The North Wind‘s debut full length ‘
Dismal Nitch‘ is now available worldwide! If you’re a fan of instrumental post-rock like Explosions In The Sky or The Mercury Program, you should give this one a spin.
The first official video from
The North Wind album ‘
Dismal Nitch‘ is upon us thanks to the handy work of one Mr. Dusty Deen. Check out the high octane visual for album opener “
Santana Claus” now!
Portland post-rock trio
The North Wind will release their debut full length ‘
Dismal Nitch‘ via Lowatt on March 4. Check out the lead single, “
Possum Adventure,” now at
Bandcamp!
Second Letter‘s Rob Haworth spoke with the folks from
Where It Went about his previous band “State Of The Nation,” who’s second album was released by Revelation Records.
Airplanes Are Better‘s debut and swan song, ‘
Power,’ is now available digitally for the first time since its initial release on compact disc at the turn of the millennium.
We’re re-releasing the ‘Power’ EP by beloved late 90’s / early 00’s El Paso power trio
Airplanes Are Better. Look for it on all digital music services starting October 29, 2021!
Dan O’Mahony of No For An Answer recently had
Second Letter‘s Rob Haworth on his podcast “
Dan O Says So” and no topic was off limits, including Haworth’s long standing MS diagnosis.
The Bellmont (Slippin’ Jimmy’s favorite Albuquerque indie rock band) had their debut album, ‘
Hide Your Tracks,’ reviewed highly favorably by the local weekly arts and culture mag
The Alibi… and no one had to take a bad fall.
After nearly a decade in the making,
The Bellmont‘s dusty, sun soaked debut album, ‘
Hide Your Tracks‘, is now available worldwide on all major digital music platforms! Click
here for links.
Billy Belmont’s late 90’s solo project,
The Bellmont, morphed into a full band experience sometime in the mid 00’s. Now, the band’s self-produced debut album, ‘
Hide Your Tracks‘, will be available worldwide on October 11th, 2019.
DIE NO FIGHT’s self-titled debut is now available on all digital music services! This 3 song EP will leave you feeling like you’ve been trampled on by a pack of brontosaurus, but it hurts so good.
After years of woodshedding, bassist Greg Sosa and drummer Matt Schmitz are finally sharing their latest material as a duo under the banner of
DIE NO FIGHT! Their debut EP arrives August 2, 2019.
Second Letter’s Pete Moffett shared his thoughts on drumming and a whole lot more on the most recent episode of the excellent drum-centric podcast,
The Trap Set. Definitely worth a listen!
No Echo is premiering a new track from
Second Letter‘s “
Cicatrix” on their site this week, and they’ve added some background on the band and how the lead track “
Anything” came to be.
The pre-order for
Second Letter‘s debut album, ‘
Cicatrix,’ is live! Head over to their
Bandcamp page for purchase links to the album in various formats, and check out the various merch bundles while you’re at it.
We’re “celebrating” the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration by re-releasing a barn burner from El Paso’s
The Push appropriately entitled “
Thumbs Down“. Turn it up, and scream along!
The fourth single from
Midway In Wake‘s ‘Heirs To The Storm,’ is now available in video form thanks to Ryan Schmitz. Check out this maybe not so safe for work video for “
The Measures,” when it’s “safe” to.
The first two no hope anthems(?) from
S.L. Chamberlain are now available worldwide! If you like your folk a little more than broken, and aren’t afraid of West Texas Devil Music, you should give these
tracks a listen.
Midway In Wake‘s Greg Reynaud sat down with the
Deagu Compass to talk about “
Heirs To The Storm,” and the various multimedia components that were developed to support the record’s overall concept.
Paste Magazine premiered the itchy, post-apocalyptic lyric video for
Midway In Wake‘s “
Your Majesty” today, alongside some kind words about the track and the album at large.
Austin radio station KUTX premiered “
They’ll Come For Us” from Midway In Wake’s ‘Heirs To The Storm’ this past Sunday, alongside a brief review of the “unique” album.
Midway In Wake‘s ‘Heirs To The Storm’ is now available digitally worldwide, on all major streaming platforms. Click
here for links to the various services carrying it.
The lyric video for Second Letter’s second single, “
Ruins,” is now available for your viewing pleasure on our YouTube channel.
“Will Watts and Greg Reynaud both grew up in El Paso, Texas. Despite coming from the same city, Watts didn’t meet his future musical partner until Reynaud was living in Austin and playing in the promising band Lovetron. After Lovetron disbanded, Watts moved to Portland and Reynaud ultimately moved to South Korea. The duo write music under the name
Art of Ballistics, and have released a new EP, “
REX 84“. In this artist feature, Watts and Reynaud tell the story of how a problem with Reynaud’s passport helped launch Art of Ballistics.” — via
OPB
Whether you’re ready for the ruckus or not, the self-titled debut and swan song from
Rats On Radar will be available through major digital music distributors in every hemisphere sometime on Tuesday, January 14th. Beginning January 7th, you will be able to stream the entire “Rats On Radar” EP on our
Bandcamp page and
here. If you like what you hear, and choose to pre-order the EP directly from us via our Bandcamp page, will receive your download codes at the time of purchase, regardless of the January 14th release date. iTunes and Amazon pre-orders will not be made available until January 14th, and will cost you a few dollars more. The choice seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it?
