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Maria Taylor – “It’s Coming For You”
My azure bae has shared a new song today, hot on the heels of a very recent Azure Ray album release. “It’s Coming For You” induces waves of nostalgia for those who came of age listening to Maria’s charming vocals and reverb-laden guitar solos from the likes of the Breeders. “It hasn’t been the easiest couple of years for kids and parents. I spent the last year and a half…
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Lou Turner: In conversation with poetry & music
Lou Turner is a native Texan and current Nashville resident. She plays with the band Styrofoam Winos and she released a solo album entitled Songs for John Venn last year on Spinster Sounds. She also published a book, Shape Note Singing, on Vegetarian Alcoholic Press. Songs for John Venn is truly a glowing masterwork, reflecting on themes of transformation and finding the good parts of non-secularism while leaving others behind.…
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Maurice Louca – Higamah (Hirudinea)
Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) by Maurice Louca Maurice Louca has shared the second single from upcoming album Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour) The droning, hypnotic single is a stunning endcap on a collection of songs drawing heavily on Arabic music, psychedelic folk, and freeform jazz. Saet el Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. “When…
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Adeline Hotel announces The Cherries are Speaking, goes deep in Q&A on the album
Our friend Dan Knishkowy, known to the world as Adeline Hotel, is back at it with The Cherries Are Speaking—his second album of 2021 and a complete departure from February’s Good Timing, a collection of interwoven guitar wanderings. Featuring Macie Stewart from Ohmme on strings, and V.V. Lightbody, Caitlin Pasko and Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats on harmonies, Cherries is a totally fresh direction, understated yet profound and resonant…
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Ruby Landen – Martyr, well
Martyr, well by Ruby Landen When you hit “play” on Ruby Landen’s Martyr, well– you might do a double take. Ruby’s clear, lilting voice, accompanied by soft fingerstyle guitar parts will immediately make you believe you’re listening to a late 60s Brit folk record. Ruby’s soft, sweet songs are wistful and sincere, injecting beauty and the odd wry smile characteristic of that sound. Ruby was born in northern California where…
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Rick Deitrick – Coyote Canyon
Coyote Canyon by Rick Deitrick Rick Deitrick used to press small batches of his albums and leave them on hiking trails for people to find. Recorded between 1972-197 and reissued by Tompkins Square Records, Coyote Canyon, like many of Rick’s releases, is acutely in tune with and inspired by nature. Echoing the cascading of a waterfall or emulating a windstorm blowing across a desert mesa, Rick’s guitar work is as…
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Steve Gunn – Other You
Other You by Steve Gunn To be Steve’s neighbor and hear his guitar explorations over the last 16 months or so would be an enviable position. Since the onset of the pandemic, he’s released a good amount of music, including an EP of covers, two of which originally recorded for Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions with the addendum of a haunting version of Neil Young’s Motion Pictures”; Spring in Brooklyn, three…
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Pelt announces new album, Resistance Reticence, as part of Three Lobed’s 20th anniversary series
The next release up from the always-great Three Lobed Recordings’s 20th anniversary series is… drumroll please… PELT! Everyone’s favorite freak folk ensemble has returned, bridging the gap between drone and folk, past, present and future, tradition and invention. Resistance Reticence is available now for pre-order and out in the world on October 29th. The two sides of Resistance Reticence are aural tapestries, sonic abstract paintings – the kind of thing…
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Songs from the Dharma World : A Playlist by Howlin Rain
Ethan Miller of Howlin Rain compiled an excellent playlist for Petal Motel in homage to the universe of their new album The Dharma Wheel. As expected from one of the headiest musicians of modernity, the playlist comprises of space funk, burnout rock, ambient free jazz, Italian prog, contemporary underground heroes, rare psych, DLR and more, is filled with a few favorites (Canned Heat, Ryley Walker, Sarah Louise) and even more…
