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May 2, 2025 | Featuring: Kassi Valazza

Stereogum | The Story Behind Every Song On Kassi Valazza’s New Album From Newman Street

Valazza is a songwriter's songwriter, the kind of lyricist who makes it embarrassing to describe her with such a cliché.

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May 1, 2025 | Featuring: Kassi Valazza

UNCUT | Kassi Valazza – From Newman Street

Cross-country travels with a young folk artist searching for stable ground

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April 6, 2025 | Featuring: Craig Finn

Rolling Stone | How Craig Finn Made the Seventies L.A. Record of His Dreams

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March 28, 2025 | Featuring: 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.

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March 24, 2025 | Featuring: 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.

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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.

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March 7, 2025 | Featuring: 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.

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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

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January 26, 2025 | Featuring: DITZ

Northern Transmissions | DITZ’s ‘Never Exhale’ is the Product of a Chaotic Two Years

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January 22, 2025 | Featuring: DITZ

Stereogum | Band to Watch: DITZ

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September 27, 2024 | Featuring: Merce Lemon

Brooklyn Vegan | Merce Lemon on how Lucinda Williams, Joanna Newsom & more influenced her new LP

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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.

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July 3, 2024 | Featuring: 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.

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May 4, 2024 | Featuring: Jessica Pratt

The Los Angeles Times | Jessica Pratt, out of the L.A. underworld and into a (gentle) wall of sound

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April 30, 2024 | Featuring: Jessica Pratt

The New York Times | Jessica Pratt's Timeless Folk Music Is Evolving. Slowly.

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