Diamanda Galás Vocal Sample Highlighted on New Delerium Single via Metropolis “Into The Light” brings together Canadian electronic pioneers Delerium and American vocal powerhouse Diamanda Galás for a striking new collaboration on Metropolis Records. The track arrives as the lead single from Delerium’s upcoming 16th studio album, Exaudire, due January 22, 2027 across digital and physical formats. Electronic-industrial musician Bill Leeb (read our interview with Bill Leeb) established Delerium in 1987 as a dark ambient side project alongside original co-founder Michael Balch, with Rhys Fulber joining shortly after during their shared tenure in…

Paddy Shine and Chris Haslam on Two Decades of Gnod and Heavy Improv Transmission 431: Interview with Gnod Gnod are a Salford-formed experimental collective founded by Paddy Shine and Chris Haslam. Over two decades, the project has rotated through 30 to 40 members, eschewing fixed lineups in favor of a shifting ensemble that has drawn on repetition, heavy riffs, dub abstraction, and electronic minimalism. Their output spans releases like Infinity Machines, recorded using synths and drum machines through a 10k sound system, to live, guitar-heavy studio sessions. Set for release on October 9, 2026,

The Former Ember Glows Frontman Rerecords His Earlier Song At Montreal Studios Montreal musician Martin Saint releases his single "Endless Bridge" on October 6th. The track is his first output following his spring 2025 album "Seekers". Saint is no stranger to the Montreal music scene. He first made his mark as the lead vocalist and guitarist of Citylake before stepping into the frontman role with The Ember Glows, who called it a day in 2024 after five years together. Alongside his solo projects, Saint continues to collaborate with a diverse circle of Montreal artists, including…

Bonnie Bloomgarden on "Basic Witch" and Death Valley Girls' New Sound Transmission 430: Interview with Death Valley Girls In the aftermath of California’s Eaton Fire, which destroyed vocalist Bonnie Bloomgarden’s home in Altadena, and following the death of her dog Tommy, Death Valley Girls recorded their latest album, Welcome to Earth (released October 9 via Suicide Squeeze). The album expands the core group—drummer Bailey Chapman, guitarist Laena Myers, bassist Alana Amram, saxophonist Sarah Safaie, and the late keyboardist Gregg Foreman—with an ensemble that includes 23 guest vocalists, a local children's choir, jazz singer Gretchen Parlato, and recurring collaborator Laura "The Kid" Kelsey.

Laura Helena Wurth’s monograph brings Astra Zarina’s ground-level urbanism back into focus. Laura Helena Wurth’s monograph offers a crucial corrective to modernist historiography, unearthing the life of Astra Zarina—an architect who understood that cities are built not merely of concrete, but of memory, rituals, and shared meals. In the canon of mid-century modernism, history has long suffered from a structural bias: a relentless obsession with the isolated object, the soaring tower, and the solitary male auteur standing victorious before a skyline of reinforced concrete. To exist within this dominant narrative, an architect had to erect monuments.

Los Angeles outfit Drag Talk share "Would It Kill You" off Drink The Ocean, out October 30 via MNRK Heavy. Retrofuturista presents the premiere of the new video and single "Would It Kill You" by Los Angeles quintet Drag Talk, out now via MNRK Heavy. Built on massive guitar walls, soaring hooks, and breakneck drums, the track offers a preview of their upcoming debut LP, Drink The Ocean. Formed in 2021 from home demos by guitarist Ross O'Carroll, the band includes vocalist Jutty Taylor, guitarists Matt Ripp Bennett…

Former Shudder To Think guitarist Chris Matthews returns with a three-track set on Magic Door Records. Quiz Show premieres the XONO EP on Retrofuturista ahead of its release through Magic Door Records, available as of September 28. Magic Door Record Label · XONO The Montclair, New Jersey-based group features guitarist Chris Matthews, a founding member of Washington, D.C. hardcore act Shudder To Think, alongside bassist Jesse Krakow and drummer Joe Billy III. Chris Matthews revived his songwriting after a 25-year break following a run-in with former Shudder To Think bandmate Kevin March (Guided By Voices, The Dambuilders).

