October 4th Newsletter

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  • Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
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    The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
    Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
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    Currently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Endless Boogie – Admonitions
    Endless Boogie – Admonitions
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    Endless Boogie rejoins with its fifth proper studio album for No Quarter. It contains and is called ADMONITIONS. Seven tracks of unrefined wisdom, mostly put to tape in improvised fashion […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Constant Smiles – Paragons
    Constant Smiles – Paragons
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    Typically, a band’s big indie label debut doesn’t come 15 albums into its career, but with Constant Smiles’ Paragons, here we are. Primary songwriter and sole “constant” member Ben [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Advance Base – Live At Home
    Advance Base – Live At Home
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    The last Advance Base show in front of a live audience was in Portland, Oregon on March 11, 2020, four days into a west coast tour with Claire Cronin & […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Age – Goons Be Gone
    No Age – Goons Be Gone
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Red Death – Permanent Exile
    Red Death – Permanent Exile
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    “In 2014, DC’s RED DEATH came out of the gate and obliterated everyone with one of the best hardcore demos of the year. Their first recorded output channeled the sheer […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
    Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
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    Latest album by japanese hardcore band Nightmare, the same guys who made the excellent “Give Notice Of Nightmare” back in ’88. The 10 new songs are great and the old […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
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    Charging Swedish punk attack, burning guitars and sore throats, cracked cymbals and worn out DISCHARGE records, KSngNSve ( pronounced SCHANG-NAA-VEH, meaning “Crust Fist”) is the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
    Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
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    What our staff has to say: “Awesome memoir about being a part of the Philly hardcore scene in the 80s. Barile’s story is deeply personal while also steeped in punk […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • The Goon Sax – Mirror II
    The Goon Sax – Mirror II
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    Since forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
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    Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on 20th September. Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is deep and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
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    Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
    Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
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    Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Warmer Milks – Soft Walks
    Warmer Milks – Soft Walks
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    “…Let’s just say that the year is 2003, and we’re finally meeting the protagonist of this story, a young aspiring post-post-post-punk musician playing guitar (and burning CDRs) in his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Roadhouse – Aladdin Sales
    Roadhouse – Aladdin Sales
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    ALADDIN SALES — the debut 12″ from Southern Indiana producer “Roadhouse” — is a 14-song tapestry of home recording workouts with a wide palate of approaches, ranging [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Huevos II – III
    Huevos II – III
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    HUEVOS II — the relatively new, relatively low-profile power trio of Ma Turner, John McGuigan, and Patrick Borezo — began somewhere up east, sometime in the Winter of 2018, and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • VA – Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989
    VA – Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989
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    Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ’80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves (EFFICIENT 004LP, 2017) successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky – Peshekhod
    Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky – Peshekhod
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    Peshekhod, the debut album from Dima Pantyushin & Sasha Lipsky, oscillates through an immaculate synth-pop ecosystem in which every shift feels both accurate in it’s absurdity and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Matt Adis – Heads Of The Malnourished
    Matt Adis – Heads Of The Malnourished
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    Published in 2020 by IQ32 Press 8.5″ x 11” zine – 24 pages Full color printed eggshell covers Includes single color 8.5”x11” risograph printed by Nick Flessa at the Los […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
    Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess
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    “An intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, ‘Whole New Mess’ presents Angel Olsen working through her open wounds [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Inventions – Continuous Portrait LP
    Inventions – Continuous Portrait LP
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    “On their first album together since Maze of Woods (2015), Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) and Mark T. Smith (Explosions in the Sky) further their creative curiosities as Inventions. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mia Loucks – Sister Honey Demos LP
    Mia Loucks – Sister Honey Demos LP
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    Bedroom music” as a genre is perhaps questionable, and yet when first hearing the cassette that these songs were originally released on, this was the thought that I was fixated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative