January 9, 2016
#1 – 1.4.2016 – Denver based hyper-realist David Winkler, aka julien — who appeared on the recent Wasabi Tapes comp we mentioned in last week’s review — shared a brisk but vibrant preview mini-mix for his upcoming cassette with Orange Milk. It’s the first I’ve…
January 8, 2016
In a year filled with over-hyped rhetoric, it feels a little surreal to try and parcel up my take on the experience. Honestly though, I may have felt similarly last year, if the title of my year end posts signals anything. America’s long-winded election is in full-swing… a year+ long leer…
September 8, 2015
I think this is becoming a common theme for me, but I first became attuned to the Notice Recordings label via David Perron’s FFFoxy Podcast. Evan Lindorff-Ellery and Travis Bird have been slowly dropping cassettes from artists equally rooted in improvisatory exploration, avant-garde theory and…
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#1 – 7.18.2015 – A slightly out of date item from late last week, neglected because the 18th was my birthday (and the date of a show my wife’s band was playing, sans their usual lead singer [in fact,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 2, 2015
Jaw Works & Behind a Dead Tree on the Shore collects a pair of excursions on jaw harp from Chik White, aka Halifax-based experimentalist Darcy Spidle, the proprietor of Divorce Records and creative director for the Obey Convention festival; going off the end of his Twitter bio, “…self-proclaimed…
January 29, 2015
If 2014 was a good year for labels, it was because the wherewithal still exists to start one, and continues growing far afield; there are the same old hotbeds but growth is clearly across the board. For this feature we ended up mostly looking at American labels for the sake of a focused but still far…
December 16, 2013
Talk West is Tulsa’s Dylan Aycock, who you’ll probably not recognize from our previous coverage of his imprint Scissor Tail Editions — his name didn’t come up at the time, but in truth he deserves distinction for building an impressive catalog. On his new cassette for Notice Recordings,…
