Dig Deep : Lars Meijer Talks Hunter Complex, Influences, and ‘Open Sea’

Photos by Isolde Woudstra It doesn’t take long to fall hard for the electro-pop music world of Lars Meijer. Maybe just a song or two. Maybe just the first thirty seconds of a song. His strong ability for melody, propulsive rhythms, and a knack for creating a sound that feels familiar enough that you connect immediately, […]

Thomas Ragsdale : The Pentagram

Thomas Ragsdale seems to be in a constant state of movement. He’s not one to drop an album and savor that feeling of satisfaction and accomplisment, as for an artist like Ragsdale that taste turns bitter if he’s not onto the next thing right away. In 2018 alone Ragsdale dropped four releases; two EPs and […]

Two Fools A Minute

The 80s were a tumultuous time. The threat of nuclear war loomed over our heads thanks to the Reagan/Gorbachev dog and pony show, somebody shot J.R(apparently), pegged pants were all the rage, something about Iran and the Contras, neon became a thing, and the Battle of the Network Stars was cancelled. But probably the most […]

Billow Observatory Ready ‘III: Chroma/Contour’; Listen To “Iris”

Jason Kolb and Jonas Munk have been collaborating both in person and via file sharing from across the Atlantic for over ten years as Billow Observatory. Over those ten years the ambient/minimalist duo have given us a self-titled album in 2012, II: Plains/Patterns in 2017, and now on February 8th Billow Observatory release their their […]

Craig Aalders : Oceanography

Typically I think of the expanse of the Pacific Ocean and I start to feel a little insignificant. Don’t get me wrong, there is an absolute and awe-inspiring beauty in a large body of water like the Pacific, or for even my neck of the woods Lake Michigan. Standing on the shore line at the […]

El Paraiso Records Readies Reissue of ‘Chicago Odense Ensemble’

With a new year comes a new you…and new records. But January is what I call the slow season. Winter hits, things come to a bit of a crawl on the new release front. You’re still a bit woozy from everything that came the year before(and all those year-end lists that crazy people obsessively write.) […]

A Few Words From Management

The new year always starts pretty slow for me. I don’t know what it is, but I find myself lacking in words to type, stories to tell, and music to discuss. It could be that those final couple weeks of December are a huge push to discuss the previous year’s triumphs and put them in […]