
09.29.08
Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns' split release reviewed in October's edition of Textura!
09.26.08
Ben Lamar of Juba Dance is attending Schmiede 08. Congratulations on the invitation!
Try Me Bicycle takes part in the Know Your Neighbor concert series at Arizona State University, donating a portion of CD sales to support community engagement activities. And, there's another great review of Voicings - check it out on Lucid Forge!
The Speed of Silence has great little piece on Other Electricities bands and features the new video for Hess/Tilmann's "Doppler," by visual artist Spencer Black!
05.04.08
Ampersand Etc. gears readers up for the Hess/Tilmann album Departures! Also check out the duo's new video for "Doppler" directed by Spencer Black!
Nice is pleased to welcome two new releases by three great artists to our roster! The first is the soon-to-be summertime jams by Calgary's WOMEN (Flemish Eye), and the second, a split LP by Gultskra Artikler and Lanterns (Other Electricities). There's pages with info and images, and some free downloads to boot. Get in touch if you're a reviewer interested in a copy of either release!
Check out what Scott McMillan's Mapadasical blog has to say about Fessenden!
03.05.08
Tiny Mixtapes definitely took a long, hard listen to Baja's wolfhour. And, The Press Project is on CMJ's Top 40 Hip-Hop chart for their 5th week in a row. Congratulations all around!
Press Project's Get Right is on CMJ's Top 40 Hip-Hop Chart 4 weeks in a row!
02.20.08
The Press Project's Get Right lands CMJ's Top 40 Hip-Hop Chart for the third week in a row! Request tracks at your local college/community station and keep 'em going strong! Also, they have some March tourdates coming up with Soulive!!!
02.19.08
Yesan Damen is recommended by Left Hip. Also, ARO's Sirens of Titan drops today - now you can get your hands on this eerie masterpiece!
02.18.08
Playback:STL reviews a reissue - Serengeti's Dennehy (Lights, Camera, Action).
02.14.08
Redefine gets to the point in its review of Chronos/Kairos.
02.13.08
Yesan Damen and The Press Project are both kicking ass at radio, breaking the top charts of their respective categories. Request them at your local college and community stations! Also, Arms & Sleepers' tour begins tonight in Cambridge. Check out their tour dates to see if they'll be heading your way - and read a little more about them in this recent interview in Newcity Chicago!
The Press Project's Get Right breaks CMJ's Top 40 hip-Hop Chart for Issue 1043!
02.05.08
Oklahoma's O'Collegian writer Kevin Sears takes his time with Chronos/Kairos...
01.31.08
Check out the February Issue of Textura for reviews on Nice artists Fessenden, Baja and Dot Tape Dot!
01.30.08
Baja reviewed in Exclaim and also featured alongside Feu Therese, Stereolab, Cassettes Won't Listen, Shiny Toy Guns, Fly Pan Am and Tortoise in the newest installment of Headphones Required!
Check out Revielle's take on Chronos/Kairos, and Squid's Ear's fantastic review of Fessenden!
01.23.08
The Press Project's Get Right is the #4 Most Added hip-hop album for CMJ issue 1041!
01.21.08
75 or Less carefully chooses their words about Yesan Damen, while Indiepop (IT) goes into an in-depth analysis.
01.18.08
Dot Tape Dot featured in the first Headphones Required podcast of 2008 alongside artists including Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, Quasi, and We Are Wolves!
Fensepost is digging Choronos/Kairos and Lucid Forge (CA) takes time to review 4 Nice artists: Baja, ARO, The Val Papadins and Yesan Damen!
01.09.08
Sound the Sirens suggests you do some strange things while listening to Baja's wolfhour.
01.06.08
Yesan Damen praised in The Organ Mag (UK)! Serengeti & Polyphonic's Don't Give Up ties with Of Montreal as Okayplayer's favorite album of the year for 2007!
Altcountry.nl takes some time to review ARO's Sirens of Titan
12.26.07
The Cape May's Glass Mountain Roads reviewed in Issue 61 of The Big Takeover!
12.21.07
Palebear covers ARO and Yesan Damen. And, speaking of ARO, check them out live on KEXP at 6:00-6:30 PST tomorrow, 12/22!!!
Targeting for the Steven Hess / Miles Tilmann Departures LP is now underway. This is an actual vinyl mailout so the quantities are limited. If you are a music editor or freelancer interested in receiving a copy, please email us to confirm or add your name to the servicing list.
