"Every Motherfucker Is Your Brother". This is the sort of combination of words that I long to find buried in the brittle pages of some forgotten book of vulgar proverbs or pulled from the broken shards of the evening's takeout fortune cookie. Perhaps this five-word bit of excellence was the work of some once-aspirational, albeit failed, author, unhappy to be toiling in the marketplace of meaningless phrases and bland advice found within the confines of often-discarded cookies who found inspiration one day and followed through.  However, this phrase isn't a proverb nor is it a fortune, but the title track of a single-piece 12" by the duo Oort Smog, an effort by multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi and drummer Mark Kimbrell. For now, a less than three-minute clip is available as "Every Motherfucker" and showcases a bit of percussive prog-jazz, loose enough at moments for the brass to scribble outside the lines on occasion but never at the expense of th...

Side A — Assembled 1/3-1/7 Following the turbulence of the Holidays and the excessive work schedules leading up to them, music continues to be my long sought-after balm for stress and the monotony of corporate drone'dom. Side A for the first week of January is light and loud, meditative or necessarily aggro. I'm happily excited about some of the records and singles I've had the opportunity to sample so far. Is it naive to assume this trend will continue well into 2023? Probably, but I'm content for now.  Enjoy…  ______________________________________________________________________ Tomato Flower : "Red Machine" (via Ramp Local) Bandcamp — https://tomatoflower.bandcamp.com/album/gold-arc Ramp Local — https://ramplocal.com Gold Arc releases 2/11/22 ______________________________________________________________________ Sea Change : "Is There Anybody There" (via Stereo Sanctity) Twitter — https://twitter.com/SeaChangeartist Shapes Recordings — https...

I hope that everyone can pull themselves away from that new Pearl Jam track to hear some other goodies. Here are some new additions to the  2020 Playlist . _________________________________________ t ētēma : "Haunted on the Uptake" (via Speakeasy PR / Ipecac Recordings / YouTube) Album Preorder https://blixtmerchandise.shop/ipecac-music-store tētēma RELEASE NECROSCAPE ON APRIL 3 VIA IPECAC RECORDINGS LISTEN TO “HAUNTED ON THE UPTAKE” FROM THE SOPHOMORE RELEASE FEATURING MIKE PATTON AND ANTHONY PATERAS Jan. 10, 2020, Melbourne, Australia – tētēma , the bi-continental outfit featuring Mike Patton ( Faith No More , Mr. Bungle ) and the Melbourne based, electro-acoustic artist Anthony Pateras , return with their sophomore album, the mind-bending Necroscape (April 3, Ipecac Recordings). An early preview of the Spring release can be heard now, with “Haunted On The Uptake,” a track Pateras describes as sounding “like The Melvins ' tour van broke down...

Call this one a pleasant surprise: the first few seconds of Alexander Noice 's latest single, "Affectation," featured on his upcoming new LP NOICE , indicated that I would be treated to a shrill vocal loop shoehorned into an anemic space bar-enabled rally of bleeps and tin cymbals. Such was not the case as the effects and vocals flourished under the composer's direction, given purpose as syncopated percussion and math-plucked melodies added the right amount of urgency. "Affectation'"s near 7-minutes is a rush of instrumental and vocal arrangement, its academia and soul culminating in a calm saxophone line (played by Gavin Templeton ) that emerges a little past the midway mark. It's at that point where I was sold. NOICE is scheduled to release on August 23rd, 2019 via Orenda Records . Check out the track below. All info and links are courtesy of Clandestine Services. NOICE presents a futuristic sonic landscape in a riling, cinematic albu...

Here are a couple of weeks' worth of songs to enjoy.  Oh Sees : "Overthrown" (via Castle Face Records / Bandcamp ) This track is to be featured in an upcoming new Oh Sees album, Smote Reverser . Overthrown by Oh Sees __________________________________________________________ Spectres : "End Waltz (Mun Sing Remix)" (via Sonic Cathedral / Bandcamp ) From Spectres ' upcoming remix EP, WTF.   It's available for pre-order at Spectres' Bandcamp page. WTF by Spectres __________________________________________________________ Lithics : "Glass of Water" (via Kill Rock Stars /YouTube) From the upcoming new Lithics LP, Mating Surfaces .  The album is scheduled to release, 5.25. __________________________________________________________ Covet : "Shibuya (feat. San Holo )" (via Speakeasy PR/ Triple Crown Records /YouTube) From Speakeasy PR: COVET RELEASE EFFLORESCE O...

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Mayflower Madame : "Weightless" (via Big Mouth Publicity/YouTube) Tacocat : "I Hate the Weekend" (via Hardly Art/YouTube) Lake Ruth : "The Inconsolable Jean-Claude" (via Lake Ruth/ The Great Pop Supplement /Soundcloud) Yardsss : " Granfalloons II" (via Us-Them Group/ SELF Group /Soundcloud) Jerkagram : "Cloud Builder" (via Us-Them Group/ Noisey /YouTube) TOMBS : "V" (via Relapse Records/YouTube) Rangda : "The Sin Eaters" (via Rarely Unable PR/ Drag City /YouTube) Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Were I forced to come up with a two-word summary of And So I Watch You From Afar 's newest single, "Wasps," those words would probably be "circular anthems."  The constant arpeggios and choral harmonizing are dizzying to say the least, a wasp in flight possibly the basis for its immediacy and motion.   You can listen to the song below. And So I Watch You From Afar is releasing a new album called Heirs on May 5th via Sargent House.  For information on the release, please scroll below.  All news, dates, music and links were provided by Us/Them Group.   And So I Watch You From Afar: tracks from forthcoming album Heirs cleared for posting Listen to & share "Wasps" HERE + "Run Home" HERE Northern Ireland's And So I Watch You From Afar premiered a new track from their forthcoming album Heirs yesterday via The Fader. The song "Wasps" is cleared for posting via Soundcloud HERE . ASIWYFA previously shared album t...