While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream at-home performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, an engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I d often rent his studio, Drop of Sun, for pre-recording…
During April and May of 2020, Animal Collective took a look at some of their improvisations from 2019 and early 2020. They remixed them, collaged them, and built them into songs, finding their way to Bridge to Quiet.
ART FINE was the duo of FABRICE BELLINI (electronics, vocals) and RUSH BLAKEMANN (guitar, synthesizer) from Turin, Italy. They met in art school and became friends, inspired by New Wave, dance and electronic music. They recorded their only single “Dark Silence” in November of 1984, which was released by Discomagic in 1985. Fabrice programmed the…
Hymns For The Scorned is an incredible split of two bands with differing but highly complimentary sounds. This is each band s newest material (at the time of release) and some of the best they ve released. Available for the first time on vinyl across a number of different variants with an etched B-side.
I And I Survive is a 1982 EP by Bad Brains, released on the heels of their iconic, self-titled debut album. Like the band s subsequent album Rock For Light, the recordings were produced by Ric Ocasek. The release was previously out of print for nearly four decades. Track Listing:1. Destroy Babylon2. Coptic Times3. Joshua…
Beach Bunny announce their new EP Blame Game out January 15, 2021 via Mom+Pop Music. The new EP follows the band’s 2020 Billboard Top 10 debut album Honeymoon, which received 4 STARS from Rolling Stone – and a print profile – a multi-page critic’s essay from The New Yorker and features with The Cut, i-D,…
Capitol Cuts – Live from Studio A captures a powerful moment in time. After months of cancelled shows Black Pumas went to Los Angeles this past fall and laid down 8 explosive tracks at the famed Capitol Studio A. Recorded direct to acetate – all live, no overdubs – it brims with pent up energy,…
Dismantled into Juice encapsulates the multifaceted sounds that Blawan aka Jamie Roberts has been fastidiously perfecting across the last decade. After hearing the powerful vocals of rising singer Monstera Black, Blawan set about making a record that moved him further away from the club and deeper into the studio to perfect the abstract sounds he’s…
Richmond, VA s Blazing Tomb has joined Creator-Destructor Records. Fans of Bolt Thrower and Merauder will surely enjoy the massively heavy, six tracks that comprise the band s debut offering. Blazing Tomb started in 2020 inspired by their favorite 90s, old-school death-metal bands; the band quickly finalized their lineup as a five-piece in 2021 and…
On the solstice we came together. On the summer solstice 2019 the extended Warp family came together with online radio station NTS to celebrate the label’s 30th anniversary. With over 1 00 hours of original music programming, the weekend-long communion featured mixes, documentaries, live performances, film and sessions from the whole Warp roster including Boards…
London, UK-based street punks Booze & Glory are back with their tried and true, melodic, sing-along anthems they are famous for, bringing back their As Bold As Brass -era, sweeping, old-school street punk, high-spirited anthems. Fans of the old Booze & Glory sound will not be disappointed. From one end of the world to the…
Born in 1999, Charlie Hickey grew up in South Pasadena, just minutes from Downtown Los Angeles. Raised by two singer-songwriter parents, Charlie’s second language was music since day one. As early as grade school, he was making sense of the world through songwriting, and by middle school he was writing, recording and performing songs that…
A-side previously unreleased. Chinafrica was one of the most unique groups in reggae history, started in the early 80s by Wayne Chin after the disbanding of his first group, the mighty Creole. The full story of Creole and Chinafrica will soon be told, watch this site. But to kick it off here is a killer…