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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.

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 | 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.

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 | Featuring: DITZ

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

January 22, 2025 | Featuring: DITZ

Stereogum | Band to Watch: DITZ

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 15, 2024 | Featuring: Worlds Worst

Stereogum | Worlds Worst – “Motor Mouth”

Last year, we named Worlds Worst one of the Best New Bands of the year thanks to their gripping self-titled debut. The Salt Lake City grungy indie rock crew is back with "Motor Mouth" today.

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.

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

April 30, 2024 | Featuring: Jessica Pratt

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

April 24, 2024 | Featuring: Vegyn

PAPER | Witness Vegyn's Quiet Euphoria

Vegyn is a mysterious entity. The London-based musician and producer, born Joseph Thornalley, has made quite the name for himself in the world of ambient electronic music. Aside from his own musical oeuvre, Thornalley has found himself in rooms with some of hip-hop and pop’s biggest names like Travis Scott, JPEGMafia, Kali Uchis, even producing some of the most heavy-hitting tracks on Frank Ocean’s era-defining Blonde and Endless.

April 15, 2024 | Featuring: Vegyn

Rolling Stone | Who’s Vegyn? And How Does He Make Such Subtly, Utterly Beautiful Electronic Music?

Interviewing Vegyn isn’t easy. After three months of back-and-forth, I’m finally given a time to meet him on a gray day in early March at a coffee spot in east London. I’ve been eager to make this happen. Vegyn’s career is one of the most impressive in modern music, distinguished by collaboration, style, and a fair amount of mystery.

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.

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