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It is as we have dared to hope and fear! Box of Chocolates' seminal Fearful Symmetry has returned to our life.

Fearful Symmetry is a story or record of a group of artistically inclined people who haphazardly found themselves living together and who - toward the end of the arrangement - decided to record the experience in the form of songs written whilst at 140 Plymouth Street in Dumbo." Yes, in Brooklyn. Circa 1990. Already, there's more to the story than you would have... (read more)

Hey kids! John Mulaney is set to host Saturday Night Live this weekend! It's his third time doing so, which probably puts him in some select company, but perhaps equally as interesting is the fact that SNLs musical guest this weekend is David Byrne, who, as you recall, makes an appearance on John's new album, John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch! Say, what an excellent time to remind you that while John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch is currently streaming on... (read more)

Earlier this month we told ya Papa M is touring Australia, and now we're pleased to update you with new intel: big Papa is also touring a bit of thee United States, too! Beginning next week, Papa M has a boomerang trip from LA to Louisville and back - fusing current and former home stomping grounds for David Pajo. The dude forms his songs from the deepest, darkest depths, where light is trapped and twisted, refracted and reformed into something piercingly beautiful, all for... (read more)

With a requisite crackle, hum and drone, you're fixed to slide into the dis-rupture in stereo that is guitarist Bill Nace and - well, THIS is a nice surprise - Bill's got his own record out this time! Sweet - in the past 15 years or so, Bill's been a trusty improv partner to so many: Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelly, James Twig Harper, Samara Lubelski and Thurston Moore, plus Body/Head, to name but a... (read more)

The notorious No A.G.E is back! A guitar/drums duo (Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt) with a penchant for self-recorded samples, No Age are mostly unconcerned with things like space or pause, and Goons Be Gone is gorgeously thick-- a hazy, delirious expanse that's both comforting and disorienting.
 
Listening to Goons Be Gone, it's hard to comprehend how just two people can manage to make so much noise while still sounding so subdued and mysterious-- it's easier to imagine Randall... (read more)

Today, Jackie Lynn shares a new single for “Shugar Water,” a joyous, forward-moving call to arms taken from the band’s recently announced, soon-to-be-released sophomore album Jacqueline, out April 10.
 

The Lynchian video (which features two different people occupying the ‘Jacqueline’ character) was directed by Jacob Forman, and stars Ike Harrell and Norah Wulkopf.  Speaking on the inspirations of the video, director Jacob Forman states: "I can only imagine what the tiniest bit of... (read more)

Just as we had promised, Christmas hath return!  That's right, John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch is finally coming to LP/CD on June 19th.John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch is the soundtrack to the Netflix special of the same name where John has recaptured the magic of that bygone television era when children sang songs about their feelings with celebrity guests on funky outdoor sets!

There are probable hits included like "Grandma's Boyfriend Paul," inspired by the breezy piano pop of... (read more)

The Sir Richard Bishop show is back in town, alive as ever with exotic action, plus a bit of everything but the kitchen sink! Oneiric Formulary is the sound of surprise - first Sir Rick being surprised, then us! Not simply by six-string acoustic rags 'n ragas, but departures as well into electric guitar, keyboard tricks, avant atmosphere, and even a reedy eastern knees-up! It's got mad variety, the kind you don't see much of anymore - an Ed Sullivan kind of evening out, with... (read more)

Washington, DC (home of the worst corruption ever known), wasn't always like this. In the early 1980s, it was home to the world's most vital, distinguished hardcore punk communities. With Minor Threat, Dischord Records and an ascetic straight-edge lifestyle that disdained booze, sex, and drugs, the city made a name for its loud, fast music and righteous progressive politics - a latter-day Camelot. 
 
Hailing from the unhip suburb of Ashton, Maryland, No Trend presented a sneering alternative to that sanctimonious ethos. Cynical, surreal,... (read more)

Bill Callahan loves the south - especially because there's so damn much of it! He lives in it in the US, but once he passes Southernmost Point Buoy, there's still so many amazing people and countries and continents even further south. The deepest dive of all would be Antarctica, but they lack the necessary clubs/recording studios/radio to attract such a musical man for very long. So Australia it is!

The latest whistle-stop on the Shepherd In a Sheepskin Vest tour that's (slow)rocked the nations... (read more)