December 5, 2015

“I had mentioned at the end of the last episode that a feature on Pumice was in the works for the weeks ahead, and I can assure you that is indeed still the case. But, in the interest of showcasing some more new music, along with a few recent record fair scores, I thought I’d go ahead and squeeze…
September 24, 2015

My excitement over a new Kyle Landstra release was briefly threatened by my mollycoddled millennial attention span: “four fucking tapes? Who does he think he is, La Monte Young?” It seems Mr. Landstra simply thinks he may be the reincarnation of Robert Moog and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, the spiritual…
September 5, 2015

Hamburg-based, lo-fi tuned Thokei Tapes jumped the gun on a previously reported October release date for their spectacular Sandra Bell compilation last month, titled Aureole, so here it is at the top of this week’s review. The new tape collects “EPs, Singles, Tapes & Compilation”…
July 25, 2015

#1 – 7.18.2015 – A slightly out of date item from late last week, neglected because the 18th was my birthday (and the date of a show my wife’s band was playing, sans their usual lead singer [in fact, mostly sans vocals], for the first time) — but if you found that tidbit absolutely…
March 3, 2015

Coming hot on the heels of Ant’lrd’s Sunnup cassette, a suite of snow-blanketed drones that perfectly encapsulates the wilderness and wonder of winter in the woods, BARO now returns with a massive double-split cassette featuring some of the more stimulating dronesmiths in the game: Kyle…
December 11, 2014

Once again, Frankfurt-based cassette imprint SicSic issues a sonic missive into the ether, this time with a split cassette by The Original Flowering Earth and Kyle Landstra. The split’s A-side is comprised solely of The OFE‘s “Diamonds from the Skym” a three-part suite consisting…