Ahead of early October release of their debut collaborative album Leaving None But Small Birds, The Body and BIG|BRAVE have unveiled the resolute, yearning single "Blackest Crow".

Listen to "Blackest Crow" now

The loping album opener implements gusts of violin and harmony against the bedrock of a droning riff and shruti box that subtly shifts timbre, embodying the longing and dedication of two lovers forced apart over vast landscapes.

Leavning None But Small Birds is available to pre-order now on limited-edition blue vinyl, with special merch designs also available. 

Following the announcement of her forthcoming new album Unfamiliar Minds, out January 28th, 2022, Setién has shared brooding new single "Situation".

Listent to "Situation" now

Reflecting on the confusion and uncertainty of the past year with cautious optimism, Setién’s stately piano and enchanting vocals provide a window into her own inner journey of the past 18 months. Delivered with a striking intimacy, listening to “Situation” feels like sitting across from the artist at the piano in her home where she composed the piece.

Unfamiliar Minds is available to pre-order now on limited-edition colour LP now, huge recommend for fans of Colleen and John Parish.

 

Double Dagger, the legendary Baltimore trio of vocalist Nolen Strals, bassist Bruce Willen, and drummer Denny Bowen, have announced a weekend of reunion shows in Baltimore. Almost 10 years to the day after their final show and initial disbandment, Double Dagger will be playing The Ottobar on Friday, October 15, and Current Gallery on Saturday, October 16, 2021.

In celebration of the upcoming reunion, on Oct. 1st Double Dagger will be releasing a digital version of their 7" Sophisticated Urban Living, the Contemporary Conveniences Edition, which collects eleven unreleased and rare recordings from 2008 on a new digital-format album.

Preorder / listen to "Luxury Condos for the Poor (extended version)”

Captured a year after the smart fury of Ragged Rubble (Stationary (Heart) Recordings) and a year before the more expansive and introspective MORE (Thrill Jockey), these songs reveal the band in an urgent and intensely creative period.

Recorded on a cassette 4-track in Double Dagger's Baltimore practice space in the Copycat Building, the album’s first nine tracks reverberate with the raw noise and energy of a DIY punk show as well as the freshness of the then-newly-written music. With vocals tracked while the lyrical ink was still wet on the paper, these recordings document the band’s songwriting process and include the first-recorded versions of many songs that would later appear on the MORE LP and the Masks EP. Despite, or perhaps because of, the rawness of the 4-track format, Double Dagger’s excitement about the then-new material shines through loud and clear. As proof of their power, these demo recordings were instrumental in Thrill Jockey's decision to sign the band.

Three tracks from this recording session appeared on Double Dagger’s Sophisticated Urban Living 7-inch EP (Terra Firma Records 2008), highlighted by the single they have shared “Luxury Condos for the Poor (extended version)”, the definitive recording of this anti-gentrification, class-war anthem — which appeared just in time for (and perhaps anticipated) the 2008 housing market collapse. Along with the first taping of "No Allies” and the noise-track “Artmachine,” this marks the first digital release of these recordings.

The album’s last two live tracks come from a particularly rowdy show in the studio of University of Maryland’s WMUC on the long-running Third Rail Radio program, and captures one of the first performances of “The Lie/The Truth” that would later appear on MORE.

Sophisticated Urban Living, the Contemporary Conveniences Edition is available to pre-order now, and first single "Luxury Condos for the Poor (extended version)” is streaming on our site now.

Zedek and co share two very different sides to their latest longplayer.

Listen to "Tolls" and "Queasy" now

Where “Queasy” thunders and thrashes in the face of intolerance and ignorance, “Tolls” takes a more elegiac tone, labelmate and longtime friend Helen Money adding rich cello tones and stately piano figures that highlight the beauty and intricacy of Zedek’s arrangements.

Thalia Zedek Band's Perfect Vision is available to preorder now, alongside the reissue of Zedek's critically acclaimed first solo album Been Here and Gone.

With just over a week to go until the release of their debut album as a duo Lost Futures (and close on the heels of Tyler’s excellent score for Kelly Reichart’s First Cow), guitarists Anderson and Tyler capture the striking vistas of Northern Arizona on their transportive, cinematic new single.

Listen to "At the Edge of the World"

Inspired by the inescapable rhythmic momentum of cumbia, Anderson and Tyler drum up powerful hypnotic grooves with the help of string player Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez’s staccato jabs and the clicking scrapes of Patricia Vázquez Gómez’s quijada.

