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Summer is giving back, Indian-style! Did it ever really try to leave? Perhaps we'll hang onto it through winter this year, as fires and earthquakes and hurricanes provide cold truths we cannot ignore. In the short term, here's another element you shouldn't ignore (and another with high winds): the convergence of many a Drag City band at the finest festival the middle USA has ever seen, Cropped Out Festival in Louisville, KY! This year's line up is fine as silk, and deep like wool -... (read more)

Bajas Fresh is on the beach here in 2017, existing and thriving in the same wrecked world as you and me. It's been over three years since the last proper Bitchin Bajas album - a natural paradise of woodwinds, droning organs, analog synths, field recordings, and an ever-expanding sense of MORE (and LESS). In between then and now came a series of collaborative LPs, and each time these varied external stimuli came into contact with the Bitchin Bajas' achromatic process, it left the group... (read more)

Fumio Miyashita’s long awaited live sets from the California based Boffomundo Show are finally available on vinyl this Friday! Videos from the taped live sets, recorded in 1979 and 1980 respectively, have been circulating on Youtube for years and caught the eye of Brian Weitz (aka Geologist, from the influential trio Animal Collective), who helped facilitate getting this incredible music to us so it could be released for the first time on any format! Fittingly, Brian and Ron Curtiss, co-creator of The... (read more)

Circuit des Yeux's forthcoming album, Reaching For Indigo, encompasses and surpasses the musical journey of Haley Fohr's previous output. An unparalleled piece of contemporary music, the album references a definitive moment in time that fell down on January 22nd, 2016, one that could be felt deep within the Earth's atmosphere-- and likely within multiple dimensions! That definitive moment is sure to resonate for a long time, cause Reaching for Indigo is an album reflecting an inward, emotive and cerebral vision so powerful,... (read more)

Stealthily creeping out from beneath the rock and redressing the good ol' sock-hop days with an acid crash-The Peacers' still-fresh new album (with a potential shelf-life of DECADES; keep in mind for your underworld bunker) Introducing The Crimsmen melds charcoal-grey sprays of chaos with sugar-tender sentiment. Glad and sorry, spat through a grin and ready to rock yuh. The video for "Jurgen's Layout" develops in sulking monotones of dreamy nightmare sequences depicting vast landscapes and barren wilderness. Sucking through the atmosphere like a... (read more)

Ty Segall has a mountain of song at his disposal and he's capable of wielding boulders from it at any given moment in any situation, be it live or on record! His "Fried Shallots" EP came out a month ago to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, but Ty Segall is liberally still touring off the back of January's Self-Titled release, a masterpiece of his ever evolving catalog! Accompanied by the ever flowing Freedom Band, Ty is set to tackle the Southwest portion of... (read more)

After the thousand days and nights since their last album, Chills on Glass, Dead Rider had to overcome the creeping suggestion that they multitask themselves to sleep - or to premature brain death - whichever came first! And thank gawd, too, because that means we've got a new rippin' album to dig: Crew Licks is hot on our tails! Right on top of it's September 22nd release, Dead Rider will bring the chopped-n-screwed skronk, acid-drenched guitar licks and lode-bearing beats on the road, direct... (read more)

Fine citizens: come get Trux'd upon, fresh off the release of Summer's hottest "LIVE" album! As if you didn't know, Royal Trux has been giggin' all over the world this year, but shit, that's just the Platinum-tip: they've got more tricks (shows!?) up their sleeve! This month, the prodigal son and daughter descend from the Garden to make stops at two of North America's premiere festivals! First off there's Pop Montreal, which in our opinion is a wise move if you wanna get... (read more)

After a whirlwind initial phase of writing, recording, and touring at a frenetic pace, Plum marks a period of relative patience for Wand, a refocusing and a push toward a new democratization of both process and musical surface. Process, surface, democratization - sheesh! Listen, above all it's some deeply moving and exploratory-as-fuck rock music, and there’s no better example of these sonic attributes than freshly dropped new single, “Blue Cloud". For some insightful journalism, we refer to a quote from esteemed British rag, Uncut,... (read more)

If you, the discerning record collector, has even a passing interest in the posthumously named genre "acid folk", surely the name Ed Askew is in your golden pantheon. Askew recorded the sublimely gorgeous LP Ask the Unicorn in 1968 for the legendary proto-DIY label ESP records, which has now been recognized as a god-damn underground classic. Armed only with a tiple (sort of a South American mandolin), Askew spun tales of doomed sisters, crashing universes, budding gay love, and a serious fondness for roses on his rare, precious and beautiful album.