The Co-Operators exist as a collective of musicians, recording and creating from Waggle Dance Studios, housed in Bristol, UK. Multi-instrumentalist/producer Eeyun Purkins captains the crew, creating and arranging the music they release digitally and through limited-run vinyl pressings. Their output has grabbed my attention over the last couple of… Read More
As Brooklyn progressive reggae act, SunDub, puts the finishing touches on their new LP due out later this summer, they have spearheaded a new riddim project named for their home borough, “Brooklyn Riddim.” Riddims, of course, are a Jamaican musical tradition in which an artist, producer, studio or… Read More
Complacency can be one of the most subtle yet dangerous traps that we can fall into. Through a veil of comfort lies the death of ambition and curiosity. As human beings, we often gravitate toward the warmth of familiarity, lulling us into a blank silence and stripping… Read More
Editor’s note: This single showcase reprints the press release for this song from Pirates Press Records.
“My Last Star” began as a dream that Greg Lee of Hepcat had the week before his death in March of 2024. Greg dreamed of a Slackers song. … Read More
Hailing from the beaches of the Carolinas, TreeHouse! always comes with an engagingly positive message. Their new single, “Alchemical Equations,” most certainly carries that tradition, and then some. This one isn’t just a song, it’s a cosmic experience.
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Blanc du Blanc, the uncategorizable dub outfit from Hopewell, NJ, have teamed up with Hopeton Brown, the prodigiously unparalleled master of sound famously known as Scientist. Together, they bring the world a summoning of galactic proportions which can only be earthly understood… Read More
Flying Vipers are a favorite amongst the Rootfire team. We first covered them when I interviewed brothers Marc and John Beaudette for a Vinyl Giveaway article with Rootfire raffling off three copies of their Cuttings LP in October 2020. It’s worth pointing out that the three… Read More
The Medicinals, an amalgam of musicians from the shores of Lake Ontario in western New York, have released three songs to date. They dropped their first single, the Afrobeat flavored anthem, “We Gonna Get Through,” on June 30th, 2020. … Read More
