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In a world of pure imagination, take a long look and you'll see...the video for "Phone" from the freshly released I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk by Tim Presley's White Fence! Here, neon dreams come alive with a lava lamp glow and wobbly, willy wonka kitsch to create brain food for a new wave theater, in which you will find yourself watching "Phone". The second TP/WF video from Ashley Goodall (see also, "I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk"), "Phone" warms you up and... (read more)

Riders of the purple sage, the storm and Dead: prepare thyselves for broken beats, hot magnetic pulses of rhythm, guitar skronk and scraps of raps roaring through your Southern municipal metropolitan area! Lords of chaos, or Dead Rider as they like to be called, are ripping through clubs and bars throughout MO, KY and AR, infecting every man, woman and child in their wake. Moving relentlessly around the borders of their sound, DR are always finding new textures throughout, rebuilding and re-grooving to rock you... (read more)

Smoke signals, sirens, urgent messages: Bill MacKay's six-string mastery pulses like a sun with (Sandy) Bull-ish psycho fusions on Fountain Fire, his second solo album for Drag City. The fire in the album title is a continuity in Bill's life - part of his genealogy, his living history, his astrology and the scorching effect of the over-driven slide throughout the album!

Bill melds slide, acoustic and distorted electric tones on Fountain Fire to explore the enigma at the end of a... (read more)

The Dreams My Bones Dream was widely praised as one of 2018's albums of the year, and with good reason! Eiko Ishibashi's sixth solo album reached truly impressive and exciting heights in pop experimentalism, an accomplishment few can claim with any consistency. With songs reflecting upon the vast spaces that exist between people as close as family members, and ruminations of her own father and grandfather, The Dreams My Bones Dream is a record with exquisite musicality and deep emotions, a travelogue pointed towards... (read more)

Joe Gloor, Dan Berg and Dan Haligas were just a group of friends from the suburbs of Illinois with big city dreams of rock n' roll glory. Their lone release, "White Washed Afternoons" b/w "Watcher's Brawl", was released under the name StumpWater in 1975 and fell on mostly deaf ears, leaving the band with little option for a breakout. Undeterred, the boys continued to stay active for the love of music, gigging around their home state for decades (eventually carrying the torch without Dan Haligas,... (read more)

\A little less than two years on from 2017's Plum, Californian scrap polymorphs Wand are prepared to announce their newest, and fifth long playing record, Laughing Matter. By now, Wand is the shifting but unmistakable collaboration between Sofia Arreguin (keys, vocals), Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals), Robert Cody (guitar), Lee Landey (bass) and Evan Burrows (drums).  
 
Laughing Matter is marked by the confidence and fervor of a band that has lived, feuded, thrived and grown together through years of dedicated jamming, touring... (read more)

No Age exemplify efficiency as a means to creativity, as their two-man approach to huge sounding and thrilling punk music proudly displays. This dynamic appears effortless on Snares Like A Haircut, which is often a sign that in fact some serious thought and planning went into whatever the hell they're doing to make it sound so good. Since it's release, No Age have methodically toured all over the world, country by country, and they're still not done - 2019 ushers in the Snares Like... (read more)

The sound of Nowhere richly reflects the four dimensional world  Masaki Batoh has traveled since the early days--a vast space echoing the music of many eras, under the universal guise of rock and psych, played and sung in the tongue of many nations. With the releases of  Nowhere's first two singles, "Nowhere" and "Tower of the Silence", the venerable essence of Batoh's intricate songwriting was on full display. Now, it's time for the world to indulge in a new single, the extended Japanese folk-blues workout called, "Sundown"! 

Fred Armisen is bringing his catalog of local one hit wonders to the national stage next month! Armed with a repretoire ranging from groovin' yacht rock (Blue Jean Committee), angular art rock (The Fingerlings), thrash-y hardcorepunk (Crisis of Conformity) and smooth sentimental piano/bossa nova tunes (Joshua Rainhorn and Paulinho e Beatriz), seeing Fred live is like a wild ride through the history of popular music as we know it! Mixing it up with musical performances AND comedy all in one night, Fred aims to... (read more)

One thing the people know about our own Alasdair Roberts is that likes that old-time music. It's true, but being immersed in the auld and ancient hasn't ever stopped him from interfacing actively with the present and planning for the future. His discography over the last five years alone reveals solo activity alongside group projects such as Alasdair Roberts & Friends, as well as his acclaimed partnership in The Furrow Collective. Right now, Ali's on the road as a solo, opening for The... (read more)