First full weekend of summer, and wouldn't have thought we'd be overpacked for new music, but... here we are. This weekend we're celebrating some outstanding new releases, including those that dance at the outer edges of our beloved genres, but are landmark nonetheless. So we won't ignore them, we'll celebrate the achievement(s). Our two biggest outliers are both compelling works best taken as an unified whole (which we can't do […]
Long-time listeners are surely familiar with Echodrone. A decade-long career of creative output, carving out a space between post-rock and shoegaze, with dreamy flourishes and hooks that leave a mark. On the eve of release for their new long-player Resurgence, Echodrone tapped Kev Cleary for an assist. As the founder and O.G. of Facebook's largest shoegaze group, his longtime fandom helped open access to a cast of willing participants for […]
We'll celebrate this Valentines' Day weekend in style, from the sublime, to the ...also sublime (at least that's how it seems in our first hour). Headliner album releases from UJU (pictured above) and Heligoland (first album in a decade) lead the parade, as do the hottest new singles from Winter, Fauvely and XO. And that's just the topline frontline, there's so much more to celebrate! We're long on the newest […]
It's been a hot minute since San Francisco's Echodrone released their critically-acclaimed Past, Preset and Future LP. January of 2018 saw an Echodrone that was tightly focused, radio-friendly, and they made new converts with the album. But Echodrone was never really a "singles band". With shoegaze as the cornerstone, they built on expansive post-rock sweep to tell larger stories than are usually contained in four-minute musical nuggets. Rooted in a […]
New and pre-release singles dropped from the heavens this week, and there's a veritable plethora of them. Angel Falls, Bellavista, Blackflower, Nostalgist, Fawns of Love, Launder (Zachary Cole Smith of DIIV), Night Flowers... so much so new. Plus the full release of the Blushing debut EP dropped late last night, and the control room dances about. And the full albums from Echodrone and Crystal Canyon finally see release, and there's […]
In advance of next week's release of Echodrone's fourth full album, Past, Preset and Future, the San Francisco quartet tease the effort with this exclusive streaming premiere of "The Past or the Present". The third track on the new LP is part post-punk, part cut-through-the-fog rhythm section, with accompaniment by spacey, plinking keyboard patterns. This electric journey culminates in layers of guitar churn and vocal layering, as each element adds […]
Yes, Virginia, we DID have a big New Tracks Weekend show plotted and planned last weekend, before our broadcast world imploded. We are back. And we'll just double the awesome. Guaranteed. The absolute newest music from Hazel English (we'll stop saying 'told you so', and just celebrate the brilliance), Ablebody's fresh new single, the long awaited new LP from Rei Clone (pictured above, much buzz in this studio), new single […]
It's a huge weekend, with a lot to get to, much of it new to your ears. We kick off the festivities with the brilliant new single from Mumrunner, newly signed to Soliti and finalizing their first full EP. We'll heavily feature pre-release sounds from both Echodrone and Venera 4. We're pushing the new LP from A Place to Bury Strangers, the cripplingly beautiful new single from Pallow (and the […]
Win the weekend! First, let us bring you a world broadcast premiere from longtime favorites Echodrone. They've signed to Saint Marie Records, the new long player Five drops February 24, and is now available for preorder through SMR. Don't sleep on it. What else? We've going all in with Stranger Kings, whose debut ST LP on Northern Records is a jewel in its own right. We're also pushing Japan's She […]
