New Music The Broken Cradle – The Burial of the Dead / @thebrokencradle music paints vividly the concept of his album (that of the ephemeral): a gentle sadness all around …
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Listening Recommendations Spook Houses / Fat History Month Split (Double Double Whammy) / this remains a truly great split – Post-Trash Women – Black Rice (via Casey) Misc Something new …
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Featuring Jon Schlesinger on banjo and guitar, Michael Kiefer on drums, and a dude named Steubs on mandolin, guitar, and electronics, More Klementines are far from a typical excursion into …
New Music Jake Acosta – Rehearsal Park (Husky Pants) (h/t Marc Masters) Fieldhead – Engine Idling, Around 5am (Home Assembly Music) / Some great vibes here from the folks at …
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New Music Hologram Teen – The Restless Cyclops (Happy Robots) / ‘The Reckless Cyclops’ is a blend of rubbery synth bass, handclaps, wobbly strings & warm brassy pads and ‘Hologram …
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Hasidic doom metal? Avant klezmer? The Internet has finally blown everything to bits. Ambient dubs of klezmer and Hebrew prayers? The Midwestern Record Preceded by I Feel Tractor and Skyjelly …
Listening Recommendations Dame Area – Toda La mentira Sobre Dame Area / an album of contemporary ‘combat music’ rooted in minimal synth, dub, italo & noise / RIYL Marie Davidson, Liaisons Dangereuses, …
Read more “Dispatches from the Underground // December 15, 2022”
New Music Sial – Sangkar (La Vida Es Un Musica Discos) / BABE wake up new Sial – Mateo Listening Recommendations Ahem – S/T (Housecraft Recordings) / wow – thismachinekillsmusic …
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Looped claps, drums, and shakers craft a fiery groove and rugged guitars interleave slyly. Echoed and barely intelligible vocals latch around the repetition for a while, then at three minutes …
Occasional Wooden Wand collaborator Eddie Berrigan phones it in from Brooklyn, NY. A NYC poetry scene veteran (and son of poet Ted Berrigan), it’s Eddie’s deep and innate understanding of …