Heel

Here's some new shoegaze out of College Station, Texas of all places.  Aggieland.  Check out Heel and "Honeycomb" below and download the band's "Segmentation" album here.

Daily Jam - Blank Generation

A week later and most of my covid symptoms are gone, but the main one that still remains is a general feeling of exhaustion.  I'll take the garbage to the curb and feel like i just ran a marathon.  It sucks.  Anyway, here's an old track from Richard Hell & The Voidoids for your Sunday.  Listen to "Blank Generation" below, our Daily Jam.

Inner Magic

Adam Miller project Inner Magic just dropped a couple of new dreamy tracks for our listening pleasure, and the A-side "Underground" finds him reunited with his former Chromatics bandmate Ruth Radelet on vocals.  Check it out below and get it here from the artist.

Daily Jam - Grendel

Over the last several months, i've been going through old CD's, LP's, and downloads and listening to a bunch of music i haven't listened to in years.  To be honest, Sunny Day Real Estate's "Diary" has never been too far from my ears for over 30 years now, but a few weeks ago, i listened to it from start to finish for the first time in a long time, and i was immediately a shy, insecure 15-year old all over again.  I don't want to be so maudlin as to say that the album "saved me" or whatever...but it was certainly a life raft of sorts for those days.  Here's the penultimate track "Grendel," our Daily Jam.

Ingrina

Here's some almost cosmic post-metal from French band Ingrina.  New album "Nåværende Lys" is out now.  Get it here from Medication Time Records and listen to the dark, abyssal "Time" below.

NIMF

Irish experimental artist NIMF combines dark ambient tones, dungeon synth vibes, and old, worldly folk music to craft a fantasy sonic world on new album "Sirnoscape."  And opening track "Solar Excess Sacrificial Ecstasies (Willie O' Winsbury, Sumer is icumen in)" completely immerses you in that world.  Check it out below and pre-order the album here from the artist.

Friday Horror Trailer - The Chill Factor

AKA "Demon Possessed."

Daily Jam - C'mon Collapse

Here's a track from a post-Failure/pre-reunion side project of Ken Andrews for your Friday.  Listen to "C'mon Collapse" by ON below, our Daily Jam.

Ana Roxanne

Here's a longing new track from ambient and electronic artist Ana Roxanne.  Piano ballad "Keepsake" is a stark and yearning piece comprised of piano, voice, and just the right amount of ambient microphone hiss.  Check it out below and pre-order the upcoming "Poem 1" LP here from Kranky.

Billy Fulmer

With Beak> seemingly on hiatus, as a live band at least, the prog trio's Billy Fulmer is setting off for a solo adventure with his upcoming album "Fragments."  Our first taste is the wonderful mix of electronics and krautrock on "Rummer."  Listen to the track below and pre-order the album here from Invada.

Magic Wands

LA's Magic Wands have that sound that works its way to the very center of my psyche: kinda shoegaze, kinda darkwave, kinda lo-fi, kinda death rock.  Just cool, cool stuff all around.  Check out new single "Wishing Well" below and download it here from Metropolis Records.

Slow Dancing Society & City of Dawn

It's not even 10AM here yet, but i'm listening to the moodiest of midnight jams right now with "A City Asleep," a track from "The Dream Season," a collaborative LP between the excellently named Slow Dancing Society (Drew Sullivan) and City of Dawn (Damien Duque).  The album is a sleepy mix ambient electronica and subtle noirish vibes, a sonic picture of a city after dark.  Check the track out below and pre-order the download here from Past Inside the Present.

Daily Jam - Winterlong

Here's the Pixies covering Neil Young just because i love you.  Listen to "Winterlong" below, our Daily Jam.

White Flowers

UK band White Flowers have a new album heading our way in May.  Check out the delightfully catchy dreampop jam "Thinking of You" below and pre-order the "Dreams for Somebody Else" LP here from State51.

Rafael Anton Irisarri

"Points of Inaccessibility" is the latest from ambient composer Rafael Anton Irisarri.  The album originally came together as a performance art piece with visuals from Dutch media artist Jaco Schilp put on in the Netherlands at Uncloud Studio, a space located inside a former forensic psychiatric prison.  Check out the cold soundscape of "Signals from a Distant Afterglow" below and get the LP here from the artist.

Alabaster DePlume

Recorded during the middle of his tour last year with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes, saxophonist and composer Alabaster DePlume is dropping new EP "Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue" this spring, an epilogue of sorts to last year's "A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole."  Check out the wonderful new song "It's Only Now Once (Elbit Systems Windowpane)" below and pre-order the download here from International Anthem.  Also, be on the lookout for a limited vinyl pressing in April on Record Store Day.

Greg Weeks

Pennsylvania based psych artist Greg Weeks (Espers) dropped his latest solo effort, "If the Sun Dies," last month, bits of folk and Americana splashed in acid.  Check out the title track below and grab the LP here.

Touch Girl Apple Blossom

And now for a little jangle pop from Austin's Touch Girl Apple Blossom.  The band's new album "Graceful" is due in May.  Pre-order it here from Perennialdeath and listen to the sunshiny pop of "The Springtime Reminds Me Of..." below.

