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Archives for October 2024

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LIFE BACK IN PRISON

posted October 31st, 2024

Ready to go back? Prison’s still out there, breaking rocks in the haze and rumbling in the heat, just waiting for you to come around. Downstate, the second official Prison stint, is out January 31, 2025, stretching to insane new places while pumping out some of the toughest jams around. Lead single “Eyes For Keys” is on the loose today!

Prison’s been active since 2015, but if you didn’t catch ’em live in NYC, then you didn’t know until the summer of ‘23... (read more)

Artists in this story: Prison

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TASHI DORJI STRUMS NEW ANTHEM, MARCHES TOWARDS NOVEMBER TOUR

posted October 29th, 2024

Over the past two decades, Tashi Dorji’s distinguished approach to the guitar has unveiled sounds both materially unheard and eternally familiar. Striking upon the fuse of his 2020 record Stateless, Tashi’s follow-up is an acoustic statement: all improvised, always political, sounding sympathy for the opposition in the fabric of every experimental revelation. we will be wherever the fires are lit is out November 22; today, Tashi releases the album’s title track.

Strumming a march — countered by a deliriously fingered counter-riff... (read more)

Artists in this story: Tashi Dorji

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ANOTHER TRICK UP PAPA M'S SLEEVE

posted October 21st, 2024

The smoke has cleared: Papa M has finally reappeared! Ballads of Harry Houdini is David Pajo’s latest bag of dirty tricks, revved up n’ ready for the big reveal next month. We’ll shut up (yeesh!) and get to the shredding though: “People’s Free Food Program” is here for all today.

Over a swirling bed of circus-like synth lines, Papa M constructs a shred-for-the-hills, golden-age guitarismo workout on "People's Free Food Program" — burbling with notes of R’n’B, dub reggae and rich, Corinthian leather.... (read more)

Artists in this story: Papa M

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PRISON BREAKS LOOSE FOR WEST COAST TOUR!

posted October 17th, 2024

Break loose, West Coast: Prison is doin’ hard tour time this November! Sarim Al-Rawi, Matt Lilly, Paul Major and Matt Leibowitz (who knows, maybe more!) make up the live band this time 'round, seeking the heat in Los Angeles, Oakland, Eureka, Portland and Seattle. There's some scorched new jams cooked up for this trip, best experienced in the flesh — just keep your head screwed on! More on the horizon, too. After all: what must go Upstate...

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Artists in this story: Prison

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TASTE THE EXISTENTIAL BREAD

posted October 16th, 2024

Jim Franks is not a professional baker, because there are no such things as professional bakers. He is also not your father and never will be, nor is this a cookbook full of stories and recipes. This is a book about bread, titled Existential Bread, fresh out of Drag City’s oven on January 31, 2025.

Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who’s written a love story about bread — which is to say he’s written a life story about listening, learning, trying,... (read more)

Artists in this story: Jim Franks

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THE HOLY GRAIL OF SMOG

posted October 14th, 2024

December 10, 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahan’s “Smog”, out on the Rain On Lens tour, made a stop at the BBC and performed with demonstrative zeal for their British witness, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the invariable shadows of the fallen towers. The Holy Grail is the mythical relic from that very Peel Session, with Callahan & band (Jessica Billey, Mike Saenz and Jim White) covering Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed and Smog with... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill Callahan

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THE HIGH LLAMAS, ‘92–’98: BACK ON VINYL!

posted October 9th, 2024

The High Llamas’ classic 90s output comes back to life on vinyl for the first time in over twenty years: 1992's Santa Barbara, 1994's Gideon Gaye, 1996's Hawaii, 1998's Cold And Bouncy and the pairing remix album Lollo Rosso, and 1999's Snowbug. The vibrant and colorful sweep of this remarkable six-album arc shines in new pressings of the original masters, releasing November 22 — including the first-ever vinyl pressing for their debut album, Santa Barbara.

The High Llamas were founded by Sean O'Hagan... (read more)

Artists in this story: The High Llamas

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YOU, ME, ANTHONY MOORE, AND NEIL DIAMOND

posted October 1st, 2024

Aye, more music from Anthony Moore, dead ahead! Home of the Demo digs up ten unheard songs from the Slapp Happy founder's tuneage treasury, containing some seriously smart stuff he made between 1978–1984 that finally gets to breathe on this upcoming archival release. The second single "Me and Neil Diamond" is out today, sailing into the night with some circa-'84 vocals from Echo & the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch.

Gauzy, aquatic, dusk-flavored keyboards set the scene for this truly off-the-wall... (read more)

Artists in this story: Anthony Moore