There’s something new on the latest from Daniel Bachman LP. After years of diving deep into the cultural crumble of America and Americana, there’s a thread of hope in Bachman’s music. When…
Gothenburg’s Hollow Ship return with a new album of instrumentals that were forged from a visual collaboration with artist and animator Freddy Wallin. The band’s name was derived from a 19th century…
Another great month over at WGXC for the monthly installment of RSTB Radio. Despite getting late in the year, there’s still plenty of new music coming this way. The set featured brand…
If your ears have been cocked towards the Northern winds, then the catalog of sublime albums from Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn has probably already permeated your psyche and found a permanent space on…
It’s always nice to offer up hope on a reissue and to not only have that hope fulfilled but exceeded in every possible way. A few years back I expressed the need…
This record has been making its way onto the site over the past few months, but with a tack towards more complex structures, singles hardly do Wurld Series justice. The band’s last…
Really loving this cover of Neil Young’s “Dead Man” theme this morning from Chicago’s Dark Canyon. If you’d caught any wind of Mike Franz Novak’s 2022 eponymous outing, it should come as…
The latest outing from Tracy Wilson (Dahlia Seed, Positive No) and Kenneth Close (Positive No) finds the band shifting from some of the more brazen pop of their past into a new…
Edena Gardens have hit an incredibly prolific streak over the last few years, with two albums already landing — 2022s’s eponymous affair and a follow-up at the beginning of 2023. Throw in…
Along with Bures Band, the best new export out of the Aussie shores has been Hot Apple Band. The band’s debut, So Long Noodle House, is set for release in a couple…
There are still so many great albums in the dock for 2023, it’s a wonder when there will ever be time to wrap up and reflect. Not anytime soon around here, that’s…
The time for a new Sunwatchers record is finally upon us. With a late summer build up, and an excellent preview of what was on deck this year at Deep In The…
Swedish collective Flowers Must Die offer up a curio from their recent tour with friends and labelmates OCH. The split cassette finds FMD working through lonform excursions into the psychedelic dawn. The…
This record has crept under my skin over the past few weeks, an amalgam of Eastern-oriented folk forms, psychedelic jazz, and heady excursions into soundtrack psych. The band picks up on some…
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