Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Brett Naucke! Old heads unite! We get into his most recent album, “Ground Fault Matinee” (his punk record?!) before going down all kinds of rabbit holes with Joanna Newsom, Sade, The Misfits, “Blue” Bene Tyranny, Madonna, Alice Coltrane, Dire Straits, DJ Rashad, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, and […]
The Capsule Garden
And so it’s March. You know, my horoscope for this year keeps promising good things, BIG things. And that’s great and all, but mostly I’m just BIG EXHAUSTED. Basically, it’s the same as ever. Anyway, there’s a new Field Studies out on The Jewel Garden today featuring Lee Evans, Floating House Ensemble, Stefan Christoff, and […]
Interviews
Karakoz lands with a heavy impact. From the opening moments, Mai Mai Mai’s sixth album pulls no punches, grief pressed into aural forms. Maya Al Khaldi’s voice delivers a traditional chant, weaving through spectral melancholy and emotive synth melodies underscoring stunning vocal work and intricate, heart-pounding percussion. The Rome-based artist spent six weeks between Bethlehem […]
Interviews
Wilfrido Terrazas’ Trilogía del Dolor moves through strange terrain, a collision of soundworolds that melt together in ways that feel impossible to predict. The work explores pain without idealizing it, treating it instead as a foundation for transformation and acceptance. The work is scored for instrumental quartet, two vocalists, and a visual artist in live […]
“New Land” opens A Companion For the Spaces Between Dreams with an invitation to step across a threshold. Lidell’s dancing electronics and Schneider’s emotive pedal steel drones intertwine, creating a space where vulnerability and reflection can coexist without resistance. The track begins at the surface, wide-eyed and waiting, then pulls the listener deeper inward through […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s David Garland! What a joy this episode was to record. David’s got a new record, “The Spark,” out this week and it’s been on regular rotation over here. We talk about his approach, making music at 70, and plenty more before diving into wondering how much […]
“Atavistic Rites” is thick and full of serrated edges. Christoff and Martineau build heavy sonic layer after heavy sonic layer, creating snarling, breathing drones that encase us within something solid, something immovable. Their music is sharp and textural. It grabs us and refuses to relent. Guillaume Vallée’s video expands the shape of this sound with […]
Zachary Cale has been quietly building intricate worlds with his fingerstyle guitar for years now, but on Love’s Work, his first fully instrumental album, those worlds expand into something more patient and exploratory. Without the anchor of his distinctive vocals, the music moves with a different kind of confidence. The melodies reveal themselves slowly, like […]
Ted Hearne makes music that refuses to comfort us. His new album, Farming, created with the choir The Crossing, exists in that exact moment when the pastoral dream reveals itself as a sales pitch. This is music wary of the narratives technology tells about itself, and suspicious of the smooth surfaces big tech uses to […]
Alice Cohen has manifested throughout alternative music history in improbable ways, from MTV-era new wave with The Vels to Michael Stipe-produced grunge to 2000s hypnagogic pop. Her latest album, Archaeology, might be her most revealing work yet, which feels almost paradoxical given its prominent use of instrumental tracks. The record seeps through the accumulated layers […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Chris Williams! His new album, “Odu: Vibration II,” is magic. It pulls listeners into a sonic world where unraveling becomes transcendent. After digging into it, we chat about Ornette Coleman’s all-time status, being left speechless by ganayva,James Brown’s depth of genius, Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang, […]
I don’t know how it’s almost October. Wild. Things have been busy out in Tulsa, and the next two months will offer no respite. It’s not a bad thing, of course, but it also seems like too many projects keep getting pushed off and pushed off (hence there being six weeks in between Capsule Garden […]
Marta Forsberg’s Archaeology of Intimacy feels like discovering a secret room in a familiar house, intimate in ways that catch listeners off guard. What began as sketches with her voice serving merely as a compositional placeholder evolved into something more vulnerable and essential: seven experimental pop songs that orbit around Forsberg’s own unvarnished vocals, complete […]
Interviews
Karakoz lands with a heavy impact. From the opening moments, Mai Mai Mai’s sixth album pulls no punches, grief pressed into aural forms. Maya Al Khaldi’s voice delivers a traditional chant, weaving through spectral melancholy and emotive synth melodies underscoring stunning vocal work and intricate, heart-pounding percussion. The Rome-based artist spent six weeks between Bethlehem […]
Interviews
Wilfrido Terrazas’ Trilogía del Dolor moves through strange terrain, a collision of soundworolds that melt together in ways that feel impossible to predict. The work explores pain without idealizing it, treating it instead as a foundation for transformation and acceptance. The work is scored for instrumental quartet, two vocalists, and a visual artist in live […]
Interviews
Isabel Pine’s Fables arrives as a series of meditative sonic essences, growing from small incantations into threads connecting to something larger, something unseen. Recorded in and around a remote cabin in British Columbia during the fall of 2024, these pieces carry melodic movements with the texture of wind. This collection of restrained unfoldings invite patience […]
Interviews
I’ve been listening to Yamila’s Noor on repeat, and I keep returning to how the strings feel like they’re breathing alongside her voice and electronics. There’s a lushness here that surrounds something dense and deeply felt at the center. Echo Collective heightens what Yamila expresses in such a symbiotic way that small moments become enormous, […]
Interviews
Spectacle comes in different shapes and forms, in the quietest breaths to cacophonous squalls. From the first singing drones and soft voice incantations, Leo Chang’s Live at CPR had me. Metallic resonances bleed into deep, almost guttural rattles while feedback hovers at the edge of control. It feels wild and uncontained, visceral and immediate. The […]