Daily Jam - In Your Veins

I've been sick the last few days, and it turns out i have covid.  Boooooo!  The wife has it too, but somehow the kids are both negative.  It's going to be a trial keeping it that way.  Masking at home and limited interactions for the foreseeable future.  For the moment though, while they're a way, here's some music from Swedish rock band The Soundtrack of Our Lives.  Listen to "In Your Veins" below, our Daily Jam.

Failure

We truly do live in an awful timeline, but one thing that it does have going for it is that '90s alt-rock band Failure are back together and releasing new music on the regular.  And today we get the word that new album "Location Lost" will be hitting our ears in April.  Check out new track "The Air's on Fire" below and pre-order the download here from the band or the vinyl here from Hello Merch.

Natural Magic

Here's a mellow mix of psychedelia, krautrock, and space rock from Portland, Oregon duo Natural Magic.  "Don't Look Back" feels like coming down, or maybe like something's just about to take off.  Pretty groovy stuff to listen to whilst light-headed from the flu.  Check the track out below and get the new "II" LP here from Optimo Music.

Nashpaints

Dublin artist Finn Carraher McDonald makes music as Nashpaints and just dropped the gorgeous new album "Everything Good Is Called Molly."  The record is a collection of dreamy, out-of-time, spectral pop, lullabies for daydreams and hazy memories.  Check out the absolutely lovely "23" below and grab the album here from MirrorWorld.

Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest

Way back in 1995, War Child UK put together the "Help" benefit album to raised funds to care for children in war zones.  It's awful that we still need to do this, but the charity is at again with the upcoming "Help(2)" out next month via Beggars Banquet.  The lineup on this thing is astounding: Beth Gibbons, Depeche Mode, Pulp, etc.  But today, check out "Flags" from Damon Albarn, Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest.  Listen below and pre-order the album here.  All proceeds go to War Child UK.

Daily Jam - Carpet of Horses

My body is slowly trying to get on the mend, but i'm still feeling like a ghost, weak, light-headed, and floaty.  Gonna try to focus on some music and center things a bit.  Here's the opening track from Chicago band Red Red Meat's under appreciated 1995 album "Bunny Gets Paid."  Dig on the dusty, alt-country-tinged "Carpet of Horses" below, our Daily Jam.

Molina

Denmark's Molina dropped her new track "Golden Brown Sugar" a few days ago, and it's a strange and dreamy little piece of alt-rock.  Check it out below and download it here from Escho.

One Wax Wing

Okay boys and girls, let's dig on some bedroom electronica from Austin's One Wax Wing, the electronic side project of Grand Ephemeris's Jason Harrison.  "Let Slip" feels kind of like a mix of the crate-digging trip-hop sounds of the late '90s, the indie electro-folk vibes of the early '00s, and the chillwave blitz of the early '10s, at once wholly familiar and brand new.  Check out the album opening "Crate Diggers Local 227" below and download the whole EP here from the artist.

Full disclosure, i am friends with the artist.

Midding

Here's some messy, lo-fi post punk from UK band Midding and their new ".44 EP."  Check out the noisy, sluggish "All for You" below along with its positively exalting ending and get the 12" release here from Tough Love.

Powerplant

UK post-punk group Powerplant get weird on their upcoming new album "Bridge of Sacrifice."  Check out the ominous and oozing acoustic track "The Fork" below for confirmation.  Then pre-order the album here from Arcane Dynamics.

Wet Tuna

Vermont psychedelic band Wet Tuna, the project of Matt Valentine (the MV of psych duo MV & EE), just dropped new album "Vast" for our listening pleasure.  Joined by longtime bandmate Erika Elder (EE), the album is an often surreal psychedelic trip.  Dig on the slinky, groove-laden haze of "Rural Glam" below and get the LP here from Three Lobed Recordings.

Daily Jam - Bird's Eye View

Still feeling under the weather, which i guess is just the polite way of saying that i feel like total dogshit.  Here's a quirky little instrumental from Quasi to try and make things better.  Listen to "Bird's Eye View" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Hazey Jane II

For Valentine's Day, i got the flu.  It sucks, and i'm about to go back to bed.  But first, here's some Nick Drake.  Listen to "Hazey Jane II" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Rescue

You may know them as Thee Oh Sees, or The Ohsees, or Osees, and so on and so forth for all eternity.  But first, they were OCS, and they released some very cool, lo-fi, psych-folk for our listening pleasure.  Listen to an early track from the band, "Rescue," below, our Daily Jam.

Friday Horror Trailer - The Black Phone

 

Daily Jam - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More

I've had a real bitch of a week this week and last, so i'm taking a few days off to recover at an undisclosed location with some water slides.  Hazaa!  In the meantime, listen to some classic Mudhoney for me.  Dig on "Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" below, our Daily Jam.

The Melvins & Napalm Death

A collaborative album by The Melvins and Napalm Death makes so much damn sense, there's a part of me that just assumes it's happened before.  But i think the upcoming "Savage Imperial Death March" is the first.  And it sounds exactly like we need it to.  Listen to the pummeling "Tossing Coins into the Fountain of Fuck" below and pre-order the LP here from Ipecac.

