Rupert Lally : Where The Dark Speaks

When I was a kid Stephen King was a huge part of my adolescence. I had a King library at my disposal located in my mom and dad’s closet. Tucked away in the top shelf next to dad’s dress shoes and boxes of ancient Polaroids and Instamatic photos was a collection of tattered old paperbacks. […]

Jeff Tweedy : Love Is The King

I had a dream on the last night of our family vacation that I went to Chicago to see a Jeff Tweedy concert. But it wasn’t the usual show in a theater or auditorium. I went to the Tweedy home and was hanging out with Jeff, Sue, his sons Spencer and Sammy, as well as […]

Andy Fosberry : Blair, Maryland

We try to take a family vacation once a year, and quite a few of those vacations over the last ten years have been spent in the deep, sublime woods of Brown County located in southern Indiana. We just returned from that yearly jaunt, this year taking reprieve from the horrors of 2020 in the […]

Kuma : Time Makes Memory Of Us All

Kuma’s musical world on Time Makes Memory Of Us All is a curious one indeed. It feels as if Kuma, a Canadian producer/DJ, is opening a portal to some strange world that’s grappling with a fight between the organic and the synthetic. Moving away from his dubstep roots, Kuma dabbles in the world of ambient […]

Step Out Of Reality With The Psychic Circle; Listen To “View From The Magicians Window Part 1”

UK-based record label Library Of The Occult has been offering up dark, synth-driven music since its introduction this past summer. New music from Dream Division, Ogre, and Timothy Fife has delved into classic Gothic literature, occult themes, D&D, and contact with worlds beyond our own. LOTO has made it its mission to keep the spirit […]

Metz : Atlas Vending

METZ have been making angular swaths of post-punk noise for a few years now. Over the course of three full-lengths and a handful of EPs and singles, the Canadian trio of guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins, bassist Chris Slorach and drummer Hayden Menzies have honed their sound from unhinged anxiety and pent-up rage to an […]

Com Truise Returns With ‘In Decay, Too’; Listen To “False Ascendancy”

Com Truise is one of those artists I can listen to pretty much any time. There’s never really a moment where those big synths, rattling bass, and electro drums don’t wake something in my brain. Maybe it’s like an IV drip of nostalgia into my vein. A portal to the early 80s and a childhood […]

Flyover Sounds : Mari Vander’s “Apathy”

So who is Mari Vander? Well, I can tell you that she’s a singer/songwriter out of the River City, aka Fort Wayne, Indiana. Outside of that there’s not much info. Before the song I’m about to share with you today Vander recorded Lullaby(The Demo Album), which is acoustic demo tracks that have the raw intimacy […]

Fir Cone Children Returns With ‘Waterslide At 7 A.M.’ Out 10/30; Listen To “Panic in The Mansion”

The musical world of Fir Cone Children is a mixture of bittersweet joy and melancholy longing, all wrapped up in a dream punk/shoegaze swirl. Alexander Donat keeps Fir Cone Children as an output for light and life, where his other project Vlimmer works more in post-punk and Gothic shades. While many struggled to hold it […]