Dean Spunt, John Wiese – The Echoing Shell

Veteran noisemakers Spunt & Wiese debut as collaborators by drawing from the rumble and crash of Dean’s drumkit, finding dimensions of hiss and crunch on beyond his No Age style. […]

Smog – Rain On Lens

yet another stunning collection of songs from the mighty smog – rain on lens is another vintage crop of dark and dirty songs

Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger

(what are they thinking) guitars sliced with scribble graffiti sprawled across the hemispheres; stuttered, stunted, dual-mono machine dreams flashing sudden stereophobic and back again / two [...]

Joanna Newsom ‎– Divers

…further along and down the road apiece from where she took her leave of us, Joanna Newsom plays on. Breathe deep and equalize your today-ears to the new world of […]

Bitchin Bajas And Bonnie Prince Billy ‎– Epic Jammers And Fortunate Little Ditties

You will receive many unknowable hours of joy from this album of collaborative cosmic music.

Papa M ‎– “Highway Songs”

Classic Pajolian magma simmering to a crispy boil in a series of 21st century blues, broke folk, ur-metal and verite diary sketches made somewhere between the mental ward and the […]

Six Organs Of Admittance – Companion Rises

The new Six Organs of Admittance song title says it all: “Two Forms Moving.” Musically, a beatific bongo-driven acoustic form interlocks with a metallic guitar with intermittent synth radiation [...]

Six Organs Of Admittance ‎– Asleep On The Floodplain

Ten portable slabs of home recorded blur-and-ripple (and warble) from a (mostly) acoustic Six Organs. Ben just hangs around with the creatures of the earth and he likes the sounds […]

Sir Richard Bishop – Oneiric Formulary

The Sir Richard Bishop show is back in town, alive as ever with exotic action, plus a bit of everything but the kitchen sink. Oneiric Formulary is the sound of […]

Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream

Platinum Tips + Ice Cream is the first release from Royal Trux in 17 years, culled from two live sets recently recorded in New York and Los Angeles. It is […]

Royal Trux ‎– Veterans Of Disorder

With 1998’s excellent Accelerator, Royal Trux completed their rock history trilogy and returned to Drag City. On Veterans of Disorder — the title of which attests to the band’s [...]

Rangda – The Heretic’s Bargain

Lots of ground covered: abraded fury, free forms and serpentine Rang-dang-doodle songatechture mutated via some kind of lateral gene transfer of their musical DNA — a trip best taken WHOLE.

Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava

From 1968: the second album — and second masterpiece from Tom Rapp‘s merry band. A host of NYC session players augments the OG Pearls gang, progressing the sound into greater […]

Pearls Before Swine – One Nation Underground

Tom Rapp, an 18 year-old draft resistor and college dropout living in Eau Gallie, Florida, sent a small unsolicited reel of tape to ESP. Bernard Stollman invited him to bring […]

Magik Markers – 2020

Here we are in 2020, exploding like a dream. Processing today’s numbed nation, considering mysteries of growing up and being older (like a memory of the future from your youth […]

Gary Higgins ‎– Seconds

“The music business is full of funny stories — and some of them aren’t that funny at all. Take Gary Higgins. In the early 70s, he made a great record, […]

Espers ‎– III

Bonnie “Prince” Billy ‎– Wolf Of The Cosmos

Bonny sings Susanna, to simply try and save the world. Sonata Dwarf Mix Cosmos is an old companion of his, and with the Chijimi house band + 1, they bring it all […]

Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire

In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown [...]

Bill Callahan – Have Fun With God

Don’t be fooled by names. Dub is a ghost, a duppy. Here are Dream River versions, killed and resurrected, spilling tales of the other side of life in a language […]

No Age – Goons Be Gone

Summer 2020, and No Age are back out on the street! Effortlessly raw and extravagantly indulgent in one practiced swoop, they set their live/bedroom internal clock and get out early […]

Bill Callahan – Gold Record

You heard it here first – it’s the Gold Record we always knew Bill Callahan had in him! Last summer, he returned from a silence of years – now, he’s […]

Jackie Lynne – Jacqueline

The second Jackie Lynn album has arrived! Plunging into the glittering American darkness, unconvicted felon Jackie Lynn becomes new Queen of the Highway, Jaqueline, dancing through new [...]