Keith Speaks! Elkhorn – Queen of Blood – Other Worlds Oneida – La Plage – Expensive Air Acid Mothers Temple SWR – Stone Woman & Record – SWR Sly Fang – Get Punched (jam) – Live from Dead Moon Xisco Rojo – She Moved Through the Air Waves – Seaward on the Waves Pat Keen – Windy Day – I Saw a Bug Pearls Before Swine – Uncle John – One Nation Underground Vatic Folk –  Sixth Wav – s/t Keith Speaks! (2) Ryley Walker – The Roundabout (live at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, 3/5/22, recorded by Milwaukee Taper) BBsitters Club – Joel Reprise > Told Ya (live, 8/10/23) – Joel’s Picks Vol 2 Sunbu ..read more

Keith Speaks! Andrew Scott Young, Ryan Jewell, Ryley Walker – Allegro – Post Wook Brigid Mae Power – How You Feel – Live At Coughlan’s Sandy Denny – By The Time It Gets Dark (Acoustic Demo) – I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn – The Acoustic Sandy Denny Kak – Lemonaide Kid – s/t Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – Mt Airy Mind – Planet Lidders Richard Tripps – Between The Morning – Between The Morning The Memory Band – Calling On (original demo) – Never The Same Way Twice Xisco Rojo – Bilagáana – Seaward on the Waves Sean Khan – Solid Air (feat. Rosie Frater-Taylor) – Sean Khan presents the ..read more

On what is their fifth album since 2020, Fuubutsushi really outdid themselves and crafted together a masterwork rich in tenderness and graceful melancholia. Fuubutsushi brings together many of my favorite adventurous composers and free improvisers (many of whom had been featured on RCU many times before), with Chaz Prymek (of Lake Mary) on guitars, bass, double bass and field recordings; Matthew Sage (M. Sage) on piano, keys, vocals, drums and percussion, synths, harmonica, accordion clarinet, field recordings; Chris Jusell on violin, mandolin, marimba, and vibraphone and Patrick Shiroish ..read more

Poster by Mikelyn Rochford Hi folks! Our next garden party show is on 7/6 at 3pm with Matt Check and a very special guest! Doors are at 3, music starts at 3:30. BYOB/BYOF. 16+ only. For tickets, please send $20 on Venmo to @RecordCratesUnited or you can pay at the door. If you don’t have Venmo, you can also send money to RecordCratesUnited@gmail.com on PayPal.  Our address is 51 Burnside Ave, Cranford, NJ 07016. We only have street parking, but please be considerate of our neighbors and try to leave some spaces close to the house ..read more

There are few albums from this year that are are infused with as much joy and good humor as Little Wings’ latest for Perpetual Doom, High on The Glade. Little Wings, A.K.A. Kyle Field, is as sprightly as ever on this LP, playing breezy and mellow folk ditties that are as playful, surreal and jovial as the works of Michael Hurley and Joanathan Richman combined. This amusing atmosphere is perhaps due to Field developing these songs on Dry Gulch Ranch in Malibu, the outdoor set that was famously used in Gilligan’s Island. This is perhaps most evident in the nautical shanty-like “Squire’s Locker ..read more

Big thanks to Milwaukee Taper for the recordings of the Milwaukee Psych Fest. Check out his site www.milwaukeetaper.com. Keith Speaks! The International Disassociation of Aaron Dooley –  Shifting Planes  (live at the Milwaukee Psych Fest) Emergency Group – Improvisation > Mind Screen (live at the Milwaukee Psych Fest) (excerpt) Drew Gardner Band – Conch Shell > Marie Sharp’s (live at the Milwaukee Psych Fest) (excerpt) Elijah McLaughlin and Caleb Willitz – Psych Fest improvisation (live at the Milwaukee Psych Fest) (excerpt) Keith Speaks! (2) Elkhorn – Guinnevere – Live At Th ..read more

If New Jersey devotional music collective, SOMA, were to ever release a cover, it would have to be something really befitting of the group. For their new Bandcamp-only single on Centripetal Force, they picked what might be the most perfect song for the band to adapt: the theme from Jodorowsky’s infamous Holy Mountain. Composed by the legendary Don Cherry, Ron Frangipane, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, “The Tarot Will Teach You” is a meditative Indian-inspired piece that sets the mystical tone for the surreal classic. Between its hypnotic beat, sustaining drones and ritualistic atmosphere, the orig ..read more

West of Roan reimagines the eternal folk tune, “Let No One Steal Your Thyme,” in the most tender and simplest of ways, honoring both the traditional roots of the song as well as the style and artistry of British folk artist Anne Briggs. Available on their excellent new LP, Queen of Eyes, of which is due out on Spinster July 12th, “Let No One Steal Your Thyme” finds the duo of Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter (of Doran, an equally brilliant group, also on Spinster) highlighting the song’s poignant core through their soft harmonies and gentle fingerpicking. Their evocative interpretati ..read more

With every new release, Elijah McLaughlin’s earthen and folk-based sound evolves into something more complex, diverse and daring. Working with long-time friend, collaborator and producer, Caleb Willitz, and a roster of dynamic greats from all across the free improv ecosystem of their Chicago home, McLaughlin created a wholly unique and exciting beast. On the ever effervescent Morning Improvisations / Evening Abstractions, elements of avant-garde jazz, post-rock minimalism and hand-sculpted musique concrète blend together into an extension of the heavily textured thickets of fingerpicked fantas ..read more

Keith Speaks! King Tuff – Sun Medallion – Was Dead Cindy Lee – Stone Faces – Diamond Jubilee FIN – Histamine – Cleats The Aerosol Halos – The Nuclear Futurists – s/t Dog Date – Slug – Hellpod Civic Mimic – Audible Oil – A Strip of Tape to Convey Serenity Katy the Kyng – Shithole – Selfies Of You Screaming Females – Slow Birth – Ugly The Jesus Lizard – Mouth Breather – Goat Joanna Newsom – Sawdust & Diamonds – Ys Mono – Are You There? – You Are There Keith Speaks! (2) The Hampton Grease Band – Halifax – Music to Eat Sun Dial – Slow Motion – Other Way Out Acid Mothers Reynols – Lemurian Ts ..read more