Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker are out on the road, playing their way from town to town. "Stretching My Dollar In Plano" is a dusty, sonic evocation of the slow waltz across Texas, but the video? Plano's a very long way from LA, and it usually seem that most places are -that's why we have an inescapable Shangri-La-cum-Val-Halla-type of dream that we reflect upon when considering that faraway angel city. There's even a time that being in LA can seems as expansive as a dream... (read more)

As fall rises to its apex, and withers away, with Thankslessgiving, Bleak Friday, the Equinox and all that all that other shit on the 'risin, the lid on the sun bowl is rattling. Through a crack in the snow globe, natural energy is fixed to explode. Bajas Fresh is coming! The sonical light 'n lazering of Bitchin Bajas is come back to us again, as sure as seasons (gulp!...). Their latest epic comes three years after their S/T album broke open the barrier into new... (read more)

Circuit des Yeux's latest addition to an already stunning repertoire, Reaching For Indigo, is deep and austere, pulsating with life stemming from one intimate moment that fell down on January 22nd 2016. Now the moment that fell down in Haley Fohr's life a year-plus ago is giving us something to live for, today! With a sound vibration as universal as it is deeply personal, Reaching For Indigo is an album with a message of self-discovery. Conjuring a complete experience, Circuit des Yeux... (read more)

Cast into a moment of tumult and discovery, Pearls Before Swine contributed a uniquely earthy strain to the arc of sound that defined the time and place of the later 1960s, via exotic instruments, electronic oscillation or pure, simple intent as communicated by Tom Rapp's erudite, yet humane songs. There was proto-punk in the mix, rife with humor, aloft with the pastoral acoustics of the banjo; music of the people of the world, all in the service of  Rapp's visceral, unblinking lyrics.