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The collaboration between Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Bitchin Bajas shares a passion for arresting the moment in the process of now. Their ability to stretch time, coupled with their ability to explore and meditate on words, make them the most pertinent of partners! On Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties, they combine forces to travel down a celestial path that knows no bounds - won't you follow?

Following one of their many mini-jaunts around the country, Bitchin Bajas stopped by Bonnie's aerie one... (read more)

To say that there's nothing else like Lightstorm would be an understatement, but their natural, clear underlying love energy is unmistakable. The husband and wife duo of Johnhima and Kalassu Wintergate's deep personal inner quest for absolute spiritual truth and unconditional love always vibrated through all musical renditions and it made. The magnificent new archival collection, Creation, is the first-ever Lightstorm compilation and fuses the best tracks from the spiritual concept double LP, Who Am I: One (1977), and sensual glam rock killer, 33... (read more)

His royal-self, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is a journeyman at his root. Sure, his physical person is grounded in the stables of Louisville, but being a troubadour with a motive means traveling is an integral part of his vision. With that in mind, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's sights are currently set on expressing song to friends, fam and fans in the slushy, blinding white fields of the Midwest, where this week he'll bring us all a little closer in some of the region's finest towns.... (read more)

Caution: NSFW! Ty Segall and The Muggers got strange on network television last night, didja see? That frighteningly fun and maniacal performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was yet another exemplary display of Emotional Mugging in live performance as only Ty Segall can deliver - with a face-full of paint and exquisite worm candy! Ty led the dudes thru a bombastic rendition of Emotional Mugger's sleazy single, “Candy Sam,” to the shocked-yet-delighted Late Show audience and televisions nationwide.  Watch it below, and... (read more)

Neil Michael Hagerty leads The Howling Hex back out into the sunshine with a new full length, their first since The Best of the Howling Hex back in 2013. This direction, explored in a pair of limited-edition singles released over the past two years, reaches a populist zenith on the new album, Denver, in which an entire community and geographic region are tapped for their  energy, the celebratory pulses of which feed the new music of Neil Michael Hagerty and The Howling Hex!... (read more)

Several decades into a successful career on the comedy stage, Neil Hamburger's brand of "humor" still packs a punch, just like a whiff of smelling salts in the nostrils of the faint of heart!. His classic routines and (way) off-the-cuff gags have been known to rile up the odd audience member (and to be honest, you have to be a little odd to be a member of the audience at a Neil Hamburger show), but this is all a part of being a professional... (read more)

Husband and wife team Johnima and Kalassu Wintergate are Lightstorm: musical collaborators on this astral plane and beyond! Since 1973, Lightstorm has recorded under various aliases. Creation captures both sides of Lightstorm with eleven pieces of riveting, catchy, psych-glam-weirdness, fusing the best tracks from Who Am I: One (1977) and 33 1/3 (1980).  This new compilation invites you on a spiritual journey and then thrusts you back to earth with hip shaking rhythms.

The 33 1/3 album became a turntable hit on various... (read more)

David Pearce re-materialized last year with the beautiful Instrumentals 2015 and attracted all manner of attention - as one does when one emerges from self-imposed exile holding a glittering prize. Without warning he became part of the musical landscape once again, heralding a new phase of the project he initiated in the early 1990s. It was in the year of '92 that FSA were first sighted, high over the western skies of Bristol, UK. Flying Saucer Attack originally manifested in the form of 7" singles,... (read more)

Strap in for some intense, squirm n' squeal action! The delirious and deranged Emotional Mugger journey continues! Let Ty Segall and his creative co-conspirator, director Matt Yoka, lead the way through that bizarrest of  cities, Los Angeles, via the meta-creepy, ill-ogically delightful “Emotional Mugger” long-form music video. The 6th collaboration between Segall and Yoka, this “Emotional Mugger” long-form music video soars to new levels of paranoiac intensity, like nothing before it! Emotional Mugger the album can be yours in a multitude of formats immediately... (read more)

Ben Chasny's unique touch on guitar makes for a compelling musical undertow full of powerful subterranean energy. His fiercely astute and wildly inventive mind created an entirely new system for composing music-the Hexadic System- the explorations of which have spawned two distinct albums!

Six Organs of Admittance's latest such album, Hexadic II, showcases the System at work in an acoustic way, ghostly vocals of divergent timbres singing over the fluid interplay of guitars, harmonium and violin. It's a powerful music journey,... (read more)