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So Much Love to Give : A Mix by Marcel Sletten
Marcel Sletten runs a label called Primordial Void, and he also recently released this incredible psychedelic ambient album last year on Sound as Language that’s become one of my favorite electronic records. As I’ve gotten to know him a bit on the internet, his diverse array of musical interests intrigued me. So naturally, I asked him to make a mix. “So Much Love To Give is an hour-long collection of songs…
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Davide Cedolin – Contemplations & other Instrumentals from the Valley
I was just thinking that we’re past due for an album of gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals and just like that, this gift from Davide Cedolin arrived in my inbox. I’d recently been revisiting his instrumental Guitar Meditations in “C” and his songs from Embracing the Unknown was right up my alley. Contemplations and other Instrumentals from the Valley by Davide Cedolin These eight songs of gorgeous, transcendent meditations tickled just…
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Tess Parks shares “Happy Birthday Forever” from new! album!!!!
OMG. I love Tess Parks so much and was literally just thinking that I wish she’d put out something new (her last full-length solo album was released in 2013) and bam! And Those Who Were Seen Dancing is out May 20th on Fuzz Club and we’re so pleased to share the first single today and Hand Drawn Dracula in Canada. Tess’s smoldering, bewitching voice and her brilliant musical intuition promise listeners that…
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Howless – Rain & Ice
Mexico City’s newest indie darlings are set to release their upcoming debut To Repel Ghosts on February 18th. Finally, some fresh industrial-sounding noise rock from these youths who have clearly done their homework. “Rain and Ice” is the second single, a heavy low notation synth lead-in creates an atmospheric & moody staging for a recurring apocalyptic dream-theme. The track is sonically dark & also pushes in a heavier direction without…
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Ruby Landen – Front Teeth
Last year, we loved Ruby Landen’s timeless-sounding album Martyr, well, a lingering, neo-folk journey with pensive, sensitive lyrics and lovely guitar work. Ruby’s back today with a new song out via Ruination Records. “Front Teeth” was written soon after the recording of Martyr, well, and “focuses on fragments of memory, woven together in a fabric of stream-of-consciousness.” Front Teeth by Ruby Landen “While I was writing Martyr, well I was really affected…
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Lunar Noon – “The Rain”
Today, Lunar Noon (the moniker of SF-based Michelle Zheng) released the second single from upcoming debut album Symbolic Creature is out February 18th The album is “inspired by a souvenir she got from her trip to Mt. Mitake in Japan, with the title a nod to the meaning found in objects and omens comes and the associations assigned to them in arbitrary ways.” Beginning as an amateurish bedroom project, Lunar Noon…
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I’d Like to Walk Around In Your Mind: A British Folk Mixtape by Scott Hirsch
Scott Hirsch is one of our very favorite musicians, not only because of he’s a tremendous writer of songs and maker of sounds, but also because he’s a true head with a deep love for the classics and a wealth of musical knowledge. Scott turned me onto “the purple one” (Andy Irvine & Paul Brady), and talked about the time Linda Thompson came to the studio to record with his…
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Vintage Hips: the Greg Loiacono & Tim Bluhm interview
In this interview, I ask Greg Loiacono all about the Mother Hips’ new album, Glowing Lantern, made in the midst of the pandemic and embracing the collaborative spirit of the Hips’ youth. I also ask Greg for lots of musical advice, and later we’re joined by Tim Bluhm. The two share memories from their 30+ year career as professional musicians, including how they met and learned from each other back…
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Kareeta – Kareeta
Kareeta by Kareeta In the spring of 2020, Chuck Harris and Jon Siembieda holed up in Costa Mesa to quarantine together after a last hurrah rocking out at a friend’s show the night before the world shut down. The two music heads began playing along with Howlin Rain’s The Alligator Bride; soon enough, prolific writer and artist Chuck was writing lyrics while Jon came up with guitar parts. Not long…
