This incredible collaboration was among my favorite albums of 2023 (digital release and international vinyl release September 28th 2024.) Mong Tong and Gong Gong Gong are two of my very favorite bands and I immediately got a copy of this LP shipped from the wonderful White […]
BASIC is a new trio from guitar luminary Chris Forsyth and longtime collaborator Nick Millevoli named after the amazing Robert Quine album of the same name (which Chris waxes poetic about in this 2019 interview on the blog RSTB.) Angular but deeply structured jams with a […]
A wonderful collaborative album between the legendary American psych collective Sunburned Hand of the Man and Finnish krautrock band Circle. Like the finest krautrock (and pretty much every album by any self styled collective,) they jammed live to tape for hours and hours before cutting it […]
The shape shifting Beijing producer/improviser/DJ returns with another album only he could make. Delicately sampled traditional Buddhist chants with Chinese and Tibetan music meet Lees signature synthesized folk instruments, destructive and deconstructed dub beats and bass. It’s a cohesive album of headphone candy and dancefloor heat […]
An immense and intensive debut by this thrilling Brazilian band. Avant-prog, metal, and heavy spacious psych intersect to weave a dark conceptual tale of man seeking spiritual salvation from our collective crimes against the earth. Certainly classic zeuhl and progressive metal influences are touched up on […]
This is a live record of a concert on December 23rd, 2023, by the guitarist Hayden Pedigo. It’s a home town Christmas concert, an emotional full circle moment for the man from Amarillo and is his first live album after a decade of consistently brilliant studio […]
This 23 track record took a decade to cook and was recorded and played live across ten countries, so I’ll keep it’s archive entry brief because you’ve got some long listening to do. Congotronics International is an absurd supergroup composed of nearly twenty musicians assembled for […]
The second LP by new dub heavyweights Holy Tongue (now composed of producer Al Wooten, drummer Valentina Magaletti and bassist Susumu Mukai) is company with the legendary transcendent dubstep artist Shackleton. Since release it’s gone from my most anticipated album of 2024 to one of my […]
cover photo by Christopher Bruno What can I say, the people love Dark Star by The Grateful Dead. This recent live rendition has been the talk of the town. All star band The Heavy Lidders (including Jeffrey Alexander and blog favorites Elkhorn,) made even more heavy […]
On this new record “Goodbye Till I Do Good By You” Blaine Todd dives headfirst into cosmic country taking a half step back from his earlier more ambient Americana vibes, and sets a new high-water mark for the genre. The Blaine Todd sound is higher and […]