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Kareeta – Freeway Junkie Queen
Freeway Junkie Queen by Kareeta California country rock is back in a big way with the release of Kareeta’s second LP, Freeway Junkie Queen, out tomorrow, July 7th via North Shore. Produced by Greg Loiacono and recorded at Dave Schools’s Spacecamp studio, Schools joins the band on bass, with founding members Chuck Harris on vocals, Jon Siembieda, Aaron Barnes, and Loiacono on guitar, and Brian Lara on drums, along with Jerry…
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Centripetal Force & Third Man Records Announce Luke Schneider’s ‘It Is Solved By Walking’
Thrilled to hear news of a new Luke Schneider album and just as thrilled to learn that the best psych label, Centripetal Force, is partnering with Third Man for its release. Luke’s otherworldly pedal steel meditations are revolutionary and I cannot wait to walk around and listen to It Is Solved By Walking and receive his revelations. It Is Solved By Walking by Luke Schneider Most folks likely associate the…
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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…
