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No Ordinary Crown, the new solo effort from Texas-

No Ordinary Crown, the new solo effort from Texas-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist @willjohnsontx, is a short album that plays like a long tour from a seasoned road dog: slow and sure, the familiar stretches paved with cold memories and punctuated by brief moments of searing clarity.” @bandcamp #albumoftheday

“Brooklyn’s @endearmnts are purveyors of a dis

“Brooklyn’s @endearmnts are purveyors of a distinct kind of love-centric, sparkly dream pop.” ✨Their new single “Hazy Eyes” is premiering a day early over at @lookatmyrecords_! Officially out tomorrow 🌕 The trio’s upcoming EP ‘It Can Be Like This’ arrives 11/3!!

Watch “Ash in the Jar” the new video from @swi

Watch “Ash in the Jar” the new video from @swimmingbellmusic, out today! From her upcoming LP ‘Charlie’ out 1/19/24 on @permanentrecordsla 🌕
Video animation by Cody Blanchard @grodycody

Out now! @dusthunnyhunnie (Ivory Snow from Cincinn

@treblezine includes “The Game”, the new singl

@treblezine includes “The Game”, the new single from @fayethealer in their Essential Tracks of the week: “Vocalist Jessica Jalbert’s vocals rest against a gauzy haze of synthesizers, her words made crystal clear as she sings of growing weary of enduring in a world that offers little support in return. But that stillness doesn’t remain, well, still. It’s a song that slowly advances toward a powerful but measured climax, with guitar, piano and drums building up behind Jalbert’s refrain of “I’m so tired of playing the game,” offering just the kind of power and reinforcement that the game itself won’t provide.”

"A lyrically-powerful song of familial alienation

"A lyrically-powerful song of familial alienation and isolation."
- Americana UK on "Strangers In a Field"

"Fittingly the track begins in dreamy musical territory, Jacob accompanied by just an acoustic guitar and an ethereal swirl of electronics, as his slumbering thoughts take him back to Mexico, and the loneliness of not knowing your roots." -@for_the_rabbits on "Dream of Mexico"

"Inspired by a desire to connect, understand and find some healing around his relationship with his father, who passed away suddenly at the height of the pandemic." -@kqed on "Dream of Mexico"

Happy release day to Jacob Aranda's ethereal psychedelic country album War Planes, on the mighty Speakeasy Studios SF!

“Clearly the Oakland fuzz-pop duo remember the p

“Clearly the Oakland fuzz-pop duo remember the past — but they are not condemned to repeat it verbatim on this darkly compelling, tastefully restrained narrative album.” @tinnitist on @the1981band’s debut ‘Move On’ out today on @dandyboyrecords! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

On “I’m a Dog,” the latest single from the C

On “I’m a Dog,” the latest single from the Canadian dream-pop duo @fayethealer’s forthcoming album “The Hand that Fits the Glove,” Jessica Jalbert wryly confesses her baser animal instincts in an incongruously serene voice. “You can try to wash me if I’m dirty in the yard,” she sings as the song proceeds at a stately, parade-like tempo, “I’ll get into the kitchen and I’ll rip the trash apart.” @nytimes @lindsayzoladz 🌑 https://youtu.be/l7bCbZV2jdg

“Dissolving three decades of music into a 17-son

“Dissolving three decades of music into a 17-song noise opera, this pivotal live album captures a peerless set from a band who knew its days were numbered.” @sonicyouth_official’s Live in Brooklyn 2011 is named @pitchfork’s Best New Reissue! @silvercurrent @stuberman

"Improvisation also figures heavily in the reperto

"Improvisation also figures heavily in the repertoire tackled by New York’s Anagram String Trio on this excellent new album, with bassist James Ilgenfritz, cellist Meaghan Burke, and violinist Stephanie Griffin connecting work composed over a span of six decades." -@pmargasak on the Anagram String Trio's most excellent @infrequent_seams release, featured in @bandcamp best of contemporary classical for July🔥