Australia's Ampersand Etcetera analyzes Fessenden's v1.1, and XLR8R lists Dot Tape Dot's Tomavistas as one of their favorite forthcoming compilaitons!
12.17.07
Yesan Damen's Chronos/Kairos reviewed on Kronic (IT)! Also, ARO's Sirens of Titan receives a review in the Big Takeover by editor Jack Rabid. Check out Issue 61, on shelves now!
12.12.07
Tons of releases for the first part of 2008! Check 'em -
Fessenden's v1.1 receives an excellent review on Bagatellen!
11.28.07
The Press Project's song "Get Right" is currently #1 in the Alt. Hip-Hop category of the OurStage semi-finals, and "From the Desk of The Press" is top 40 in OurStage's Hip-Hop category as well! You can download "Get Right" now on their artist resource page.
Yesan Damen's Chronos/Kairos gets an awesome review at Mish-Mash! and "Whoa!" is mp3 of the week !
Serengeti and Poyphonic hit Canadian radio charts this week! Their album, Don't Give Up, makes top 10 on both independent Canadian college radio formats - #5 Hip-Hop Earshot and #10 Hip-Hop Chart Attack.
Editors Pick for Carrie Biell! When Your Feet Hit The Stars nabs a forward featured review in Curve Magazine, ""...the perfect rainy day kind of music. You'll want to gaze out a window all day." (Katie Peoples). This review appears in the Nov 07 issue currently on newsstands.
Amateur Radio Operator getting NW radio play! Their debut Sirens of Titan hit local NW college stations this week and already hitting charts including KEXP at #27! They've also made #10 on the local charts at Rainy Dawg and two top 5 adds with KSUB (#5) and KZUU (#1).
10.31.07
Serengeti and Polyphonic's Don't Give Up is #32 on the CMJ Hip-Hop charts this week (Issue 1033)!. This is their second week hitting the charts. Keep requesting them at your favorite college station.
Amateur Radio Operator in Left Hip. Also, Mish Mash reviews Amateur Radio Operator and The Val Papadins!
Serengeti and Polyphonic's Don't Give Up hit the Canadian Hip-Hop Charts at #10 (!Earshot).
Also, from Tiny Mix Tapes [Serengeti and Polypnic's] Don't Give Up is a solid release that deserves a listen from anyone who questions the boundaries between hip-hop and experimental music." -(Reviewed by Plastique Song). We think so too!
Portland label Other Electricities interviewed by Brian Morris of Raised On Indie!
Other Electricities announces the release of ground[works] 2007-2008, a label sampler featuring select tracks from their current and upcoming titles. The CD version is available for free from the O.E. website or you can download the comp exclusively from Insound.
10.12.07
20 questions with Kelly Dyson of Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
Carrie Biell's, When Your Feet Hit The Stars gets a nice review in Scene Point Blank.
10.09.07
Serengeti and Polyphonic and Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love made their debut at radio this week on the CMJ charts! Serengeti and Polyphonic's Dont Give Up hit #29 on the Top 40 CMJ Hip-Hop charts and Low Low's Ends of June came in at #188 on the CMJ Alt-200 Charts.
Left Hip Magazine shows some love for Carrie Biell, The Val Papadins and Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love.
10.04.07
Jatun and Nike! The Nike ACG (All Condition Gear) line has licensed two Jatun tracks for their ongoing Sweet Spot promo series. Watch Sweet Spot #3 featuring skier Sverre Liliequis here.
Benjamin Lamar of Juba Dance will be heading to Toronto as a participant of the Red Bull Music Academy! Read his profile here!
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love recently got some nice blog mentions from the editors of Peer Validated and Indiechristoph. The Val Papadins reviewed in Performer Mag.
New Carrie Biell preview for her upcoming performance at Reverb Fest on 10/6/07. Reverb is presented by the Seattle Weekly.
Serengeti and Polyphonic's Don't Give Up makes CMJ's top 5 most added Hip-Hop album of the week at #4!
New Reviews for The Cape May, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love, and Small Sails
Small Sails reviewed in issue 21 of Verbicide! "(Similar Anniversaries) ...soothing, poppy, sweet, contemplative; the expansive kind of electro-spacey sound with softly uttered la la la's perfect for a rainy day film score." -Verbicide.
A very nice review of Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's Ends of June popped up at Sputnik.
