Cold Beat Unveil the
Vinyl Edition of
War Garden
The only good thing about the seemingly endless backlog at pressing pants is the second life some LPs have experienced when their fancy vinyl edition finally dropped. Here’s one we wholeheartedly endorse as the week begins to wind down: War Garden, the latest synth-laced, steam-pressed LP from the San Francisco band Cold Beat. A pandemic […]
Eydís Evensen Shares a
Seasonal Piano Day Playlist
Photography SAGA SIG Seeing as how winter hasn’t quite loosened its grip just yet, we can’t think of a better way to celebrate Piano Day than to point out the ivory-tinged Frost EP Eydís Evensen has on deck through XXIM Records next week. “It’s such a hard thing to go through — this darkness,” the composer/pianist […]
Black Dice’s Rough
Guide to Black Dice
Photo DAN HOUGLAND Setting the Records Straight is a new series where we ask our favorite artists to walk us through the most important and meaningful songs in their sprawling back catalogues. This week’s entry is another special Bandcamp Friday edition, featuring longtime s/t favs Black Dice. If you want to truly understand where longtime […]
Spencer Zahn
Makes Us a Mixtape
Inspired By Kingston Move
Like many of us, Spencer Zahn moved in the middle of the pandemic, leaving a bigger city (his longtime home Brooklyn) behind for one that’s more than 100 times smaller, population wise (Kingston, NY). He didn’t just set up shop and hide from his new neighbors either; the bassist/composer met as many people as he […]
Death Bells Shares
Van Music Playlist,
“Hysteria” Video
Photo KRISTOPHER KIRK “It was one of those moments where the tune just figured itself out,” Death Bells says of their “Hysteria” single, which drops through Dais today. “It feels urgent, immediate and honest, and we’re very proud of it.” The tightly wound track was actually one of the last songs Will Canning and Remy Veselis […]
Executioner’s Mask
Share the Stories Behind
Their Winterlong Album
With a bleak and strangely beautiful sound inspired by everything from JG Ballard to Mike Tyson, Winterlong is the most fully realized Executioner’s Mask record yet, a listen as chilly and sealed off from the outside world as a late summer air conditioner. In the following exclusive, singer Jay Gambit describes the album in detail […]
T. Gowdy Makes Us a
Floatation Device Mix
Words + Mix T. GOWDY Music affects my mood and I like it that way. When the world is just too much, I want escape into another world — to feel like I’m flying, lost in dark club, driving effortlessly on the highway, or floating in water. The latter of which I decided to express […]
Bogdan Raczynski Leads Us
Down a Rabbit Hole of
Random YouTube Videos
Words BOGDAN RACZYNSKI You asked for 10 videos, so I’m going to give you nine because I’m a professional asshole, and assholes make the rules. Talking about music is like discussing poetry — awkward, pretentious, and 100% subjective. So instead, let’s talk about one of my other burning passions: language. Watch this video about a polyglot […]
Ben Vida & Lea Bertucci
Interview Each Other
Having recently heard that Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci‘s first collection of improv-heavy compositions (Murmurations) has opened the door to further collaborations as a duo, we figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask how everything came together and what’s lurking just over the horizon for the two mind-bending multi-instrumentalists. Here’s what they had to say when […]