For more than two decades, shapeshifting artist Black To Comm aka Marc Richter has pushed the limits of sound and merged the aesthetics of art, conceptual installations and music. And he's showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon - following a prolific run of collaborations with Dis Fig, Senyawa and more, we're extremely excited to be releasing Richter's new album At Zeenath Parallel Heavens on October 20th.

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At Zeenath Parallel Heavens pushes Richter's audio occultism to even more transcendent heights, investigating the bounds of originality, reinvention and recontextualizing sounds of the past, which in tandem with the growth and complications of AI, becomes ever more apropos and potent.

Along with the announcement, Richter has shared first single "Steep Thy Plumage in His Sweetness." Coalescing from weightless vapors, Richter demonstrates his sound sculpting mastery blending seraphic vocals and mellotron hum into an incorporeal melody that arcs atop warm drones and bristling distortion.  

Listen to "Steep Thy Plumage in His Sweetness" now

Black To Comm's At Zeenath Parallel Heavens is available to preorder now on limited-edition turquoise LP and CD, hitting all good stores on October 20th. More news and live dates to be announced soon!

Following an initial super limited-edition CD and cassette release last year, we're excited to announce the first vinyl pressing of Douglas Andrew McCombs' stunning solo debut VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<<6NDR7<<<, out October20th.

You can preorder the LP now on limited-edition cream color vinyl, and as an added bonus, any orders from our online store will ship immediately ahead of the release landing in stores this fall.

McCombs is hitting the road this fall with Black Duck and then Tortoise, here's where you can catch both bands:

Black Duck fall tour dates
Sep. 3 - Chicago, IL - Plantasia @ Garfield Park Conservatory
Sep. 7 - Cleveland, OH - Waterloo Arts Cafe
Sep. 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Jerry’s On Front w/ Basic
Sep. 9 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s w/ Ryan Jewell
Sep. 10 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool w/ Alan Licht
Sep. 29 - Rock Island, IL - Rozz-Tox
Sep. 30 - Bloomington, IL - Reverberation Vinyl

Tortoise fall tour dates
Nov. 1 - Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
Nov. 2 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
Nov. 3 - Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
Nov. 4 - Columbia, SC - The Jam Room Music Festival
Nov. 5 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
Nov. 6 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer

As harrowing as it is exhilirating, we're extremely excited to be bringing you the debut album from Dead Times, the duo of Lee Buford (The Body) and Steven Vallot (Muslin), due out October 20th. Releasing a handful of rarities coveted by fans over ten years ago, the duo's long-awaited debut album connects Buford and Vallot's untethered extremes of their origins to the mastery of production, composition and structure each member has cultivated in their time apart.

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Expanding on both musicians' lifelong exploration of sonic extremes, Dead Times is uncompromising in its thirst for ever-harsher atmospheres while equally finding space for magnificent spectacles of melodicism and harmonic motion. Across the album, the duo oscillate between overwhelming volleys that sheath hidden splendors and suffusing moments of quiet and clarity with melancholy and grit. First single "Pysche Surprises Love" pushes captures the album's ebb and flow between overwhelming emotion and caustic release, with the duo sculpting cries of pain into rising drones and juddering rhythms that build a chest-rattling bass drop.

Listen to "Psyche Surprises Love" now

Dead Times will be hitting shops everywhere on October 20th, and ahead of that you can secure yourself a copy of this extremely limited release and preorder the clear LP from our site now.

Dead Times start their extensive tour with The Body tonight in Boise, ID. Here's where you can catch them:

Aug. 22 - Boise, ID - Shrine Basement 
Aug. 23 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 
Aug. 24 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake 
Aug. 26 - St Paul, MN - Turf Club 
Aug. 27 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club 
Aug. 28 - Chicago, IL - Sleeping Village
Aug. 29 - Detroit, MI - Sanctuary Detroit 
Aug. 30 - Toronto, ON - Monarch Tavern 
Aug. 31 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz 
Sep. 1 - Kingston, NY - Tubby's 
Sep. 2 - Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus 
Sep. 3 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East Upstairs
Sep. 10 - Philadelphia, PA - The Ukie Club 
Sep. 11 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery 
Sep. 12 - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor 
Sep. 13 - Atlanta, GA - 529
Sep. 15 - Austin, TX - Elysium 
Sep. 16 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves 
Sep. 18 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress 
Sep. 19 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick
Sep. 20 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon 
Sep. 21 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 
Sep. 23 - Seattle, WA - Substation 
Sep. 24 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge 

Ahead of her radiant new album Carrying out September 22nd, Morgan has shared a new track via NPR's All Songs Considered playlist.

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"Awake" finds Morgan steering her rhythm section atop a stuttering tremolo guitar and drummer Nathan Bowles' syncopated groove as she appeals to the urgency of climate change and resists the complacency that stifles progress and the dire changes needed.

Morgan elaborates: "This is as close as a song of mine can get to a call to action - we’re all living in a time of ecological collapse, a mass extinction event, climate catastrophe, and we’re sleepwalking through it. Let’s collectively wake up."

Carrying is available to preorder now on limited-edition "newt red" vinyl and CD.

Brooklyn trio Upper Wilds unveil a new fuzz-laden offering to the largest planet in the solar system with Bandcamp-exclusive single "Infinity Drama". Diving into conflicting theories about the end of the universe and the meaning of "infinity", the trio take an optimistic view of the limited time we have with a euphoric romp that exudes the joy of making music together.

Opening with scrambled transmissions and radar bleeps, guitarist Dan Friel cuts through the noise with an angular guitar hook before the rhythm section of bassist Jason Binnick and drummer Jeff Ottenbacher come crashing in, erupting into gleeful distortion, soaring harmonies and white-knuckled riffs that owe as much to Thin Lizzy as anything in the space-rock canon.

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The third instalment of Upper Wilds' exploration of the solar system, Jupiter is a perfect reflection of its namesake - colossal, turbulent...and all the more captivating for it. The album exudes the sheer sense of wonder that the planet, and indeed the wider universe beyond Earth's atmosphere, has held in the collective imagination for centuries - rendered in sky-clawing Sabbath-ian riffs and scorching punk outbursts. Throughout, Friel makes canny use of shifting perspectives, strange true stories and canny allegories to make sense of the universe’s infinite expanse and our place within it - from the tallest man on earth to the oldest couple on record. The trio's music thrives in a live setting, with the opportunity to experience the full physicality of Jupiter as the trio take the album on the road this summer for tour dates including a set at Desertfest New York and a string of dates with now-labelmates Pelican, culminating in a Chicago album release show for both bands. Dan Friel will also be exploring more cosmic sounds outside the trio's usual purview through a series of outdoor concerts titled "Interstellar Overpass" at Mama Tried in Brooklyn, featuring members of Oneida, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Guided By Voices and more.

Jupiter is up for preorder now on limited-edition Voyager Gold LP.

Chicago’s legendary heavy quartet Pelican is sharing the animated video for "Autumn Into Summer" directed by Rory Leydier. Originally released on the After The Ceiling Cracked DVD for Hydra Head Records in 2005, alongside live footage and interviews, the video now gets a full re-release with audio remixed by original engineer Greg Norman and remastered by Josh Bonati.

As visually stunning as it is subtly unnerving, Leydier's video translates the track's instrumental movements into an oblique, surrealist narrative constructed from animation and collaged film footage. Ghostly painted figures orbit each other's lives, fading in and out of view, becoming increasingly incorporeal and hallucinatory as the track shifts from subtle and gentle gestures one moment to thunderous full-stomp ferocity the next. See for yourself!

Watch the video now!