How a chance gym encounter and 1970s audio engineering shaped the band's second full-length record. Transmission 430: Interview with Everyone Says Hi Recorded in Nick Hodgson’s home studio between May and September 2025, Funny Cos It's True is the second full-length from Everyone Says Hi. Following their 2025 self-titled debut, the record swaps solo-driven origins for a tight, collective push, channeling the obsessive 1970s studio precision of 10cc and Steely Dan into sharp, driving indie-pop. On single "Life Isn't Perfect," former Vaccines guitarist Freddie Cowan added 35 guitar tracks post-mix, injecting a dry, angular bite that locks the song into a relentless, kinetic groove.

Eddie Gore preps debut album Eyes Repeating due October 23 on Killphonic Records Making its premiere on retrofuturista, Dazies has launched the single No More Bones alongside a video directed by Skyler Brown. The solo venture is led by Eddie Gore, previously of Future Generations, a band formed with Eric Grossman and Mike Sansevere at Fordham University in 2011. The single pushes forward as the latest teaser for the ten-track debut album Eyes Repeating, due out October 23 via Killphonic Records, following earlier tracks Get Lost and Exposure. The material was built over three years, rooted in fast-paced, six-hour sessions between…

Jimmy Flemion discusses home recordings, tape archives, and Foreign Leisure’s September 2026 reissue. Transmission 429: Interview with The Frogs In April 1980, brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion formed The Frogs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, working with guitar, drums, and dual vocals. Drawing early inspiration from Marc Bolan, David Bowie, and Gary Numan, they initially adapted folk tunes and nursery rhymes into punk arrangements at local venues like The Starship. By 1982, the introduction of their "Death Songs" coincided with a total overhaul of their stage presentation, incorporating bat wings, boas, flashpots, and fog, a visual escalation intended to command attention within a local scene they felt alienated from.

The "Real Life 20th Anniversary Tour" runs across Europe and the UK into 2027 "Real Life Evolution" sends Joan Wasser back into her own debut album, twenty years on, with a different cast in the room Retrofuturista is premiering the video for "Save Me," the track Joan As Police Woman cut with Iggy Pop for her album "Real Life Evolution," out on Reveal Records. Real Life Evolution (Album,2026) by Joan As Police Woman There's more than one "Save Me" here. The album cut has Iggy Pop on it, apparently recorded in a New Zealand hotel room next to a pool, on a day off from his own tour, with nothing more than a portable rig.

Historians and indie songwriters examine 19th-century criminal history in new premiere Bring Your Own Hammer returns with "The Black Maria, O", an unholy historical alliance between Luke Haines and Mike Smalle. Marking a premiere for retrofuturista.com, this new single hit digital platforms via Dimple Discs on September 18, accompanied by a stark animated film by visual artist Jules Hackett. The track excavates an 1887 song of the same name, penned by Irish-American lyricist Edward Harrigan and composer David Braham for the New York musical comedy "McNooney's Visit". Haines and Smalle…

Watch Hallucinations by The Effigies on RetroFuturista TV, then read our interview with the artist. 2026. A curated channel of underground, experimental and alternative music, where every track links to the story behind it.

The XTC songwriter's new solo release lands on the 47th anniversary of 'Making Plans for Nigel' Colin Moulding, founding member and one of the creative minds behind XTC, previews here on Retrofuturista his new solo EP, Want It Bad (The Pep Talks and Playing Fields of Old England), available today on CD through Burning Shed. The release date, September 18th, falls exactly 47 years after "Making Plans for Nigel," the Moulding penned single that gave the band its first UK Top 20 hit in 1979. Featured image: © Geoff Winn…