Without further ado, we’d like to welcome
Rats On Radar to our burgeoning family. While the band only existed briefly, in a place that most folks will never visit, we’re getting behind this band because a) they were really good, and b) our good buddy Steven Chamberlain (Torches To Rome, The Yellow Press) plays a mean bass and absolutely shreds his vocal chords for the sake of a good take. Fans of Steven’s past projects should take notice, as should anyone who loves big, loud, in-your-face punk rock like Drive Like Jehu, Fugazi, Shellac and The Jesus Lizard.
In his
review of
Belknap‘s “
Radio Ready” EP, Tom Körp suggests that its re-release “is little more than salt in the wound,” and we couldn’t agree to disagree more. Knowing that there is such a finite amount of recorded material by such an interesting group can be a very painful thing for a fan to experience. But, from a label standpoint, this whole re-release process has been more akin to the euphoria you experience once you finally get that popcorn kernel out from between your teeth. You’re really happy once that thing comes out of your mouth, and it goes back out into the world, where it rightfully belongs. A decade too early, or a too decade late, “Radio Ready” is now available via
Bandcamp,
iTunes, and
Amazon for your nostalgic/future pleasure.
In addition to playing multiple instruments and writing all his own vocal parts, Greg Reynaud mixes and engineers his own recordings. As if that wasn’t enough, he paints and is known to sit in an editing bay, too. His self-produced video for the song “Check & Check Mate,” produced under the guise of “
Midway In Wake” is now playing on our
YouTube Channel.
“One of the main strengths of the record is that it doesn’t sound like a one man band. Reynaud is able to handle himself quite well on multiple instruments, and it is indeed complex stuff. He is weaving multiple melody lines on guitar and keyboards into a giant tapestry of sound. His bass and drumming also add lovely accents to the mix.” — Kevin Poindexter @
The Fire Note on
Midway In Wake‘s “We Will Remain Sedate”.
“Midway in Wake has created an album which serves as evidence of the mastery of personalized folk music. The songs may not appeal to a wide demographic, but they certainly can capture the soul and essence of their creator. This album is well worth a listen, just don’t plan on listening in passing, it will draw you in and keep you hooked.” — Zack Garceau @
Surviving The Golden Age on
Midway In Wake’s “We Will Remain Sedate”
Greg Reynaud [Midway In Wake] gives up some of his secrets to living a happy life in some of the small(er) towns around South Korea in this edition of “Stomping Grounds” @
Ghettoblaster. Hint : Avoid the soju, and check out Park Chan Wook, he’s worth is worth the hype.
Greg Reynaud [Midway In Wake] goes toe to toe with an email message chock full of “generic questions” this week, and
Absolute Punk ends up ruining his reputation as “bad teacher” and “musician” in the process.
AOL’s Spinner site will have Midway In Wake’s debut, We Will Remain Sedate, streaming in its entirety from Monday, November 21 thru Monday, November 28th, alongside a Massive Attack re-issue and the new Bad Brains album. So, dust off your dial up modem, get out your emoticon dictionary, and elbow crawl your way back into the retro-future today!
Greg Reynaud’s (Behold The Profit, Art of Ballistics) paintings have hung on gallery walls around the world, and graced the covers of both Behold The Profit EPs, and now they are featured in the fledgling arts magazine, Art Elemento.
“Art of Ballistics’ Broken Mornings is one hell of an EP. It’s atmospheric, but not droney and overly concerned with ambience. It’s panicked and urgent, but leaves room for the impatient sound of racing thoughts. There are moments of rest, but they are skillfully and scantily spread throughout each song in a way that only makes the melodies more effective. Broken Mornings embodies a paranoid sadness that somehow manages to remain hopeful and driven, like the only thing left to do is keep trying.” — Alex Knowlton @
Sputnik Music
“The release of the new DJ Shadow record has been met with a lot of shrugs and head scratching. The music writers and geeks of the world have expended a lot of column inches and pixels wondering how one man can continue to produce music that simply builds on the same ideas he introduced with Endtroducing but not really evolve them in any appreciable manner. In response, I want to point all of them towards a group that is taking that instrumental, hip-hop-inspired sound to new levels:
Art of Ballistics.” — Robert Ham @
Willamette Week on “Broken Mornings”.
Greg Reyanud’s (Behold The Profit) self-shot, self-directed, self-edited
video for “You Hold The World Like A Gun” (off his EP by the same name) is now showing on YouTube.
“Only computers are perfect and precise, and therefore they lack the passion of error. Reynaud manages to channel emotion through his beats and melodies, and that is far more entertaining that precise beats or perfectly mixed samples. This EP is 20 minutes of a perfect balance between man and machine. Goofy Terminator imagery aside, this is music for people that have names for their computers and enjoy the curve of a skirt and snare with vodka on a regular basis.” — emcphail,
Delusions of Adequacy