Spencer Radcliffe surprise releases new album Ohio Music with feature-length tour documentary Live and Die Ohio Music Posted 14 Nov 2025

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Spencer Radcliffe is a songwriter and general music-doer born, raised, living and working in the great state of Ohio. A nearly twenty-year tumble of recordings, tours, tapes, fliers, ideas (some finished, some abandoned), bands formed and faded etc… arrives finally at this- “Ohio Vision”.

Crafted slowly in bursts and breaks from 2019-2025, “Ohio Vision” marks the return to a fully solo endeavor- the first since 2015’s “Looking In”, following two records with backing band “Everyone Else” (2017’s “Enjoy the Great Outdoors” and 2019’s “Hot Spring”). At present moment, Radcliffe’s vehicle for song-making operates vaguely on the highway of rock and roll as it were, with a taste for the best of many interconnected worlds. Fuzzy hypnotic rockers, soft hayseed jammers, unhinged experimental freakouts, all of it. The ten tracks contained herein chronicle a six year span of returning to Ohio, working, thinking, living, loving, losing and so forth.

Mixed and mastered by the noble Bradford Krieger at Big Nice Studio (Lincoln, RI), the album is available now as a limited cassette tape via Orindal Records.

Purchase "Ohio Vision" on cassette & digital formats HERE.

Accompanying the release of “Ohio Vision” is “Live and Die Ohio Music,” a feature length documentary by Nick Ertman following a small run of east coast shows with friends Horse Jumper of Love in November of 2024. The film captures numerous live performances of “Ohio Vision” cuts and the lived moments in between.

WATCH LIVE AND DIE OHIO MUSIC

Listen to "Reality Distortion Field" from Robert Stillman's forthcoming album 10,000 Rivers Posted 29 Oct 2025

"Reality Distortion Field" is our first peek at Robert Stillman's forthcoming album 10,000 Rivers- a speculative suite of jazz, ambient and smooth pop-inspired compositions that challenge the myths of Silicon Valley’s early ‘90s techno-utopianism.

Robert Stillman didn’t set out to make a concept album about Steve Jobs. But as a composer and improviser whose music asks questions about his relationship with reality, a curiosity about the promises and follies of technology took him there.

Following an intuitive path from James Bridle’s acclaimed book on non-human intelligence Ways of Being to the seminal 1995 essay “The California Ideology”, Stillman arrived at Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs – and what would become the catalyst for his new album.

“10,000 Rivers points to an alternative narrative about a man who is tormented by the instability of his reality, so tries to invent his way out of it,” Stillman explains. “Ultimately, his tech designs become expressions of his will to replace the messy, disordered, temporary nature of the world with something that strives to be barely physical: streamlined, symmetrical, uncomplicated, and deathless.”

Highly original, wholly unclassifiable, 10,000 Rivers is part cultural critique, part sonic biography and takes the form of a series of songs, instrumentals and abstract soundscapes that respond directly to moments or paradigms from Jobs’ life.

10,000 Rivers' first single, "Reality Distortion Field," is from the perspective of Jobs himself, speaking to his estranged biological mother.

From Stillman:

"Throughout his life Jobs repeatedly downplayed the significance of his adoption, but it's hard not to see his obsession with control as a reaction to the instability that rupture left him with. His Apple colleagues used the phrase 'Reality Distortion Field' to describe his ability to bend people's perception of what was realistic in order to achieve his aims; this song frames the RDF as part of Jobs's lifelong struggle to 'create' his way out of chaos.

"The video accompanying the track was created by the artist/author James Bridle (Ways of Being; New Dark Age) as part of the process of creating the album artwork for 10,000 Rivers. Taking the lyric 'Nothing here is real that isn't touched by these hands' as a point of departure for the work, the video utilizes hand-tracking software to isolate Jobs's elaborate gestural language during the 2007 iPhone product launch."

10,000 Rivers will be released January 9, 2026 by Orindal Records (US) & KIT Records (UK).
North American customers can pre-order 10,000 Rivers on vinyl & digital formats HERE.
Customers in EU/UK can place their orders through Bandcamp.

Watch Greg Jamie's music video for "Wanna Live" Posted 15 Oct 2025

"Wanna Live" is the final single from Greg Jamie's excellent new album of hypnagogic pop & gothic folk, Across a Violet Pasture. Our thanks to Post-Trash for premiering the music video which was filmed & directed by Ryan Marshall.

