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Elkhorn announces “Southern Star”
WarHen has announced a cassette release of Southern Star from cerebral psych duo Elkhorn announces Southern Star. Today you can hear the first track, recorded at the Montauk Salt Cave in the East Village of New York, a magical, intimate spot where attendees can breathe in therapeutic Himalayan salt while reclining in zero-gravity chairs. Let the track transport you: WH050: Southern Star by Elkhorn The collection includes six songs recorded…
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Fruit Bats – The Balcony : Listen
Eric D. Johnson, aka Fruit Bats, has shared the second single and the absolutely delightful accompanying video from upcoming album The Pet Parade. Johnson says the video, co-directed by wife Annie Beedy, was “inspired by Cabaret (the film version) mixed with the Star Wars cantina scene and a dash of The Mighty Boosh, with a storyline inspired by Dirty Dancing and Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock.’” “The Balcony” follows the album’s debut single, “Holy Rose“, and proves that Johnson’s…
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Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Conversion : Listen
This is not your mama’s Nashville sound. The elements are there – unmistakably hypnotic vocals, haunting pedal steel, and the spirit of collaboration and community. But this talented collective has arranged the parts in an experimental, genre-defying manner, and the results are glorious. Cerulean by Nashville Ambient Ensemble Organized and led by electronic composer Michael Hix who plays synth, the group also includes Luke Schneider on pedal steel guitar, Kim…
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Nico Hedley & Field Guides – Worldly & The City is a Painting : Listen
Brooklyn friends Nico Hedley and Field Guides have announced the release of a split 7″ out February 14th on Whatever’s Clever, featuring Hedley’s song, “Worldly,” and Field Guides’s “The City is a Painting.” Check out the video for the songs here. Hedley and Kupstas have both perfected a wistfulness and a subtle melancholy. The songs complement each other and flow together seamlessly. Like fellow NYC-based musicians Yo La Tengo and…
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Bandcamp Friday Shopping List : Valentine’s Day Edition
Happy Bandcamp Friday! This is technically the winter edition, but in order to chase away the post-blizzard blues I’m going to make it all about love – whether it’s music about traditional love, music I love, or music exploing self-love and self-discovery. Some of it’s new, but I’m also picking things I’ve bought over the last few Bandcamp Fridays that make me feel. This music is all good for the…
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Aaron Lee Tasjan’s Cyborg Manifesto : Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!
Donna Haraway’s 1985 essay, “The Cyborg Manifesto,” written for The Socialist Review, urges progressive thinkers to move past the colonialist, socially limiting paradigms used to define identity, instead to form coalitions based on affinity, celebrating that very “otherness” that oppressive ideological apparatuses have worked to denigrate. Haraway challenges the desire to classify and fit neatly into categories imposed upon beings by patriarchal institutions; warning that perpetuating these taxonomies is what…
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Best of Nash
Happy birthday to Graham Nash, a progressive thinker, activist, celebrated songwriter, singer, guitarist and pianist, and arguably the most affable and posessor of the smallest ego of the bunch. To celebrate the iconic musician’s 79th birthday, here are just a few of our favorite Nash performances – ten in fact. Happy birthday, Willie!
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Loner folk legend Dave Bixby announces “Harbinger Orchestra”
Dave Bixby is a living folk legend, and quite literally developed a cult following. his definitive loner acid folk album, ‘Ode to Quetzalcoatl’ was recorded following a long period of time Dave spent in what he calls ‘the void’, a dark, depressive episode after a prolonged period of taking LSD almost daily. The haunting 1969 album was reissued by Spanish label Guerssen in 2009, catching the attention of private press…
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Tyler Rigdon & the Second Arrangement – Everything Changed : Listen
New York’s Tyler Rigdon & The Second Arrangement has announced a new album, My Bakersfield, about a time-traveling cowboy. I “met” Tyler in a Gram Parsons facebook group, and was instantly drawn to his steel-laden, mysto-conceptual work. Everything Changed (Single) by Tyler Rigdon & The Second Arrangement Tyler Rigdon is a songwriter based in New York City by way of Flint, Michigan. His latest recording efforts, including the upcoming “My…
