Aug 5, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Emma writes music under the alias äsc3ea and creates visuals, combining such media as generative art, AI, design, video, and photography. She creates works reflecting on such topics as: mental health, cognitive dissonance, and sleeping disorders. I caught up...
Aug 5, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Swimming Bell, the project of Katie Schottland, recently returned with Somnia, a mesmerizing five-song EP produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Kurt Vile, Cat Power). Released on May 16 via Perpetual Doom, Somnia invites listeners into an ethereal sonic realm...
Aug 4, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind. I caught up with Steven to talk about his early musical experiences, how he started...
Aug 4, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Drag City is pleased to announce the reissue of hypnotic syncretic guitar duo Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker’s 2015 recorded debut, Land of Plenty — just in time for its 10th anniversary! Today, Bill and Ryley share a new music video by Simon Russell for the title...
Aug 1, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Five for Friday, News & Notes
McLarnan is the post-rock ambient project of Aaron McLarnan, slow-burning, grief-tinged, and deeply human. Fusing atmospheric guitars, ghostly textures, and field recordings, each track feels like a memory on the edge of vanishing. Aaron shares some of his...
Jul 30, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Sacrifice. Loyalty. Camaraderie. These aren’t just words, they are the qualities that have defined Hot Water Music’s songs, lyrics and ideology for the past three decades. However, instead of celebrating 30 years of existence with a nostalgia lap or formulaic...
