A familiar face in a new guise around here. You might be familiar with Zoh Amba from their work behind the sax or flute, having anchored the excellent Beings record a couple…
On his latest, New Mexico-based banjoist and composer Johnny Bell continues to expand the bounds of the banjo, extracting it from its purely folk and bluegrass roots for something a bit more…
A longtime site fave, Rob I. Miller (Blues Lawyer, Dry Erase) returns with a new outfit, the duo Rob & Ellen, pairing with fellow Blues Lawyer Ellen Matthews. Stripped back but with…
For her last album Mikaela Davis connected with Catskill Cosmic Country outfit Southern Star, turning her expanding role in improv and jam into a turning point for her sound. The record embraced…
Familiarity with Vorhex Angel’s debut will make the first single from the band’s upcoming DRAIN particularly surprising. The sonics on Heavenly were scorched, scoured, dipped in rust and buffed to tape. The…
Every record from Cindy feels like its lodged in a dream. From the first whisper of tape hiss to the laconic strums and Karina Gill’s gentle delivery, the band is perpetually ensconced…
A second single dips out from the debut record by Taste, the solo guise of Oli Lipton (Now, Cindy). Slipping on the velvet sleeves of New Age and running through the gauntlet…
This one’s been in the works for a while, a winter warmup to stave off the colder months. It really opened up with a flurry of new releases that weave between the…
On their new album, Montreal’s Prism Shores scan through the static of indie pop’s past, flirting with the fuzz of the ‘90s and the earnestness of the late ‘80s as it seeped…
Been kicking myself for missing the first single from The Hobknobs last year, but that’s only built a nice bit of anticipation for this debut from the band this week. The second…
Very excited to see a familiar face around today with a new single from Jeffrey Silverstein and an announcement that he’s made the move to Full Time Hobby. The Portland songwriter has…
There may be no greater constant to the site than Glenn Donaldson, a chameleonic force that’s cropped up here over the years with The Skygreen Leopards, Art Museums, The Birdtree and notable…
Another searing single clears the way for the excellent new album from Horse Lords. “First Galactic Utopia” slinks onto the speakers with a disjointed funk; rubberized, simonized, looped and scooped for listeners…
With the sweet breeze of summer rapidly approaching, I’m constantly turning towards the perfumed sway of psych-pop and its baroque branches. This year’s already shaping up a banner bunch, draped early with…
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