On Beings' There Is A Garden, shapeshifting melodies highlight each players' voice. In one second, the album may sound hectic, teeming with craggy, unpredictable melodies, but by the time the next ...

On Beings' There Is A Garden, shapeshifting melodies highlight each players' voice. In one second, the album may sound hectic, teeming with craggy, unpredictable melodies, but by the time the next ...

When Nathan Salsburg's daughter was a baby, he often sang her to sleep in a rocking chair. At one point, he remembered a song he had taught himself as a teenager: "The Evidence" by Lungfish, the ...

When Nathan Salsburg's daughter was a baby, he often sang her to sleep in a rocking chair. At one point, he remembered a song he had taught himself as a teenager: "The Evidence" by Lungfish, the ...

Sandy Bull was an American folk musician who rose to prominence with a series of albums on the Vanguard label in the 1960's and 70's. Still Valentine's Day 1969 is pulled from two live shows recorded ...

Cincinnati native C. Spencer Yeh has been performing under the Burning Star Core moniker since 1993. A classically trained violinist, Yeh is the center of the amorphous free noise group whose past ...

Zachary Cale has been self-releasing music under his own name for just shy of a decade. Duskland, his latest album and first for a label, is a work of craftsmanship full of mysticism and elegance; a ...

Four song EP featuring guest vocals by Bruce Duff (Jesters of Destiny). ...

Formed in 1991, Circle is the most visible name in the Finnish avant-rock underground. Having survived innumerable lineup changes, the band and its founder, bassist/vocalist/guitarist Jussi ...

Circle from Finland are one of the leading psych-rock bands playing today, releasing records and touring for over a decade now. "Katapult" is perhaps their darkest and most primitive album to date. ...

Saturnus Reality is the Finneagan's Wake of Finnish rock documentaries, a fabulous cul-de-sac in stream of consciousness. The film's subject is Circle, the prolific Finnish experimentalists hailing ...

Originally released in 2002, "Sunrise" is perhaps the ultimate psychedelic, kraut-metal record. Mind-melting riffs and trance-inducing rhythms nicely complimented by Mike Ratto's exotic, Rob ...

12 years after their self-title debut this is the "lost" second album from Coconuts (the NYC duo of Tim Evans and Jordan Redaelli). "Coconuts, as I have known them, cracking bunk PAs in NYC hovels, ...

Me Neither is a 29 track double album of instrumental guitar music. While juggling a number of other projects James Elkington began writing "music for which there was no purpose." It became a new way ...

Me Neither is a 29 track double album of instrumental guitar music. While juggling a number of other projects James Elkington began writing "music for which there was no purpose." It became a new way ...

Endless Boogie rejoins with its fifth proper studio album. It contains and is called ADMONITIONS. Seven tracks of unrefined wisdom, mostly put to tape in improvised fashion with little to no warning. ...

Endless Boogie rejoins with its fifth proper studio album. It contains and is called ADMONITIONS. Seven tracks of unrefined wisdom, mostly put to tape in improvised fashion with little to no warning. ...

Endless Boogie began with no delusions of grandeur. They started off as an "old mans hobby" - just dudes jamming on riffs, locking into grooves, finding that transcendental part of a song and ...

In 2008, Endless Boogie was nudged into the spotlight with Focus Level: 79 minutes of thick psychedelic rock spread over ten glorious tracks (11 tracks / 87 minutes if you bought the 2xLP). It was ...

Message found on No Quarter's answering machine: "Hey Mike-Thanks for sendin' over the latest from Endless Boogie. So 'Long Island' makes, what, their 7th trip around the vinyl horn? You gotta give ...

Message found on No Quarter's answering machine: "Hey Mike-Thanks for sendin' over the latest from Endless Boogie. So 'Long Island' makes, what, their 7th trip around the vinyl horn? You gotta give ...

Aaron Burr's attempt to seize the Texas Territory for his own dominion has beguiled composers bands for ages. Allegedly Aaron Copeland's 'Appalachian Spring' was originally entitled 'Blennerhassett ...

Aaron Burr's attempt to seize the Texas Territory for his own dominion has beguiled composers bands for ages. Allegedly Aaron Copeland's ppalachian Spring' was originally entitled 'Blennerhassett ...

