Our favorite six-string shaman is back! Waving his axe of choice, Sir Richard Bishop once again summons forth damnable truth and beauty on an all-new album out September 26: Hillbilly Ragas. The first single, “They Shall Take Up Serpents,” is out today with a new music video by the man himself!

Since the dying days of the 20th century, the composer/player of spirited polytheistic guitar recitals — most recently, 2020's Oneiric Formulary — has worked feverishly to wrench and wrangle all the music... (read more)

For two weeks in 2023, Eiko Ishibashiand Jim O’Rourke toured a wonderful passage in Europe through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. Pareidolia, out August 29 on Drag City, shapes an ideal collage from the best resonances and relationships from those nights. The duo’s fifth collaborative release is a dynamic medley of color and shape appealing to your suggestibility, wherever you find it. Watch the music video for their single edit of “Pareidolia” and see for yourself!

Improvisation is the preferred collaborative mode... (read more)

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.

For their third... (read more)