The Cape May Glass Mountain Roads gets 4.5 out of 5 stars at Anti Music!
Other Electricities launches new PR campaign. The Portland OR label will be releasing their free label sampler ground[works] 2007-2008 featuring select tracks from their current and forthcoming releases on Oct 1st. You may order your free copy directly from their website or visit Insound on the release date for a free download of the tracks.
September Add Dates Announced! Serengeti and Polyphonic's collaborative, full-length effort Don't Give Up will go for CMJ hip-hop adds on September 24-25th, 2007. Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's Ends of June will also be seeking the same CMJ add dates for the alt. 200 category. Both albums are seeking national radio airplay and will soon be available for play at your favorite college radio station.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love was recently interviewed by the UK publication SoundsXP shortly after their Green Man performance. Read, as the band reflects on the event and explains the origin of their long band name here.
Small Sails is a Paste Magazine Recommended buy for the month of September!
New Reviews Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love recently got a nice little review by the Polish publication Gaz-Eta. Read it in English here.
Jatun featured in the new Orchard Flashlight podcast. Each week Orchard Distribution features a handful of their priority releases. This weeks podcast features Aesop Rock, Atmosphere and Jean Grae. Check it out for free on iTunes.
Nice review for Serengeti and Polyphonic at PluginMusic.com!
08.07.07
The Cape May have been getting some great reviews for their latest release. See what PLAYBACK:stl and Wonkavision have to say about Glass Mountain Roads which is now available in the U.S. today!
Serengeti and Polyphonic get a nice nod in Imageyenation.
08.01.07
News News News!Carrie Biell interviewed in the August issue of Performer Mag. Her song "Don't You Blame Me" is also song of the day on KEXP! Read the blog and download the episode featuring her track here. And...Music Emissions reviews When Your Feet Hit The Stars.
The Cape May got a great review in Amplifier Mag. Also, Glass Mountain Roads will be available for the first time in the U.S. on August 7th! Check out their eCard and be sure to grab a copy.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love LoveEnds of June album is a Paste Recommends for the month of August! Be sure to check them out on the special Paste Mag listening station at your favorite participating record store. Also peep the Exoduster review!
Small Sails recently been interviewed by the Chilean online music journal Super 45 and scores a 9.6 out of 10! at Indiepop Spinzone. Exoduster gives their album a B+/A-!
Arms and Sleepers now on tour! Arms and Sleepers kick off a 5+ week tour across the U.S. today. Their send off will be hosted at T.T.'s the Bears Place in Boston tonight w/ The Snake The Cross The Crown (Equal Vision) and As Tall As Lions (Triple Crown).
Serengeti and Polyphonic's collaboration Don't Give Up gets coverage in Alarm and Washington City Paper.
Carrie Biell on Tour! Carrie Biell begins her west coast tour today. She will kick things off with her CD release tonight at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle w/ Jenn Wood.
Carrie Biell Live on KEXP! Tune in to the John in the Morning show this Tuesday (7/10/07) to hear Carrie Biell and her band perform some tracks off her new album When Your Feet Hit The Stars. If you live outside Seattle you can catch the performance here.
Decoy Magazine recently ran a short article called 10 Post Rock Albums You May Have Missed. It was nice to see Jatun in the ranks. Read the article here.
07-02-07Japan Times, Subba Cultcha, Performer Mag, Exoduster and Babysue have all posted new reviews for The Cape May, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love, Ponieheart Crane Orchard, Jatun and Small Sails. Read Babysue's review of The Cape May and Small Sails in Performer Mag.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love News! The band was recently mentioned in Crawdaddy!'s feature on Zune's Current TV. Crawdaddy! is one of the oldest magazine (1966) dedicated to rock criticism and is now active in webform. Check out the Crawdaddy! feature at Zune.
The band scored a 4 out of 5 stars with All Music and is still ranked in the top 5 at CRJ-C for the 3rd week in a row.
06.18.07
More reviews for Jatun and Juba Dance! Juba Dance's Orange and Jatun's s/t both received great reviews in issue 20 of Verbicide. This edition is a special "Woman In Arts" issue featuring interviews with Psalm One, Blonde Redhead, Joan Jett and more. You can pick up a copy at Scissor Press
Juba Dance gets praised again in Okay Player, read about it here.
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love makes CRJ charts for the second week in a row at #3!
