Valley of Fire

Not Even Almost

'Manzanita' by Shana Cleveland (Release Date: March 10, 2023)
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Manzanita

Faces in the Firelight

Shana Cleveland - Faces in the Firelight

On the show this time, it’s the end-of-empire Southern-gothic Americana-dread of Ethel Cain. Her latest “Preacher’s Daughter” is available on Daughters of Cain Records.

Live On KEXP

Live On KEXP, Episode 371 - Ethel Cain

DJ Kevin Cole shares a rarely-heard session and interview with Fugees, which originally aired in 1994 on REV105 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Read the full article at: https://www.kexp.org/read/2023/1/11/50-years-of-hip-hop-1994-fugees-vocab/

50 Years of Hip-Hop: Fugees Live on REV105 (Complete Interview + Performance of "Vocab")

“I’ll shovel it. I’ll live in it. But I won’t take it.”

Agog Sessions

George Segal

Benny F Powers - I Love It - Benny F Powers. A mix between hip hop, electronic, dance & pop styles, Benny brings many genres to this & all his future projects.

Benny F Powers - I Love It

Benny F Powers - Bad Girl Freeze - Benny F Powers. A mix between hip hop, electronic, dance & pop styles, Benny brings many genres to this & all his future projects.

Benny F Powers - Bad Girl Freeze

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

Peel Dream Magazine - Pill

Imperfect

Quebec

Memories

Electronic frequencies of an improvised human soundtrack.  Evolving from other, continuing to attempt to transcribe the patterns. 
Hare Hunter Field is a music project by N Barrows

Quebec

Hare Hunter Field

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