2025

Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, has written an in-depth guide to his new album ‘Elan’ (also featuring audio and video). The album is a psychedelic portrait of Cwm Elan, the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. It explores the landscape, history, and politics of the area that was flooded at …

Tompkins Square’s enduring admiration for Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn is hardly news to anyone paying attention. To commemorate Cockburn’s 80th birthday this week, they enlisted contemporary guitar maestro Eli Winter to offer his interpretations of some of Cockburn’s beloved tracks. ‘To Keep the World We Know’ includes Winter’s take on …

In a move that’s sure to stir the hearts of many, Will Johnson and the surviving members of the revered Magnolia Electric Co. have officially joined forces under the new moniker Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. Today, they’ve unveiled a roaring new version of “The Big Beast” and announced a …

Los Angeles’s own cosmic voyagers, Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, have offered another tantalizing glimpse into their forthcoming album, Different Rooms. Their latest dispatch, Side by Side, finds the duo in esteemed company, joined by the ever-exploratory guitarist Jeff Parker. The track is a potent teaser for the …

Ty Segall’s new album, Possession, drops on Drag City tomorrow (May 30th). As previously shared, Ty enlisted his old friend and longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. Shared today, Matt also directed, produced, and edited the video for ‘Buildings’, which was shot in Downtown Los Angeles and Porter Street …

For this month’s Ceremonial Counties offering from Folklore Tapes: Vol.XV Leicester/Northumberland, the first half features Experimental electronic musician Steve Watts and is dedicated to the legend of Black Annis. The second half, composed and performed by Grey Malkin, another British artist indebted to folk horror and hauntology, tells the story …

Ryan Wayne spent 10 years away from the music business, then suffered two strokes inspiring his return to recording music. On Functioning Dysfunctionals, his second album since the return, he plunges headfirst into the messy, mercurial thing called life. Blending and balancing many different influences make it almost impossible to …

Listen to the latest KLOF Mag mixtape, featuring new tracks from Marc Ribot, Hayden Pedigo, Logan Farmer, Cian Nugent & The Cosmos, and Fuubutsushi. Some live and campfire moments courtesy of Ferran Orriols, Eli Winter and Cameron Knowler, and Adrianne Lenker. Plus tracks from Gwenifer Raymond and Kevin Barker, taken …

Like the tarot’s major arcana, The Rabbit, the latest album from Melissa Lingo, aka meka, can be experienced as a kind of tarot reading, a mystical, alluring set of pathways into the human mind, a comment on fate, a dream with a cast of obscure characters. It’s no great stretch …

Previously described by fellow Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson as beguiling, idiosyncratic and cinematic, watch the accompanying video to ‘Ancient Summer’, the latest single from Me Lost Me, taken from her forthcoming new album, This Material Moment. She says, “The music video is a kind of nod to ancient Roman Spring/Summer …

Canadian quintet Foxwarren, featuring Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis, have dropped a surreal video for their latest single ‘Deadhead’, the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via ANTI-. It’s a genius slice of wit and vision from the video’s Director, …

Musically shaped by influences ranging from trip-hop to dreamy shades of Americana, Logan Farmer’s remarkable new EP, Butchers, presents a world in turmoil, addressing ownership and poverty, faith and obsession, and complicity in times of unprecedented evil…as it seeks ways to mitigate the inevitable damage. 100% of the proceeds from …

“Maybe I’m Dreaming” is a new Anthology Recordings compilation that delves into the isolated wilds of the private pressing, where production quirks, late-night tape hiss, and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand you were dealt. Documenting a spirit that’s more homespun, sometimes lonelier, and often …

A new Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring music from Bill Withers, Dorothy Ashby, Thin Lizzy, Vanishing Twin, Elephant Stone, Gloria, The Bonk, Loma, Buck Curran & Nataly Kozlova, Kikagaku Moyo, Cory Hanson, Moon Duo, Minami Deutsch, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Brigid Dawson and The Mothers, and Modern Nature.