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Round two from the dust-strewn cassettes in ye old Sic Alps archives, this time drawn from the latter stages of their comet-like trajectory. Sketches for material that landed on Napa Asylum, Sic Alps, the "She's on Top" EP, and assorted singles is all included here. The enigmatic smile through which the Alps songs are crooned, that key - levity - is oft swapped for brevity here, in the name of getting the thoughts down.  
 

But even... (read more)

As the story goes, in early 1976 Virgin released “Johnny’s Dead” as a single, and OUT went into production: test tapes were made, artwork commissioned from Hipgnosis was delivered. Then fate took a turn in the form of a sudden changing of the guard in the Virgin front office and just like that, the plan was off. But that was nearly 45 years ago!

“Johnny’s Dead” was the world’s first introduction to Anthony Moore’s pop music solo persona and it remains as one of... (read more)

Better late than never, Edith Frost enters the 2020 race!  This new song puts her elliptical torch song phrases to political ends with breezy lightness, focusing on the positive action of refusal: "Make up a little sign....though you hate the argument, put yourself on the line". 
"Little Sign" was recorded in spring 2020, produced at The Loft - Chicago by Mark Greenberg, featuring Sima Cunningham and Rian Murphy as witness for the proceduction.

Edith says: 
I wanted to make a song about how much... (read more)

Reach out from your isolation! Reach for the sound of others. That's what Circuit des Yeux is asking of us. Until now, her sound world has been defined by relentless expansion. Reaching For Indigo and Reaching For Indigo : GAIA INFINITUS served notice: Haley Fohr is deploying her four-octave voice with an ever-emboldened focus into an epic landscape of music, desiring to travel ever further into a country of her own making.  

In isolation, however, she has found herself reaching for the sound of others - and... (read more)

Saturday, October 17 (yes, tomorrow) will mark the long-promised return to the live arena for Jackie Lynn, when they stage a virtual concert at Chicago community staple, The Hideout! This is the album release party for the extremely powerful record,  Jacqueline (available now), which has sent tracks like "Shugar Water", "Odessa" and "Dream Street" spinning into the twilight of glittering dancefloors, roadside stops and bedrooms alike all around the globe.  Jackie Lynn is calling to you: tear off your mask and become another person for a... (read more)

The people of this world are capable - and culpable - of great harm. Of great healing too! In this power lineup (saxes and flutes included), The Silence guide the listener through a unique sequence of electric meditations to reorient your perspective with an eye toward expelling the harshness from your soul. And with the help provided by incendiary psychedelic guitars, burning a to path to emancipation never sounded so good!

Inspired by a Doors lick, The Silence get their own portrait of modern... (read more)

From the summer of '75 to spring '76, Anthony Moore was in and out of the studios, along with producer Peter Jenner (from Blackhill), working with some of Britain's finest musicians and engineers at legendary facilities like Abbey Road and Richard Branson's Oxfordshire getaway The Manor, to produce the eleven tracks that make up OUT. But when fate took a turn in the form of a sudden change of the guard in the Virgin front office, the resulting treasure trove of songs was buried, exhumation scheduled... (read more)

Dope Body continues to crash open frontiers of wildly imagined and ephemeral sound-froth with new singles from their forthcoming Crack A Light LP. The rec's a non-stop, all-out assault, crashing rock after rock through glass houses everywhere in a hail of ragers: righteous, extravagant and introspective.

With "Mutant Being", the future glides forth on a wave of drones, before sliding down a murky slope of distorto-shred and into dubby, post-PIL slow jam space. Weaving threads of dread, then blowing the roof off the Thunderdome with the chorus, "Mutant... (read more)

Saturday, October 17th marks the long-promised return to the live arena for Jackie Lynn, when they stage a virtual concert at Chicago community staple The Hideout! This album release party celebrates Jacqueline (available now), which has sent tracks like “Shugar Water”, “Odessa” and “Dream Street” spinning into the twilight of glittering dance floors, roadside stops and bedrooms alike all around the globe.

Jackie Lynn is calling to you: tear off your mask and become another person for a night from the comfort of... (read more)

On January 9, 2020 - the day after the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, an event featuring 'Old Hickory', Andrew Jackson, the genocidal hero of one of Putin's main bitches, the heel of the deal squatting in the White House - Mayo T. & The Corky Band played the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Two songs from the set struck us as timely - "Worried Worried", with an updated second verse focused on the occult personality mentioned above - and a fresh arrangement... (read more)