The band talks Fire Aim Ready, out October 23 on Pravda Records Transmission 428: Interview with The Effigies Fire Aim Ready, the sixth album from Chicago punk institution The Effigies, arrives via Pravda Records on October 23rd, and it lands as both a reckoning and a continuation. It's the band's first record to feature new vocalist Geoff Sabin, stepping in following the death of founding frontman John Kezdy in 2023; a loss that, by the band's own account, left them uncertain whether The Effigies would carry on at all. They did, and the results, tracked quickly at…

"Use Once Then Destroy": Veronica Bianqui's second album lands November 13 Veronica Bianqui, born in Los Angeles and now based in London, has announced her sophomore album Use Once Then Destroy, out November 13, 2026 via NX Records. Retrofuturista is premiering lead single "All My Heroes Are Dead," a genuine banger out today with an accompanying video. The video is also available on the Retrofuturista Video Channel. Far from being a straightforward autobiography, "All My Heroes Are Dead" centers on a fictionalized persona: an intensely rebellious adolescent who dismisses everything as a joke and completely surrenders to the chaos.

The Chicago-based singer discusses Doo Wop In The Dark: A Portrait of Lou Reed, out October 16 on Shipwrecked Industries Transmission 427: Interview with Chris Connelly Four decades into a career built on noise and reinvention, the Edinburgh-born, Chicago-based singer turns Lou Reed's life into an album of covers and original songs. Chris Connelly has been making music for over forty years, from his beginnings with Fini Tribe (read our interview with Chris Connelly on Fini Tribe) in Edinburgh through Ministry, The Revolting Cocks and Pigface (read our interview with Martin Atkins…

Raised On Candy Premieres 'Pickle Eyes' on Retrofuturista Raised On Candy shares 'Pickle Eyes' today in premiere on Retrofuturista, the first single from the New Jersey duo's upcoming second album. Featured image: © Dan Cooper The two-piece is built around Joe Penna on vocals and guitars and Scotty Imp on drums and cymbals. The pair met through a mutual friend more than twenty years ago, but only began working together after Penna's earlier band, Transit Belle, ended around 2005. That collaboration became Buteo, which released one album, toured, and split around 2010.

The Ventilator mastermind on Bar/None's October 9 reissue of his 1996 debut Transmission 426: Interview with Ventilator There's a particular strain of American guitar music that only ever gets made in bedrooms, and Matt Devine made one of its quiet masterpieces in a second bedroom in North Hollywood, on a Tascam 388 he barely knew how to operate. He'd just walked out on Permanent Green Light, the band he'd shared with former Three O'Clock frontman Michael Quercio, tired of splitting songs and vocals down the middle. What followed was Ventilator: a name lifted from the Rolling Stones' "Ventilator Blues," the fan that cooled Keith Richards through the Exile on Main St.

Stephen Ramsay Talks Sequence Three Ahead of the Constellation Records Release Transmission 425: Interview with Light Conductor Light Conductor complete their trilogy this September with Sequence Three, the closing chapter of a project Jace Lasek and Stephen Ramsay began in 2019 with Sequence One, followed by Sequence Two in 2021. Lasek, who also plays in The Besnard Lakes, and Ramsay, formerly of Young Galaxy, formed the duo after meeting at SXSW in 2005. Olga Goreas, also of The Besnard Lakes, has been a fixture of the group's recording and touring lineup ever since.

Shoegaze veterans A Shoreline Dream premiere new single at a rapid writing pace The single "20" premieres today on Retrofuturista, arriving twenty years after A Shoreline Dream's debut album Avoiding the Consequences. The Colorado postpunk-shoegaze act built the song around the anniversary itself, using it to confront the passage of time, the uncertainty of what comes next, and the sacrifices tied to a life spent making music instead of treating the milestone as an occasion for celebration. Featured image: © Ryan Policky "20" hits hard from the start, a cavernous wall of goth-tinged shoegaze that swallows itself in reverb and refuses to sit still, restless in a way few anniversary songs bother to be.

An interview on Quacky, Manhog's freedom, and the rules that govern his world Transmission 424: Interview with Jim Woodring Jim Woodring is an acclaimed cartoonist, fine artist, writer, and toy designer whose singular body of work has spent decades blurring the boundaries between comics, painting, mythology, and dream. He navigated a childhood shaped by vivid perceptual phenomena, later channeling those experiences into a deeply unique artistic vocabulary. After working varied early jobs and contributing to the underground comix scene, he gained widespread recognition for his self-published "autojournal" Jim and his signature creation adventures of Frank, a mysterious figure who wanders through the richly imagined Unifactor, He has developed a visual language that can be at once beautiful, playful, grotesque, and profoundly psychedelic.

The Montreal sound artist on punk beginnings, field recordings and his second Constellation album Transmission 422: Interview with Steve Bates Steve Bates is a Montreal-based sound artist, musician and curator whose recordings move between noise, ambient and field recording, built from tape, analogue electronics and improvised guitar and synth work. He came up through the punk and hardcore scenes of the Canadian Prairies in the 1980s and 90s, running the label Sister Records and hosting the radio show The Dim Coast on CKUW in Winnipeg before relocating to Montreal to work as sound technician and coordinator at Hexagram, Concordia University's media arts research institute.

Whispered vocals, funk guitar and a abrasive solo make up the new Apology Kink single Apology Kink returns with "Good Attention," out September 11 via GIVE/TAKE, premiering today on retrofuturista.com. The song opens on watching and wanting: lyrics built around power and pleasure, delivered in a near-whisper, riding a tight, funk-inflected rhythm guitar. Machine drums and vintage synths do the heavy lifting underneath, thick and a little dirty, before a guitar solo cuts through and the hook locks in and refuses to let go. It's a track that knows exactly what it wants and doesn't waste time getting there.

An interview on the making of "Desiderium," out now on QUSP Transmission 422: Interview with Jacqui Hunt Jacqui Hunt is an Australian vocalist and songwriter. In 1986, in her late teens, she joined Single Gun Theory, an electronic band built around the programming of Pete Carnac, staying with the project through three albums released between 1987 and 1994. The band received an ARIA nomination in the electronic dance category, charted in Spain with "Exorcise This Wasteland," and toured North America with Sarah McLachlan after signing to Nettwerk Records. In the late 1990s Hunt wrote and sang "Euphoria (Firefly)" with Bill Leeb (read our…

South London Industrial Pioneers Portion Control Break Down Their 77-Track Retrospective Transmission 421: Interview with Portion Control Formed in South London in 1979 amidst the immediate debris of post-punk, Portion Control approached electronic instrumentation not as a proxy for traditional musicianship, but as a direct vector for raw, unvarnished sound manipulation. Operating outside conventional industry structures from their early base in Kennington, the group bypassed formal composition in favour of heavy hardware sequencing, aggressive tonal sculpting, and early sampling via systems like the Greengate DS:3. Their work from this era, driven by the harsh, rhythmic frameworks of the 1982 debut…

De-Contouring History Through Sound With Lawrence English Transmission 420: Interview with Lawrence English Lawrence English released The Rest Is My Ghost on 7 August 2026 via Room40, an album built around the concept of "Acid Nostalgia," a term he uses to describe the flattening of the past into empty visual signals. The idea took shape after English came across a series of AI-generated clips set in the 1990s, footage that carried the aesthetic markers of the decade without any of its lived texture; an echo of Simulacra, as he calls it, an advertisement for a product that never existed.

Vancouver Noise-Punk Band PISS Announces "You Made Me / Skin on Linen" Vancouver noise-punk four-piece PISS will release their debut album, "you made me / skin on linen," on October 30, 2026 through Sub Pop worldwide and Paper Bag Records in Canada. The fifteen-track record was recorded in January 2025 with producer Colin Stewart at Hive Creative Labs, and features Taylor Zantingh on vocals, Tyler Paterson on guitar, Gavin Moya on bass, and Garreth Roberts on drums. The band fuses noise-punk, sound collage, and performance art into an unsparing interrogation of systemic trauma and gendered violence.

