Here’s a split album that will never cease to entertain. Released on The Easy Subculture, The Birth and Death of the Historical Buddha features two experimental acts, Photon Band (AKA Art DiFuria) and xPoemsx (AKA Eric de Jesus of We Have Heaven, the dEALERS, xPlanet & Bethx, Mugface, etc), displaying their eclectic sounds across a single LP side each. The Photon Band side is an exciting grab bag of various disparate sounds all collaged together like a manic mixtape of home-recorded demos and DIY rockers. Much like a classic Guided By Voices EP, you’re treated to punchy in-the-red gar ..read more

Today is Bandcamp Friday again, and even though that site is in its death spiral, thanks to it being recently bought out by the moronically named Songtradr, we still want to help the artists that could benefit from a day like this. So here’s a few selections of great new releases you can pick up today while Bandcamp waives its fees and lets the artists and labels keep each cent that they earn. (Now if only Spotify could learn to do the same, but I digress…) Tacoma Park – “What About Collage” John Harrison and Ben Felton, of the electro kosmische boogie outfit, Tacoma Park, consistently prove ..read more

For a truly one of a kind musical experience, check out the haunting, molten avant-garde sonic typhoon of Kid Millions and Sarah Bernstein’s Forest Park Live. Available through Island House Recordings, this tape captures the adventurous duo conjuring strange moods and eerie atmospheres from New York’s Forest Park Bandshell in 2021. The Oneida drummer attacks his kit with a feverish jazz intensity while Bernstein, a renowned NYC experimental composer and performer, stuns with her primal vocalizations, as she coaxes animalistic shrieks and moans from her reverb-heavy violin. If Yoko Ono, Milford ..read more

Shades of the sensual and the unreal sway and slink throughout the latest single by experimental pedal steel exotica artist, The Far Sound. The Far Sound, A.K.A Rick Pedrosa from Abronia and Federale, appears to be informed by everything from bluegrass to psychedelic rock to even classical Hindustani music. You hear all of these influences speaking at an equally loud volume all across this self-titled LP. This is especially true with the record’s new single, the hypnotic “Finding The Temple.” Check it out: The track features a primordial thumping drum beat, waltzing banjo and pedal steel and ..read more

Guitarist, composer and all around sonic sorcerer Nick Millevoi has returned with a solo record that properly displays his vast talents and deep artistic range. Available from Ropeadope on cassette and MP3, Digital Reaction is the Philly-based artist spreading his wings as wide as possible. With the assistance of several truly inimitable musicians, including bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Lushlife, Anteloper’s Jason Nazary and Ron Stabinsky of the Meat Puppets, Millevoi takes the listener on a sonic journey complete with multiple side tangents and rabbit holes. From industrial rap to nightmarish ..read more

Dorothy Moskowitz, of the pioneering ’60’s experimental rock group, The United States of America, is still pushing boundaries and defining what it is to be an “experimental artist.” Available today from our friends at Tompkins Square Records, Under an Endless Sky is a wholly unique beast. The record finds the legendary Moskowitz combining her creative forces with the equally adventurous electronic composer Francesco Paolo Paladino and composer and writer Luca Chino Ferrari. Together, along with a crack team of string and woodwind players and percussionists, they sculpted an alien soundscape fu ..read more

If you ever wanted to imagine what it would sound like to put Neil Young in a space rock guitar duo, then Figure/Ground is the record for you. Released in June on Ramble Records, Henry Kaiser and Anthony Pirog’s guitar duo album is a conceptual auditory art piece. Based upon the perceptual grouping of Figure/ground organization, of which, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is the perception “of images by the distinction of objects from a background from which they appear to stand out, especially in contexts where this distinction is ambiguous.” You know, this lady/these ladies. Kaiser and Pir ..read more

If you’re going to buy any album on Bandcamp Friday this week, be sure to make it Centripetal Force’s abortion rights benefit record, My Body, ‘Tis of Thee II. The good heads at Nashville’s great Centripetal Force label put together this cracking collection of songs to aid Shout Your Abortion, an organization that works to normalize abortion and elevate safe routes to access, regardless of legality. With previously unreleased tracks from a diverse selection of styles and genres inspired by the striking down of Roe v. Wade, including works by familiar names like Eve Maret, Elkhorn and Jeffrey A ..read more

Finally, a band that recognizes and appreciates the weird and enigmatic world of exotica records. Grassy Sound is a project lead by Nick Millevoi and Ron Stabinksy of the Meat Puppets that resuscitates life back into the LPs you’ll find in the dollar section of your local record store. Elements of cheap-o surf rock, budget bin ’60s exotica and jazzy mid-century film scores are all fused together and given a post-rock makeover. If you could imagine Dick Dale tunes or laidback Bernard Hermann soundtracks being infected by red-hot shredding and sketchy carnival Hammond C-3 organ work, then y ..read more

You can knock out your drone, ambient and fingerstyle guitar fixes all in one go with Eric Arn’s Misuse live mix. Available through the great Ramble Records, this album is a collage of Arn performing across Europe between 2014 and 2015. Throughout the single 50 minute track, you’ll hear the former Crystalized Movements member slide from acoustic fingerpicking abstractions to shrieking noise and cosmic storms of murky electric guitar meditations. This is the kind of album you’ll want to listen to to escape from the world around you. Just turn off your lights, lay back on the couch and allow you ..read more