Listen to Rose City Band's Sol Y Sombra single "Radio Song":

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When it comes to radio, Rose City Band are steeped in the subtle static hum of the medium. The group's ebullient country-psych draws from a deep love of obscure 70s private press records, the kind you might catch while scanning the dial on a desert drive back in the day - or more recently on Ripley Johnson's own monthly show on NTS Radio. Ahead of the release of Rose City Band's new album Sol Y Sombra on January 24th, the group pay homage to their love of radio with the aptly titled new single "Radio Song".

Never hesitant to speak truth to power and a master of seamlessly intertwining the personal and the political, "Naming Names" works through the pains of confronting those who do wrong in our daily lives as much as it stands as an anthem for calling out oppressive forces in all forms.

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Along with the album and single, Zedek has announced a tour throughout the US this Spring and Summer, as well as special tour throughout Australia and New Zealand with more dates to be announced.

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emptyset have shared the throbbing, swirling new single "Antumbra" taken from their upcoming album Dissever, out May 23rd.

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The track evokes pioneering production methods emerging in parallel across the late 1960’s,  incorporating elements of the transformative, hypnotic, expansive and transcendent. Informed by those tandem evolutions in sound from the past, emptyset brings those elements together in a truly futuristic sound, replete with swirling, dynamic fluxes that swell into enveloping barrages of distorted sonic bliss.

SUMAC and Moor Mother shared the new piece "Hard Truth", taken from their upcoming work The Film, to be released on April 25th. The piece highlights how inscrutably bold their collaboration is, invoking a haunting vocal melody atop burbling electronics and a density of distorted pulses, the throb accentuated by tactile scrapes. As a mere hint to what is contained within the album's labyrinthian scope, the piece is brimming with the subtle, yet boundless creativity that the ensemble explores across the album.

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Manchester’s Gnod and New York’s White Hills stand as titans of Psychedelic & Space Rock. Together they bend the very notions of what rock can do, seemingly suspending our sense of time. Their alchemical chemistry and a fateful session at the Dropout Studio in Camberwell gave rise to the legendary, ongoing series of records under the moniker Drop Out. The records became an influential and sprawling series of extended pieces that remain touchstones of contemporary psychedelia. Having been called “absolutely essential,” “best I have heard – ever,” “A masterpiece,” the Drop Out series finally gets its definitive edition.

Drop Out III is a wholly new iteration of Gnod & White Hills’ collaboration, the “director’s cut,” if you will. Drop Out III is replete with sounds recorded in the “Drop Out era” that have never been heard before. The double LP features a cornucopia of expanded versions of essential songs complete with new arrangements, mixes, and instrumentation.

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more eaze and claire rousay’s collaborations are effortlessly joyful, their music evoking the warmth and respect they have for each other. Their bond goes back to their youthful hometown of San Antonio, Texas where they played in country outfits and noise rock bands respectively, and each pushed their music to extend beyond the traditions and conventions of genre. more eaze (the moniker of violinist/multi-instrumentalist mari maurice) and rousay have spent the past decade pushing boundaries, standing together at the vanguard of genre-shattering music that thrills and surprises with its vulnerability and creativity. no floor weds their prowess as sound designers and masterful skills as composers with their skills as acoustic instrumentalists. Eschewing the auto-tune inflected pop-psychedelia and found sounds of their previous collaborations, no floor is collage music as pastoral melancholia, a lush tour into their own version of Americana.

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SUMAC and Moor Mother have shared the new piece "Scene 4", taken from their upcoming work The Film, to be released on April 25th.

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The piece features singer Sovie layering harmonies between SUMAC's taut thuds and Moor Mother's dynamic incantations, electronics bristling beneath the procession. Restraint and outburst build tension as the ensemble's deft performance inspires close listening, giving each wallop and swell that much more impact.

Ahead of the release of their new collaborative album no floor, more eaze & claire rousay have shared the ecstatic new single "lowcountry". Named for a bar in San Antonio where more eaze (mari maurice) and rousay spent much of their formative years, the track exudes an adventurous sense of wonder through dynamic swells and haywire electronics that parallel the uncertainties and spontaneities of youth.