06.12.07
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love makes CRJ-C charts! CRJ-C (College Radio Journal - Central) is Japan's equivalent to CMJ. Low Low's track The Messy One, off their latest album Ends of June, debuted at #2 this week!
Also catch the band on this weeks Flashlight Discovery Podcast at iTunes. Flashlight is a weekly Podcast of favorites and new releases which is hosted by the leading digital distributor- Orchard . This week, Orchard chose Roadkill Moon off Low Low’s s/t album. One of our favorites too!!!
06.10.07
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love written up in Sonic - Sweden's leading music magazine! The reviews are starting to come in from the band's international publicity campaign. Check some of them out here Sonic(Sweden), Vitaminic(Italy)and Yesindie.com (Thailand).
Carrie Biell reviewed on F.A.M.E (Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange), which is a vessel for the non-profit Peterborough Folk Music Society. Read the great review here. Lucid Forge(Canada) is also digging her new album.
New Reviews! Juba Dance's Orange getting praised in The Beat Surrender(UK) and Okay Player. Also check out the new PopMatters review for Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love'Ends of June album...all good stuff.
06.03.07
New Jatun Interview! Check out the conversation between Scott Worley of Jatun and Brett Spaceman of The Silent Ballet here.
06.01.07
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's highly anticipated Ends of June album is finally available in N. America and the UK. The album was released early in Asia in support of a heavy promotional campaign featuring both Ends of June and the re-release of their first s/t debut album. Ends of June has already been getting rave reviews. Check out what the following people have been saying Sounds XP (UK), Crawdaddy , Two Way Monologues .
Sneaky Thieves to perform Bumbershoot 2007! This years performers include The Shins, Magnolia Electric Company, Lyrics Born, Wu-Tang Clan and so many more... See the line-up unfold here
Arms and Sleepers from Fake Chapter Records (Birds of Maya, DMBQ, Harper Fair) will be joining the Nice roster in support of their 40+ date N.American tour this summer. Learn more about this great band here.
Audio 8 Recordings and Nice have teamed up to promote the latest release by Serengeti and Polyphonic The Verbose. Serengeti and Polyphonic's colloborative album Don't Give Up is out July 17th, 2007! Check out the eCard. Absolutely amazing stuff!!
Carrie Biell announces a west coast tour in conjunction with her CD release on July 10th. She will be traveling with her full band and you can check specific dates at her PR resource page.
Small Sails #176 this week at CMJ (issue 1010)!
05.10.07
Small Sails'Similar Anniversaries hits #134 alt 200 CMJ (Issue 1009)! This is Small Sails second week making the Alt 200 Chart. Please continue to support the band by requesting their songs at your favorite local radio station.
New Service Added! We are now servicing commercial indie format radio. We can tailor or combine both an independent and commercial radio campaign for your album. Please email info(a)nicepromo.com for details.
The Cape May (Flemish Eye) and Carrie Biell (self-release) added to the Nice roster!
Canadian band The Cape May will be releasing their second album Glass Mountain Roads in the U.S. in August 2007. The album was produced by Steve Albini and has already received some great press. Learn more about them here.
Carrie Biell is a singer songwriter from Seattle, WA and will be releasing her third album When Your Feet Hit The Stars in July of 2007. We will be handling her N. American press and specialty radio campaigns. Visit her resource link for more info
Small Sails makes a debut this week at #161 (issue 1008) on CMJ's Alt 200 chart!
04.17.07
CMJ Issue 1006 Stats are in! This has been a strong radio debut for Small Sails. They made 3 CMJ charts this week; #19 most added Radio 200, #5 most added RPM and they charted #38 on the CMJ's RPM chart! Juba Dance also made a debut this week as the #4 most added New World album! Jatun is #40 on the CMJ's RPM chart! Please continue to support these wonderful bands by requesting them at your favorite radio station.
04.12.07
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love scheduled to perform Greenman! The three day UK festival will include performances by Joanna Newsom, Steve Malkmus and the Jicks, Vetiver, Dead Meadow, Gruff Rhy's, Tunng and many many.... more!
Low Low is also featured on the latest Headphones Required podcast. Episode 45 is up.
04.10.07
Jatun most added CMJ! Jatun's s/t debut makes CMJ's top 5 most added RPM album of the week at #4 (Issue 1005). Please request them at your favorite college station...
Small Sails'Similar Anniversaries is a featured download at iTunes! Check them out in the Indie Spotlight section. The band has also been getting some great press while on the road. Check out the latest from the Sentinel Tribune.
