Japanese Breakfast
JAPANESE BREAKFAST After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills — an innovator of uncommon subtlety, known for his work with everyone from […]
Cameron Winter (of Geese)
CAMERON WINTER While on a grueling, year-long tour with his band Geese, Cameron Winter recorded the bulk of his debut solo album in a succession of hotel room closets, singing into the built-in microphone on his MacBook. Staying awake for several days at a time to keep up with his band’s non-stop schedule, Winter’s newest […]
Midrift
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Bay Faction
BAY FACTION Borne out of an online message board, Bay Faction emerged in the Boston DIY scene in 2015 with the debut of their self-titled record. It was the first release on Counter Intuitive Records with the band’s album pressed on highly coveted vinyl. Following its release, Bay Faction spent 2 years rigorously touring nationwide, developing a cult-like following. […]
Mind’s Eye
MIND’S EYE Mind’s Eye are in the midst of a career-making year, including their first US headline tour (sold out shows in Orange County, San Diego, Phoenix, and LA @ El Rey), support tours with late night drive home and Hockey Dad, and nearing 70 million global streams. Over the course of the past two […]
Mustafa
MUSTAFA Dunya, the title of Mustafa’s masterfully crafted and breathtakingly tender full-length debut, roughly translates from Arabic to “the world in all its flaws.” It’s a lofty subject for a young songwriter, but as with every theme at the heart of the Sudanese-Canadian artist’s work—from religious devotion to childhood trauma, gang violence to romantic intimacy—he […]
Jane Remover
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Mdou Moctar (acoustic)
MDOU MOCTAR If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. Listen to […]
Alan Sparhawk (of Low)
ALAN SPARHAWK Alan Sparhawk has always been a prolific, protean musician. A restless soul eager to explore unfamiliar sonic and psychic terrain. Though he’s obviously (and justifiably) best-known for his thirty years as frontman of the legendary band Low, a look at Sparhawk’s many side projects across that same span of time shows him experimenting […]
The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE Celebrating the tenth anniversary of ‘Harmlessness’, performing the album in its entirety.
