Be There, by Freeholm Wilson : Dear Jack, hello from London. I’m sure you get a lot of people sending you random links, but if you get the chance, I’d really appreciate you having a very ...
Fifteen years into their heady brand of sonic mind expansion, New Hope, PA’s Birdie Num Num and the Spirit Squad, the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Joe Ujj, drops their sixth album like a fl...
Philadelphia, PA’s explosive Split/Red finally deliver their debut EP containing six caustic songs that live up to the title in every sense.
Out of print almost immediately after it was released, Crayon’s sole full-length, one of Sebadoh founder Lou Barlow’s top ten albums of 1994, finally receives its first reissue – on vinyl, ...
On their 2012 debut LP Here Comes Dreamboat, this Philadelphia quartet served up a distinctive blend of light pop, improvisational jazz/R&B, and angular art-rock. Just as that album built upon th...
Before he became known as a composer of microtonal electric guitar symphonies, Glenn Branca released several no wave/art rock records that pointed directly to his later work. Long out of print on...
Hailing from Canada’s 18th-largest metro, Regina, Saskatchewan — hardly a hotbed of hip — the twentysomething trio is writing some of the catchiest, most articulate tunes you’ll hear anyw...
In his memoir Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the living legend takes on every facet of his career and life head on with a plainspoken zeal.
A dozen or so years into her solo career, Los Angeles singer/songwriter, Arrica Rose, continues her musical journey with an album that focuses on the duality of the vinyl format while retaining a...
On their new EP, Fun Times With Shitty People they continue to grow a strain of grunge punk similar to artists like Metz and Unnatural Helpers.
Thirty-four years after initially released, the lone non-cassette LP by experimental industrialist, Philip Johnson, finally receives its first proper reissue.
Triumphantly returning after their 1992 demise, Coventry, UK’s The Primitives deliver their first full-length of original songs in twenty-two years.
Nate Paladino is a solo artist from Orange County. Releasing his new Good Boy EP, Paladino’s sound echoes the greats of 50’s and 60’s pop.
For his umpteenth release, the creepy, crawly surf master of The Barbarellatones, Robbie Quine, delivers a toned-down, darker version of his vision that still retains all the dry, silly humor we�...
The Workers are primarily a vehicle for New York singer/songwriter Dan Greenwald, and the group has just released a new EP entitled Totem.
A whole year after its initial release as book and CD, Throwing Muses’ epic ninth studio album finally sees a proper vinyl release.
In a truly bizarre meeting of the Eastern Asian underground, Beijing, China’s Cat AIDS and Osaka, Japan’s Go Tsushima get together for a mind-boggling split cassette release.
Gerry Hannah is best known as the author of the (Vancouver, BC) Subhumans classics “Slave To My Dick” and “Fuck You,” widely considered to be two of the greatest anthems to come out of th...
West Yorkshire, UK folk experimentalist, Sophie Cooper, delivers her breathtaking third full-length under her own name, cementing her status as the Northern English princess of psychedelia.
NYC songstress and Mpress label head Sage follows her exquisite 2012 tenth LP Haunted By You with an even more accomplished, immaculately-crafted eleventh.