A good week for country caps off with an excellent new single from site favorite Mac Cornish. The single comes with news of Cornish’s second studio offering, on the way to the…
Several albums into their career, The Lemon Twigs finally feel unencumbered by expectation. Usually that equation works in reverse, but the band’s early days always felt like they were under the microscope,…
One of the best parts of catching a set from Messthetics this week, aside from the searing sax bath from James Brandon Lewis, was the opening set by new outfit Yr Knives.…
There’s probably not a bigger music note today than the arrival of the first music from the upcoming Boards of Canada record. Following the cryptic album announcement last month, the band releases…
This one has been stuck on repeat from the moment it came my way. An intriguing record, even without a spin, the album brings together recent favorite Winter McQuinn (Sunfruits) along with…
A second single winds out of the upcoming new record from Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders. With a nocturnal creep, the song trades between slither and scorch, marked by fluid guitar…
Another gem in Jack Cooper’s menagerie, and one that feels like a companion piece to the latest iteration of Modern Nature. This record is both a follow-up of sorts to Jack and…
A familiar face in a new guise around here. You might be familiar with Zoh Amba from their work behind the sax or flute, having anchored the excellent Beings record a couple…
On his latest, New Mexico-based banjoist and composer Johnny Bell continues to expand the bounds of the banjo, extracting it from its purely folk and bluegrass roots for something a bit more…
A longtime site fave, Rob I. Miller (Blues Lawyer, Dry Erase) returns with a new outfit, the duo Rob & Ellen, pairing with fellow Blues Lawyer Ellen Matthews. Stripped back but with…
For her last album Mikaela Davis connected with Catskill Cosmic Country outfit Southern Star, turning her expanding role in improv and jam into a turning point for her sound. The record embraced…
Familiarity with Vorhex Angel’s debut will make the first single from the band’s upcoming DRAIN particularly surprising. The sonics on Heavenly were scorched, scoured, dipped in rust and buffed to tape. The…
Every record from Cindy feels like its lodged in a dream. From the first whisper of tape hiss to the laconic strums and Karina Gill’s gentle delivery, the band is perpetually ensconced…
A second single dips out from the debut record by Taste, the solo guise of Oli Lipton (Now, Cindy). Slipping on the velvet sleeves of New Age and running through the gauntlet…
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