Nov 10, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
After a dozen years as Chicago’s lynch-pin for dark wave and industrial festival fans every fall, the Cold Waves team has unveiled a new spring-season event with a decidedly different angle. A new single-day festival-style event presented by Cold Waves, SPACE...
Nov 10, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
The forthcoming collaborative album from Ragana and Drowse— Ash Souvenir— combines the former’s heavy, emotionally charged metal with the latter’s textural approach to sound. Across four long-form pieces, their voices and instruments move between stark...
Nov 7, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Five for Friday, News & Notes
Reticence is the brainchild of New England musician Aaron Riverwood. His latest release “Suncatchers” is a beautiful collection of colorful guitar improvisations that channel aspects of shoegaze, ambient and psychedelic tones. Aaron shares some of his favorite...
Nov 7, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Today Psych-pop artist Das Kope releases his highly anticipated second album, Brutamonte. Entirely written, performed, and produced by Das Kope, the 10-track album blends kaleidoscopic influences from psychedelia, krautrock, bossa nova, and post-punk. Originally from...
Nov 7, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
“Drive Driver Drive is the solo project of an individual from rural east Tennessee named Bryant Lawhorn, who has a taste for narcotics and a love of loud hypnotic sounds. With a sound that blends shoegaze, noise rock, and neo-psychedelia, the music...
Nov 6, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Film, Interviews, News & Notes
Intense Energy: Sounds Of Skateboarding is a short film by director Coan Buddy Nichols that explores the intersections of skateboarding and underground music, where it started and how it evolved into what it is today. Trust Records, in partnership with VANS, takes you...