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TAKE HOME MORE ANTHONY MOORE!

posted September 5th, 2024

Anthony Moore’s post-Slapp Happy output, for years an underrated-to-outright-unknown quantity, achieves another dimensional plane with Home of the Demo, out October 25 on Drag City. This third archival release from his personal tape library triangulates upon the art-pop qualities found in his previously unreleased OUT (1976, officially issued 2020) and the new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn’t Help (1979, reissued 2022), finding Anthony’s early/mid-80s compositions drifting whimsically into the actual mainstream. With today’s news, the single “Earthbound Misfit” releases from Anthony’s... (read more)

Artists in this story: Anthony Moore

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A SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE MESSAGE FROM DEAN SPUNT

posted September 4th, 2024

Uploading into the ether with remarkable speed, here comes Dean Spunt’s loaded-down new LP! Basic Editions, out September 27, is the No Age artisan’s latest solo work, humming and blipping with Y2K-era digital modules and celestial soundscapes to achieve a post-existence state of ambient chaos. Today, Dean’s hitting you with another ping: a new single/video, “Confusion Is SysEx”, is now online!

To boot up “Confusion Is SysEx”, hard edits of aquatic synth thunderheads and crumpled balls of digi-junk bop up slowly,... (read more)

Artists in this story: Dean Spunt

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MATCHESS & WHITNEY JOHNSON DUPLICATE INTO TWO NEW SINGLES

posted August 27th, 2024

Whitney Johnson, known separately and together as Matchess, delve deeper into their material history of reproduction with two new singles today: “Dafni” and “Death in Trafo (or, The Crater)", off their forthcoming alter-ego albums Hav and Stena. Two deeply enigmatic encounters from each individual, the dueling nature of these separate works from Whitney and Matchess arrive together on September 27th.

The Whitney Johnson track, “Dafni”, selects frequencies and waveforms with body-aligning level of precision, using a flow of sine waves, marimba, viola, Arp... (read more)

Artists in this story: Matchess, Whitney Johnson

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LEARN THE LAY OF BILL MACKAY'S LOCUST LAND, LIVE!

posted August 12th, 2024

With the release of Locust Land this past May, Bill MacKay's discovered a territory all his own — and now he's heading to yours! Following a swig of dates overseas, Bill's bringing his bag and spreading new tunes throughout the West n' Midwest this October. California folk, Milwaukeeans, Rock Island dwellers, Kenosha kind: come one, come all!

Bill MacKay's six-stringed transcendence has always translated into a striking live show, but with the breakthroughs Bill's made on Locust Land, the holy... (read more)

Artists in this story: Bill MacKay

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ENTER THE HONEYMOON PHASE WITH TY SEGALL

posted August 7th, 2024

Ty Segall’s next record, Love Rudiments, is a daring, romantic pursuit sought out percussively: no words, no singing, no strings attached! The second single/visualizer is out today to keep the mood going: “Honeymoon (Edit)”, a delirious dance laced with cascades of Latin cowbell patterns.

“Honeymoon (Edit)” meditates on the most blissful, carefree period of any intimate tangle: the honeymoon phase! Amid a great exultation of celebratory feels, Ty’s snare shufflin’ heart beats score this intensity to foreshadow the lovers’... (read more)

Artists in this story: Ty Segall

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SIX ORGANS’ COMPANION RE-RISES!

posted August 5th, 2024

Six Organs of Admittance extend their annum of improbable delights with Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix), out September 27! Following Time is Glass in April and Jinxed by Being in June (the planetary conjunction of Six Organs and Shackleton), the third Six Organs-branded release in one year is an auditory upending of 2020’s Companion Rises, with Twig Harper tearing up Californian chaos into a totally new noise. Hit play on “The 101” today, Twig’s way!

Companion Rises dropped in... (read more)

Artists in this story: Six Organs of Admittance

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HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTHLY PLEASURES

posted July 31st, 2024

Active since the 1970s, Jill Fraser is a composer and electronic music pioneer with a staggering list of credits across music, film, television and performance. Yet her new album, Earthly Pleasures (out September 27) sits uniquely against her groundbreaking body of work. Her Drag City debut is a modular resetting of American revival-style hymns that speculates on death, what comes after it, and how the spirit of our songs might be interpreted after we’re gone — taking Jill’s ever-evolving curiosity about music as... (read more)

Artists in this story: Jill Fraser

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SPIN A BOP OFF DEAN SPUNT'S BASIC EDITIONS

posted July 29th, 2024

Dean Spunt’s all-new Basic Editions, out September 27, is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language — in this case, the syntax of systems and processes of various 64-voice E-MU modules. Against the traditional sonic manipulations of No Age and other Spunt projects, Basic Editions is a meditative, compulsive, and consumptive record in Dean’s non-aesthetic aesthetic that delivers further unexpected hard-turns in his two-decade career. Hear the first single today: “Gonzo Bop”.

Track one on Basic... (read more)

Artists in this story: Dean Spunt

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SUN ARAW RETURNS WITH LIFETIME

posted July 25th, 2024

Sun Araw,
a.k.a. Cameron Stallones, continues to investigate space as a motionless field
against which many motions are observed on his tenth studio album 
Lifetime

"DRIPPING MAGNETIZATIONS!
ARCS OF SLOWING ROTATIONS!
'THE SHEEP UNSHORN'
A LAUGHING FOUNTAIN"
SUN ARAW

STASIS: wheels within and wheels without!
Two LPs at 45 RPM.
Mixed by Cameron Stallones & Jake Viator.
Mastered by JJ Golden.

Please enjoy this adventure in sound!

Listen to the single... (read more)

Artists in this story: Sun Araw

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WHITNEY JOHNSON OR MATCHESS? DUAL IDENTITIES EMERGE ON HAV AND STENA

posted July 23rd, 2024

“I am living a double life.” This is how Whitney Johnson, a.k.a. Matchess, once described the co-existence of her alter egos: the musical entity Matchess, and the sociologist of sound known in academia as Whitney Johnson. With the dual existence of Hav and Stena, both out September 27, these two identities now stretch and twist across each other to create hypnotic, engaging new parallels: two distinct albums from two different artists. In demonstration, two new singles/videos materialize today: “... (read more)

Artists in this story: Matchess, Whitney Johnson