Phil Manley
Makes Us a Mixtape of
His Favorite Guitarists
Photography PETER ELLENBY If anyone knows their way around a riff, it’s Phil Manley — the guitar-toting demigod best known for his barn burners with Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, and Oneida. And now there’s the not-quite-NPR-related Terry Gross. A power trio in every sense of the word, it features Manley (pictured on the far […]
Mother of Mars
Singer Jaiko Suzuki
Makes Us an Ecstatic Mix
Photo RONNIE ARDEN While she’s now seizing the spotlight in Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi’s post-Rapture project Mother of Mars, Jaiko Suzuki’s roots are in New York City’s underground club scene as both a DJ and dancer. With that in mind, we asked her to ring in the trio’s recent I Hear record with the sort of mix […]
Lawrence English Turns
Amazon Trip Into an
Immersive New Album
While he’s not exactly new to field recordings, Lawrence English has never wrapped a record quite like A Mirror Holds the Sky before. Due out September 3rd through the producer’s own Room40 imprint, the 36-minute album was actually drawn from more than 50 hours of raw Amazon recordings. Not quite the New Age effort you […]
Jana Irmert Makes Us a
Playlist of Pieces That
Feature Field Recordings
Photography CAMILLE BLAKE Jana Irmert celebrates the sheer possibilities of sound on The Soft Bit, an album that’s ambient in the literal sense. Yeah, it’s soothing in certain stretches, but other parts resemble the turning point in a David Lynch film where you either let yourself sink into the scenes or have them take you […]
Amen Dunes Shares New
Single With Sleaford Mods
Amen Dunes has unveiled his first sign of life since 2018. Streaming below and available to download via Bandcamp, “Feel Nothing” brings Panoram back into the fold on synths and features a surprise appearance by a relatively subdued Sleaford Mods. According to a press release, the single is Damon McMahon’s Sub Pop debut, heralding the […]
Bela Makes Us a Mix of
Korean Folk and Club Music
Guidelines by bela Words BELA This mix is not a proper introduction to the samulnori genre and pungmul culture. I do not represent the reality of any traditional music in South Korea. It’s more than music; it’s a tradition. It’s in your life. For more information on samulnori, I recommend watching the YouTube video I […]
Sebastian Plano
Shares the Stories
Behind His New Album
Photography MATTHEW THORNE Words SEBASTIAN PLANO In short, Save Me Not (Mercury KX) focuses on the alternate reality I enter when I create, how this world becomes more bearable than the real world, and how I don’t (hypothetically) want to be saved from being lost in that world forever. It was recorded entirely at my […]
Xeno & Oaklander
Announce New Album
Xeno & Oaklander have unveiled their first batch of new material since 2019’s Hypnos album. Due out October 22nd through Dais Records, Vi/deo was sparked by secluded pandemic sessions in Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride’s Southern Connecticut studio. According to a press release, “the context of isolation, streaming, and remote dreaming seeped into their chemistry, […]
Flaty Channels
Generative Art,
Rammellzee’s Graffiti
Photo MASHA DEMIANOVA Flaty has unveiled the first taste of his most ambitious project yet. Streaming exclusively below, “rotation—60” is part of an audiovisual piece the Moscow producer developed in tandem with his new album RAILZ. According to the ANWO STUDIO founder, it was loosely inspired by concepts that are much bigger than the music […]