Sunwatchers- Illegal Moves
Impassioned agents of political and social reform, Sunwatchers, return with their latest concoction of free-jazz psychedelic noise rock, Illegal Moves. For their 2nd LP on Trouble In Mind, the band liberates their volcanic pressure of sonic onslaught eviscerating any enemy of democracy, broker of inequality, or Nazi scum in their path. The horn skronks are at their loudest and the warped guitar effects are deafening. A revolution is afoot and Sunwatchers are on the front line of the resistance.
Preorder Sunwatchers’ upcoming LP Illegal Moves out 2/22 via Trouble In Mind.
Dr. Dog w/ The Nude Party // Newport Music Hall // Columbus, OH
All photos by Ryan Miller
Purchase Dr. Dog’s latest record Critical Equation out now via We Buy Gold. Find the band’s upcoming tour dates here.
Purchase The Nude Party’s debut self-titled LP out now via New West.
Nels Cline 4 // Freight & Salvage // Berkeley, CA
All photos by Ruchita Lalmalani
Purchase Nels Cline 4’s latest record Currents, Constellations out now via Blue Note. Find Nels Cline 4’s upcoming tour dates here.
Julia Holter- Aviary
Los Angeles composer Julia Holter’s latest record Aviary is a mammoth of multi-instrumental depth and panoramic brilliance. Self-described as “the cacophony of the mind in a melting world,” her fifth studio album cultivates synths and strings along with her commanding vocals to irrigate the hanging garden of the finest figment of her boundless imagination.
Purchase Julia Holter’s latest release Aviary out now via Domino. Find Julia Holter’s upcoming tour dates here.
Adrianne Lenker // Music Hall of Williamsburg // NYC
All photos by Kevin Brown
Purchase Adrianne Lenker’s latest release abysskiss out now via Saddle Creek. Find Adrianne Lenker’s upcoming tour dates here.
Anemone // Baby's All Right // NYC
All photos by Olivia Cummings
Purchase Anemone’s newest record Beat My Distance out now via Luminelle Recordings.
Ronald Langestraat- Searching
With a Rhodes piano, Farfisa organ, some cheap horns, a Moog synth, and a drum set, Ronald Langestraat sculpted his magnum opus of leftfield jazz-funk with a 4-track tape recorder in his apartment in 1984. Brushing off 30 years of dust from this micro-release, the reissue of Searching rediscovers a true musical visionary who blended international jazz, funk, and obscure pop for a timeless, highly imaginative party-of-one universe.
Purchase Ronald Langestraat’s Searching reissued and out now via South of North.
France- Hôtel de Vogüé
The group known as France create throbbing drones as a stripped-down garage trio with plunging drum riffs, infinite and entrancing bass chugs and feedback-drenched guitar meanderings. On their latest live recording from a show in June of 2018, Hôtel de Vogüé, a blanket of sound smothers listeners for a 52 minute high-pressure ritual.
Purchase France’s latest release Hôtel de Vogüé out now via L’Engeance.
Traffik Island- Free 2 Be Free
Stream the latest video for the newest Flightless Records signee, Traffik Island. “Free 2 Be Free” is the newest single from the band’s debut LP Nature Strip out 2/15 which features Zak Olsen of ORB and The Frowning Clowns finding a sunshiny shimmer of lush and catchy psych pop.
The video is directed and filmed by the maestro Ben Jones with additional support from the co-maestro and Flightless visual cool juice Jason Galea.
HOMESHAKE- Helium
Helium, the latest full-length from Peter Sagar’s HOMESHAKE project is the free radical element of the Montreal songwriter’s catalog that widens the aperture of his indie and lo-fi R&B sensibilities of his earlier works. Self-recorded in his apartment last year, the fourth LP bonds a tall mixture of tones and textures in a sonically endothermic reaction.
Purchase HOMESHAKE’s newest record Helium out 2/15 via Sinderlyn. Find HOMESHAKE’s upcoming tour dates here.
Jessica Pratt- Quiet Signs
Across 7 years, Jessica Pratt has become a cult icon for her saintly vocals that billow lightly across the gentle strum of an acoustic guitar. Her third LP and first on Mexican Summer leaves no gap between the darkened beauty of 2015’s On Your Own Love Again. Quiet Signs is the latest opportunity to inhabit the lattice of haunt and repose within Pratt’s work.
Purchase Jessica Pratt’s latest record Quiet Signs out now via Mexican Summer. Find Jessica Pratt’s upcoming tour dates here.
Arrow to the Sun (1963)
Stream Gerald McDermott’s 1963 animated short about a Pueblo Native American boy’s search for his father, God of the Sun.
FORM 2019
Announcing the programming for FORM 2019 taking place at the urban laboratory of Arcosanti, AZ on May 10-12, 2019. Secure your tickets today.
Real Estate // The Chapel // San Francisco
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Cyboogie
Stream the new video by Jason Galea for the new single from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Cyboogie,” a modular synth sci-fi strut.
Purchase King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s new 7” single “Cyboogie” out now via Flightless (AUS) and ATO (US).
Alex Cameron // White Oak Music Hall // Houston, TX
All photos by Connor Fields
Purchase Alex Cameron’s latest LP Forced Witness out now via Secretly Canadian. Find Alex Cameron’s upcoming tour dates here.
"Folk Outdoor Concert " // Happy End, Maki Asakawa, and more, 1970
Deep in the YouTube archives rests a grainy documentary filmed during a 1970 music festival in Japan featuring performances by Happy End, Maki Asakawa, and Wataru Takada. Enjoy.
Juan Wauters // Knitting Factory // NYC
All photos by Noel Woodford
Preorder Juan Wauters’ upcoming album La Onda de Juan Pablo out 1/25 via Captured Tracks. Find Juan Wauters’ upcoming tour dates here.
Molchat Doma- Etazhi
The Stalinist architecture depicted on the sleeve of Molchat Doma’s latest LP Etazhi is as brutal and imposing as the Belarus based outfit’s lofi coldwave and Slavic lyricism. Crunchy drum machines, shadowy synths, and distant, echoed Russian vocals make this recording share the skewed beauty of the Slovakian Hotel Panorama.
Purchase Molchat Doma’s latest release Etazhi out now via Detriti Records.