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C-Schulz Makes Industrial Music with Flair

“Barbapapa” should sound heavy, maybe even unpleasant.

Take a Dip into the “Phenomenological Manifold” with Euglossine

The lush 13-minute track is an experience unto itself.

Premiere: Sam O.B. and Miles Francis Talk Pop, Remix Each Other

Album artwork by Benamin Sam O.B. and Miles Francis purvey a rare sort of pop music, one as whirringly complex as it is delightfully sweet.

The 5 Best and 5 Worst Bellows Songs, According to Bellows

Oliver Kalb has been making music under the name Bellows since 2011. He released Bellows’ first album, the understated indie-folk-pop masterwork, As If To Say I Hate Daylight, while attending Bard College in 2011. That release, as well as 2014’s Blue Breath—an album recorded while in search for a place to call home after graduating—established Kalb’s skill as […]

Summer Drifts By In the Video for Fraternal Twin’s “Big Dipper”

Though it was released in October of 2016, Fraternal Twin’s Homeworlding is a record for Summer 2017.

AdHoc Got Katie Von Schleicher to Review Sam Evian’s “Big Car”

Katie Von Schleicher is a writer and musician who performs under her own name – her new LP Shitty Hits is out July 28 on Ba Da Bing Records. Her deft poetic voice seeps through her review of “Big Car,” a 2016 cut from slinkily soulful songwriter Sam Evian, who will be opening up for Schleicher at […]

Chalk’s New Record Lingers Immaculately

Some of the best writers are the laconic ones, the ones who sculpt with sparsity, whose instruments imbricate themselves just as deeply into silence as they do into sound. On In the Young Shadow of Girls in Flower, quietly released earlier this year on Houston’s Sutra label, Barry Elkanick of Chalk plays, sings, and composes with a […]

The Vacant Lots Talk Life Without Alan Vega

Don’t shelve The Vacant Lots in a vintage store. The New York two piece’s music might sound nostalgic, but their punk energy and musicianship is anything but stale.

Zach Phillips Succeeds in “Fucking Up”

How to Slip Away is a strange, sparse collection of music from Brooklyn-via-Vermont musician Zach Phillips. On “Fucking Up,” perhaps the track most emblematic of the delightful quirkiness of the record, Phillips enlists friend and one-time Jib Kidder collaborator Sean Schuster-Craig for a ditty whose rushed, atonal monophonic guitar does sound—after all—a little fucked up.

RIPS Share Rollicking Playlist

The Brooklyn-based group share which bands influenced their rock revivalist sound.

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