This month, Wand launch their third album in what can only be called the relative blink of an eye: their Drag City debut, 1000 Days. In this year’s last year, Ganglion Reef, Wand’s debut album release on GOD?, reveled in their dark circuits and three-ring modulations; Golem, out March 2015 on In the Red, chem-trailed Wand’s sounds farther down the road and past the sky. With less than 365 days behind them, 1000 Days continues to reword definitions of “rock” and... (read more)

Sounding forth from a resonating body, the music of Six Organs of Admittance seems to reach us from an ancient remove. Ben Chasny's 6OOA vehicle is a wide-ranging craft, spanning over a dozen albums whose gaze is always shifting, but whose focus never wavers. With Hexadic II, Ben Chasny's unique touch on acoustic guitar is brought back to our ears after what feels like a kind of forever. What may identify to some ears as folk music is caught in an... (read more)

Whoa, Jessica Pratt's motor simply won't quit - having just wrapped up a swing through Scandinavia and the UK, Ms. Pratt only continues her world domination! With US dates on the most immediate horizon, we're pleased as a spiked punch to announce the next touring phase to follow, this fall: a return trip to the inviting cities, towns and villages of the European continent that just released her! Since the release of her Drag City debut, On Your Own Love Again, last January,... (read more)

The announcement ofDivers and the release of its first single, "Sapokanikan," articulated masterfully with a video by Paul Thomas Anderson, was as monumentally significant as an otherworldly visitation; what's more, it signaled the beginning times for a calculated meteor shower of Joanna Newsom headlines that will cosmically alter the life as we know it on this Earth! What's one to do but sit tight and experience the ride through Divers' sci-fi sea-shanties right along with Newsom in all capacities? Further along... (read more)

Laetitia Sadier's music emanates deep from within, shifting and overflowing into the universe for all to experience. Her songs are communicated with delicately textured production, twinkling and shifting with the subtlety of nature - often sounding like the world outside, whooshing and chirping and clicking in time, situating themselves in the places where we live. And beginning this upcoming Friday, Laetitia will visit these places where we live, in person! Embarking on a long awaited solo tour of the United States in support of... (read more)

Royal Trux..... A band whose very existence and legacy were and are dominated by words and phrases like 'out of it' and 'sabotage' would just decide out of nowhere that they're gonna play another show? The day's come and gone that Royal Trux took the stage at Berserktown II, laying it down on a packed house of rock and roll freaks and weirdos.  Little bits of footage of the performance appeared the day after and just as suddenly disappeared. What the FUCK! Why did... (read more)

Wand are out there, a voice from beyond; on the new frontier, an absolute powerhouse force to portend! Slipped between countless shows stateside and across the Atlantic while touring for Golem, a NEW record was recorded! 1000 Days pulls a few pages off the calendar, where Wand are accessing new sounds and relationships to make that elusive artwork, the "album". Like, a mystery in twelve parts, but each chapter is musical and comprised of elements that make "music." And with each member of Wand... (read more)

You know what the MAN said about peace, right? A journey of a thousand miles, taken one step at a time? Eff dat - nah, gimme danger, handful of napalm and PEACERS! America's new band is ripe and familiar with faces! San Francisco pop/fuzz/garage/punk/insert another bs genre here wunderkid Mike Donovan is back in business - the business of creating incredible tunes to get high to, to thrash and wonk along to, that is - with Peacers. Their debut album, which dropped... (read more)

THE GOOD OL’ DAZE

Hey there, brother-sister…it’s been a little minute since we’ve (been) seen (by) you! Now, you got your own thing and we know it, but when you stay away for too long, it’s almost like you’ve gone and missed EVERYTHING. Imagine! Missing everything in the month of August, any-year, USA. And yet – here it is August, and we’ve got plates spinning, men in motion, women of the world taking over – and it hasn’t taken long! So... (read more)

Since her move from the City of Brotherly Love to the City by the Bay, Meg Baird has seldom looked back: her pristine third solo outing, Don't Weigh Down the Light, reflects on the solitude of leaving home and arriving anew in a spiritual manner. With such a centering transition, it's only natural that Meg refrain from returning to her native coast for some time. But the clarity appears to have taken hold, enough so that a pilgrimage back home seems absolutely right --... (read more)