First of all: Ahhhh. Let’s all bask in the soooooothing, warm, and comfy vibes that come from just knowing that Jason “J. Spaceman” Pierce is still alive and kicking out there in his lonely low orbit around earth. <3
More about: Spiritualized
Styles: “rumbling, grumbling, tumbling down the sky towards the under side of the world”
Others: Adrianne Lenker, Alex G, Mat Davidson
Buck Meek was born Buck Meek in Wimberley, Texas, probably. Who knows the truths with names and places with these country song singers? Wimberley was and is 45 minutes off of Austin, a good place for glass sculptors and child psychologists like Buck Meek’s dad and mom, respectively, respectfully. Kid Buck Meek started guitaring early on, outlaw country licks and manouche jazz slips, lots of Django, lots of Slim Richey. And then Buck Meek went to Berklee and then he moved to New York City to make music with Adrianne Lenker.
Alexandra Drewchin talks choreography, new album on PAN, and Cardi B
The last major releases from Eartheater — NYC-based composer/choreographer Alexandra Drewchin — were the double-hit of RIP Chrysalis and Metalepsis. Dropped back in 2015 on Hausu Mountain, both albums used Drewchin’s hardware accented guitar-and-operatic-vocals to build a strange, special, and beautiful discography that, free of easy comparisons, felt a little like a planet unto itself.
More about: Eartheater
Styles: post-partum haze, nursery music, process music
Others: Félicia Atkinson, Julia Holter, Lucrecia Dalt
I will never give birth, but lately, my pupils have been calling me “grrrrrrrl,” unknowingly perhaps. I remember in college learning about gender roles in apes, how even in different mammalian species, there is remarkable variance in how different sexes divide labor concerning care of children; child rearing doesn’t require being born with a pussy, and neither does being a mother. I will never give birth, but motherhood doesn’t give a fuck about where children come from; historically, it seems, only fathers and evil stepmothers do.
More about: Ashley Paul
News in brief:
• The US is about to send 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons.
• Facebook says it accidentally let anybody read posts that were supposed to be private from 14 million users.
• Man beaten by Arizona officers wants police held accountable.
• Death Grips have released a new video for a new track, called “Ha ha ha,” off their new album Year of the Snitch, officially out June 22.
More about: Death Grips
Styles: indie rock, folk rock, alternative country
Others: Angel Olsen, Big Thief
Like so many people born in the 1990s, Erin Rae McKaskle is infatuated with anachronisms. Her music drips with the influence of a bygone era of folk and country singers, one that revels in the resonance of deep vocal reverb and the intimacy of closely-mic’d acoustic guitars.
More about: Erin Rae
MTN Nyege Nyege Festival is back. In September, the four-day event — put on in association with its label arm, Nyege Nyege Tapes (one of our favorite labels of 2017) — returns to Jina, Uganda with nearly 300 artists this year.
More about: Bonaventure, DJ Morgiana, Jagwa Music, Jlin, Nkisi, Rude Boyz, Sho Madjozi, Sleeping Buddah, TESA, Uriel Barthelemi
Styles: rap
Others: Yeezus, The Life of Pablo
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost….”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
More about: Kanye West
BREAKING. FUCKING. NEWS.
More about: SOPHIE
The moment has arrived! Last month, Chromatics released “Black Walls,” the first single off of their long-awaited, oft-delayed, once-destroyed fifth studio album Dear Tommy.
More about: Chromatics
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