From Post-Trash's Dan Goldin:

“Wanna Live” is the record’s disorienting centerpiece, a track that ripples with an anxious anxiety and a haunting beauty. With drums provided by Mark Fede (Fat History Month), there’s a steady pulse that allows everything else to swirl, the melodies moving in circular patterns as instruments pop and fade in relation to the rhythm. Greg Jamie’s vocals feel like a perfect fit and yet a contrast to it all as he laments the deterioration of a relationship with a shaky but assured, “I want my ego back. I want my baby back”. The video, directed by Ryan Marshall, brings Jamie’s lyrics from his lips to your ears, quite literally, up close and personal with both the artist and the gorgeous simplicity of the nature that seems to inform his sound.

To celebrate the release of Across a Violet Pasture, Greg Jamie is playing live shows around Maine, New York & Wisconsin throughout the fall. More info & tour dates here.

Catch Macie Stewart on tour with Jeff Tweedy Posted 13 Oct 2025

Macie Stewart is currently touring across the US with Jeff Tweedy. In addition to playing as a member of Jeff's band, Macie is also opening every third show as part of a rotation with Sima Cunningham & Liam Kazar.

We pressed a special transparent pink vinyl edition of Macie's debut solo album Mouth Full of Glass just for the tour. Big thanks to our friends at Smashed Plastic for making it happen.

Make sure to pick up your copy of the limited edition vinyl at a merch table near you, or grab one of the few remaining first-pressing clear vinyl copies here.

You'll find ticket links to all of Macie Stewart's tour dates supporting Jeff Tweedy on the tour dates page.

Across a Violet Pasture by Greg Jamie is out now! Posted 10 Oct 2025

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Across a Violet Pasture, the second solo album by Portland, ME singer, songwriter, guitarist & visual artist Greg Jamie is out & streaming everywhere!

Dan Goldin reviewed Across a Violet Pasture for Post-Trash:

"Greg Jamie's music feels like a deep breath of fresh air, a mental reset that's good for both mind, body, and spirit. The Maine based songwriter is back with Across a Violet Pasture, a stunning art folk record that blends natural and ethereal beauty, a balance between drifting atmospherics and gentle immediacy. Joined by a collective of the region's finest musicians, Jamie and company offer some much needed comfort for these trying times, a pastoral blanket of deeply woven charms."

To celebrate the release of Across a Violet Pasture, Greg Jamie is playing shows in Maine, New York & Wisconsin throughout the fall! Don't miss him live!

GREG JAMIE ON TOUR
Oct 10, 2025- Waldoboro, ME @ The Waldoboro Inn
Oct 19, 2025- Portland, ME @ The Apohadion Theater (w/ Rhubarb, Christy Armstrong & Colby Nathan)
Oct 25, 2025- Portland, ME @ Washington Baths (w/ Ruth Garbus, Kurt Weisman & Omeed Goodarzi)
Oct 31, 2025- Gardiner, ME @ Table Bar
Nov 01, 2025- Brooks, ME @ Marsh River Theater (w/ White Gourd)
Nov 06, 2025- Newburgh, NY @ Untouchable (w/ Jessica Pavone)
Nov 07, 2025- Ridgewood, NY @ Trans-Pecos (w/ Moontype & Advance Base)
Nov 09, 2025- Kittery, ME @ Buoy Gallery (w/ Lisa/Liza & Guy Capecelatro III)
Dec 16, 2025- Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club (Advance Base)
Dec 17, 2025- Eau Claire, WI @ SHIFT (w/ Advance Base)

Purchase Across a Violet Pasture vinyl LPs, cassettes & 6-postcard sets HERE.

Advance Base & Moontype Northeast U.S. Tour Posted 22 Sep 2025

In November, Chicago pals Advance Base & Moontype are hitting the road for a week of co-headlining shows around the northeastern USA! Don't miss em! Tickets are on sale HERE.

Listen to "Beautiful Place" by Greg Jamie Posted 17 Sep 2025

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"Beautiful Place," the second single from Greg Jamie's forthcoming album of hypnagogic, lo-fi folk pop, Across a Violet Pasture, is now streaming everywhere. For the single's premiere at Foxy Digitalis, Brad Rose wrote:

“Beautiful Place” opens like sunlight piercing through thick clouds, a living drone that sets the tone for small, blossoming hopes. Greg Jamie’s guitar lines tease out melodies as tangled strings become taut once again, bringing focused energy into a beacon of sonic light. Josephine Foster’s voice echoes the sentiment, heightening the repeated refrain, “Can there be a beautiful place where we can go in this world?” It seems like a simple question on the surface, but grows more haunting with each repetition, the answer remaining perpetually out of reach. Plaintive and resonant reflections march forward undeterred, a growing chorus rising while blackening clouds pepper the horizon.

