Operator Music Band - "Matérielmusik" | Album Review
The relationship between the technological and the natural, the mechanical and the spiritual, is just one of many impressions emitted from the sophomore effort of Brooklyn’s Operator Music Band. Matérielmusik, while only spanning three tracks in eight minutes, contains the pulp and pit of a whole universe insides its blips and grooves.
Freind - "I Said / Ossature" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
All People - "All People" | Album Review
Taken together, All People and Community Records are purposeful projects enacted in furtherance of building a cultural exchange where people can create, produce, and share music. All People’s third full length All People listens like the spiritual cornerstone of this vision, reminding people to step outside of themselves for periodic renewal.
The Adventures of The Silver Spaceman & Nic Lawless - "Isolation" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Melvins - "Houdini," "Stoner Witch," & "Stag" (Third Man Records Reissues) | Album Review
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 13th - June 19th)
Deerhoof - "The Magic" | Album Review
Jackal Onasis - "Big Deal Party" | Album Review
Minikin Presents: Afterthoughts | Album Review
Brooklyn micro label Minikin, have released their first compilation: Afterthoughts; a lovely 14-track record for which the proceeds go to Brooklyn music education platform We Make Noise. Minikin, formed in 2015, have brought together scene stalwarts Bethlehem Steel, Vagabon, Long Beard, gobbinjr, Half Waif, among others, and the result is a lovely, meandering set of songs that fit well together without being overly similar.
Sumac - "What One Becomes" | Album Review
Melkbelly - "Elk Mountain" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Weaves - "Weaves" | Album Review
Weaves is a key figure on small but beloved Toronto-based label Buzz Records, and their unpredictably spasmodic yet undeniably pop-friendly songs have gathered them an intense worldwide fanbase, one that’s especially staggering for a band with only a couple of EPs and a string of sporadically released singles to their name.
Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (June 6th - June 12th)
Leapling - "Suspended Animation" | Album Review
Melvins To Reissue Houdini, Stoner Witch, & Stag via Third Man Records
Houdini, Stoner Witch, and Stag have all been out-of-print on vinyl for over two decades and original copies can command into the three figures. Third Man Records is proud to reintroduce these titles, officially available June 24th, to the hungry vinyl-buying public, all remastered from original analog tapes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and given the deluxe, gatefold jacket treatment.
Andy Shauf - "The Party" | Album Review
Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf’s album The Party is a masterful work with a compelling narrative about youth and heartbreak. The Party is Shauf’s debut on Anti- Records, telling the tale of a party and the small secrets revealed and social mishaps occurring in a single evening. The songs have a cinematic, quiet beauty to them, with layers of keys, trumpet, guitar and softly pounding drums.
No Time Left to Sing Along: A Bodega Bay Revieulogy | Feature Article
I had wanted to write a longer piece on Bodega Bay last fall, about the band and their then-recent release Our Brand Could Be Your Life, a 33-song album/manifesto released digitally with a mock 33 1/3 book as an optional physical companion. Now, having announced their dissolution last week and played their final show last Friday, it seems like a good time to try again, to reflect on a band that meant a lot to me, a band of people I’d like to consider friends, and who made me think.
Coaches - "What The World Needs Now (Is Love)" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere
Disposable America Records is getting ready to release Special Interest, a new digital/cassette compilation on Friday, July 15th, 2016. In the light of Sunday's horrific events in Orlando, the label has decided to share Coaches' "What The World Needs Now (Is Love)" cover earlier than originally planned to raise money for the victims at Pulse.
