Various Artists
Sky Girl
Mostly unknown musicians who sang their singles into the void between 1961 and 1991
Silent Servant Reveals Final Jealous God Releases, Berlin Atonal Showcase
Expect new material from Pye Corner Audio, Black Merlin, Broken English Club, Alessandro Adriani and more
Stream Merrin Karras’ Debut Album and Read the Stories Behind Its Ambient Songs
"It was quite liberating to make music where I didn't have to worry about the best way to arrange it for the dancefloor"
Horseback
“In Another Time, In and Out of Form”
The ever-evolving world of Jenks Miller’s Horseback project takes another hard left turn on Dead Ringers (available August 12th through Relapse), a swirly excursion into the void populated by psych, drone, shoegaze, and Krautrock. Today’s #selftitledpremiere is especially out there, riding a wave of restless guitar riffs and hypnotic rhythms. Here’s what Miller had to […]
J.C.
“Enaitz”
With so many underground labels clogging the vinyl pipeline these days, it’s nice to see one—Svreca’s Semantica imprint—go the downright retro CD-R route. (With a digital edition also available if you don’t even have a compact disc player anymore.) In the case of J.C.’s looming Mugako LP, the Spanish label has slotted the producer’s sleepless […]
Composer Dave Porter Discusses His Work on Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Blacklist and Preacher
Words ANDREW PARKS Here’s the thing about being a Hollywood composer: You’re always the last in line, the last to see or hear anything, the last to make any crucial creative decisions. And no one cares really, even if all you have is a couple of days to cut the entire score for a key […]
Daveed Diggs, The Soft Pink Truth, and More Share the Stories Behind the Songs on True Neutral Crew’s Debut Album
"The more I thought about posse cuts, the more homoerotic they seemed to me, so I thought I'd play that up"
Dumb Numbers
“Unbury the Hatchet”
A sludgy psych experiment featuring members of The Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Einstürzende Neubauten and more
Read the Stories Behind the Spectral R&B of Carlos Santana’s Daughter Stella
"I compared it to escaping a burning house, alarms ringing, smoke filling the air, feeling the heat of the flames"