Meridian is the brainchild of Max Stern, best known as the vocalist/guitarist for rising Cleveland punk band Signals Midwest. Many of the songs comprising Meridian’s full-length debut, Aging Truths, date back as early as 2007, when […]

Completing our tri-fecta of Ohio record featurs this week (see prior posts for Kim Deal and Robert Pollard)  is Teenage Guitar‘s Force Fields At Home.  For the most discerning aficionados of Robert Pollard and Guided […]

Robert Pollard‘s new album – Honey Locust Honky Tonk is a compact wonder and so varied, tuneful, graceful, magnificent and ebullient that one will be forgiven for thinking that Robert Pollard has saved his best […]

After months of waiting, the official DEAL01 release of Kim Deal‘s solo material (Walking With A Killer b/w Dirty Hessians) is available for pre-order — pre-orders will begin shipping this week!  

Brooklyn-based trio, A Great Big Pile of Leaves got their start in 2007 when guitarist/singer Peter Weiland and drummer Tyler Soucy took time from their prior projects to start writing material of their own.  You’re […]

  ALTO!, based in Portland, is a strongly rhythm-oriented band; dual drummers vary between synched-up pounding and subtly shifiting polyrhythms, while the guitar often functions as another percussion instrument.  ALTO! draws strong inspiration from Congotronics bands […]

Tiny Moving Parts is a family band from Minnesota.  Their new LP – The Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship will be available very soon….so stay tuned!  

Motel Glory is rock and roll with an “ex-members-of” genealogy that goes back to Clinton’s first term. They play clubs, bars, dives, houses, prisons, and forests. They want to be your friend.  The new album Weekend […]

Coming very soon from Carbon Records – Green Dreams Sweat EP shipped out last week — you can check out this new track from the EP now!  

Overseas is David Bazan, Will Johnson, Matt Kadane, and Bubba Kadane.  The self-titled debut album is a dreamy waltz of foreboding and reconciliation, a coin flipping head over tails in spotlight slow motion, landing briefly […]