Our hearts and minds and dreams and lives are heavy today. RIP Scott Walker, you were twilight personified.

Mike Donovan's Exurbian Quonset is a genre, a thought process, a way of life and a full-grown branch of the rock and roll family tree! As many steps as it takes to get something 'perfect', it takes just as many to get to what you might call its opposite --- a place underwater, where songs sung through gills bubble to the top for all of us on dry land to hear. Mike excels by presenting the tangible and the unknown, making music that's perhaps... (read more)

This month marks CAVE's triumphant return to Europe for a bonafide tour - including a single date in the CAVE-thirsty UK, with a huge run through Spain, naturally! To celebrate, the first full-length CAVE album, Psychic Psummer, is back in print after years out of it. Questing listeners can once again drop the needle on the launch-pad moment where CAVE came into their own, evolving into a collective capable of full-length mastery. Their expertise in collating trippy dance jams of all colors... (read more)

Wand's upcoming fifth full-length is a dramatic evolution in the life of a band who've grown ecstatically since their debut, taking even further flights of fancy from the reinventions of Plum and "Perfume." The longer Wand wander from the pulse of their inception, the more teeming life they absorb: Laughing Matter maneuvers spectacularly from start to finish, brimming with eclectic visions, explorations, and exhalations.

For a sample of these new reaches in the Wand-iverse, look no further than "Walkie... (read more)