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Dispatches from the Underground // July 20, 2021

Out today – Everything is Perfect by The Billows Burn Bright > Everything is perfect / Nothing is wrong / Nothing has to change / We can keep going forever

Disposable America has your Tuesday nights covered / two livestreams happening this July

Blogzine 7 – interviews with Toyah, Kristin Hersh and more

Bunch of new singles to check out – one form Mac MCaughan (Dawn Bends), one from Vanishing Twin (Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou)), one from Damon and Naomi (Oceans in Between), one from Steve Gunn (Fulton) and one from Moor Mother (Shekere)

Out soon via Fuzz Club > Juju’s worldly, genre-bending experimentalism fuses psychedelia, new wave and krautrock with touches of afrobeat, funk and zamrock … (h/t Shiny Beast)

Out on Hausu Mountain in Sept. > BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN by Norman W. Long / A meditation on the relationship between humanity and the forces of nature present in post-industrial urban environments within Chicago’s Black and Brown communities

Out this Friday / July 23 > Goodbye World, Hello Ghosts, 9-track EP from Ghost Fan Club released by Knifepunch Records along with some ghastly merch

Out on July 28 > Sympathies by Cyparissus / My last musical efforts while in Texas. Getting this state out of my system

Dieter Mobieus tribute/installation announced > spearheaded by Tim Story / collaborators include Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster, Harmonia), Michael Rother (Harmonia, Kraftwerk, NEU!) and more.

HausMo Fun One: July Edition happening this Thursday on Twitch

Plantasia event (to coincide with Mort Garson’s 97th birthday) happening in September > feat. Mary Lattimore, Sam Prekop, Jordan Reyes, Ben Lamar Gay and many more (h/t Ghostly)

Just 13 copies left….so hurry up and get your copy of Thistledown by Wodwo, dropping this Friday via Soundtracking the Void / comes with this beautiful cassette package with hand painted cover

Negativland at Gray Area – happening in September / their first live performance since 2005 (h/t BRAN POS)

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