Paten Locke

Before he passed away in 2019 from cancer, Jacksonville, Florida based rapper/producer/DJ Paten Locke, aka DJ Therapy, recorded a whole bunch of music, lo-fi hip-hop, dusty beats, and stoned verses.  The posthumous album "Americancer" dropped in 2022, and now we've got the sequel, "Dance on My Grave."  Check out the album opening "Canseco" below and get the 2LP here from Full Plate.

The KVB Remixed by A Place To Bury Strangers

Here's A Place To Bury Strangers remixing The KVB's "Dead of Night" from this year's "Tremors" LP in case you need something...anything to take your mind off things if even just for a couple of moments.  Check the track out below and download it here from Invada.

GAEREA

Next month, god willing, i'm going to get to see Zeal & Ardor perform in Austin along with opening act Zetra.  The other opening act is the masked Portuguese metal band GAEREA who just dropped their new album "Coma" last month, a blistering mix of black and death metal.  Check out the very appropriately and timely titled track "Hope Shatters" below and get the LP here from Season of Mist.

Daily Jam - Someone to Love

Before she was in Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick was the lead singer of short-lived San Francisco psych rock band The Great Society.  And that band recorded the original version of "Somebody to Love," originally titled "Someone to Love."  It's a cool little sonic artifact.  Check it out below, our Daily Jam.

Mount Eerie

Last Friday, Phil Elverum released a new album under his Mount Eerie moniker with the absolutely epic and sprawling "Night Palace."  I haven't had a chance to sit with the album in its entirety yet (it weighs in at 26 tracks and 81 minutes), but it feels like it may be something of an all-timer.  Check out the wonderful fuzzy and melancholy "I Walk" below and get the LP here from P.W. Elverum & Sun.

Daily Jam - Grand Canyon

Last month, my wife and i were fortunate enough to catch night one of The Magnetic Fields performing the entirety of their magnum opus "69 Love Songs" for its 25th anniversary.  These songs were a big part of the early days of our relationship when we started to dating, so there was a little bit of a feeling of everything coming full circle.  Anyway, the show was fantastic, and has had me relistening to it all the last couple of weeks.  So here's a track from volume two.  Listen to "Grand Canyon" below, our Daily Jam.

FACS

Angular Chicago post punk band FACS have a new record coming our way in February.  That's excellent news on its own since they're a great band, but it's also notable as the last album the late, great Steve Albini recorded and engineered before his unexpected death earlier this year.  Pre-order "Wish Defense" here from Trouble In Mind, and listen to the punchy title track below.  RIP Steve.

White Poppy

Dreamy, experimental artist White Poppy completes her "Paradise Gardens" trilogy with new album "Ataraxia," a lush and whimsical mix of bedroom shoegaze, bossa nova, new age, and lo-fi electronic hum.  The mix of sounds and styles makes for an ethereal listen.  Check out "Soul Utopia" below and get the LP here from Not Not Fun.

Daily Jam - You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling

I'm not super versed in the greater works of The Righteous Brothers, outside of those two main singles.  But man, those two songs are absolute monsters.  Here's one of them.  Listen to "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" below, our Daily Jam.

ML Wah

Here's some new transcendent cosmic jazz and drone from ML Wah, the project of Maine artist Matt LaJoie.  "Living Space," featuring Wednesday Knudsen, kind of sounds and feels like disintegrating, gradual fading away atom by atom, cell by cell.  Listen to the track below and get the new "Sight Unfolding" album here from Flower Room.