“There’s something life reaffirming about each Ted Byrnes release. The intensity of his playing is ejaculatory and joyful. His recordings are intimate, and every time I hear them I [...]
Featuring John Olson, Ben Gmetro and TJ Duke Recorded and mixed by Ben Gmetro and AK Mastered by Wyatt Howland Artwork by James Searfoss Layout by Dave Petersen
Tunisian artist Anasisana makes his Noir Age debut with “Ever So Beautiful,” a lush ouvre of existential synth pads and droning embers coalescing in five tracks of electronic [...]
LOBA Adress – Will You Take No, Will You Straighten Your Jacket
A footrace on the moon / two show up armed with nothing but a polished flute and an assortment of scraping, stumbling percussion. No audience, no prize, no celebration, no […]
“Fred Cole’s legendary 1961-1966 band. The 12” is a straight reissue of the 1968 LP (unfortunately originally released as “The Lollipop Shoppe” but now returned to the [...]
Unbelievably great psychedelic garage rock from 1966-1968. Up there with the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Love and the Seeds in quality but with an outsider edge to it. Tough as nails […]
John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early […]
What our staff has to say: “South African pianist / percussionist with a crew of San Francisco & Chicago players, including Plunky Nkabinde and Lon Moshe from Oneness Of Juju. […]
First ever compilation of the deep ’60s soul from Jetstar, including Alder Ray Mathis’ Northern Soul stepper ‘Take Me Baby’! Featuring previously unissued tracks from [...]
A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is […]
After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing […]
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois’ answer to [...]
Arp Frique returns with a new album after a string of releases, leaving the cratediggers and dancefloor tastemakers with underground classics like Nos Magia, Voyage and Nyame Ye. On ”Analog [...]