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"I went to that bar a lot by myself, but I’ve been there a lot with mari too," notes rousay. "At one point I was living somewhere that was close by. This was in a more unhinged time for me and was like 'mari, did you want to come over and rage?'" maurice adds: "There’s a throughline of the track 'limelight, illegally' to this, where some of the bartenders who worked at Limelight moved to lowcountry. This is the most unhinged track in a way. When we decided this one was lowcountry claire was adding a lot and pushing it I decided, 'ok, I’m going to push it even more too.'"

no floor presents an introspective reflection of the emotional turmoil of youth, while equally celebrating a camaraderie forged through those shared experience, one that has since blossomed into a close friendship and fruitful series of collaborations. Eschewing the auto-tune inflected pop-psychedelia and found sounds of their previous collaborations, no floor is collage music as pastoral melancholia, a lush tour into their own version of Americana.

BIG|BRAVE have announced their atmospheric new album OST, out April 25th. Along with the album's announcement, the group have shared first single "innominate Nº ii," a sustained, soft-play piece that brings the ensemble's exploration into minimalism and textural composition into stunning focus. Subtle motifs land with considered motion, with delicate trickles of Wurlitzer, a bare, vulnerable voice, and earthy clangs speckling a light haze.

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OST was fully written and recorded in the studio. The band was free to enter the live room and record a take with whatever instrument was at hand. The record features Wattie, Ball, drummer/percussionist Tasy Hudson, engineer/producer Seth Manchester and MJ Guider's Melissa Guion.

Leading up to and around the album's release, BIG|BRAVE will be touring throughout Europe and the UK, including sets at FIAS Festival, Roadburn Festival, and a special "sonic faceoff set" with The Bug in London.

"You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit." - The Quietus

Just ahead of the release of their new album Ghost/Spirit, due out February 21st, singular guitarist Jules Reidy has shared the entrancing new single “Ghost”. Written in a haze of half-dream, half-wakefulness, the track showcases how Reidy interweaves otherworldly sounds with intoxicating melody. Cascading arpeggios ripple atop tight chordal drones with glitching swells and sinewy guitar interjections. Reidy says of the piece:

"I made this very late at night, following a night terror. I kept having these hallucinations in the form of a black silhouette that would run at me and I'd wake up screaming and sweating. So the lyrics intentionally sound like they were written by someone who was half asleep." Of the track's title in relation to the album and its overall focus on loss and love, Reidy notes: "The title Ghost/Spirit describes this haunting omnipresence that we experience through loving a being who is not there."

Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Reidy will be performing throughout the US, UK, and EU this spring, including record release shows in Berlin at Silent Green and London at Cafe Oto, as well as a set at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.

 

Following the announcement of their extensive European and UK tour this Spring, including their debut collaborative performance at Roadburn Festival, Gnod & White Hills have shared two new singles from their Drop Out series, "Nothing NEU! Under the Sun" and "Spaced Man". The deluxe, definitive version of their acclaimed Drop Out series, Drop Out III, is out Mar. 21st.

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"Nothing NEU! Under the Sky" brims with the potency of the collaboration's live energy, transmuting motorik rhythm and plasmic instrumental layers into a blissful trance. "Spaced Man" showcases the ensemble's more sinewy grooves, with a cascade of voices rising and falling in huge dynamic swells.

Drop Out became an influential and sprawling series of extended pieces that remain touchstones of contemporary psychedelia. Having been called “absolutely essential,” “best I have heard – ever,” “A masterpiece,” the Drop Out series finally gets its definitive edition. Drop Out III stands as a wholly new iteration of Gnod & White Hills’ initial collaboration. Reaching well beyond a mere reissue, Drop Out III is replete with sounds recorded in what the bands term the “Drop Out era” that have never been heard before. Drop Out III’s new elements make clear the unified ethos of both bands. The expanded versions of these timeless pieces epitomize the sense of possibility brimming throughout the album. That an album over 15 years out from its inception could continue to grow well past its roots is a testament to Gnod & White Hills’ ability as artists and collaborators.