Alex Gallacher

Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Penelope Trappes shares the title track of her fifth full-length album, ‘A Requiem’, a stunning piece of gothic experimentalism accompanied again by another visual masterpiece from Agnes Haus.

Recorded in May 2024 at 2220 Arts + Archive, Los Angeles, California, watch Carlos Niño & Friends performing their 2024 album Placenta – a work of warmth and humanity and unruly, anarchic joy that’s perfectly captured on stage.

Taken from his forthcoming album, Jeffrey Lewis shares his latest single, “Just Fun”. Watch the accompanying video directed by Jak Kerley, which features a cameo by Joanna Sternberg, among others.

Dálava, the genre-defying ensemble led by vocalist Julia Úlehla with guitarist Aram Bajakian, announce their new album ‘Understories’ – a continuation of their experimental journey and homage to traditional Moravian (Czech) folksong.

Flora, the underrated 2006 release from Japanese musician and composer Hiroshi Yoshimura, is to be reissued (on vinyl and cassette for the first time) and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma.

Enjoy another Monday Morning Brew Playlist, featuring Jim Ghedi, Iona Zajac, Sam Grassie, Silver Apples, CAN, The Smoke, Stealing Sheep, LUMP, Michael Head, Charlie Parr and more.

Our latest KLOF Mixtape features Jim Ghedi, Frog, Richard Dawson, Iona Zajac, Dylan Golden Aycock, Mike Gangloff, Lonnie Holley, Kaito Winse, David Grubbs, Liam Grant, Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts, Yama Warashi, and Park Jiha.

Joined by a number of special guests, guitarist extraordinaire Yasmin Williams performs her first Tiny Desk Concert, playing tracks from her latest collaborative album ‘Acadia’ and 2018’s ‘Unwind’.

With just Mick Turner’s keyboards twinkling alongside Helen Franzmann’s dreamy, ruminative vocals, Mess Esque share their new single and video, ‘Let Me Know You’, taken from their new album ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ on Drag City.

Lael Neale has shared details of her forthcoming new album Altogether Stranger. Watch the accompanying self-directed video for the album’s centrepiece ‘Tell Me How To Be Here’, filmed by Neale and Guy Blakeslee in LA.

New York City-based improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg signs to Joyful Noise and shares new single “I Don’t Miss You”. Eisenberg has an exciting lineup of performances on the horizon, starting with a residency at The Stone (NYC).

This week, Lonnie Holly released his new single ‘That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music’, a reflection on his early experiences in the art world and larger institutions’ apprehension in accepting Black self-taught fine art.