Head over to @grimygoods for @moaamusic’s latest

Head over to @grimygoods for @moaamusic’s latest single “Jaywalker”, as part of their Bands to Know Feature! “”Jaywalker” promises a new album more slicked back in style and approach.” The full album arrives 10/13 via @wwnbbcollective

“Seoul-based Dabda have announced their new EP Y

“Seoul-based Dabda have announced their new EP Yonder and the lead single “Flower Tail” is an alluring taste. With mathy guitars and a shoegaze ambiance, the song is a whirlwind of effervescent sound. It’s a journey at nearly six minutes, but every second is immersive and enlightening.” @uproxx includes Dabda in their Best New Indie from this week! @daniellechelosky @banddabda

“Glass Band, as a title, seems fitting for a col

“Glass Band, as a title, seems fitting for a collaboration that feels like a chemical reaction in which an intense heat can turn raw fragments into something prismatic. Though they’re capable of making music that’s loud, even chaotic, there’s a delicateness at play throughout the album that likewise speaks to players’ abilities to rein in the din as much as letting it roam free. As much an experience made for headphones as the sprawling canvas of the live stage, Glass Band is a testament to expression at its most boundless.” @treblezine on Glass Band feat. @stevegunnstevegunn @jskimegamix #BillNace

"'Strangers in a Field’ is a lyrically-powerful

"'Strangers in a Field’ is a lyrically-powerful song of familial alienation and isolation. Aranda’s low, sonorous voice, lifted by haunting backing vocals, is really engaging, drifting over gorgeously-textured musical layers." -@americana_uk_ premieres the gorgeous video to @jacobarandaguitars single "Strangers in a Field" from his album War Planes, out Sept. 1 on @speakeasystudiossf

"Cinema Hearts Subverts the Machismo of Rock Music

"Cinema Hearts Subverts the Machismo of Rock Music" - @floodmagazine

DC's Cinema Hearts (@cinema_hearts) announces EP 'I Want You' out Sept. 22. Head over to Flood to watch the video to lead single "Fender Factory," out now!

@aquariumdrunkard reviews the new collaborative al

@aquariumdrunkard reviews the new collaborative album from Gunn Truscinkski Nace: Glass Band!
“You might miss the clashing, clattering excitement of Soundkeeper, but there’s value, too, in this centered, mandala-like art. It finds the forever in the now, and lets you slip temporarily out of time.”

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/07/19/gunn-truscinski-nace-glass-band/

Mike Cooper’s landmark 1974 album, Life and Deat

Mike Cooper’s landmark 1974 album, Life and Death in Paradise, was reissued this month; head over to @bandcamp and read their interview about the album’s history and relaunch!
“Life and Death in Paradise is Cooper’s last album of song-based material with a personal or narrative bent before making a hard turn firmly into the experimental. At times firmly songs, and at other times improvised country blues melodies, it’s an inward-looking masterwork.”

Hear a new single from @nickfromislands' upcoming

Hear a new single from @nickfromislands' upcoming 8/25 album today at @floodmagazine.

“When I write a song, I never truly know if what I’m making is working,” Thorburn continues. “There’s a blind approach that requires a kind of faith that something good will happen. There’s no strategy and no grand plan. And I think that’s really the only way to do it. To give in to chaos. You’ll make some ugly trees along the way, but when you hit upon something good, it’s supernatural and even merciful, like you’ve been liberated from yourself.”

photo: Laura Moreau

New video “How Long Are We Here” out today fro

New video “How Long Are We Here” out today from Atlanta’s @kid_fears! @creativeloafingatlanta calls them “One of the best dream pop projects to come into the scene in recent years” ✨✨✨’Undying Love’ arrives July 28th! https://youtu.be/fgN5g7L0NYo

@aquariumdrunkard on the new EP from @budosband: “It’s a fiery, tight onslaught of old school R&B funk, built on slouching bass and clamoring drumbeats, surging with organ and dotted with trumpet blatted exclamation points.”