It was never intended to get this far. Endless Boogie had been a band for six years when they were invited by Slint to play the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the UK. Up to that point, they had ...

It was never intended to get this far. Endless Boogie had been a band for six years when they were invited by Slint to play the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in the UK. Up to that point, they had ...

Justin Broadrick has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Whether with Godflesh or Jesu - themes of urban decay, corporate ...

The annals of music history are overflowing with gifted guitar players whose egos prevented them from reaching their full potential: rather than being content to be exceptional members of a band, ...

The new studio album by Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth was recorded in the summer of 2021 in Richmond, Virginia with a core group of Doug McCombs (Tortoise, bass), Ryan Jewell (Ryley Walker, ...

The new studio album by Philadelphia guitarist Chris Forsyth was recorded in the summer of 2021 in Richmond, Virginia with a core group of Doug McCombs (Tortoise, bass), Ryan Jewell (Ryley Walker, ...

It's hard to imagine who Forsyth's contemporaries might be, but it's always been that way: the greats tend to feel a little out-of-plumb with their moment (only hindsight lets us see it otherwise), ...

It's hard to imagine who Forsyth's contemporaries might be, but it's always been that way: the greats tend to feel a little out-of-plumb with their moment (only hindsight lets us see it otherwise), ...

Intensity Ghost is a follow-up to last years critically acclaimed Solar Motel album, which made year end lists at The New Yorker, Uncut Magazine and Popmatters and provoked ecstatic comparisons; from ...

After a year of touring, The Solar Motel Band returned to the studio last spring with Jeff Ziegler (War on Drugs, Kurt Vile) to put to tape the massive and immense The Rarity of Experience. This ...

Dodging Dues is a startlingly expansive record_"startling" in part because it's relatively short (seven songs, all but one hovering around the four minute mark), but also because it traverses so many ...

Dodging Dues is a startlingly expansive record_"startling" in part because it's relatively short (seven songs, all but one hovering around the four minute mark), but also because it traverses so many ...

Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist ...

Punk rock creative moment music born out of DC & Baltimore scenes. Jarrett Gilgore (Alto/ Soprano Saxophone) is a gifted sonic melodic soothsayer. Luke Stewart (Bass, Irreversible Entanglements) lays ...

Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in ...

Optimism is the debut album from Jana Horn of Austin, Texas. Originally self-released in a small vinyl edition, now widely available. Horn says the LP, "seemed to come about indirectly, almost in ...

A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Horn's inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an `artist to watch' tag from ...

A Rothko-esque color field set to music, The Window Is The Dream ventures even deeper into Horn's inner space than her stark, acclaimed debut Optimism, which earned her an 'artist to watch' tag from ...

Portland quartet Houndstooth make a sophomore jump with their second album, No News from Home - returning one part leaner than on their 2013 debut, Ride Out the Dark, the band's chief weapons - ...

Portland quartet Houndstooth make a sophomore jump with their second album, No News from Home - returning one part leaner than on their 2013 debut, Ride Out the Dark, the band's chief weapons - ...

Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been workshopping the set at ...

Michael Hurley's first new studio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been workshopping the set at ...

"Laddio Bolocko were f***ing awesome" - Pitchfork "Seeing them live was akin to walking in on the Aurora Borealis captured within the walls of a dive bar - beautiful, captivating and wonderfully ...

Bassist Luke Stewart was called "one of the 25 most influential jazz artists of his generation" by Downbeat Magazine. Here he teams up with co-bandleader/sitarist Jarvis Earnshaw, drummer Ryan Sawyer ...

Meaning can come from surprising places. In 2020 the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent moved back into his family home in Dublin to care for his mother, Kathy, who was then recovering from a stroke and ...

Meaning can come from surprising places. In 2020 the Irish guitarist Cian Nugent moved back into his family home in Dublin to care for his mother, Kathy, who was then recovering from a stroke and ...

CIAN NUGENT is a guitar player from Dublin, Ireland whose music combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional music, 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, psychedelic rock, jazz ...

CIAN NUGENT is a guitar player from Dublin, Ireland whose music combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional music, 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, psychedelic rock, jazz ...

Old Calf formed as a duo in the small, but musically vibrant town of Charlottesville, VA by Ned Oldham (The Anomoanon, Palace Music) and accordionist Marty Metcalfe, slowly accruing members on route ...

