‘If the Sun Dies’: Espers’ Greg Weeks on Tape, Tradition, and the Human Trace
After nearly two decades away from solo work, Greg Weeks returns with 'If the Sun Dies,' an album that announces the arrival of a musician refined by years...
Harrisonburg’s Sleepytime Trio Interview: Revisiting the Past Through ‘Memory Minus Plus Minus’
Formed in 1995 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Sleepytime Trio emerged from a tight-knit college-town underground where punks, art kids, and outsiders built their own stage in basements and living...
Maqom Soul Records: Yashlik, Uyghur Psych, and the Modal Jazz of the Soviet Underground
Tashkent in the 1970s was far from the quiet cultural outpost many Western listeners imagine. The city was a lively meeting point where Crimean Tatars, Koreans, Uyghurs, and...
Green Cosmos: Spiritual Jazz and the Unearthed Sounds of ‘Morgenmusiken’
In the hinterlands of late 1970s West Germany, specifically the quiet town of Marsberg, a unique musical synergy was taking place. Far removed from the metropolitan heat of...
Interview: Pete Fij Reflects on Mortality, Music, and His New Single ‘Cuckoo’
Pete Fij has released his crystalline, grandiose new track 'Cuckoo,' serving as the latest preview of his forthcoming album 'Up's The New Down,' due out this summer via...
Iguana Death Cult Announce New Album ‘Guns Out,’ Share New Song ‘I Like It, It’s Nice’
The Dutch post-punk outfit’s fourth LP features former Brian Jonestown Massacre drummer Uri Rennert and arrives in April. Iguana Death Cult have detailed their fourth studio album. 'Guns...
RAVAGE Fractures the Screen in ‘Hyeronimus Dream’
The math is simple enough. Rage plus sauvage equals RAVAGE. But listening to their debut album, specifically the track 'Hyeronimus Dream,' you realize the formula is a lot...
Los Frankies Punk Haze on ‘Gunna Wanna’
The LA quartet’s latest single bridges the gap between CBGB and the sardonic edge of post-punk. There is a fine line between revivalism and pastiche, and Los Frankies...
Peppermint Moon Returns: Band Unveils New Single ‘Get Off Your Knees’ & Announces Upcoming Album
Colin Schlitt did the thing artists rarely admit to, let alone enact: he erased his own work. His second album, released in haste and then swiftly withdrawn, was...
Göden: Orchestrating ‘Conductor of Lightning’s Majestic Symphony’ within the ‘Vale of the Fallen’
If Stephen Flam’s previous tenure with death-doom legends Winter established the blueprints for sludgy, monolithic heaviness, his current vessel, Göden, is the architecture of its spiritual evolution. With...