Foxy Digitalis
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 […]
Time moves backyards before standing still on Ratsmagick’s “A Generous Pour.” Dennis Martinelli’s latest is intricate and ancient, channeling a well-worn spirit to find a jangling path back into the woods. “A generous pour for my dear friends,” Martinelli sings, “One last hurrah before my untimely end.” It’s matter-of-fact and his plaintive delivery adds a […]
More praise for Mayssa Jallad and “Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels” – go read the interview with her on the site today! Plus some love for Room 40. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: Boo Hiss “Psyche Birds” Additional Links: Room 40Tony Buck Environmental Studies Foxy Digitalis depends on […]
Boo Hiss’s Todd Drootin (aka Books on Tape) doesn’t just dig into places most of us wouldn’t venture, he digs into places most of us don’t even know exist. His newest joint, Sike Jaz (from Deathbomb Arc) is a psychedelia-infused resurrection ritual that turns dreams into smoke monsters and twists rainbows into a gentle sonic bludgeon ripping us to […]
Originally published in 2005, Michael Kaufmann (formerly of Asthmatic Kitty Records) did a mini-series of one-question interviews, one of which was with Blevin Blectum. With the reemergence of the mighty Blectum From Blechdom, who have a new album, Deep Bone, coming in July on Deathbomb Arc, it seemed like a good time to get this […]