Two new songs and just the second solo release from Ned Oldham whose been recording music for more than two decades now: first with Palace, then as The Anomoanon, later as Old Calf. Limited to 600 ...

The Other Years are Anna Krippenstapel and Heather Summers _ two voices riding a single harmonic laser beam, carrying instruments made of wood and skin and bones. They travel light. There is ...

The Other Years are Anna Krippenstapel and Heather Summers _ two voices riding a single harmonic laser beam, carrying instruments made of wood and skin and bones. They travel light. There is ...

Debut album from this NYC power trio. Loud, heavy and noisy. Instrumental psych that may melt your speakers. ...

The Psychic Paramount is Ben Armstrong (bass), Jeff Conaway (drums) and Drew St. Ivany (guitar), three lead instruments individually and together. They make impact a state of being rather than a ...

Nathan Salsburg's 2011 debut was a beautiful ode to racehorses (a point of pride for any resident of Kentucky). Comprised of seven acoustic guitar instrumentals and one vocal track, "Affirmed" caused ...

"Amid a buzzing scene of solo guitarists, Salsburg feels both like a figurehead and one of its most active players, with each new release offering a bright step forward." - Pitchfork // The third ...

Psalms is a collection of new arrangements of Hebrew psalms, composed and performed by Salsburg with a backing band which includes Joan Shelley, Will Oldham, James Elkinton and Spencer Tweedy. ...

Psalms is a collection of new arrangements of Hebrew psalms, composed and performed by Salsburg with a backing band which includes Joan Shelley, Will Oldham, James Elkinton and Spencer Tweedy. ...

Third is the stunning third album by Nathan Salsburg, one of his generation's most gifted and idiosyncratic acoustic guitarists. It's been five years since his last solo record (Hard For To Win And ...

Joan Shelley follows up her massively successful LP "Over and Even" with 2 new songs recorded in Chicago with Nathan Salsburg and James Elkington, and mixed in Louisville with Kevin Ratterman. The 7" ...

Electric Ursa was recorded out of the spotlight in Louisville, Kentucky. A quiet, 8 song record which owes much to the post-rock history of its hometown on songs like "Something Small" and "Rising ...

The debut album by Joan Shelley pressed on vinyl for the first time. Originally released in 2012 and long-elusive to fans, Ginko is the starting point for Shelley, now revered for her songwriting, ...

Joan Shelley's self-titled follow up to her 2015 LP "Over and Even" was recorded at The Loft in Chicago with Jeff Tweedy producing and again features guitarist Nathan Salsburg, this time with Jeff ...

Joan Shelley's self-titled follow up to her 2015 LP "Over and Even" was recorded at The Loft in Chicago with Jeff Tweedy producing and again features guitarist Nathan Salsburg, this time with Jeff ...

Much of this album was recorded in Iceland. Breath warm from singing rises into frozen air. Atomized. A million bright blue crystals _ the fractal branching of the lungs _ drift back to earth. ...

Much of this album was recorded in Iceland. Breath warm from singing rises into frozen air. Atomized. A million bright blue crystals _ the fractal branching of the lungs _ drift back to earth. ...

5 new songs from Joan Shelley pressed on a limited edition 1-sided 12". Limited to 1000 copies worldwide. "Shelley scratches at unanswerable questions on the loamy Anne Briggs thud of Singing To You ...

Joan Shelley quickly follows her acclaimed 2014 album Electric Ursa with Over and Even, a quieter, more contemplative set recorded in a farmhouse in her home state of Kentucky. The New York Times ...

Joan Shelley returns with "The Spur" her rst new album in three years. The twelve song set is a profound meditation on light and darkness, recorded in the spring of 2021 at Earthwave Farm in the ...

Joan Shelley returns with "The Spur" her rst new album in three years. The twelve song set is a profound meditation on light and darkness, recorded in the spring of 2021 at Earthwave Farm in the ...

Joan Shelley returns with "The Spur" her first new album in three years. The twelve song set is a profound meditation on light and darkness, recorded in the spring of 2021 at Earthwave Farm in the ...

Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness - is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic ...

Richard Thompson's score for Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness - is one of the best-kept secrets in the British guitarist's epic ...