Dispatches from the Underground // Bandcamp Friday – March 2026

Emergency Group – Live at Wesbeth / It’s a live recording from a performance at Westbeth in Manhattan in October. Contains three exciting improvisations, including one with our friends Tsuyoshi Honjo and Michael Moss – Dave Mandl

Young Weather – Partial Views / I’m proud of this record, something that might help you walk to and fro through the decay by hate of our public lives and the determined attempt to stay mindful and meaningful despite it all – Dustin Ragland

Toxic Chicken – Scumbag / Wishing you all a sunny scummy day 

Avi C Engel – A Little Light (Cruel Nature) / A soundtrack for the first day of winter

Thread of cylinder recordings by Centuries of Sound

figure eight – Until the Sun Swallows the Earth / Hummingbird (h/t Angela Hudson Jones)

Casual – Black Magic / Boris – No (h/t Dustin Ragland)

Perpetual Stu – You Gotta Stay Alive

Crows Labyrinth – Neon Scenes I: Granular Dreams / It’s an unattended algorithmic ambient piece inspired by the Blade Runner movie and soundtrack

Legion of One – Of Towers and Brittle Things (Front End Synthetics)

Husband – Material / Tell you what, this’s still hard – Elias fka Big Voyage

Croutons – S/T (Lost Sound Tapes) / Crouton’s are a female power trio from West Seattle that formed in 2024 with the perfect balance of playfulness and sincerity

Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Time Travelling In A Sussex Church

Robert Dallas Gray – Missals

Cheer Captain – A Painting You Can’t Afford to See

Particle Dogs – S/T

Artists to explore – The Last Sound / Incentive / J.M. Hart

Labels to explore – Phonautograph

Music for the Rest of Us by John Lithium – 50 albums you should be listening to. Includes Kilter by Tinned Meats!

Sue Max BC Friday haul