On her new solo LP, guitarist Ava Mendoza takes you on a personal journey down rusted railways of distorted solos, passionate vocals and elemental reimaginings of the blues. Mendoza is unquestionably one of today’s most unique and unconventional guitar goddesses, blazing her own path between the worlds of jazz, rock and the avant-garde, on jaw-dropping ..read more

For a meditative listen, seek out Spirits Align, by Australian sound sculptor and improvisational artist, The Man from Atlantis. Available through Ramble Recordings, this relaxing record was born during the bleak days of the pandemic, and after receiving the expert tutelage of Indian Slide master, Manish Pingle. This need for catharsis and escape, as well ..read more

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