Track-by-Track // 2024 Sampler (1-6)
Leah Callahan – No One A slight departure from Callahan’s art-pop direction, No One is classic post-punk in the vein of Joy Division. If you, dear reader, stuck with IHN …
Dispatches from the Underground // May 2024, Pt. 1
New Music Dream/Loss – Lower Ground / RIYL the dreamier side of post-punk and the rockier end of shoegaze – connect_icut Olivia Block – The Mountains Pass / This is …
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Rants // Khruangbin’s Success and the Failures of Streaming
Few weeks ago, during a family trip to the restaurant, I overheard my brother saying that he couldn’t get tickets to Khruangbin’s show in NYC. That Khruangbin? Yes, that exact …
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Dispatches from the Underground // April 2024, Pt. 1
New Music Heavy Cloud – Out of the Ash (Histamine Tapes) / inspired by creation from out of adversity. Building something new from parts old, broken or abandoned Karkara – …
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Dispatches from the Underground // March 2024, Pt. 2
New Music Mumbles – In the Pocket of Big Sad / Been looking forward to this one for a while – FFO: Los Camp, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, BCNR – Mute …
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Playlists // KLOF No. 29 (Alternative, ambient, experimental, folk)
Supra-grateful to KLOF Mag for including What Have You Done by Skyjelly on their recent playlist! Other familiar names on the list include Ariel Kalma, Ruth Garbus and, most intriguingly, …
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Rants // Consider the Volume
Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our Rice Krispies We can’t hear anything at all Having recently witnessed a …
Playlists // Sounds Like…Skyjelly! Vol. 1
Anyone remember last.fm? The site may not be a super-popular destination was, but its still up and running after all these years. More importantly, it offers playlist options that yours …
Dispatches from the Underground // March 2024, Pt. 1
Listening Recommendations The Howard Hughes Suite – Smoke from a Future Fire / pedal steel & slide guitar create that nauseating emotion for you here. you know the one. good …
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Dispatches from the Underground // Feb. 2024, Pt. 1
New Music Veins Full of Static – No Such Rust (Waxing Crescent) Two new releases from Fort Evil Fruit Prize Horse – Under Sound (New Morality Zine) / Some kind …
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