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Mess Esque are "Taking It Outside" in the UK and Europe this August and September.

Helen Franzmann (McKisko) and Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Tren Brothers) hit the road later this summer, with the main event at London’s Cafe OTO, a stop in Manchester’s Psych Fest and a string of shows around the Euro Zone with a Mr. Kurt Vile and his esteemed Violators. Australia's Mess Esque coalesce from ripples of Mick’s aquatic guitar moods and Helen’s dreamy vox and lyrical imagery, initiating pensive nights, full... (read more)

The toothpaste's almost out the tube! Kamikaze Palm Tree’s desperately dreamed-of Drag City debut drops in just a few mini-weeks (on 8/12) - but who's counting, or even prepared to wait that long? Hungry for more is our assumed default, so hands in the air, 'cuz KPT are delivering another scoop of Mint Chip. This time it’s “The Hit” - both literally and figuratively! At nearly twice the length of the other Mint Chip hits, “The Hit” presents as a fully-rendered tune from youthful... (read more)

Hot on the heels of their September tour, Wand are pleased to extend their road-stay with more live dates creeping through October! With upcoming shows at clubs, ballrooms and a couple of festival gigs, Wand's adaptability allows them to make you experience multi-dimensional bliss in any room size or shape imaginable. No strangers to the road, each Wand outing breathes new life into, and broader perspective of, their expansive catalog. Ripe with mutations and maturations from each new and exciting lunar phase of the band, ... (read more)

In the fresh wake of Ty Segall's new album release (the festival of da-LIGHT now known all 'round the world as "Hello, Hi"), Ty's booked some solo acoustic dates across this grate land of ours. Yes, he'll soon be strumming his way back through the country he and the Freedom Band just rocked for the first time in forever - but when the hawk flies this Fall it'll be just a man and his acousticaxe, playing tunes and the melodies; a cozy, fuzz-free setting... (read more)

Extended guitar hero Oren Ambarchi returns with Shebang, the latest in the series of intricately detailed long-form rhythmic workouts that includes Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016). Like those records, Shebang features an international all-star cast of musical luminaries, their contributions recorded individually in locations from Sweden to Japan yet threaded together so convincingly (by Ambarchi in collaboration with Konrad Sprenger) that it’s hard to believe they weren’t breathing the same studio air! Expanding on the techniques of these past works, intricate themes and variations build... (read more)

First thought, best thought. Until the next thought: a guiding principle for No Age in the 16ish years they’ve been around. Constantly responding to their own streams of consciousness with reductive flexibility, they’ve taken the basic duo of guitar and drums with vocals WAY farther than anyone listening in halcyon Weirdo Rippers days could have guessed. Expounding on those atomic possibilities, they’ve zig-zagged with serpentine precision, ranging outside and back in again—as befits the present thought, whenever it comes. And now, six albums into it... (read more)

Some songs are so good, you just can’t get them out of your head. And you never want to! Storing them deep inside allows you to dig 'em up again, like (re)discovered treasure, so they can reinvigorate your worldview all over again. And so the love grows. For Ty, The Mantles’ 2009 slice of garage-pop perfection, “Don’t Lie” is one of those songs. Having played and toured with The Mantles in the Bay Area back in the day, Ty descends compassionately into the... (read more)

It's the summer of their years, and Kamikaze Palm Tree are out on the beach, fully lotioned, essence to essence. With their impending (next classic) album MINT CHIP locked down for a August 12th release, we're just counting the days until we can share all of it, while dropping tracks here and there, for the thrill of it all. Like this one: "Predicament"! With rough-hewn, multicolored animation, John Andrews' video accentuates KPTs signature thickets of psychoactive jangle-thump and flashing harmonics of vocal chorale. The vid's smeary... (read more)

Purling Hiss are coming! Daredevil Thrills!

Get your weird on and come out to see Philly’s fastest and loudest supercharged noise nicks as they floor it onto stages the length and breadth of Engerland. Tokyo-drifting into the End of the Road Fest (with an additional Polizze solo show bolted on) before a rear-drive, burn out nationwide,  Purling Hiss leave nothing but donuts in the tarmac out front of venues as evidence that "Yes, they were really here!”

From London down to Brighton via Leeds,... (read more)

Due to entirely foreseen circumstances (COVID-19, damn u!), Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles were forced to cancel their maiden voyage as a duo earlier this month, but fear not, the boys will be back in (your) town before too long! The Spiral Joy band have shifted their road trippin' subtly forward in time, landing in the first week of August to perform at many of the same venues and towns - with the addition of new dates in Durham and Baltimore. How's that for lost... (read more)