Nashville songwriter Kyle Ryan delivers an advance look at the September 18th album Cool Featured image: © Emory Brown Carrying faint echoes of The Beatles within its pop setup, 2 of Us combines bossa nova rhythms with bright melodies on a track out September 1st via Easy Does It Records. The single serves as the second preview of the upcoming LP Cool, arriving September 18th, following the previous release SPORTS! The official video premieres today on retrofuturista.com/tv, where it stays in regular rotation. Behind the solo venture Junior Pro…

Cor de Lux's Tim Lusk and Dawn Moraga on Year Of The Horse Transmission 419: Interview with Cor de Lux Cor de Lux release their debut for Ipecac Recordings, Year Of The Horse, on September 18. Formed and based in North Carolina's Outer Banks, away from any indie-rock scene, the band pairs Tim Lusk and Dawn Moraga's vocals over intertwined guitars across nine songs produced by J. Robbins, moving between post-hardcore urgency, shoegaze tones and guitar catharsis that lands harder than either label suggests. The record surfaces a fractured strain of modern American life, from political disillusionment to the friction between individual conscience and inherited belief.

The former Picturehouse and Pugwash guitarist releases his first single in years Duncan Maitland returns to central England roots by way of Dublin. He has lived in the Irish capital since the mid-1990s, working as a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer with a reputation for soft psych songwriting that manages to sound both melodious and slightly haunted. Dummy single edit by Duncan Maitland His new single "Dummy" arrives as the first taste of "Chamberling", his second album, due out in late October. No label is specified in the source material.

Tiny Magnetic Pets Rework Their Own Songs on the Astralux EP Retrofuturista premieres the "Astralux" EP by Tiny Magnetic Pets, three tracks out August 21st, pointing the Irish trio toward a darker, more cinematic sound. The band is Paula Gilmer (vocals), Sean Quinn (keyboards, guitar) and Eugene Somers (drums), working between Dublin and Belfast, joined here by Seamus Quinn on bass. Astralux EP by Tiny Magnetic Pets The lead track, "Lost My Guiding Light (Again)," reworks a song from their second album "Deluxe/Debris." Sean Quinn says the band rearranged it for a Dublin dance festival, it became their live opener, and the 2026 re-recording earned its own title, a nod to Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)." Paula Gilmer ties the song to losing direction, in life, work, faith, relationships, and asks listeners what their own guiding light is in 2026.

Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal on eighteen years of making music together Transmission 418: Interview with Sweeping Promises Sweeping Promises are a post-punk duo from Lawrence, Kansas, made up of Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal, who bonded over a shared love for No Wave and other underground sounds. The two went on to study music together in college, eventually forming Sweeping Promises almost by accident in the fall of 2019, while both were still involved in several other musical projects. Their debut album, Hunger for a Way Out, was released through Feel It Records and quickly caught attention, leading to a deal with Sub Pop.

Four decades into a career built on noise, contradiction and reinvention, Chris Connelly has released "House of 70's," the first single from Doo Wop In The Dark: A Portrait of Lou Reed, out in October through Shipwrecked Industries, distributed by Virtual Label The single was produced by Connelly together with Alan Berliant, his bandmate in Sons of the Silent Age. Its accompanying video, described as adrenaline-fuelled, was made by Someoddpilot Studios and directed by Chris Eichenseer, who founded the Chicago creative studio Some Odd Pilot. The video features…

Between bioengineering nightmares, somatic horror, and the artificial flesh of maternal memory There is a subtly necrotic and deeply disturbing drive running through Leah Hayes's work in Identical, published by Fantagraphics and available now. In an era saturated with sanitized or technocratic narratives about Artificial Intelligence, Hayes performs an almost surgical, visceral gesture: she strips away the myth of humanity and technology to reduce it to an emotional autopsy, a raw parable on the imperfections of flesh and code. Identical operates within a brutal minimalism, almost fatalistic in its trajectory toward inevitable ruin.

