Riot Act Media

THE BUDOS BAND

THE BUDOS BAND
(Diamond West Records)
7.28.2023

Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper
(Paradise of Bachelors)
7.14.2023

Johanna Heilman

Johanna Heilman
6.30.2023

Danny Paul Grody

Danny Paul Grody
(Three Lobed)
6.16.2023

Andy Stack and Jay Hammond

Andy Stack and Jay Hammond
(Sleepy Cat)
6.9.2023

ANNA ST. LOUIS

ANNA ST. LOUIS
(Woodsist)
6.9.2023

Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Symphony of Northwest Arkansas
6.9.2023

Smokey Brights

Smokey Brights
(Nine Mile Records)
6.2.2023

Vulture Feather

Vulture Feather
(Felte)
6.2.2023

Stimmerman

Stimmerman
(Worry Records)
5.27.2023

Roxy Gordon

Roxy Gordon
(Paradise of Bachelors)
5.12.2023

7EBRA

7EBRA
(PNKSLM)
5.5.2023

OUR CLIENTS IN THE PRESS

"There are just some tunes that you feel deep in y

"There are just some tunes that you feel deep in your soul, and this is surely one of them." -@austintownhall on Johanna Heilman's latest single "No Tomorrows," from her debut album When We Were Electric, out June 30!

@warmhumanmusic included in @i_d’s Best Albums o

@warmhumanmusic included in @i_d’s Best Albums of Spring 2023!
“Despite being a record about separation, Hometown Hero isn’t all sullen acoustic balladry. Across the tight nine tracks, the Chicago musician, who recorded and produced the LP herself, offers her take on bristling 90s garage rock (“Better Than Who?”), hard-driving alternative (“Do It”) and low-end heavy indie (“Coin Shortage”).”

Read @bandcamp’s incredible feature on the late

Read @bandcamp’s incredible feature on the late Roxy Gordon:
“Writer. Journalist. Poet. Publisher. Musician. Visual artist. Visionary. An American Indian activist. A man of Choctaw and Assiniboine heritage. Husband. Brother, not by blood but in spirit. Friend.” #roxygordon

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/even-in-death-roxy-gordon-rides-on

@aquariumdrunkard caught up with Canadian musician

@aquariumdrunkard caught up with Canadian musician @jon_mckiel_ as he lays down his inaugural Lagniappe Session, paying tribute to both a ’70s childhood AM radio staple and what is sure to become a future classic.” Head over to their site to read more! https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/05/16/the-lagniappe-sessions-jon-mckiel/

“Could an album concentrate, redefine, and updat

“Could an album concentrate, redefine, and update the genre of bedroom pop if it wasn’t literally made in a bedroom? Bird Hour, the excellent debut from Swedish duo @7ebra, comprised of twins Inez and Ella Johansson, suggests it might.” ✨ Named Album of the Day by @bandcamp! @pnkslm

“Listening to the whispery sketches on their deb

“Listening to the whispery sketches on their debut feels like peering over their shoulders as they work in communion, piecing arcane alt-pop tunes together out of rudimentary guitar riffs and odd turns of phrase.” @pitchfork on @7ebra’s debut album ‘Bird Hour’ out now on @pnkslm!

@stereogum shares the new single from @annastlouis

@stereogum shares the new single from @annastlouis! “While ‘Better Days’ may have tones of sadness it’s really about hope,” she noted in a statement. “It’s about making do with what you have, even when that’s just a little optimism that this too shall pass and better days are always ahead.” Her new album ‘In The Air’ is out 6/9 via Woodsist / Mare.

Check out @bandcamp’s Essential Releases includi

Check out @bandcamp’s Essential Releases including Bay-area Sheetal Singh @forestbeesband ‘Between the Lines’, out now on @dandyboyrecords
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“These are languid, patient songs that take their time to unspool, the fragmented soundscapes a reflection Singh’s journey through experiences of being both othered and self-actualized.” @marianatimony #essentialreleases

“For his debut studio album ‘Signs of Life,’

“For his debut studio album ‘Signs of Life,’ the British author joins Australia's FourPlay String Quartet in an eclectic blend of classical and indie rock tunes with poetry and prose.” @npr features @neilhimself and @fourplaysq’s collaborative album, out tomorrow!

“Formerly a member of post-rockers Tarentel, Gro

“Formerly a member of post-rockers Tarentel, Grody’s solo albums pushed away from Primitive American tradition towards something more meditative; Arc Of Day, Grody’s first new music since Furniture Music II in 2021, finds him exploring ambient and minimalist zones.” @uncut_magazine shares the new single “Light Blooms” from @goodgrody!

The new album from @forestbeesband is out today! @

The new album from @forestbeesband is out today! @dandyboyrecords ✨ @rosyoverdrive states: “I don’t believe the lack of easy categorization for this record is an accident–it’s literally called Between the Lines, for one, and Singh, the daughter of Indian immigrants, directly says that the “categories” that society might attempt to sort Asian Americans into informed the subject matter of these songs (the music itself reflects this in its incorporation of Bollywood soundtracks into its sound).”

“The most dreamy and ethereal Anna St. Louis ann

“The most dreamy and ethereal Anna St. Louis announces her return with the debut single, “Phone,” from upcoming LP In The Air, a name most suiting of St. Louis’s gossamer sounds.” @petalmotel on @annastlouis’s debut single!