Capturing the feeling of riding through the desert, Anderson explains: “The name comes from a time many years ago when I was riding a horse in Northern Arizona and we were galloping straight to the edge of a deep arroyo. I was totally not in control , and I didn’t know if the horse was going to turn at the last minute or if it was going to just sail over the edge with me on it’s back.”

Absolutely spellbinding. Lost Futures is out on August 27th - with the purple LP version already sold out, make sure you grip the new blue LP pressing before that goes too. 

Sorry-not-sorry to all the Bruce fans out there, BUMMER come out swinging this week with the second single from their debut Dead Horse, taking aim at the overfarming and overproduction that have devastated the midwest, as well as stadium rock.

Listen to "I Want To Punch..." now

Lurching and swinging like a pendulum of pure contempt, this one’s for everyone that’s seen the natural world around them devastated by corporate greed or had to pay 100 bucks for the privilege of sitting in the nosebleeds and getting charged half that for a beer and a hotdog.

Dead Horse is out October 1st, and is available to pre-order now, including super limited-edition t-shirt and LP bundles.

Ahead of the release of their blistering new album Venus on Friday, July 23rd, the Brooklyn trio have shared the new video for "Love Song #2".

Watch the video now

Combining footage of the open road, filmed by guitarist/vocalist Dan Friel's long-distance trucking cousin with shots of the band performing from lockdown, the "Love Song #2" invokes the turbulence of trying to maintain relationships across time and distance while ultimately taking a hopeful stance, highlighting our tenacity to stay connected against all odds.

 

Friel elaborates: "The song and video are inspired by an interview that the BBC did with my cousin Amy and her husband Victor about her work as a trucker in the midwest during the COVID pandemic, being away from her family in Georgia, feeling “amputated”, and finding ways to stay connected." Together, the trio embody the acceleration of life's momentum, the tempo ratcheting each time Friel intones "It's all speeding up now, It's all flying by".

Venus is available to preorder now on limited edition 'space is the place' green vinyl, and is out in stores everywhere on Friday 23 July.

 

With shows finally on the horizon after months of waiting, here's a one-stop round-up of all our artists' upcoming shows:

Eye Flys
Dec. 1 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls Funhouse #
Dec. 2 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *
Dec. 3 - Detroit, MI - Sanctuary *
Dec. 4 - Chicago, IL - Reggies *Dec. 5 - Columbus, OH - Spacebar *
Dec. 6 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR *
Dec. 7 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
Dec. 8 - Asheville, NC - Asheville Music Hall *
Dec. 9 Raleigh, NC - The Pour House *
Dec. 10 - Harrisonburg, VA - Golden Pony *

# w/ Inter Arma
* w/ Inter Arma, Youtja, Yashira

The Fiery Furnaces
Sept. 10 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

Lightning Bolt

Sept. 17 - Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
Sept. 18 - Detroit, MI - El Club
Sept. 19 - Columbus, OH - Skully’s Music Diner
Sept. 20 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
Sept. 21 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
Sept. 22 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge
Sept. 23 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall
Sept. 24 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Fest
Sept. 25 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
Sept. 26 - Portland, OR - Star Theater
Sept. 29 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
Sept. 30 - Oakland, CA - The New Parish
Oct. 1 - Los Angeles, CA - Don Quixote

Marisa Anderson/William Tyler
Sept. 12 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Sept. 13 - Seattle, WA - The Tractor
Sept. 30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden w/ Emmylou Harris
Oct. 4 - Santa Rosa, CA - Luther Burbank Center for the Arts w/ Emmylou Harris
Oct. 19 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
Oct. 21 - Chicago, IL - Constellation
Oct. 22 - Milwaukee, WI - Acme Records
Oct. 23 - Galien, MI - The Storehouse

The Soft Pink Truth
Sept. 10 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

Thalia Zedek Band
Aug. 21 - Keene, NH - Nova Arts
Sep. 2 - Ridgewood, NY - TV Eye
Sep. 3 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East w/ Helen Money, Chris Brokaw Rock Band, Hilken Mancini & Chris Colbourne
Sep. 17 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s w/ Live Skull
Oct. 3 - Allston, MA - O’Brien’s w/ Andrew Cohen, Honey Radar

Upper Wilds
Sept. 2 - Ridgewood, NY - TV Eye w/ Thalia Zedek Band, Helen Money