Magnolia Shade, the latest Good Morning Tapes release from Innsyter, slumps into a warm tub of low fidelity compositions that dissolve away the boundaries between abstract artificial textures and alfresco terrestrial patterning.
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Chicago’s Twin Peaks have released a new single and announced their upcoming full-length Lookout Low, their first music since their Sweet ‘17 Singles project in 2017. On “Dance Through It,” the band evolve their guitar-dominated rock song craft to incorporate the breezy pace and fetching melodies of late-70s production without compromising the group’s lovable indie spark.
Preorder Twin Peaks’ upcoming record Lookout Low out 9/13 via Grand Jury. Find Twin Peaks’ upcoming tour dates here.
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“Valleys (My Love)” is the second single from the upcoming Whitney record Forever Turned Around out August 30th via Secretly Canadian. The band birth another sobering anthem from the aching pressures of unrequited romance that swell from the pit in the stomach to a pair of barely uncompromised tear glands.
“I feel like I’m holding on to a place in your heart that’s long gone.”
Preorder Whitney’s upcoming record Forever Turned Around out 8/30 via Secretly Canadian. Find Whitney’s upcoming tour dates here.
"What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul" designed by Bailey Elder.
The first of a series of garments emblazoned with timeless lyrics extracted from Old Time music and early mountain culture with profits donated to different charities that support the lands and peoples where the lyrics originate.
Written by F.J. Berry in 1912 and popularized by Old Time musicians of the Appalachian Mountains such as Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, and Lester Flatt, "What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul" asks the deepest of introspective inquiries. So, do you have your answer yet?
Profits from the sale of this shirt go to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, an organization that manages and preserves the 2,200 miles of scenic trail that winds through the beautiful Appalachian Mountains and the homes of many of the finest Old Time and bluegrass artists in history.
Screen printed by Minor Press on Gildan Heavy cotton tees. Hand-dyed shirts were made one by one with organic turmeric and are unique products. The shirt you receive may look different than the images displayed.
All photos by Connor Fields
Purchase Drugdealer’s latest record Raw Honey out now via Mexican Summer. Find Drugdealer’s upcoming tour dates here.
Pitchfork Music Festival takes place July 19-21 and brings extraordinary and diverse programming to Union Park in Chicago to celebrate its 14th year. Legendary performers Mavis Staples and The Isley Brothers join indie veterans Belle & Sebastian, Low, and Sterolab as well as a deep schedule of New Commute mainstays like Whitney, Amen Dunes, Cate Le Bon, Khruangbin, and Parquet Courts.
There are also several exciting aftershows each night found here.
Weekend wristbands and single-day tickets are available here.
All photos by Kevin Brown
Purchase Faye Webster’s latest record Atlanta Millionaires Club out now via Secretly Canadian. Find Faye Webster’s upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Lachland Starling
Preorder King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s upcoming record Infest The Rat’s Nest out 8/16 via Flightless and ATO Records. Find King Gizzard’s upcoming tour dates here.
Photos by Reflectacles
“Oh! What a War is a production of the Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band (E.G.H.B.C.F.P.I.B.) with video synthesizer footage courtesy of Lefty Rybrow (Ryan Browne). The narrative is intended to provide a brief history of American armed conflicts over a 500+ year history however many armed engagements of the United States are not accounted for in this story nor are they in the common historic record. These blank spots are the result of numerous forces influencing the telling of history including discrepancies in the classification of such conflicts as war/not war such as the current global network of US special operations forces and any number of past conflicts funded by the American taxpayer without any official declaration of war. The 12-year long Cold War-era civil war in El Salvador which claimed 75,000 lives with heavy backing by the Carter and Reagan administrations is one such example of a serious foreign engagement that does not make the official roster of American wars. If your war was not included, we apologize. For those offended by the content of this story please note that the raw timeline and subjects of this narrative were drawn from the common informational sources below. We hope that the lyrical suggestion that there is “really nothing left” of the American Indian does not offend those American Indian populations surviving and thriving today. This is a lyrical device meant to reflect the relentless and brutal force of the US Military assault on the American Indian in a series of conflicts which dominate the early history of American war from 1775-1923 and which are regarded by many historians and academics as being genocidal in nature. We single out top military contractors as complicit as it is only those individuals and organizations that make war their business who profit off its propagation. All others pay. We believe in peace.”
Purchase Earth Girl Helen Brown’s latest release URANUS & Four Satellites Vol. 1 out now via Empty Cellar Records & In The Red Records.
From a chaotic cityscape to an ocean baptism, the video for the second single “Footseps” from the highly anticipated debut record from Modern Nature follows frontman Jack Cooper through environments paralleling the juxtaposition of the band’s sprawling pastoral bedrock and motorik blasts.
Preorder Modern Nature’s debut full-length How To Live our 8/23 via Bella Union. Find Modern Nature’s upcoming tour dates here.
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, one-third of the mystifying folk-singing outfit Mountain Man, directs her first solo recording into a luscious patch of delicate lullabies with simple instrumentation and humid auras of jubilant pop rhythms. Dawnbreaker is a wellspring of disarming beauty; the dreamy hush of Sauser-Monnig’s voice gliding along as the captivating subtle details in each song unfurl.
Purchase Daughter of Swords’ debut record Dawnbreaker out 6/28 via Nonesuch Records. Find Daughter of Swords’ upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Connor Fields
Purchase Froth’s latest record Duress out now via Wichita Recordings. Find Froth’s upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Dave Scholten
Purchase Buck Meek’s self-titled record out now via Keeled Scales. Find Buck Meek’s upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Kendall Atwater
Purchase Father John Misty’s latest record God’s Favorite Customer out now via Sub Pop. Find Father John Misty’s upcoming tour dates here.
Purchase Jason Isbell’s latest record The Nashville Sound out now via Southeastern Records. Find Jason Isbell’s upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Madelyn Matthews
Preorder Twen’s upcoming debut record Awestruck out 7/28 via Frenchkiss Records. Find Twen’s upcoming tour dates here.
The chiaroscuro of Erin Durant’s delicate, forlorn singing against the deft splashes of piano and airy dulcimer swipes echoes a bygone era of folk. Her Keeled Scales debut is a stripped-back affair that bridges youthful purity and fragile intimacy animated by moments from weary mornings, slowly rising tides, and empty rooms with “cigarette smoke left as an evening dew.”
Purchase Erin Durant’s new record Islands out 6/28 via Keeled Scales.
Stream the new video for “Organ Farmer,” the new single from Infest The Rats’ Nest, the upcoming King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard record out August 16th via Flightless Records.
“For fans of fried prog burn out, squished old-school drool, double drums, lead weight bass, wizard keys (now with poison), old-ass guitar and horrible words with daft meanings.”
Preorder Oh Sees’ upcoming record Face Stabber out 8/16 via Castle Face. Find Oh Sees’ upcoming tour dates here.
“Pretty Boy” is the first music from Indiana’s Kevin Krauter since last year’s Toss Up, his first on Bayonet Records. The latest step for the sunken-hearted pop songwriter is a hopeful outlook smiling at former stressors and riding horses all the way back home.
Purchase Kevin Krauter’s new single “Pretty Boy” out now via Bayonet Records. Find Kevin Krauter’s upcoming tour dates here.
All photos by Kevin Brown
Purchase Priests’ latest record The Seduction of Kansas out now via Sister Polygon Records. Find Priests’ upcoming tour dates here.
