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I think it's better to dance rather than to march through life. love, yoko

Wichita Recordings is an independent record label established in 2000. The label releases - and also manages in some cases - a wide range of artists including Total Babes, Simian Mobile Disco, FIDLAR, Spectrals, Peggy Sue, Gold Panda, Waxahatchee, Dam Mantle, Peaking Lights, Cloud Nothings, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Sky Larkin, Wild Flag, Veronica Falls and more.

Comedians Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey and Tess Barker welcome a fourth funny lady to the table to bring you gut-busting debates over current events, pop culture and embarrassingly hilarious personal revelations for a podcast full of insanity and laughs. Springing from the hit live talk show at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Los Angeles, Lady to Lady brings the funny with visits from weirdo recurring characters & on-the-fly theme songs - making it one of the most unique and ridiculous ways you can spend an hour.

Cate Le Bon is an artist hailing from Carmarthenshire, rural West Wales. Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day and the Mercury Award nominated Reward, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on the recent John Grant album, Boy From Michigan, or  Deerhunter's Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?  (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster.

New album Pompeii bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Sonically minimal in parts, its lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Written primarily on bass and composed entirely alone in an “uninterrupted vacuum,” Le Bon plays every instrument (except drums and saxophones) and recorded the album largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales.

The songs of Pompeii feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical, and surreal. From the spirited, strutting bass fretwork of “Moderation”, to the sax-swagger of “Running Away”; a tale exquisite in nature but ultimately doomed (The fountain that empties the world / Too beautiful to hold), escapism lives as a foil to the outside world. Pompeii’s audacious tribute to memory, compassion, and mortal salience is here to stay.

magick orchids is champoy hate and anita rhea tepp making music with sounds, noises, and loops and samples together with others who help us actualize ideas that revolve around sound art noise and performance. every now and then we perform and collaborate with many other artists and musicians from los angeles and beyond. these have included: josh crampton, isaac takeuchi, the regular assholes, denise duncan, meagan boyd, dylan doren, michael nhat, the central second collective, lis bomb, lee noble, the littlest viking, andrew felix, not so ghost, andrew lush, oliver dammasch, and many more.

for shows and listings check out www.myspace.com/magickmagickmagick

technology will one day enable us to materialize the sound waveforms of our music into dildos. that will be the day.

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