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Summer Bandcamp Shopping List
This year in music is turning out to be wildly amazing. And there’s never been a better time to buy music on Bandcamp – on Juneteenth (6/19), Bandcamp is donating all of their shares of Bandcamp sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a racial justice organization with a long history of effectively enacting change through litigation, advocacy, and public education. Bandcamp is always the best platform to purchase music…
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Aux Meadows – Dust Kingdom
Ambient country is a genre that raises eyebrows sometimes. It’s not exactly new, with its earliest forms dating back to at least the ‘70s, but its surge in popularity is something music geeks like me love but may elicit confusion from others. Aux Meadows is an Oakland-based act making some of that ambient country goodness, recently releasing a gorgeous new record, Dust Kingdom. Dust Kingdom dropped on May 22nd via…
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Alien Eyelid – Bronze Star
Cosmic American music has many active scenes across the states and even a burgeoning group of talent in the U.K. Given the genre’s origins, Southern California is a natural place for cosmic cowboys and cowgirls to do their spacey square dancing. The Pacific Northwest is also teeming with cosmic talent these days, including artists like Jeffrey Silverstein. But is there a spot in America any more naturally suited to the…
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Gunn-Truscinski-Nace – “On Lamp”
I knew this year for music was going to be exceptionally excellent before I even opened my inbox to my delight and screams at the news of a new Gunn-Truscinski now-Trio, featuring Bill Nace. It’s no dang secret how much I love the duo and I am beyond thrilled to find a new activity to repeatedly listen to this on (2020’s Soundkeeper saw me riding up and down the now-defunct…
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kintsugi – “Let Me Show You”
Good morning, please enjoy this track from brother-sister duo kintsugi, aka Kessiah and Stephan Gordon, who created a beautiful album Life in Death honoring their mother, out July 14th. The lead single was written shortly after her death in 2019 and the pair began listening to music, and then writing together, as a means of processing their grief. The end result is an intimate, moving dialog that serves as a…
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The Far Sound – “Further Exploration”
On June 2nd, Centripetal Force Records will release the debut self-titled album from The Far Sound, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Rick Pedrosa (Abronia, Federale) A high lonesome meets Appalachia droning in every sense, zyls replete, a measured, raw drum-skin-filled reminiscent of Nathan Bowles meets The Howard Hughes Suite, totally out there and otherwordly and landing perfectly in Petal Motel world. The entire album is cinematic, enigmatic, and hypnotic. Although…
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Prairiewolf – “Calcedonia”
I’d heard whispers of something tremendous brewing at the foot of the Rockies and the news was indeed as earth shaking as I’d hoped – the announcement of Prairiewolf’s debut studio record, out May 5th on the best psychedelic label in the nation, Centripetal Force. A Rocky Mountain supergroup of sorts featuring Stefan Beck (aka Golden Brown) on guitar and lap steel, Tyler Wilcox (Aquarium Drunkard) on bass, and Jeremy…
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decker. – “Mojave”
Proud to share the latest single named after my favorite desert from my second favorite desert, Sonoran dweller decker.’s 8th studio album, Ouroborous, out June 9th via our beloved Royal Potato Family. In his most ambitious and most epic work to date, Brandon Decker brought 16 musicians together to record at EastWest Studios (formerly Cello Studios) in Los Angeles to record their parts live- NO overdubs- over a mind-spinning two…
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Danny Paul Grody – “Light Blooms”
So excited to share the first single from Danny Paul Grody’s upcoming album Arc of Day, out June 16th on Three Lobed Records. If you’re unfamiliar, Danny is an incredibly imaginative and intricate guitarist making sounds that are lighter than air. Grody’s newest mixes types of guitars and field recordings with Rich Douthit’s gentle percussion, Trevor Montgomery on bass, Jonathan Sielaff providing clarinet and bass clarinet, and Chuck Johnson on…
