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Songs Album II is LA musician Aaron MF Olson’s Country Thyme Records debut, the second “sung songs” album from the L.A. Takedown architect in just over a decade of releasing music. Mixing satiric, confessional and experimental lyric modes in his songs, Songs Album II is an overwhelming show of Aaron’s compositional gifts and pop sensibilities, cut from a fine cloth of head-informed, classically sweet and soft pop/rock modes. The first single, “Nobody Can Tell,” releases today with a music video by Matt Hewitt... (read more)

Fans of Bill Callahan’s latest opus, My Days of 58, rejoice! More US shows have been announced for the end of August. Hot off a sold-out in-store tour, too — some real talk-of-the-town events! Now he's coming your way, West Coast, with his mighty band in tow: guitarist Matt Kinsey, saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi and drummer Jim White. All dates on sale now!

Bill Callahan 2026 Tour Dates
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May 1 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music... (read more)

Stash, out June 26, is the absolutely energy-drenched second album from BCMC. Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain’s sophomore stint together cements their status as a guitar n’ keys power duo for the ages, a borderless pursuit of cosmic music in every strain: folk, rock and jazz, psych, prog, DIY, experimental, programmatic, impressionistic, liturgic, electric…! Hear the first single, “Kaleidosmoke,” out today.

BCMC carve minimal dialogues into epic horizons on “Kaleidosmoke,” a jangling nest of Brit-rock guitars and trans-dimensional blues solos.... (read more)

Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke arrive in Europe this April for a set of very special performances, marking a return to the lands where the resonances of last year's Pareidoliaalbum were first realised and developed in the live setting.

Just like those lucky enough to have witnessed the shows in 2023, the audience for these selected Spring dates will be treated to the creation of dynamic medleys of colour and shape pulsing through the air, the like of which only Eiko & Jim ... (read more)

What lies beyond The Black Door? For Cole Berliner’s solo debut, he opens up an album-length sequence of musical transformation: rich-grained instrumental parlor music, blending the modes and vibes of country, blues, ambient and folk into one great ambient prairie. Hear the title track today, out with a music video by Fred Joseph.

"The Black Door" is a tune conceived as “an ode to the sweetness and darkness of memory, both in one’s immediate life and in the context of history,”... (read more)

Today, White Fence releases the second single off his long-awaited new album, Orange: "Unread Books," a sweet song of postmodern heartbreak that's slung down and droning low. Penned with well-wired later stage Lennon vibes, Tim Presley's re-routed 50s/60s/80s pop values are transmitted to us with the hazed synths of Alice Sandahl (La Luz) and the shufflin' drums of Dylan Hadley (Kamikaze Palm Tree, Sharpie Smile). And it's a tear-jerker, whew: “No one changes their mind/their mind/Like you do” and... (read more)

Riding high on new album Forever, Glyders are packin' the party wagon for a set of boot-stompin' European and U.K shows this coming April and May.

To mark the occasion, today Joshua and Eliza drop a killer new video for fan-favourite cut "Super Glyde", directed by renowned cinematographer / director Eon Mora who blends the loosely structured semi-improvisation of Jarmusch's Mystery Train and hi-tension / obsession of Coppola's neo-noire The Conversation, resolving to an almost-Jungian stalk of the protagonists' journey to...?

Has Existential Bread crossed your mind lately? We know it can be a heavy loaf. Thankfully, now you can get into Jim Franks' book on bread making (and greater life lessons) without even turning a page! The all-new audiobook edition is soundtracked by the music of Whitney Johnson, Rob Frye, Bill MacKay, James Schroeder and special guest Shutaro Nogochi. As Jim reads aloud, his prose and wit more poetic than ever, a story slowly rises about trying, failing, adapting, and... (read more)

Finally, the time is nigh for Bitchin Bajas to bring their pulsating signals of life-renewing energy to the Europe! With the sounds of Inland See crackling through the air- and water-waves,  Cooper, Rob and Dan carry momentum from their successful US tours into this neon Spring, first stop Belgium then onward through Italy, with dates across the continent to follow. In the Bajas' universe, keys, organs, flute, sax and beats excite the nervous system through sound, creating a communal garden for the organic and synthetic... (read more)

Bill Callahan fans (and ye olde Smogolytes), hear here! Bill's setting up shop in your shop — the record shop! — to celebrate the release of his new album, My Days of 58. His brief March/April U.S. in-store tour will kick off in New York at Rough Trade on March 28, heading east in solo style and commanding every room along the route. If you've ever been packed in a small room with Bill and his guitar, it's an astounding quietude that'll shush a... (read more)