April 6, 2025
| Featuring:
Craig Finn
News and Press
March 28, 2025
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Deafheaven
Pitchfork | Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power Album Review
Following a divisively tuneful 2021 album, the California post-metal band returns to its signature sound on its sixth album. But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain.
March 24, 2025
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Alabaster DePlume
The New Yorker | Alabaster DePlume Grapples With It
The saxophonist and jazz poet (real name Angus Fairbairn) hit the jujitsu mat at a Wall Street dojo.
March 7, 2025
| Featuring:
Alabaster DePlume
Pitchfork | A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
On the British saxophonist and poet’s graceful new album, the reminders to savor each day and to forgive oneself feel less like jazz tunes than wordless hymns.
March 7, 2025
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Quest Master
Chicago Reader | Feature: Australia’s Quest Master soundtrack your RPG fantasies at the Empty Bottle
tep into the pixelated mists of Quest Master. Australian dungeon-synth artist Lord Gordith (better known among punks as Gordo Blackers of Steröid) launched Quest Master onto the scene in 2017 with a double cassette titled Lost Songs of Distant Realms, which uses Yamaha and Casio keyboards to evoke nostalgia for 90s RPGs and their epic journeys and battles in eight-bit worlds populated by knights and dragons. The release became a sensation among chiptune appreciators and fantasy enthusiasts, and in 2019 it was reissued on CD and vinyl by Out of Season—one of the first American labels to concentrate on dungeon synth.
March 6, 2025
| Featuring:
Alabaster DePlume
The Guardian | Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole review – stunning sax melodies to silence the cynics
While some listeners might baulk at the earnest spoken-word incantations, you can’t argue with DePlume’s outstanding melodies, played with tremulous vibrato
January 26, 2025
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DITZ
Northern Transmissions | DITZ’s ‘Never Exhale’ is the Product of a Chaotic Two Years
September 27, 2024
| Featuring:
Merce Lemon
Brooklyn Vegan | Merce Lemon on how Lucinda Williams, Joanna Newsom & more influenced her new LP
July 29, 2024
| Featuring:
Dan and Peggy Reeder
TapeOp | Dan Reeder: Building Everything He Needs
Primarily known as a visual artist, Dan Reeder – born in Louisiana but residing in Nuremberg, Germany for four decades – is the epitome of a Tape Op interview subject.
July 3, 2024
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No Party For Cao Dong
Variety | Taiwanese Rockers No Party for Cao Dong Feted With Triple Prizes at Golden Melody Awards
In their 35th edition, the GMAs now link with a music business conference and a concert showcase for breakthrough Mandarin acts.
April 30, 2024
| Featuring:
Jessica Pratt
The New York Times | Jessica Pratt's Timeless Folk Music Is Evolving. Slowly.
March 28, 2024
| Featuring:
Taraneh
Office Magazine | Taraneh's New Age Prayer
Fresh off the release of her third single, “On Repeat”, from her upcoming record, New Age Prayer, Taraneh is ready for the world. The New York City-based artist tells us that she feels as if she’s stepped into a new era, one defined by power and control. Last Saturday, I sat down with Taraneh in her Chinatown apartment, where we delved into her latest, most expansive project yet. We also talk about the “death” of genre, making music for your younger self, and the joy in exploring louder vocals than her typically softer melodies.