04.04.07
New 30Music.com Podcast is up! Small Sails and Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love both have tracks on the April podcast hosted by 30 Music.com. Every single band on here is amazing Patrick Wolf, Midlake, Voxtrot, A Northern Chorus, Dntel, Bright Eyes and more.
Small Sails on Shifted Sound! Episode 54 is up. Some nice things were said about Jatun's s/t album in the latest issue of DIW Magazine (issue 26) and in Cyclic Defrost Magazine! Yep, good stuff indeed.
03.28.07
Small Sails Tours the U.S.! Check out the dates and catch them live or tune in for their on-air appearances, interviews and contests at WBSR, WPTS, WXIN, WBNY, Radio K and KPSU.
Sneaky Thieves make front page of the Statesman Journal's entertainment section! New Small Sails review from Silent Ballet - Score 8 out of 10! Jonathan Badger'sMetasonic reviewed in e/i Magazine
03.21.07
New Radio Add Dates Announced! Jatun's Jatun adds April 9th-10th, 2007 for Alt-200. Small Sails' Similar Anniversaries adds April 16th-17th, 2007 for Alt-200. Juba Dance's Orange adds April 16th-17th, 2007 for Hip-Hop, Alt-200, and World.
Small Sails band of the week at Silent Ballet ! Also, new reviews in for Juba Dance, Jatun, Low Low Low La la La Love Love Love and Small Sails by Redefine Magazine, Silent Ballet, Music Emissions, and Smother. Check out the artist pages for all the latest review tags.
03.09.07
Sneaky Thieves is CMJ/Sonicbids Spotlight artist of the week! Click Here .
03.06.07
Small Sails is a featured artist on Porltand's local NPR affiliate Oregon Public Broadcasting! Quick Takes Northwest .
03.06.07
Small Sails on new Headphones Required Podcast! This week features Tortoise, Muscles and Lego. For all you iPod lovers, be sure to download the Small Sails film for Somnambulist at the Headphones Required website. Somnambulist was directed by Small Sails' very own Ryan Jeffery.
03.02.07
Jatun's song Ghost and Grey is recommended download of the week at Insound! You can download the track in their free MP3 section. Be sure to sign up for their weekly MP3 giveaway newsletter while you are there.
02.28.07
Sneaky Thieves album accident(s) debuts CMJ's Alt-200 Charts this week at 180! Congratulate them.
Other News... Serengeti'sNoticeably Negro gets high marks at Lost At Sea magazine. Check it!
02.26.07
Jatun featured on Coke Machine Glow as a favorite up-and-coming artist. You can read all about it by Clicking Here Also, Sneaky Thieves finishes the video to The Din take a peak. Click Here
02.15.07
Safe Home is featured on episode 36 of the Headphones Required podcast. This episode's theme is post-rock and post-pop. Stream now and check out other great songs by Do Make Say Think and Of Montreal. Click Here
02.12.07
Jonathan Badger to be featured in new Electronica Monthly's Podcast Click Here. Jatun's Temptaion of Joy will be on the new Silent Ballet compilation featuring other great artists such as Questions in Dialect and Miaou.Click Here
02.07.07
Jatun is the featured artist at Floatfilm.com. Jatun's music will be included in Float- the new all female snowboard film.Click Here.
02.06.07
Serengeti's Noticeably Negro debuts this week at #38 on CMJ's Top 40 Hip-Hop Chart. Request Serengeti now at your favorite station!
01.30.07
Serengeti's Noticeably Negro #3 most added Hip-Hop album of the week! Also, Jatun on new Headphones Required podcast. Episode 35 features Deerhoof, Couch, The Pastels and The Notwist. Click Here.
01.26.07
New Website - and just in time for two awesome albums adding at CMJ next week! The Sneaky Thieves'debut album accident(s) will be seeking alt-200 adds and Serengeti's Noticeably Negro will be seeking Hip Hop adds. Be sure to request them at your favorite college radio station.
01.19.07
New Nicky Click interview! Just Out Magazine did a nice interview with Nicky Click.Click Here.
01.09.07
Ferocious Bubbles featured in Paste Magazine! Band of the week.Click Here.
01.01.07
Sneaky Thieves makes best NW album of 2006 list! accident(s) ranked in as one of the 50 best NW albums of 2006 by Seattle's Three Imaginary Girls. Click Here.
