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  • The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
    The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
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    4 track unreleased studio EP recording from their Mushi era. The fact these tracks exist, and are as good and as high quality as they are truly the stuff dreams […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vaxine / The Last Survivors – Split 7
    Vaxine / The Last Survivors – Split 7
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    A perfect pairing of the globe’s top raw punk bands on this 5 track studio EP by Vaxine from NYC and The Last Survivors from Tokyo. 2 bands who live […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tiikeri – Tee Se Itse E.P.
    Tiikeri – Tee Se Itse E.P.
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    Tiikeri are back with a brand new self released 7″ EP, losing none of the steam from their prior material. Tiikeri is a band steeped in it’s love for 70s […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tiikeri – Punk On Rakkaus -EP
    Tiikeri – Punk On Rakkaus -EP
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    New repress of the instantly sold out debut 7″ by this Finnish band. Punk Is Love! Just for you, here’s a love song (to ’70s punk from Finland and the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ignorantes – Demo Buena Onda
    Ignorantes – Demo Buena Onda
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    The first in a series of reissues of their material on General Speech. Ignorantes started in Chile over 10 years ago, and during that time their sound has grown to […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
    Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
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    In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
    Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
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    Death to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Personal Best Issue 8
    Personal Best Issue 8
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    Finally here from Lasse Marhaug: Personal Best 8. My favorite zine around. Always a worldwide affair, a zine that felt familiar to me the first time I picked up a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
    Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
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    In 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
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    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
    Derek Jarman – Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
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    Published here for the very first time through our House Sparrow Press imprint, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    Ruggero Vasari – Raun
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    Raun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
    Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
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    Garden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
    Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
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    Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in our first series, we are thrilled to reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
    Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
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    Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jeremy Bentham – Panopticon [fragments]
    Jeremy Bentham – Panopticon [fragments]
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    For almost a quarter of a century, utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham attempted to acquire funding and goverment assistance in building an unorthodox prison of ambiguous surveillance and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
    Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
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    Booklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
    Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
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    ZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
    Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
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    “The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – La rabbia / Anger
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – La rabbia / Anger
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    Written in response to producer Gastone Ferranti’s request for his comments on a set of newsreel items, the poet would respond with a montage of his own. Via the unfolding […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louse – Passions Like Tar
    Louse – Passions Like Tar
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    “Like some mutated phantom lurking in the shadows, Cincinnati based new-wave punks Louse emerge into light with their debut LP Passions Like Tar- a heady and sullen collection of post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
    Disintegration – Shiver In A Weak Light
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    The first full-length release from Cleveland’s Disintegration brings their intricate circuitry of nocturnal synthwave and noise-saturated post-punk to a new plateau. Sharper, leaner, and more [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Class – A Healthy Alternative
    Class – A Healthy Alternative
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    “My mates went on holiday to the Isles for this one. Galactic romantic entropy three sheets to the ‘Wind. Saxy glimmers, broken sunbeams, oil dancing in a puddle of water […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
    Corker – Hallways Of Grey (Clear / Smoke Vinyl)
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    CLEAR VINYL “Fragments of the past intersect with a dynamic sonic vision on Hallways of Grey, the second full length from Corker. Expanding upon the dense, rhythmic post-punk of their […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Artificial Go! – Hopscotch Fever
    Artificial Go! – Hopscotch Fever
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    Artificial Go is a new four piece hailing from the DIY post-punk scene of Cincinnati, Ohio. Local labels Feel It and Future Shock have teamed up to co-release Artificial Go’s […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Drin – Elude The Torch
    The Drin – Elude The Torch
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    The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on their fourth album, ‘Elude the Torch’. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
    The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
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    Way out there. From up in the attic, in the village of Cincinnati – the third album from the Drin has arrived to commence 2023. Cold rhythms reverberate through the […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Dave Vettraino – A Bird Shaped Shadow
    Dave Vettraino – A Bird Shaped Shadow
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    Regardless of whether Dave Vettraino’s name rings a bell, there’s a solid chance he’s pulled strings behind a record you love. The Chicago-based audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist has spent [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
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    CD The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably configured [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
    Tomin – A Willed And Conscious Balance
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    CD Tomin’s debut full-length work, A Willed and Conscious Balance, answers a set of questions left unasked in recent years, as a new generation of artists re-energizes the tradition often […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
    Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra – Live At The Adler Planetarium
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    Black Vinyl The Exploding Star Orchestra is Rob Mazurek’s vehicle for blowing minds and reshaping worlds. For more than a decade and a half, the multi-instrumentalist has guided the variably […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
    Tomin – Flores Para Verene / Cantos Para Caramina
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    Black Vinyl 27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ben Hall – Windbag
    Ben Hall – Windbag
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    A half hour channeling session invoked by human breath. Lungs push forth force and conjure temporary and overlapping tones to trance out to. Let these sounds set your ears afloat […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
    Thom Nguyen – Imago Ossuary
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    Known to many as the percussive presence in groups like Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting and We Bow to No Masters, Asheville’s Thom Nguyen moves in to dronier, driftier worlds with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tile – Warmfth
    Tile – Warmfth
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    Indianapolis trio, Tile, unfurl two side long slabs of Circle City sound balming on ‘Warmfth’, their debut cassette, for Medium Sound. Serene sound waves wash, sway and wiggle [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eternal Husk – Commune III
    Eternal Husk – Commune III
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    Further tonal ruminations and aural questions asked from deep within. An outsider music grab bag jam selection, nay, transmission from deep within the Circle City. Another sonic commune (the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Solid Squares – KS I & II
    Solid Squares – KS I & II
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    Local composer / saxophonist / drummer / improvisor Tom Lageveen drops in two heavenly compositions for piano, under his Solid Squares moniker. With a little help from his friends, KS […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
    Mark & Landon – Vol. 1
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    Sounds from the basement underneath the dance floor. Dusty programmed beats bussed out and live mixed amongst a hazy tapestry of keys and electric strings. Midwestern crunch through a [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
    Soft Places – Memory Does Not Pass
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    Memory Does Not Pass is a collection of studies in dissolving rhythm & voice set against environment, time, & connection to those who have come before and the echoes of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Recurrence
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    The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances and recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Atmospheriques, Vol.1
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    At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I’m going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it’s never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
    Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
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    SILVA is a work for processed double bass built on the idea of a downward growing forest, living its own secret life of underground raves and meditative cohesiveness. I like […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
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    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
    Gyða Valtýsdóttir – Epicycle II
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    Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
    Kjartan Sveinsson – Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
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    Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen is an opera in four acts conceived by Kjartan Sveinsson and artist Ragnar Kjartansson, which was commissioned by and originally performed in Volksbühne am [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
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    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
    Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason – Concurrence
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    “I am both very proud and excited to bring out the second volume of this recording project dedicated to bringing the orchestral sound world of Icelandic composers to the ears […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Rhízōma
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    Rhízōma, composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s debut album of recorded works, is steeped in the beautiful strangeness and exhilaration of that which is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. The [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
    Eovaro Egilsson & Pall Ragnar Palsson – Skjalfti
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    When two Icelandic composers Páll Ragnar Pálsson and Eðvarð Egilsson finished scoring Quake, a psychological family drama, they were not ready to stop just there. What followed was a voyage […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
    Bára Gísladóttir & Skúli Sverrisson – Caeli
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    Caeli is spun out of the idea of skies and dimensions merging into a borderless being, boasting of a rich and vivid texture, at times carrying numerous worlds inside at […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Zander Raymond – Secrets From A Squirrel
    Zander Raymond – Secrets From A Squirrel
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    After a series of impressive collaborations and increasingly assured solo releases, multimedia artist Zander Raymond now shares his first LP, Secrets From A Squirrel. Inherent in these pieces is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom (gold vinyl)
    Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom (gold vinyl)
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    Victor Vieira-Branco – vibraphone John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom
    Bark Culture – Warm Wisdom
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    Victor Vieira-Branco – vibraphone John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
    Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
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    At Home With My Candles, Half Shadow’s third LP is an album of mythopoetic paeans to the domestic uncanny—the mysterious and unseen worlds experienced at home. Recorded almost entirely in […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
    Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
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    DIOR is Sarah Moore and Stasia Kowaleski, (of Vats, Porcelain Gods, Trixie Linoleum, Babyface Evil) Sarah from Snoqualmie, WA and Phoenix and Stasia (Ghost Bitch, Desire Complex, kzv, Babyface [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Altamira – Altamira
    Altamira – Altamira
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    Jackie Beckey’s Altamira is a cave song, a meditative howl, like Joanna Brouk in a snowstorm, ripping up your down jacket and wool socks, find her in the cold turning […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mayako XO – Mayako XO
    Mayako XO – Mayako XO
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    Mayako XO is the solo music project of Sara Gernsbacher based in Los Angeles. XO by Mayako XO is an exercise in singing to multiple selves, non-human, past and future, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
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    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative