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Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York and they cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The Hand Habits project emerged after Meg moved to Los Angeles; it started as a private songwriting outlet but soon evolved into a fully-fledged band with Meg at the helm.
Hand Habits has released two albums, Wildly Idle (2017) and placeholder (2019). With producer Joel Ford, they&#8217;ve released a self-titled album as the duo yes/and, via Driftless Recordings.

Meg Duffy

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Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Joel Ford Are Casually Methodical

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Caleb Cordes is a songwriter, musician, and writer-on-occasion living in Nashville, TN. He is the sole member of the project Sinai Vessel and yet insistently calls that project a band. Sinai Vessel self-released their third LP, Ground Aswim, in October 2020.
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Caleb Cordes

Jodi Is Comfortable Ceding Control

New Chance is an electronic music producer and vocalist from Toronto. Her recent projects include a collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams and the musical duo, Nice Hands, with poet Aisha Sasha John. She sings backup with Chandra and with Jennifer Castle’s Angels of Death.
(Photo Credit: Yuula Benivolski)

New Chance

New Chance and Prince Nifty Don’t Say Things They Don’t Mean

Greta Kline is a musician from New York City. She has been the lead singer and songwriter of the band Frankie Cosmos since 2012.

Greta Kline

Frankie Cosmos and The Goon Sax Feel Like “Weird Fucking Aliens”

Jonah Bayer is the guitarist for the screamo act United Nations. He is also a writer, producer and podcaster with two decades of experience in the music industry. He has written for Rolling Stone, Travel + Leisure, and Stereogum and worked on podcasts for clients such as HBO Max, iHeartMedia &amp; Sonos. He is currently an adjunct professor in the English &amp; Communications department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts as well as a graduate student in Antioch University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling program.

Jonah Bayer

Tom Scharpling Doesn’t Want a Pity Party

Lucy Gooch’s music is a beautiful ethereal fog; like hearing a subliminal echo of Kate Bush on a fading tape loop, masked by an internal wall of sound that vibrates with the hum of everyday life. Her new album Rain&#8217;s Break is out now via Fire Records.

Lucy Gooch

Lucy Gooch and Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream) Were Choir Kids

Enchanted Forest is Em Boltz and Noah Jacobson-Carroll, a Philly-based experimental electronic duo. Their album Research is out now via Dear Life Records.
(Photo Credit: Juliette Rando)

Enchanted Forest

Mutual Benefit and Enchanted Forest Talk Buchlas, Behringers, and Research

Body Breaks is the microtonal rock duo of Matt LeGroulx and Julie Reich. From their homes in Montreal and Toronto, respectively, the DIY lifers behind projects like Bile Sister, EXPWY, and Galaxius Mons have developed idiosyncratic approaches to bedroom recording that culminate on their collaborative debut. Their first full-length album Bad Trouble is out June 18, 2021 via We Are Time Records. 
(Photo Credit: Natalie Logan)

Body Breaks

B.J. Snowden and Body Breaks Are Just Ahead of Their Time

Phil Elverum has produced two decades worth of records as The Microphones and Mount Eerie that span a wide spectrum, from studio heavy atmospheric landscaping to simple, raw songs. His upcoming album, Now Only, is an exploration of death, remembrance, and legacy. It is out March 16th on his own P.W. Elverum &amp; Sun. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/PWElverum">here</a>.

Phil Elverum

Noah Britton and Phil Elverum Make Hate-Based Rock & Roll

Major Murphy is a rock band from Michigan. Their new album Access is out now on Winspear.

Major Murphy

Major Murphy and Jess Williamson Are Just Working For a Sustainable Career

Loraine James grew up in Enfield, North London and was drawn into the world of music making through her mother&#8217;s eclectic love of music, and she thanks the multiculturalism of her city, for &#8220;broadening her ears&#8221; in her teens. She took piano lessons as a child, while classes at college, and later on Westminster University’s Commercial Music course, facilitated her encounter with the basic tools for digital production, her musical approach displays voracious musical curiosity and an exciting, peerless approach to making music.
Her wide exposure to Jazz, electronica, UK drill and grime, reassembled through her intuitive skills and intimate, almost diaristic approach to music making can be heard on the colorful mix-up of her Hyperdub debut album For You And I, released in late 2019. Loraine took advantage of the Lockdown to work on her next EP, Nothing for Hyperdub in 2020 as well as self releasing EPs on bandcamp and using a steady flow of remixes, from Jessy Lanza to Gordi and others to sharpen her skills, as well as starting a monthly show on NTS radio and performing at Adult Swim&#8217;s annual music festival.
Loraine also completed and delivered her third album, Reflection, for Hyperdub, made in the summer of 2020. It&#8217;s a turbulent expression of inner-space, laid out in unflinching honesty, that offers gentle empathy and bitter-sweet hope, pared down and confident, leaning further into pop music her own way and taking the listener through how a tumultuous year felt for a young, Black queer woman and her acolytes in a world that has suddenly stopped moving.

Loraine James

Loraine James and Vegyn Make Club Music That’s Not Actually For the Club

Beijing duo Gong Gong Gong 工工工’s raucous debut LP, Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏, was recorded live in a room, on open-reel tape, with little more than vocalist and guitarist Tom Ng’s 60-year-old Italian pawn shop guitar and bassist Joshua Frank’s 1970s imitation P-bass. The minimalist group created a drummer-less sound that was more than the sum of its parts, inspired by back-porch blues, Sahelian guitar music, New York no-wave, Cantonese lion dance percussion, and, seemingly most incongruously, techno.
On Phantom Rhythm Remixed, Gong Gong Gong bring to life a concept they’ve planned since the release of their acclaimed debut, curating their favorite China-connected electronic music producers to remix Phantom Rhythm in its entirety. The globe-spanning collaboration features Yu Su (Vancouver/Kaifeng), Zaliva-D, Simon Frank, Howie Lee (Beijing), Mong Tong, Scattered Purgatory (Taipei), Knopha (Xiamen), Wu Zhuoling (Chengdu), Angel Wei (Copenhagen), and P.E. (Brooklyn). The LP will be released by Wharf Cat Records in collaboration with Beijing’s bié Records.

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