Michael Gutierrez 10/16/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/16/22

goddamn, sylvia

Emma Ayres sews together eight songs of country folk magistery on her latest LP hard work.

Michael Gutierrez 10/15/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/15/22

Toys 2

Oneohtrix Point Never is at the peak of his powers, doing it LIVE. Our highlighted track “Toys 2” is a squirmbly-birmbly, fugue-azi dusk crawler.

Michael Gutierrez 10/14/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/14/22

Perennial in a Haunted House

Perennial is a hardcore band with an art school vibe.

Michael Gutierrez 10/13/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/13/22

Achibaba

A song that makes you feel like a baby opening his eyes onto the world for the first time. We shit you not.

Michael Gutierrez 10/12/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/12/22

Djougoh

Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia keeps it simple on our highlighted track “Djougoh.”

Michael Gutierrez 10/11/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/11/22

Parasites

Los Angeles’ NoSo crafts synth-heavy, ambient-forward electro balladry on their debut album Stay Proud of Me.

Michael Gutierrez 10/10/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/10/22

Living Torch II

Sweden’s Kali Malone dreams of clear, wide, open spaces on her boundary-pushing, texture-forward minimalist bubble bath LP Living Torch.

Michael Gutierrez 10/9/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/9/22

The Changer

Evolfo is going full garage psych on the The Changer, raring to party with vintage dance grooves.

Michael Gutierrez 10/8/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/8/22

Transition East

Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid taps into something powerful and mysterious on the instrumental “Transition East.”

Michael Gutierrez 10/7/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/7/22

Gomno

HDN came across the Hauka ritual music of Lingo Seini et son groupe on Bandcamp. And it was good.

Michael Gutierrez 10/6/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/6/22

Long Road Home

Oneohtrix Point Never leans hard into the vocals on our highlighted track “Long Road Home.”

Michael Gutierrez 10/5/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/5/22

Inner Flight

Makaya McCraven has been having a minute for about a half decade. Take an “Inner Flight” with the jazz maven.

Michael Gutierrez 10/4/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/4/22

No Más

The intersection of jazz and spoken word comes naturally to Irreversible Entanglements.

Michael Gutierrez 10/3/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/3/22

Storytellers

The amapiano bug strikes Hump Day News again! With Teno Afrika!

Michael Gutierrez 10/2/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/2/22

This Woman’s Work

Harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas deliver an ear-opening rendition of the Kate Bush classic “This Woman’s Work.”

Michael Gutierrez 10/1/22 Michael Gutierrez 10/1/22

two reverse

Like Jeff Bezos and a lot of CEOs profiteering off the supply chain crisis, Adrianne Lenker did great during the pandemic. For different reasons and in different ways, of course.

Michael Gutierrez 9/30/22 Michael Gutierrez 9/30/22

Nothin’ To Me

Lowell’s Senseless Optimism crafts a breezy vibe that updates 20th century R&B textures with new millennium cool.

Michael Gutierrez 9/29/22 Michael Gutierrez 9/29/22

Skeleton Closet

Boston’s Gretchen Shae and The Middle Eight invite you to soak in the sludgy waters of 90s, world-negating downer vibes.

Michael Gutierrez 9/28/22 Michael Gutierrez 9/28/22

Roulette

Pure synth sugar pop, but the Viennese vibes on Conny Frischauf’s Die Drift cuts the sweet with ein bisschen Salz.

Michael Gutierrez 9/27/22 Michael Gutierrez 9/27/22

In Time

The Twin Cities’ Green/Blue is back in 2022 with their full-length Paper Thin.

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