Anna Calvi & Iggy Pop

UK artist Anna Calvi is set to release a string of new EP's over the next year exploring identity as a metamorphosis, shaped and reshaped through the experience of falling in love.  The whole thing was inspired by becoming a parent and features a great array of guest artists contributing, like Laurie Anderson and Perfume Genius.  Check out the Iggy Pop assisted "God's Lonely Man" below and pre-order the "Is This All There Is?" EP here from Domino.

Daily Jam - The Crying Game

Like a lot of people my age, my cultural entry point for English pop star Dave Berry's "The Crying Game," was Neil Jordan's 1992 film of the same name, Boy George's cover for the film, and all the parody references that followed.  It wasn't until i was an adult that i went back and listened to that original version of the tune.  It's a good one.  Listen below, our Daily Jam.

Ekko Astral

I saw Washington D.C. punk band Ekko Astral a couple of years ago at SXSW and really dug the group's queer punk and political aesthetic.  They push that political notion into absurd and surreal places on upcoming new album "The Beltway Is Burning."  Check out this description of the record:

Recorded immediately after the 2024 U.S. General Election, Ekko Astral’s second album the beltway is burning was always intended as a real-time historical document in the form of a dark comedy. Each song plays out like a vignette, with Ekko Astral beckoning listeners into their fictionalized version of The Beltway (the area within I-495), in which Adam Sandler is a god-president and the DMV has become a demilitarized zone, a wasteland run by butt rockers and Soundcloud rappers.

On the surrealist lead single “lil xan goes to washington,” the titular character travels to D.C. to lobby for addiction assistance legislation before succumbing to the cartoonish horror that is K Street (where all major lobbying firms are based), ultimately becoming a sellout himself.

Works for me.  Listen to the aforementioned "Lil Xan Goes to Washington" below and pre-order the LP here from Topshelf Records.

Daily Jam - Love

I don't know how to describe my feelings for Lana Del Rey.  There is just something about the artist that, for lack of a better turn of phrase, rubs me the wrong way.  I don't know what it is, especially when every now and then i find myself completely enraptured by a track of hers.  Maybe it's a love/hate kind of thing, but that doesn't really feel right either.  At any rate, when Lana song gets to me, it gets to me hard.  Here's "Love," our Daily Jam.

Lip Critic

Aw shit, it looks like we've got some new music from New York's Lip Critic on the horizon with this May's new album "Theft World."  For the uninitiated, the band makes a hyper, frenetic mix of noise rock, hip-hop, hardcore punk, and electronic weirdness.  Definitely worth checking out live if you get a chance.  Dig on new track "Legs in a Snare" below and pre-order the LP here from Partisan Records.

Daily Jam - This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

My job is trying to kill me.  Anyway, here's some Elton John.  Listen to "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," our Daily Jam.

Holy Fuck

It's been a spell since i last thought about Canadian electronic and experimental band Holy Fuck.  But lo and behold, they have a new album heading our way in March with the upcoming "Event Beat."  Dig on new jam "Elevate" below and pre-order the LP here from the band.

Chat Pile

Oklahoma hardcore punk/black metal/screamo band hybrid dropped a new 7" on Friday that i missed out on whilst working all weekend.  The A-side is a beast and the B-side is a cover of an old Nirvana song.  Check out both "Masks" and the "Sifting" cover below and download them here from Sub Pop (the vinyl is already sold out).

Daily Jam - I'm Going to Stop Pretending that I Didn't Break Your Heart

Eels make good music for the blues.  Not that i have the blues or anything right now.  I think i'm just really, really tired.  Listen to "I'm Going to Stop Pretending that I Didn't Break Your Heart" below, our Daily Jam.

Tempers

April brings us new darkwave synth pop from New York's Tempers.  Dig on the very danceable new track "Who Says" below and pre-order the upcoming "Delusion" LP here.

Daily Jam - Old September Blues

Coming off a long work weekend, and i'm still so very tired.  Here's some My Morning Jacket to just sit around to.  Listen to "Old September Blues" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Indigo

I've got another long, long day of work ahead of me today, and i'm keeping with the psych rock jams to get me through it.  Here's a combo indie rock-psych rock track from the '00s from Andrew Douglas Rothbard.  Listen to "Indigo" below, our Daily Jam.

Friday Horror Trailer - Island of Blood

AKA "Whodunnit?"
 

Daily Jam - Little Hands

It's Friday.  I'm about to start what is likely to be a 13-14 hour work day.  Let's listen to the opening track to Alexander Spence's seminal 1969 psych record "Oar."  Listen to "Little Hands" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Any Way that You Want Me

It's my youngest son's birthday today.  He's 10.  This life just goes so damn fast.  Anyway, he has no idea who they are, but i'm listening to some Spiritualized this morning before work since they're one of those bands that puts me in my happy place.  Here they are covering "Any Way that You Want Me," a track written by Chip Taylor and first recorded by Tina Mason.  The song has since been covered by a ton of different groups, most notably The Troggs in 1966.  Check it out below, our Daily Jam.  And happy birthday Robbie!