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With a room fulla fine pickers and orchestral players, Cory Hanson proclaims I Love People! His 4th solo album drills down (baby) on a dryly parallax worldview, with songs about all those people he loves and all the crazy things they get up to. Today's American hero? The bard of the Big Rotten Apple, Lou Reed — hear Cory's new song "Lou Reed" now!

An archetype and a true original, Lou Reed liked to laugh and he loved people, too. Cory teases... (read more)

The third time’s the charm! Or perhaps — the third time’s another charming excursion into the seemingly infinite universe of rhythm spontaneously created whenever guitarist Oren Ambarchi, bassist Johan Berthling, and percussionist Andreas Werliin plug in together. A little more than a year on from Ghosted II, the trio are back with a new finding: you guessed it, Ghosted III, out August 29. Today, enjoy a cut of the album's opening track, "Yek," plus a music video.

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Ty Segall's brand new album, Possession, is out tomorrow (May 30)! For his 16th studio record, Ty enlisted an old friend and longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to co–write the lyrics and brainstorm the tripped-up landscapes of Possession. Today, the two reveal a dazzling new music video for the album’s third track, “Buildings.”

“Buildings” is a guitarless groove built on a moody breakbeat of electric piano, bass and drums. Ty’s low-down vibes sketch a chilly night in... (read more)

Sharpie Smile, the unconventional songwriting duo of Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner, descend from the altostratus this summer with their debut album, The Staircase. Ahead of a nationwide tour kicking off this June, the former Kamikaze Palm Tree tricksters are dropping a new single/video today for the title track and closing song, “The Staircase.” 

Dylan and Cole dance into an ethereal fever dream on “The Staircase”: waves of abandonment and isolation swirling about in impressionist images and mist-light... (read more)

Bitterviper is the brand-new quartet of Nikos Veliotis (cello), Taku Unami (synthesizer), Sarah Hennies (percussion), and David Grubbs (guitar, piano), four individuals who separately are responsible for some of the most striking and wildly idiosyncratic music of the past couple of decades—not to mention the duo collaborations between Grubbs and Unami (the albums Comet Meta and Failed Celestial Creatures) and Veliotis and Grubbs (The Harmless Dust). Their self-titled debut album, Bitterviper, is out July 25th on Blue Chopsticks.

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In the wake of Rafael Toral’s much-acclaimed return to guitar voicings and improvisations, 2024’s Spectral Evolution, comes a new set of CD masters for his first two albums: Sound Mind Sound Body and Wave Field. These new versions — alongside represses for the 2018 vinyl versions for both — arrive June 27.

In 1987, Rafael Toral began making his own compositions and solo recordings using electric guitar in an enhanced signal path. He paid notice to the massive impact of discreet... (read more)

Like a sweet spring breeze after a long, cruel winter, Cory Hanson’s blowing through town again. And like the wind, I Love People — our lone wanderer’s fourth album, out July 25 — comes from parts unknown. Need a ride? Long as you’re ready to find yourself wherever it dies down, jump on! The first single, “Bird on a Swing,” arrives today with a music video.

Followers of Cory’s twin arcs as solo singer and Wand member will be intrigued to learn... (read more)

Time is ticking, and Faun Fables’ new album only gets closer every second! Counterclockwise is their most engrossing collection of “songtelling” to date: a true family album, etched exquisitely and studded with fine-hewed jewels of song, recorded by Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl with their daughters, Edda, Ura, and Gudrin. A new song wheels out from their home today: “Widdershins”.

“Widdershins” is an ornately decorated folk epistle that shares an existential fundament of Faun Fables’ worldview — along with... (read more)

Ty Segall is back in the saddle and riding towards new horizons with his 16th studio album, Possession, out May 30th, and today presents its title track. For the journey, Ty’s struck up the orchestra in his head to map out an abiding view of the American frontier, with lyrical fables co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka. Ty lassos in strings, horns, and his own piano playing to round up his delirious guitar hooks and vocal melodies, resulting in some of his... (read more)

Drag City's Alasdair Roberts and Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri Morrison have joined with Pete Johnston and his Canadian all-star band for their new collaborative LP.  Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia is a collection of newly crafted arrangements of traditional Scottish songs pulled from the pioneering work of folklorist Helen Creighton (1899-1989).

Watch an all-new acoustic version of lead single "Màiri nighean Dòmhnaill" here, as Màiri and Ali tenderly reveal the spirit of the original composition, drawn from... (read more)