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Maya Bon is the singer-songwriter behind Babehoven, formed with her collaborator Ryan Albert. Babehoven&#8217;s latest record, Light Moving Time, is out now on Double Double Whammy.
(Photo Credit: Jessica Chappe)

Babehoven

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Here’s What Got Babehoven Through the Year

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

Leah Wellbaum is a musician, artist, and writer living in Los Angeles, CA. She is the principal songwriter, guitar player, and unrepentant aesthete of the band <a href="http://bighassle.com/publicity/slothrust" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://bighassle.com/publicity/slothrust&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622209358966000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGI1diRvKuG6WHbczt4NvwwiWOx2Q">Slothrust</a>, and also has a side project called <a href="https://anmlplnet.bandcamp.com/album/fall-asleep" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://anmlplnet.bandcamp.com/album/fall-asleep&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622209358966000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGerfGuHHblxrkWwiVFxjFvTpC6PQ">ANMLPLNET</a>. On the upcoming Slothrust album, Parallel Timeline, Wellbaum constructs a luscious, ethereal cosmos perforated with wormy portals and unexpected magical iconography. She is a lover of all things mystical and absurd. When she isn&#8217;t on the road, she offers lessons in music and creativity. You can find her art at <a href="http://www.leahwellbaum.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.leahwellbaum.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622209358966000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVfpXiysd2fv7xl6G0h_mtBT5PqA">www.leahwellbaum.com</a>.

Leah Wellbaum

Slothrust’s Strange Astrology: Gemini Season

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.

Gong Gong Gong

Gong Gong Gong, Yu Su, and Howie Lee Talk “DIY Culture” in China

Fronted by Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy is a shoegaze band from Montreal. Their new EP Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven is out now on Joyful Noise.

No Joy

Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy) and Ouri Talk Montreal, a Duck Blood-Stained Eckhaus Latta Dress, and More

Devon Welsh&nbsp;writes songs and lyrics in&nbsp;Majical Cloudz. His opinions are neither to be taken seriously nor to be trusted.

Devon Welsh

Nick Schofield and Devon Welsh Aren’t Trying to Clearly Define Reality

M.C. Taylor is the frontman and songwriter of Hiss Golden Messenger, whose most recent album, Heart Like a Levee, is out now. Hiss Golden Messenger’s Facebook page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HissGoldenMessenger" target="_blank">here</a> and its website is <a href="http://www.hissgoldenmessenger.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.
(Photo credit: Dan Huiting)

M.C. Taylor

Johanna Samuels and Hiss Golden Messenger Talk the “Possibility of Hope”

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A self-taught musician, Cody Crump was born in Colorado. He was kicked out of his school band and choir for making bad jokes, and impeached as his junior class president for getting arrested. Crump chose music as his path after a Metallica concert at age 16. A man of many contradictions, each release sounds completely different from his last. After living in Denver for three years Crump moved to Los Angeles continuing to hone his craft while playing at venues such as: Soho House, The Standard, The Roxy, and The Chateau Marmont. The film world began to take notice using his music in shows including: The Leftovers (HBO), The Righteous Gemstones (HBO), and How to Get Away With Murder (ABC). Crump currently has several albums of new material, and can’t wait to release them into the world.
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Cody Crump

A Few of Cody Crump’s Favorite Movie Stars

Claire Rousay is based in San Antonio, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance.
(Photo Credit: Dani Toral)

Claire Rousay

Claire Rousay and Haley Dahl Got Comfort Spoiled in Quarantine

New York City&#8217;s Macula Dog is a duo known for their singular style of clattering electronic synth music. The band is also known for their live performances, which are highly visual, with the duo donning elaborate costumes and operating custom control rigs. Their current live set features a luminol-glam experience with live video of each member’s face recorded by head-mounted cameras and projected onto screens around the performance area. Their live set has been covered in The New Yorker and their last LP earned a Tiny Mix Tapes Eureka designation.
The band’s first self-titled EP was released on their own Haord Records label in 2014, followed by their debut LP for Wharf Cat, 2016’s Why Do You Look Like Your Dog? The Natural Dog cassette followed by a U.S. release tour and performances on Adult Swim. The Breezy EP was be released on 4/17 but the band had to cancel the Eps release tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Macula Dog is currently working on their next LP, after which a support tour will be planned when it is safe to do so.
(Photo Credit: Ates Isildak)

Macula Dog

The Rig Rundown with Dan Deacon and Macula Dog

Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. His work calls for an accounting of the damages done to land and life by unfettered capitalism while envisioning and advocating alternate possibilities. 
His debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is Indian Yard, his first album for Sub Pop. Rich with emotional range and sharp awareness, Indian Yard explores love, desire, frustration, pain, revolution, and connection through the magnetic expressions of an Indigenous mind. 
This is not, by any means, Galanin’s first album. He has released a steady stream of records under a panoply of aliases, including Silver Jackson and Indian Agent. He has worked with the likes of Meshell Ndegeocello, Tanya Tagaq, and Samantha Crain. And for the better part of a decade, he’s also been part of the revolutionarily borderless art collective Black Constellation alongside Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction.
(Photo Credit: Merritt Johnson)

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