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Elkhorn behind the scenes
Shots of Drew Gardner & Jesse Sheppard and friends recording Distances, out 9/16 on Feeding Tube. I don’t like the word “choogle” because it feels a bit like “hysteria” to me – a meaningless catchall; you know what it means, but basically it’s a descriptor for something rocking. Well, Elkhorn is choogling and I can’t deny it. This is much less meditative and much more rollicking than a lot of…
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The Late, Great Gold Dust
Stephen Pierce, aka Gold Dust, released an incredible record late last year and wasted no time announcing a follow up, titled The Late Great Gold Dust, a nod to Townes Van Zandt whom the record emulates only lyrically. Stephen’s years playing in hardcore and shoegaze bands inform his gauzy sonic weavings, but with much more subtlety and power. The first single, “Proof of Life,” sounds like Stone Roses meets J.…
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Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country- “People are Beautiful”
Our favorite cosmic cowboy has been quiet for a minute but as promised, he wasn’t working on something out of this world. Along with his futureheaded band NASA Country, the final installment of the “Shadows Trilogy,” People Are Beautiful, sounding like Texas Tornadoes-meets-NEU! with their out-of-this-world sound drawing on classic country tropes, and modular space age vibes, and Capps’s eccentric but grounded, clever lyricism, to create a sound all their…
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VAXXERS twin releases
Today North Carolina’s Alex RIggs aka VAXXERS releases two inspired experimental albums, one soothing and centering; the other more avant-garde; both excellent. VAXXERS is the long running experimental project of Durham, NC musician Alex Riggs. Anything that isn’t singer-songwritery is VAXXERS. VAXXERS has released many albums of noise, ambient, electropop, loop-based music, folk, soundtrack work, and other things.The two new albums by VAXXERS, released on September 2nd, 2022, are as…
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Lauren Helene Green – “Canyon Loop”
Elated to share this gorgeous ambient guitar song from Lauren Helene Green’s upcoming solo debut album Outer Highway Realms, out October 7th, 2022 on Royal Oakie Records. Lauren is half of Petal Motel favorite Tan Cologne, as well as an artist, woodworker, bright light, and so much more. As a lover of all of Lauren’s previous musical work and of guitar soli, this contemplative high desert instrumental release is most…
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Cass McCombs – Heartmind
In Cass McCombs’ ever-enigmatic evolution, Heartmind, out today on ANTI is some of McCombs’ less opaque lyricism, although for Cass, all is still open to interpretation. For Cass, music is metaphor, used to address the human condition; while the album is unapologetically lurid with cultural references to Tammy Wynette, S.E. Hinton, Elon Musk to perhaps ground his mystique and offer a bit more accessibility into his mysterious mind. A departure…
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Eli Winter – “Davening in Threes”
Today we have a gorgeous new single from Eli Winter’s upcoming self-titled album, out August 19th via Three Lobed. This rambler features the talents of Eli’s friends Cameron Knowler and Yasmin Williams on electric guitar, and Sam Wagster’s gorgeous pedal steel playing augments the trio’s immense talent. The video features Eli solo but you can stream the recording with all three on Bandcamp. “Davening in Threes” came at a time…
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Sunstack Jones (feat. Tan Cologne) – Even Though
Nearly a year ago, I dreamt that two of my favorite dreamiest-sounding artists on opposite sides of the globe would collaborate, knowing the resulting sound would be everything I could ever want and more. Fast forward to the present, and with this release, I was proven right. Kaleidoscopic layers of synth, soft acoustic and ethereal electric guitar, hypnotic cajon, and haunting vocals make the simplest of lyrics an enigmatic journey…
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Bonny Light Horseman announces new album + shares new video for single “California”
Oh my fucking god. All I have ever wanted in this life is more Bonny Light Horseman. Ask and you shall receive. Waves of golden guitar, harmonies from the angels, percussion of the devil at his best. Please just kill me and let me live in BLH land forever. Bonny Light Horseman today announced their sophomore album Rolling Golden Holy will be released on October 7th, 2022, via 37d03d Records. Produced by the band’s…
