Review: Whettman Chelmets – Long Read Memories
Long Read Memories charts the mental and emotional gravity of a real life tragedy as it reverberates over the last thirty years. It does this using guitar, semi-modular synths, field …
Review: Phirnis – Presence / Cadence
Austrian musician Phirnis has returned with a new album, one that has been many years in the making, and it is an epic one. Released by the German label TC5, …
Out Now: Fall 2019 Sampler
Drumroll please! Thank you, Questlove. Our final seasonal sampler is here in all of its glory! Its “pay what you want” with all the proceedings going back to artists, so …
Video Premiere: Aaron Oppenheim – September Seas
The entire broken-down/glitch/lowercase aesthetics was all the rage in experimental/avant circles in the late 90s/early 2000s as exemplified by the output of German labels Kompakt, Raster-Noton and Mille Plateaux (as …
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Review: MAbH – On Being Pollinated
One of the arguments for the superiority of the 12” LP over other formats was the ability to include better artwork, that glorious 12” square cover, the liner notes large …
Video Premiere: Barbara Morgenstern – Juist / Poose
Few scenes in movie history capture the sense of urban alienation/melancholy/decay with the same palpability that the Pruitt-Igoe segment in Koyanisquatsi does. The helicopter hovering over abandoned buildings is quite …
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New Music Releases – November 2019: Pt. 1
First roundup of new releases coming out this November! Handpicked by our followers. Djunah – Ex Voto (Triple Eye Industries) Djnuah is an incredible band, their debut Ex Voto …
Review: C. Moody Crews – LA, 2000
Los Angeles is many different things to many different people. For those of us who have never been, it’s a place that holds a sort of mystique, a fictional world …
Video Premiere: Bloom de Wilde – Atlas Cassandra
If Bloom de Wilde, the subject of our video premiere, will ever blow up in a big way (and chances are, she just might) the first comparison you’ll hear 99% …
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Little Guide to Physical Formats for Independent Labels/Artists
Over those last few years there was no shortage of articles heralding the comeback of a cassette (The Guardian, more recently, but also Pitchfork and LA Times, to name just …
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