The Magic Door Records single pairs an English and French version of the same story. Retrofuturista premieres "The High Life," the new single from French singer-songwriter Laurent Moitrot, out August 18 via New Jersey's Magic Door Record Label. It arrives with a French-language counterpart, "Le Blues du H.L.M.," and the two versions tell the same story from opposite emotional angles. Donne-moi du temps by Laurent Moitrot The song began as something darker. Moitrot wrote "Le Blues du H.L.M." while his marriage was ending, setting it inside an H.L.M., the cheaply built high-rise housing common in France for low-income families.

Cherry Red Records and 30 Hertz release the album on August 14th Jah Wobble and Tian Qiyi are streaming on Retrofuturista ahead of the album's wider release. Mystic Liverpool, The Beatles' Psychedelic Psongbook arrives August 14th via Cherry Red Records and Wobble's own 30 Hertz, preceded by the singles "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Tomorrow Never Knows." The ten tracks draw on The Beatles' most exploratory stretch, with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour" named as reference points. Rather than covers, the songs become a meeting point between Liverpool, China and Mongolia, and between a family's inherited traditions and the dub sensibility running through Wobble's own work.

Brad Gowland reflects on group dynamics, Ann Arbor basements, and rejecting algorithmic art. Transmission 417: Interview with Fling II Fling ii runs out of Ann Arbor, though its members scatter across New Orleans, New York, Baltimore, and Detroit. The band started during a rough patch for its founder, who called a few friends out to Willis Sound in Willis, Michigan for a weekend with no agenda. They walked out with 150GB of tape and a first record. There is no rehearsal, no fixed lineup, only an open call to show up when a session gets booked.

The New Jersey trio premieres a video from their first album in twenty five years Retrofuturista premieres the video for "In Another Life," a song from Deardarkhead's new album The Pendulum Swings, out now on the band's own label, Fertile Crescent Records. It is their first full length in a quarter century. The New Jersey trio, active since 1988, now consists of guitarist Kevin Harrington, drummer Robert Weiss and bassist James Malizia, who stepped in after the album was recorded, replacing Brandon Howard. The band has worked without a singer since…

Ahead of the Face of Collapse deluxe reissue on SKiN GRAFT Records, the drummer looks back and forward. Transmission 416: Interview with Dazzling Killmen There are bands that get filed under hardcore because nobody has invented a better drawer for them, and then there's Dazzling Killmen, a St. Louis trio (later expanded) who spent the early Nineties turning that drawer inside out. Formed almost by accident, when Darin Gray taught Nick Sakes guitar and the pair stumbled onto a teenage drummer named Blake Fleming during a jazz band break, the group fused free improv, prog's angularity and hardcore's violence into something that still refuses easy description.

New Single "Blood Lines" Brings Together Two Generations of Pennsylvania Rock Robin Ross and Carmine Gontz release the single Blood Lines through Pennsylvania label RPM Entertainment on August 11, 2026, premiering on Retrofuturista. Written and performed by Ross with his band Jack's Maze, the track marks the first collaboration between the two musicians and centers on family and generational continuity, an idea Ross has described through the image of bloodlines passing on like sand through an hourglass. The recording features Bill Snyder on guitar, Scott Cowan on melodic guitar, …

Second single from the band's third album, out September 4 on 9x9 Records The Room, the Liverpool post-punk group formed in 1979 by Dave Jackson and Becky Stringer, premiere on Retrofuturista "Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl," the second single from their third studio album, Doom Pop!. The song follows the lead single 'Drill, Baby, Drill!' and arrives on August 12th ahead of the album's release on September 4th via 9x9 Records. The single will be digitally available from August 12th; Doom Pop! is set for release on September 4th…

On Unseen Imprints and Sensory and Tactile Memory of Printmaking: Interview with Koichi Yamamoto Transmission 415: Interview with Koichi Yamamoto Professor Koichi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed printmaker, artist, and educator. His work bridges traditional print craft with boundary-pushing contemporary techniques, and his practice is deeply rooted in the possibilities of the art form. His path has been defined by global curiosity. The international trajectory of Koichi Yamamoto began in Japan, before taking him to Wyoming in 1983. After graduating with a BFA from Portland's Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1992, he spent several formative years in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.

