Peacers/Sic Alps lead singer Mike Donovan steps out from behind the ash-stained curtain for his second solo album in the past five years: How to Get Your Record Played In Shops.

The Donovan ouvre is not something you're meant to think about - instead, enjoy the soupy soak, sliding beneath its opaque and filmy surface to discover the sensual world in the moat below. Four Sic Alps, two Peacers and two Mike Donovan albums along the line, Mike is still jiving... (read more)

Burn the threshold of light, burn the threshold of time! Anytime is a good time to release a Six Organs of Admittance video, album release cycles be damned! Burning the Threshold brings a wealth of Six Organs-styled lightness into one of his sweetest musical meditations yet and that should be reminded every day.

The residual grace and allure radiates out from the video for "Things As They Are," a song examining the life of poet Wallace Stevens. In 2017, Ben composted music for... (read more)

Ben Chasny's Hexadic System has been put to great use on two Six Organs records already, but this third installment, Hexadic III, is a whole different beast! See, it's a compilation record, featuring music from a ton of AMAZING musicians, none of whom are named Ben Chasny! Instead, we've got fresh Hexadic sounds from Moon Duo, Jenks Miller, Meg Baird & Charlie Saufley, Tashi Dorji, Richard Youngs, Stephen O'Malley-Tim Wyskida-Marc Urselli, and Phil Legard, each putting... (read more)

Freedom’s Goblin isn't only a week old yet it's crawling through homes the world over! Since, it's been three back-to-back, totally FREAKING sold out shows at the Teragram Ballroom in LA for Ty Segall, and last night, the dude made his Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC! With the freaky and funky Freedom Band – Mikal Cronin, Charles Moothart, Emmett Kelly, and Ben Boye-- along for the ride, Ty let the sketchiness out of the bag with performances of "Every1's A... (read more)

Keep on flowing Bajas, so chill and pretty. Bajas Fresh is a first-class expansion of the walls and bridges of our sonics universe, synthesizing within and without our growing, Earthly ecosystem on a trip that never ends or comes down. Bitchin Bajas present a forward way of thinking that lends itself well to a a forward way of listening: to the sounds around you, taking in all kinds of sonic terrain as well as the vibes within you, which only ask that you just... (read more)

As the torch-bearing, primo group of Chicago's card-carrying funky weirdos, Dead Rider's work comes off as slight-of-hand and slanted at all angles, yet before you know it they've chucked back into a glitchy groove on a hairpin turn. The trio of Todd Rittman, White Christmas and Matt Espy have perfected their own brand of experimental rock, but without all the signifiers and clichés you'd come to expect from such a term: sultry grooves and sticky hard rock guitars melt into an audio-verite of... (read more)

Snares Like A Haircut is out today, buzzing bloody loud from the No Age core and into your inner ear! On No Age's fifth full length since 2008, Dean and Randy's respective drums, singing and guitar bring twisted chaos and angst-ridden anthems at full blast for a solid LP's worth of punk for all -or rather, No- Ages! The album release is only the beginning - more and more shows are being added around the world at a blistering clip, and you need... (read more)

2000 'N' 18

New Year! New vibe? No way! NOT. Noxious. Nefarious! Negligent! National disgrace! Nsane! NUTS. Never before? Never again!. Neutrality? Neigh! Nuckle down - negotiate, not negate. Ntertain? Naturally.....N what else? Nothing. Nausea. Naked. Numb. Next Year, then? No - THIS one.

DISC(CON)CUSSIONS

Sweet Royal Trux, what's up with this point in historical time that we find ourselves yoked with? Such infamy! Such calumny! Not to mention the many folks everywhere just acting... (read more)

Step back in time and land smack dab in the middle of Music Row with Nashville's living legend and ORIGINAL outlaw country badass, Chris Gantry! At The Hideout next month, for his first performance in Chicago ever, the troubadour will sling tunes from the newly unearthed, early-70s lysergic classic, At The House of Cash and more! Gantry has been writing and recording songs for 40 years, cutting his teeth with solo albums in the late 1960s and 1970s featuring tunes that would be made... (read more)

Last fall's nuanced and glorious Sapropelic Pycnic was one of 2017's greatest recorded statements! Coming from Ka Baird, she of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, it was expected to be OUT, for sure - but we didn't realize just how deeply it would draw from the primordial ooze and raise high a sacrifice to the immemorial concept of the sacred. And that's just how it sounds on LP! Live, Ka Baird is simply mesmerizing - a whirlwind of voice, electronics, flute and loops... (read more)