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Wesley Eisold is a musician, poet, and author based in LA. He is a founding member of the influential Boston hardcore band American Nightmare, and records under the name Cold Cave. He also runs the publishing house Heartworm Press.
(Photo Credit: Travis Shinn)

Wesley Eisold

Music

A Guide to American Nightmare’s Dedicated to the Next World

Spencer Zahn is a New York-based multi-instrumentalist. His latest record, Pale Horizon, is out now on Cascine.

Spencer Zahn

A Guide to Spencer Zahn’s Pale Horizon

Maria Chiara Argiró is a multi-instrumentalist and jazz trained pianist who has been weaving her way throughout the UK jazz, classical, and electronic worlds since she moved to London from Rome. Her latest record, Forest City, is out now on Innovative Leisure.

Maria Chiara Argiró

A Guide to Maria Chiara Argiró’s Forest City

Ed Schrader is the eponymous frontperson of the Baltimore-based rock duo Ed Schrader&#8217;s Music Beat. Their latest record Nightclub Daydreaming is out now on Carpark Records.
(Photo Credit: Micah E. Wood)

Ed Schrader

Ed Schrader’s Personal Guide to Nightclub Daydreaming

Chicago has known Mike Lust for decades as a powerful figure on both sides of the microphone. To speak of his time as frontman for Tight Phantomz is to speak of a rock and roll apparition bursting with charismatic song-craft. The group’s epic, 36-track double album, Silk Prison, is the reach of imagination meeting the grasp of talent, a special wonderment with songs that reached millions through appearances in both film and television (Including the hit series Breaking Bad). As a complement to this inventory of bonafide bonafides, we look to Lust’s reputation as an experienced force in the recording studio. In addition to being the sound engineer for The AV Club’s A.V. Undercover series, he’s also produced or engineered albums by Urge Overkill, William Elliott Whitmore, Joan of Arc, and Russian Circles, to name just a few.
(Photo Credit: Ryan Bardsley)

Mike Lust

Hear First: Mike Lust’s Demented Wings

10 years ago this April, Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. 
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Ratboys

A Guide to Ratboys’ Happy Birthday, Ratboy

Visionist is the UK-based electronic artist Louis Carnell. His third album, A Call To Arms, is out now via Mute.
(Photo Credit: Peter De Potter)

Visionist

A Guide to Visionist’s A Call To Arms

Wendy Eisenberg (guitar/vocals), Josh Daniel (drums), and Steve Cameron (bass) formed Editrix in Western Massachusetts in early 2018. The &#8220;avant butt-rock&#8221; band&#8217;s debut album Tell Me I&#8217;m Bad is out now on Exploding In Sound Records.
(Photo Credit: Ernest Berenger)

Editrix

A Guide to Editrix’s Tell Me I’m Bad

Felix Walworth is a Brooklyn based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Their songwriting project, called Told Slant, has been described as &#8220;very sad&#8221; and &#8220;like church.&#8221;

Felix Walworth

A Guide to Told Slant’s Point The Flashlight and Walk

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Making music is their collective way of processing it. Plants and Animals are Nicolas Basque, Warren Spicer and Matthew Woodley. The Jungle is their shortest album yet and almost certainly their boldest. Eight acts in a world full of noise. It comes out in October 2020.
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Plants and Animals

A Guide to Plants and Animals’ The Jungle

Steve Von Till has charted an extraordinary musical path over the last several decades, from his main duties as singer and guitarist of the boundary-breaking Neurosis, to the psychedelic music of his Harvestman project and the unique folk songs he&#8217;s released under his own name.
His latest solo release, Alone in a World of Wounds, is out now

Steve Von Till

A Guide To Steve Von Till’s No Wilderness Deep Enough

bad tuner is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist.

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