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Today, Petal Motel is pleased to share the last single from Gold Dust’s LP The Late, Great Gold Dust, out 11.4 on Centripetal Force. Gold Dust’s Stephen Pierce gives his heavy-yet-shimmering treatment to what’s arguably his most introspective song about the connection of the inner and outer world, how they coalesce, and searching for acceptance throughout it all. The B-side of this song is a stunning cover of our beloved…

From the album Easy Payday out 11.11.22 on Moonlight Cypress Archetypes, droneroom shares his heavier, pensive side with a meditative composition along with a video featuring shots familiar and unheimlich. The album Easy Payday is a full on collaboration with Nashville’s Josh Byrd. Josh was given 4 pieces with the instructions to ‘destroy them’ and he did so in the most beautiful way. Guitars are processed, reversed, dragged through a…

I followed Tino first for his stunning visual artworks, but became captivated by the way his sound collages provided an essential complementary component for them, most recently Interpreting Clouds from Sound as Language, so I’m extremely honored to present the video for “For the Stratus Family,” a sound collage that might echo our benevolent space brothers calling to us. “Here, fragments of forgotten VHS tapes and the kind of video…

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.…

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…

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…

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…