More about: Childish Gambino, SZA
Styles: punk, funk
Others: Parkay Quarts
The Parquet Courts story is classically punk rock. It starts in mid-2000s Denton, Texas — hometown of the band’s unofficial figurehead Andrew Savage — which served as a locus where its future members would come to meet the University of North Texas student.
More about: Danger Mouse, Parquet Courts
Styles: psychedelic agamospermy, backhoe smells, haze
Others: Ariel Pink, Curved Light, Blithe Fields
They knocked the house down yesterday.
All the inside stuff came out, and now it’s just dandelions a day later.
Some days it feels like inside stuff is spilling out all over, like demolition in wind or seeds in breeze. Some days it feels like even I can’t find my insides. I’m anxious they’ll figure out who I am, really. I’m terrified they’ll never bother wanting to know: “It feels like nothing and we’re already late/ I’ll never be here.”
More about: Black Moth Super Rainbow
Unlike, say, that creep James Hurley; the Detroit-based, fiercely DIY, artrock provocateurs in Wolf Eyes are still cool.
More about: Drew McDowall, Martin Rev, Puce Mary, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Universal Indians, Wolf Eyes
For a band that makes soul-crunching music about solitude, dread, and suicide, The Body sure seems to have a lot of friends. Following the recent release of their LP I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer., the singular death-music band have announced another collaboration (something they’re prone to doing) with industrial metal act Uniform, who joined them on tour last year.
What was that age-old meme about the greatest crossover events in history, again? I certainly can’t remember it now, but I so dearly wish I could, because it’s never been more appropriate than this shining moment in underground music history in which powerhouse Alex Zhang Hungtai (formerly Dirty Beaches) has announced a new album called Divine Weight via the equally powerhouse-like NON Worldwide. It’s out June 29.
More about: Alex Zhang Hungtai, Dirty Beaches
Styles: multi-colored deep house, uplifting pop
Others: The Field, Mount Kimbie
In a 2013 interview with FACT, DJ Koze said that he’s “turned on by melancholy.” To hear a techno artist who plays to sold-out nightclubs, Ibiza beach parties, and crowds of nocturnal dwellers say something of the sort was initially confounding, but hearing his music, it’s easy to see how DJ Koze’s iconoclastic output of electronic music is equally ready for both blown-out soundsystems and lonely, tangled pairs
More about: DJ Koze
Styles: experimental post-punk, psych-rock, freak-folk, the anarchist house from the film L’Avenir-core
Others: Cate Le Bon, Captain Beefheart, The Olivia Tremor Control, André Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism
DRINKS is the collaborative side project of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, truly a psychedelic crossover event for the ages. Le Bon is known for making arresting psych-rock, characterized by mercurial guitar work and her distinctive, Nico-lost-in-the-woods vocals. Presley mostly records under the name White Fence and has a reputation for erratic garage-pop couched in consciously lo-fi production values.
More about: DRINKS
As drops of water might plop into a pond from a leaf weighed down with beads of water after a Summer rain
blue dots, quivering beads, soft and velveteen
placed about the leaf as if plotted
as they are, chanced as they are
each drop as each plop as
each coy sound that Kate NV arrays
as flowers in a vase
More about: Kate NV
Flashback: 2015. Valentine’s Day. There you were, sobbing on the curb outside the neighborhood watering hole, rain falling slowly, chocolates melting in their heart-shaped box, bouquet of blood-red flowers already cartoonishly wilting. You’d been waiting, waiting for Ruth… and Nat and Adam and Johnny. Oh, Johnny!
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