Bathetic Records dug into the archives to unearth a vinyl release of this originally-on-cassette sleeper from King Dude, “My Beloved Ghost”. Perfectly dark, and quiet when it needs to be, this EP is a stunning collection of what we endearingly refer to as “graveyard folk”. It’s a subtly haunting journey that you’ll not soon forget. [...]

We’re pretty well smitten with this new Charlatan tape from Overland Shark, one of two Kansas labels we’re in love with. Charlatan has always been Brad Rose’s (aka The North Sea, the man behind Digitalis, half of Altar Eagle, etc) outlet to express his love for experimental electronic music, a genre I know he’s deeply [...]

Iowa’s Night People just dropped a giant batch of new cassettes. Included are new releases from Naked On The Vague, Lantern (actually a co-release with Sweat Lodge Guru, we’ll have copies soon too), Robedoor, Daughters of the Sun, and more. Their cassettes are all lovingly handmade, limited, and priced at $7 shipped each. Check out [...]

Beer On The Rug, the C V L T S led label from Kansas that brought you Casino Gardens, has two new tape releases up for preorder (World Series and the appropriately named Midnight Television). They’ve pretty well established their aesthetic to be “all things blown-out and awesome”, so I’ll let the audio below do [...]

Here’s some Monday mourning death metal madness for you – Doomentia has just released two insane split 7″s from some serious heavyweights, including OMGV favorites Hooded Menace. They share seven inches of vinyl with the mighty Asphyx, available on black wax or picture disc. Disma and Winterwolf also split a 7″, and again, it’s available [...]

This month’s batch of records from Thrill Jockey is a mix of well-traveled and completely new directions for the label. First up is “H-p1″, the latest full-length from shredders White Hills. This is, believe it or not, my favorite record from them yet. The jams here are huge and cathartic, but also have room to [...]

Minneapolis label Taiga is back with another beautiful vinyl edition, this time for the third volume of Rafael Toral’s “Space Elements” series. If you missed the first two, this collection of albums features Toral burning through some completely way-out improvisational, experimental jazz. The entire record is pretty far left of conventional, but it’s sure exciting [...]

Mark McGuire has joined up with Akron indie-synth dynamo duo Trouble Books to release an extremely limited LP edition. Mark’s signature string stylings are on full display here, but this might not be what you tape hoarders are used to from the Emeralds heartthrob; Trouble Books’ pop-leaning and serendipitous vocals keep the project from completely [...]

After dropping a slew of releases as Leyland Kirby, Mr. James Leyland Kirby is back for another outing as The Caretaker. This guise has offered Kirby the opportunity to explore sounds that are entirely different from those he releases under his own name. Like home-recorded, degraded acetates of early 1900′s ballroom and piano recordings, this [...]

Hope you didn’t have any big plans this weekend, The Rapture might end up spoiling that. No, not those hipsters – I’m talking the real fucking deal here. People are literally going to be swallowed up into the heavens. For those of us being left behind, Jeremy at Experimedia is kindly offering 20% off a [...]