James Ivy
JAMES IVY James Ivy is the project of the New Jersey-born, New York-based singer-songwriter and producer James Butler. His debut album, The Seams — simultaneously an ode to and critique of stagnancy — sees Butler muddle through the doldrums of life, stripped of ego or dogma. Acting as a marked moment of pause and resistance, the project […]
Devil Master & Zorn
DEVIL MASTER The darkest, filthiest alleys of old Philadelphia, DEVIL MASTER arise once more to corrupt the children of light. Between tours and festival appearances, the masters of devilry wrote their third full-length, Bloody Dreams. Punkier, with a psychedelic lean, yet festooned with a feral black metal aura, the album gleams from the abyss. Engineered […]
Iron Lung
IRON LUNG Early 1999, IRON LUNG started life in Reno, NV, rising from the ashes of (the real and best) GOB, a prolific and bizarre punk band that was Jon’s primary creative outlet for a few years which Jensen also played in during its last few months of existence, and KRALIZEC, a one-off project band […]
William Basinski
WILLIAM BASINSKI Honoring 25 of years of the composer’s ambient masterwork ‘The Disintegration Loops’. William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 40 years in NYC and Los Angeles. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature […]
Josh Alvarez
JOSH ALVAREZ Josh has been plunking around in different bands & different roles in the Philadelphia area for the past two decades, popping up in stylistically diverse bands, from Belegost to Halo of Snakes to Solarized to Crossed Keys. Through it all, Josh never stopped playing as a solo act ever since releasing his first […]
Bike Routes
BIKE ROUTES Bike Routes is David Osterhout. Ever since his childhood, the South Jersey na;ve has harbored an intense and obsessive passion for music. AAer years of grinding locally with an acous;c guitar, he introduced the world to Bike Routes with his 2020 debut Just Let It Go. His songcraA naturally evolved across Love Is […]
Advance Base
ADVANCE BASE Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance […]
Hour
HOUR The title of Ghost Bridge, the East-Coast-spanning chamber ensemble Hour’s masterful fifth record, is borrowed from bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary’s unrealized movie concept about a bridge that inexplicably starts disappearing. Equally rooted in contemporary classical, film soundtrack music, and experimental rock in the Jim O’Rourke and Dirty Three lineage, the six kaleidoscopic instrumentals on the […]
Ulcer
ULCER Hailing from Kagawa, Japan, they were birthed out of the ashes of the cult Japanese crust punk band Effigy, members playing with over 35 years of crust punk history bring you grinding metallic crust punk for fans of Amebix, Axegrinder and Hellbastard. LIFELESS DARK Boston based crust punk channeling the sound and feeling of […]
Lily Seabird
LILY SEABIRD “Sometimes life gets so dark, it starts to feel like a bad trip,” at least that’s how Lily Seabird reflects on the seasons that led to the making of her new record, Lightspheres on Their Way. Seabird’s third record in as many years for Lame-O Records deals in mortality and reverence for the […]