Jason Urick - Fussing & Fighting

Jason Urick is highly regarded in the Baltimore music and arts scene, through his work in the group WZT Hearts and at the Floristree Space where he has curated many shows and festivals. Fussing & Fighting follows his solo album debut Husbands, and finds Urick pushing his music further forward with new experiments in rhythm and sonic space.

“Phantom drones twirl, drifting in and out of hearing range, cloaked in a faintly menacing electronic buzz… Urick is in complete and utter control of the sonics he commands.” - Baltimore City Paper

“Husbands is a very compelling and enjoyable lis...

Future Islands - In the Fall

Too many bands in the era of buzz and the blog are taken before their time. The spotlight hits hard and finds a group who has not yet developed, not yet put in the work to find their sound and hone it and make themselves better, and just as quickly they’re gone. Future Islands are not one of those bands.

J Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion and Samuel T Herring have been making music together since 2003, and as Future Islands since 2006, putting in the work. Formed as college friends in Greenville, NC, Future Islands relocated to Baltimore after becoming friends with Dan Deacon, an early an...

Tunng - ...And Then We Saw Land

Tunng: always different, always the same. The band we meet, gathered in a cosy room in a Dutch barge on the Thames, are here to talk about a record that is dramatically different to any of their previous three. It’s got a new lyricist and a new lead vocalist. It’s got drums. It’s got synthesizers. It’s got massed sing-a-long choruses. It’s got guitar solos. And rather noticeably it hasn’t got singer, songwriter and Tunng founder Sam Genders. And yet, and yet... this is the exact same group of people who first took the stage for Tunng’s first ever show. Very different, but very much the same. ...

Mi Ami - Steal Your Face

In 2010, pretty much every band on the planet has some dub records at home and a few boutique effects pedals in their “rig.” The rise of Ethiopiques and high-quality afrobeat-etc compilations, pan- genre tastemaker websites, specialty blogs and a general cultural climate of chic, post-”world music” exploration has rendered normal--even mundane--the multi-culti-record-nerd-musician who was part of an iconoclastic, forward thinking avant-garde only a few years back. Legend has it that when Fugazi came on the scene, the punx were shocked at their incorporation of funky basslines and slower tempos...

Trans Am - Thing

Trans Am take time out to talk about their new album, Thing, the process of recording, and how much winning means to them.

Going into this project, how did you feel?
TA: Trans Am felt very positive at first. When we started, we thought we were making a very lucrative soundtrack. Then that fell apart and we started hearing a lot of negativity. Lots of people were coming up to Trans Am, saying, “Trans Am can’t finish this album – you’re all washed up.”

So it’s been a long journey, but we’ve got a veteran mentality. We’ve been through all this before and we kept our head. No...

Lazer Crystal - MCMLXXX

LAZER CRYSTAL is a musical node comprised of three humans and various mechanisms. They are from the city of Chicago, Illinois and have thus far released two limited selections on the collectors imprint HBSP-2X. The first \"Hot Pink BMX\" single was printed in an edition of 300 copies and spray painted by hand, some with custom textile covers. The following \"EP1\" release was even more unique. Lazer Crystal asked several artists to contribute artwork for another 300 copy limited release. The results were that approximately 50 people contributed designs and every single record ended up with...

Future Islands - In Evening Air

Comprised of J. Gerrit Welmers (synthesizers and programming), William Cashion (bass), and Samuel T. Herring (vocals), Future Islands has continued to make passionate music through an electronic medium for the past four years. [Although, the three have been working and performing since the spring of 2003.] They call their music \"Post-Wave,\" taking in part from the emotional fragility of New Wave and coupling it with the power and drive of Post-Punk. 

Their music is spearheaded by Welmers, whose layers of synths and drums create the landscape for Cashion\'s punching-strum style, that pu...

Pontiak - Living

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Daniel Higgs - Say God

SAY GOD is an album of gospel songs and poems as presently received by this Daniel Higgs. Recorded with the help and enthusiasm of David Andrew Sitek, who graciously provided this Daniel Higgs with an environment in which to prosper and enjoy the adventure of recording, or, if you will, the ENSNARING of songs as they migrate through time and mind, that they might be heard many places at once, with the singer absent. Song seeds cast abroad, that their message, THE ADVENT OF THE SONGWAY, the WAY ACROSS, might take root, twist and fruit, light for all. It is the simple hope of this Daniel Hi...

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