Head over to @floodmagazine and watch the emotiona

Head over to @floodmagazine and watch the emotional, very PNW-hued “No Getting Out”, the new single from Seattle’s @smokeybrights! (You just might tear up at the end) ✨ Their fourth studio album ‘Levitator’ arrives June 2nd on @ninemilerecords (their debut with the amazing Austin label) ✨

Premiering a day early over at @tremendogaraje!
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Since we premiered a couple of months ago their sensational first single "Taliesin Grid", we knew that @telehealth_org's debut album was going to be one of the most amazing surprises of 2023, so we are really proud to advance on our crazy weird channel, "Content Oscillator", an insane set of absolutely hooky angular tracks created by this new Seattle line-up, where the elegance of krauty synth-punk intertwines with reminiscences of early DEVO and the repetitive rhythmic lines of a catchy groovy post-punk, to create this killer synth wonder that will blow your mind without you being able to help it! Link to video in BIO

🎹 All Parts Written and Performed by @alexanderattitude
🎤 Additional Vocals by @thatgalkendy
🎧 Produced & by @tre__michael & @alexanderattitude
💿 Mixed by @tre__michael At Way Out Studio in Woodinville, WA
🖼️ Art & Direction by @alexanderattitude

Desde que estrenamos hace un par de meses su sensacional primer single, "Taliesin Grid", sabíamos que el álbum debut de @telehealth_org iba a ser una de las sorpresas más alucinantes de 2023, así que estamos realmente orgullosos de adelantar en nuestro raruno y loco canal de bichos raros a, "Content Oscillator", ¡un insano conjunto de temas angulares que os engancharán sin remedio creados por esta nueva formación de Seattle, donde la elegancia del synth-punk krauty se entrelaza con reminiscencias de los primeros DEVO y las repetitivas líneas rítmicas de un pegadizo post-punk groovy, para crear esta asesina maravilla sintética que te dejará boquiabierto sin que puedas hacer nada evitarlo! Enlace al vídeo en BIO

#tremendogaraje #punk #ytchannel #seattlepunk #bestpunk #telehealthband #syntpunk

Head over to @stereogum and listen to “Anxious i

Head over to @stereogum and listen to “Anxious in Love”, the new collaborative track from Andy Stack & Jay Hammond!

NEW ALBUM Alert! NEW PROJECT Alert!
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I’m thrilled to share some new music with you. Today, I’m announcing a record called “Inter Personal” in collaboration with my great friend Jay Hammond @jhammond_trippers.and.askers . It’s a collection of instrumentals which draws equally from electronic, ambient, Americana, Krautrock, and jazz sensibilities. It will be released this June by the wonderful NC label @sleepycatrec . You can pre-order the record on limited edition vinyl or CD, and you can hear the first first single “Anxious in Love” right NOW.
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This music was recorded in a little cabin on the side of a mountain in western North Carolina, outside of a village called Little Switzerland. We got together for a few nights without any big expectations or plans — just an opportunity to reconnect and play after living in different cities for the last several years. We both slept in the single room of the cabin, and each day we would make coffee (tea for Jay) and start playing. We also spent a lot of time locked in thorny conversations about love, marriage, getting older, various tensions in our lives and within ourselves. The music is a natural extension of those conversations and contradictory feelings; languid and tense, dark and ecstatic. Although it is wordless, I feel that it is imbued with a deep intimacy and warmth, and it was from that place that we came to the name of the record, Inter Personal.
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Thank you for listening. <3

“Before the record drops on Friday, Raskin @nova

“Before the record drops on Friday, Raskin @novaone_ is sharing one last single in the form of “best/worst,” a more introspective track than its predecessors, built as it is upon a brooding bass line.” @floodmagazine on Nova One’s latest! Their new LP ‘create myself’ is out this Friday on @communityrecords

“It’s a bit Trish Keenan of Broadcast, a bit ‘90s industrial and a bit shoegaze.” @scooterjinx @wbur on Sheetal Singh aka @forestbeesband’s upcoming album ‘Between the Lines’, arriving April 7th via @dandyboyrecords! 🌕 https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/20/2023-spring-album-releases

Absolutely thrilled to welcome @smokeybrights back

Absolutely thrilled to welcome @smokeybrights back to the Riot Act family! New album, new label, new shows…If you’re headed to @treefortfest be sure to catch them on the Main Stage this Friday the 24th at 2:30pm!
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💖ANNOUNCING!!!💖
Smokey Brights LP4 - “Levitator”
Out June 2 2023 on @ninemilerecords
First single March 31 2023
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#lp4 #levitator #newrecord #ninemilerecords
Produced by @andyrecording
Cover art by @radjaw
Animation by Anders Hanson
Photo by @rbennettphotography
Makeup by @ginabettellimakeup

New video out today from @vulture_feather! ・・

New video out today from @vulture_feather!
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“Liminal Fields” now available for pre-order globally. New Single, “Monument” out today with a video by the mind-melter, @n.n.hooker. Link in bio for more info. @felte_label

“On its tenth anniversary, Mark Perro from @wear

“On its tenth anniversary, Mark Perro from @wearethemenbk discusses how the NYC guitar-rock group’s 2013 LP paved the way for the band to open up their sound.” Read more over at @floodmagazine! // https://floodmagazine.com/127389/the-men-new-moon-in-convo/