August 2022
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Byron Asher says he named his quintet Basher after the nickname he earned in high school. The oft-posed question: “what would a band called Basher sound like?” is said to be at the project’s origin. Here’s at least one answer, from Basher’s forthcoming LP Doubles. The full album drops Sept. 30 on Sinking City Records.
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A new album by Canadian Nicolas Bougaïeff has been scheduled for a Nov. 11 release by Mute. Begin Within is the Berlin-based artists’ first for the label since a pair of 2020 releases entitled The Upward Spiral and Higher Up The Spiral. The new album features a pair of highlights we can’t wait to hear.…
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American Dreams Records will reissue the first three albums by Marvin Tate’s D-Settlement on Nov. 4. For the first time, Partly Cloudy, The Minstrel Show and American Icons will be available in a four-album, three-CD package. The albums were originally released between 1997 and 2003. The collection is available for preorder on bandcamp.
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Toronto is hosting a five-day festival next month featuring “experimental sounds from rock, jazz, hip hop, chamber music and more,” according to organizers. The Intersection Festival runs Sept. 1 to 5. A new augmented reality app designed to deliver generative, site-specific listening experiences for transit users will launch in conjunction with the festival’s opening. A…
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Gintas Kraptavičius says his new album Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades reflects nature in a manner similar to the writing of American horror legend H.P. Lovecraft. “There was a lot of meaning behind Lovecraft’s descriptions of mountains and nature in general,” says the artist, who records under the name gintas k. “His descriptions were seldom…
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