Alex Gallacher
Alex Gallacher
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of KLOF Mag - I keep things running here and put together the playlists and mixes.
Australian guitarist D.C Cross has released a live album, a recording of a recent gig at Red House in Earlwood, Sydney, a venue run by Nick Shimmin, who also ran People’s Republic. As the notes to this release reveal, recording a live album always comes with some trepidation, but this gig went without a hitch. Take a listen to ‘No Old Man’.
Our Song of the Day is A Raga Called John, the new single from Indiana-raised, Manchester-based Etta Helfrich, aka Black Brunswicker. Fans of John Fahey and Pelt will appreciate this, as it is they who inspired the song. Also, watch an intimate documentary on Black Brunswicker’s background, music, and creative journey.
Our latest Off the Shelf guest is American singer-songwriter and musician Madi Diaz, who has just released her new album, Fatal Optimist, via Anti-, her most stark and haunting collection to date. In this series, we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves in their homes and discuss them, a form of storytelling through objects.
Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist, featuring Caoilfhionn Rose, Jessica Pratt, Sun Kil Moon, Will Oldham, Sibylle Baier, F.J. McMahon, Fred Neil, Geckøs, Blue Lake, Ora Cogan, Ohtis, Jonathan Richman, Demi Spriggs, Magnolia Electric Co., Arthur Russell, Loudon Wainwright III, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mazzy Star, Pete Molinari, Jim James & Calexico, Bill Callahan, and Turner Cody.
In a moment defined by global upheaval and the ever-present threat to the fundamental concept of “home,” a diverse assembly of respected artists have united for a vital cause. The upcoming compilation album, Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers, sees the likes of Dirty Projectors, Lambchop, Daniel Lopatin, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy contributing exclusive home-recorded tracks to benefit two Texas-based organizations: American Gateways and Casa Marianella.
Lande Hekt, the celebrated underground songwriter and former Muncie Girls frontwoman, has released “Favourite Pair of Shoes,” the sparkling first single from her upcoming album, Lucky Now, due out January 30th, 2026, on Tapete Records. Watch the accompanying video, created by David Goodchild and filmed on Dartmoor and in Exeter in September 2025.
Heaven For Real are back with “Improvement,” the latest single and video from their upcoming album, Who Died & Made You The Dream? The Halifax/Vancouver duo of Mark and J. Scott Grundy continues to sharpen their “static-to-signal transmissions,” crafting a sound that echoes the spontaneous energy of ’80s and ’90s indie scenes while guiding the listener through a precisely crafted universe.
Sunday Mourners is a band whose diverse backgrounds have shaped a sound that is uniquely their own—a thrilling fusion of Art-Punk restraint and raw, primal energy. Their latest single, ‘When Your Dreams Come True,’ offers a perfect entry point, tackling the “claustrophobia brought on by vastness,” a weary reflection on the sudden, heavy weight of adulthood.
Melvin Gibbs’s new album, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2, drops October 14, 2025, via Hausu Mountain. This avant-jazz odyssey channels the spirit of Miles Davis’s ’70s fusion, blending recordings across two decades with collaborators like Greg Fox and the late Pete Cosey. Gibbs’s ‘amalgam of ideas transcend genre and categorization.’
Experimental cellist and sound artist Lia Kohl has announced her new album, Various Small Whistles and a Song, which takes direct inspiration from Ed Ruscha’s 1964 artist book, Various Small Fires and Milk. Listen to a three-track preview, one of which features claire rousay. The suite guides listeners from the bustling streets of China to rousay’s LA home, and finally to Kohl’s own kitchen in Chicago.