All right, playing a little bit of catch up after some time away last week. The day starts out strong with a new track from Futuropaco. The band has always held up…
The minute that this record was announced it shot straight to the top of my anticipated list for 2025. Thankfully, the January release means that we don’t have to wait that long,…
The Bay Area seems to be the center of the shoegaze universes these days, and another excellent pop gem rises out of the haze this week. The solo guise of Rick Altieri…
The debut from SML was high on my list of favorites from last year, a record that ripped jazz up at the seams and reconstructed it in new ways. Featuring many of…
Excited to see RSTB favorites Cactus Lee rising in profile once again. The band follows up releases on Mapache and ORG with a new record for Western Vinyl this year. If you…
While The Laughing Chimes debut was an admirably assured debut, written while songwriters Evan and Quinn Seurkamp were still in high school, it was also a record born and brushed by its…
A few crystalline transmissions have been beamed into the ether from RSTB faves Bhajan Bhoy. Created as part of a 40th anniversary celebration of Steve Barker’s On The Wire radio program, the…
A real burner here from L.A. Anatolian psych band ÖLÜM does nostalgia right, digging into a ‘70s sound with impunity, doing justice to the legacy of era standouts like Erkin Koray, Selda,…
Over the course of their last few releases, Chronophage have steadily become a favorite around here. The band’s wounded New Wave and post-punk crystalized on their eponymous album from 2022 but even…
The noise-soaked closer to The Sewerheads debut Despair is a Heaven chews on the wires of post-punk, run through with art school shrapnel. Feeling like kindred spirits to the similarly named Wireheads,…
I’m still catching up from the end of 2024 and this one’s been on the list for some time now. The work of Sarah Christensen, Sun Swept captures the sweeping vistas and…
A flurry of strings today from Kurdish/ Iranian tanbur player, Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian. The new album finds the artist honed in, not necessarily eschewing the the improvisational air of his last album,…
The second single out of the new Index for Working Musik runs at the listener with a railroad chug. The aura on the song is that of maintaining calm, but just barely,…
There could be no better winter warmer than a new record from Rose City Band. The outfit, headed by Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips), has bloomed over the years from a…
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