15 Questions recently interviewed Greg Jamie about art, performance, emotion & control. It's a wonderful & revealing read! Find it here.

Across a Violet Pasture by Greg Jamie is out October 10. Pre-order vinyl LPs, tapes, downloads & set of 6 limited edition postcards of Greg's watercolors (including the cover painting) HERE.

Compost Karaoke by Matt Bachmann is out now! Posted 12 Sep 2025

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Compost Karaoke, the new album by New York-based composer & multi-instrumentalist Matt Bachmann, is now available to stream & purchase!

Weaving elements of propulsive jazz, bedroom chamber music, and 80s Japanese synthwork, Compost Karaoketells a story that’s as dramatic as it is intimate, beautiful as it is bombastic. Cinematic in sound and structure, Compost Karaoke unfolds like a journey through a honeycomb – each track a unique chamber connected by sonic fibers to the whole. Compact vignettes act as connective tissue, scaffolding the longer repetitive thematic pillars.

Compost Karaoke is Bachmann’s fourth release with Orindal Records and his first release since becoming a licensed social worker in New York. For Bachmann, Compost Karaoke translates to “songs of change,” marking a transition from past years dominated by touring as the bassist of Mega Bog and his own music to rooting in new work.

“At the heart of this transition was a personal struggle between the ‘clouds’ (art) and the ‘earth’ (the systemic problems of New York/US/world). Doing this more earthly work and having less time for the clouds changed my relationship to music. I had been so inside the music world that I had become blind to its generosity– the way it brings us together and allows us to collectively feel, dream, and escape. Making this record was a lifeline– an opportunity to put my sometimes isolating earthly work aside, and dream a bit with friends.”

Riding this renewed spirit of collaboration, Bachmann leaned heavier on his oldest creative confidants. He enlisted Derek Baron (Reading Group Records) to write woodwind arrangements for the skeletal piano sketches and recorded Baron on drums during an overnight session at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn; Jeff Tobias (Modern Nature, Sunwatchers) expanded on Baron’s arrangements in moments of improvised rapture on alto saxophone and bass clarinet; and James Krichenia (Big Thief) gummed up the groove with hand drums and percussion. Decorated with synths, vibraphones, and guitar pedal sonic reimagining, Compost Karaoke is a musical habitat wholly unique, yet nodding to Bachmann’s guiding stars—Ryuichi Sakamoto, Natural Information Society, and RJ Miller, to name a few.

To achieve a healthy compost, you need both greens (food scraps) and browns (dead leaves, cardboard, etc.). Compost Karaoke is Bachmann’s attempt to strike a balance; the score to his latest life transition. For the listener, the imaginative movies that play along in their heads are endless.

"odd, tender, a little absurd, and entirely mesmerizing. Everything floats just slightly off-axis but never loses its pull." – Foxy Digitalis

Purchase Compost Karaoke cassettes & downloads HERE.

New Yorkers can see Matt Bachmann perform live at the Compost Karaoke album release show at The Owl in Brooklyn on Saturday, September 13. Iceblink & Adeline Strei support.

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea is out now! Posted 29 Aug 2025

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Hear as the Mirror Echoes, the debut album by Bristol, UK's herbal tea, is out now! Find it on your preferred streaming service HERE.

Here's what the press has to say about Hear as the Mirror Echoes:

"wistful, bittersweet, and deeply nostalgic, like flipping through an old photo book of half-forgotten memories." – Under The Radar

"music that exemplifies ambient pop at its loveliest, as structured and singable as it is apt to dissolve into glimmering pools of sweet sound." – Bandcamp

"blissfully woozy, dreamy pop... It’s a very promising album that doesn’t fight for your attention, but just creeps in under your skin and stays there." – No More Workhorse

"With 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', herbal tea has crafted a debut that feels both timeless and deeply personal, a mirror that reflects not only her own solitude, but perhaps our own as well." – Mystic Sons

"captivating, delicate, and warm" – Unis Son

"herbal tea takes the DIY intimacy of bedroom pop and expands outwards, building what might otherwise be humble demos into rich, nuanced soundscapes, as though the original basis of each track is merely a door through which entire new worlds lie in wait." – Various Small Flames

"full-on Grouper-like ambient pop.” – Stereogum

“wholly captivating.” – GoldFlakePaint

Purchase Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette or digital dowload HERE.

Customers in UK/EU can purchase from Gold Day.