The 1987 album returns remastered on Mute, out October 9th Mute is putting CODE, Cabaret Voltaire's eighth studio album, back into print on October 9th, remastered and pressed on limited "CODIFIED" marble vinyl, alongside a deluxe triple CD carrying two extra discs of period remixes and previously unreleased archive material. The 1987 record, produced by Adrian Sherwood, marked the point where Richard H Kirk and Stephen Mallinder signed to EMI. Two of its singles, "Don't Argue" and "Here To Go," reached the UK Official Singles Chart, making it the band's most commercial release.

The garage rock veteran discusses his new Shove Records album, out June 12, 2026 Transmission 414: Interview with Jon Spencer Jon Spencer has been one of the most recognizable figures in American rock for over four decades, from his days in Pussy Galore with Bob Bert (read our interview with Bob Bert) and Neil Hagerty, through the cult of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the band with which he redefined blues, garage and sleaze rock'n'roll for an entire generation. In 2026 he returns with Songs of Personal Loss and Protest…

Gussie Larkin of Earth Tongue Talks New Zealand Roots and Dungeon Vision Transmission 413: Interview with Earth Tongue There is a hypnotic thrill in watching a two-piece strip rock music down to its bare, vibrating tendons, only to rebuild it into something vast and otherworldly. For Earth Tongue, the Berlin-based, married duo of Gussie Larkin and Ezra Simons, heaviness is an exercise in myth-making and pristine, escapist architecture. Having spent the year tailspinning through a relentless global touring schedule off the back of their third album, Dungeon Vision (recorded alongside garage-rock royalty Ty Segall in Los Angeles and…

Noumier Tawilah Reimagining Icons of Pop Culture through a Distinct Artistic Lens Transmission 412: Interview with Noumier Tawilah Noumier Tawilah is an illustrator, concept artist, comic artist, and art director whose work bridges the worlds of entertainment and publishing, supported by deep expertise in visual storytelling and character design. With a portfolio spanning iconic pop culture reinterpretations and narrative-driven illustration, he excels at combining technical precision with imaginative composition. He is recognized for a commitment to consistent creative evolution, frequently utilizing long-term artistic challenges and ambitious personal projects to refine his craft and push the boundaries of static visual narratives.

Ecce Shnak Talk New Album Dandy Variances, Out 2026 on Records, Man Records Transmission 411: Interview with Ecce Shnak There is a particular kind of New York band that seems to have absorbed the city's contradictions directly into its bloodstream, and Ecce Shnak, formed in the mid-1990s out of the city's experimental scene, wear theirs proudly. David Roush, the group's composer, bassist and baritone vocalist, nearly became a psychotherapist before deciding the inefficiencies of the American mental healthcare system were better channelled into songwriting than absorbed into burnout, an instinct that runs straight through the band's…

EbE404 Premieres CARTHAGE Remix Ahead of Cortisol LP Transmission 410: Interview with EbE404 EbE404 is a Minneapolis-based post-industrial and dark ambient artist. Growing up surrounded by New Wave synthesizers and a mother who worked as an audiologist, the project's sound draws on an early fascination with resonance, timbre, and the physical properties of sound itself, treating listening as a subconscious, environmental experience rather than a fixed composition. The music of EbE404 sits alongside reference points like Coil and Throbbing Gristle, and folds in imagery of technology, surveillance, and algorithmic control set against the anxieties and rhythms of daily life in Minneapolis.

The Noise Who Runs' "The Summer Talking" Premieres on Retrofuturista Ian Pickering, recording under the name The Noise Who Runs, premieres "The Summer Talking" today on Retrofuturista, the third single from his album 'Re: GenX', out via TNWR Records on 8 May 2026. Built around the repeated line "it's just the summer talking," a hook simple enough to stay with you well after the season it names, the song sits inside a period in which sunlight, nostalgia and hope temporarily distort judgment, turning ideas of escape, new beginnings and permanence into illusions that dissolve once the weather changes.