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Harmony Index's dreamy debut album Lights On arrives tomorrow on Peak Oil sub-label FO. A key player in Los Angeles' DIY underground, Nico Leibman aka Harmony Index is a multi-instrumentalist-songw...

from the album Froggy

Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia Records has grown into a home for guitar outliers including Shane Parish, Ava Mendoza, Chuck Roth and Cyrus Pireh, culminating in the glorious overload of Four Louies Live. During the pandemic, guitarist Kris Gruda spent his breaks from a job at a North Carolina kombucha factory sitting in his car with a travel guitar. He’d prop up his phone and fiddle with jazz standards, Coltrane and Ornette Coleman tunes, improvs, tiny works, most barely a minute lon...

The recent AKP Recordings release CIANI/ORKEST places Ciani’s Buchla 200e inside the 50-piece Metropole Orkest and four-channel sound. On Oct. 19, 2022, Suzanne Ciani, whose half-century conversati...

Sometimes professional failure isn’t your fault.

The Ex Hideout Block Party Chicago, IL September 9th, 2006 Recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive. Source: Realistic PZM Mics...

Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments

By the mid-1970s, Herbie Hancock had left bop and post-bop behind as he grew increasingly fascinated with electric keyboards and early synthesizers. Long a genre-straddling innovator, Hancock embraced instrumental funk and rhythm-powered experimental avenues on his 1975 album Man-Child and, a year later, Secrets. With a secure, fruitful relationship with Columbia Records, Hancock set about changing the sound and vibe of jazz. He’d also built a stellar band: ...

In Krautrocksampler, his great book about German cosmic music, the musician, collector and writer Julian Cope describes the sensation of being a fan of Can, Neu!, Cluster, Amon Düül and other bands as their records were originally being released: “Albums were impossible to judge as they came out because they defied analysis alongside anything else but other Krautrock.” ...

In Sheep’s Clothing announces the long-awaited vinyl pressing of Marc Leclair’s beloved 2005 album Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes. The album will also be available on streaming for the first time via...

New records on AKP Recordings trace the evolving dialogue among an expert group of players. To get a better sense of Matthew Sage and Chaz Prymek’s new album Shelter, it helps to str...

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