Watch herbal tea's music video for "Driving Slow" in advance of the August 29th release of their debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes Posted 27 Aug 2025

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Hear as the Mirror Echoes, the debut album by herbal tea is out this Friday, August 29th!

In anticipation of Hear as the Mirror Echoes' release, herbal tea is sharing a music video for the album's third & final single, "Driving Slow." Under the Radar Magazine premiered the video this morning. UTR's Caleb Campbell writes:

Much like the record’s previous two singles, “Driving Slow” operates at a dreamy, laconic lull, bringing forth the aching and evocative qualities to Walker’s songwriting. However, in contrast to those earlier efforts, the track strips back the layers of swirling instrumentation and reverb, leaving only some sparse acoustic guitar and keys to guide Walker’s lullaby-like vocal tracks. Meanwhile, Walker lilts gently above the spacious instrumentation, her vocals enmeshed in a lo-fi haze. The results feel wistful, bittersweet, and deeply nostalgic, like flipping through an old photo book of half-forgotten memories.

Read the full article, which includes some thoughts on "Driving Slow" from herbal tea's Helena Walker, & watch the music video now on the Under the Radar site.

Greg Jamie announces new album Across a Violet Pasture, shares first single "I'd Get Away" Posted 12 Aug 2025

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An established devotee of dark weirdness, Greg Jamie brings forth his second solo album on Orindal: Across a Violet Pasture (out October 10, 2025). Across ten new songs recorded with his longtime collaborator Colby Nathan, Jamie journeys to the strange, enchanted center of his personal vision. This is a space between sleeping and waking, where Jamie’s woodsy, weary voice guides us forward.

It’s no surprise that the latest from the Maine-based musician and visual artist aims to haunt, but this experimental folk pop does it in a way that’s more playful than funereal. It lays a shimmering floor over the abyss.

The strength of Across a Violet Pasture is its intuitive rawness. It’s art made at home; the product of a deep inner life and a personal mythology. And like Greg Jamie’s uncanny watercolor paintings, this record juxtaposes muted, dark backgrounds with shocks of vibrant color. The “violet pasture” of the title evokes a mix of passionate red and cool, sorrowful blue. The resulting purple is mystical and a little extravagant. It’s a color hardly found in nature. And when it is, like the violet flower, it survives only in dappled forest shade. Admired by hermits, fauns, and idealistic weirdos, there’s a secretive, melancholy, and ephemeral beauty to this work.

"I'd Get Away", the first single from Across a Violet Pasture, is now streaming everywhere.

Greg Jamie on "I'd Get Away":
I’d Get Away is the first song on the album. Making this song felt like a breakthrough for the whole record for me, sonically. It's sort of a surf ballad about letting go of what you can’t change, and moving on from what is final. Transcendence and fog. Clarity after death. Blow up nostalgia and just be. Check out that slide and drift away.

Pre-order Across a Violet Pasture vinyl LPs, tapes, downloads & set of 6 limited edition postcards HERE.

Listen to "Submarine" by herbal tea Posted 06 Aug 2025

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Herbal tea is the DIY recording project of Bristol, UK singer/songwriter/producer Helena Walker. "Submarine," the second single from herbal tea's debut album Hear as the Mirror Echoes, is now streaming everywhere.

Sonically, the track takes inspiration from the titular submersible, creating a foggy, underwater feel by drawing on slowcore, ambient music and lo-fi indie rock. Lyrically, the song lingers on the feeling of longing for warmth and safety, for somewhere out of view, where the listener can disappear.

Helena Walker of herbal tea on "Submarine:"
“When I wrote ‘Submarine’, I thought I was poking at old wounds, but now the meaning keeps shifting as time goes by. It touches on the feeling of wanting to disappear into a safe place, in the night, where you feel invisible. It started as a dreamy demo recorded on my laptop and over time grew heavier and louder. It was the only track where we went to the studio to record drums, which was a new experience for me.”

Accompanying the single is a DIY video, shot on camcorder around Nottingham and entirely filmed and edited by Walker and regular collaborator, Henry C Sharpe (multi-instrumentalist and Gold Day Recordings head-honcho).

“Submarine” follows Hear as the Mirror Echoes’ lead single and opening track, “Seventeen.” Stereogum describes “Seventeen” as “full-on Grouper-like ambient pop.” GoldFlakePaint praises the single as “woozy and melancholy” and “wholly captivating.”

Hear as the Mirror Echoes by herbal tea is out August 29 on Orindal (US) & Gold Day (UK).

Pre-order Hear as the Mirror Echoes on vinyl, cassette & digital formats HERE.