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Jeremy Gustin is a one-of-a-kind drummer who has toured and recorded with Rubblebucket, Okkervil River, David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Delicate Steve, and Albert Hammond Jr.. He has long been in demand for his ability to bring a touch of the unorthodox to highly structured and improvised musical settings alike, so it should come as no surprise that on his own solo project, The Ah, Gustin explores the outer boundaries of his imagination to the fullest.
The Ah&#8217;s new album Mere Husk, the follow-up to 2017’s Common Bliss, sees Gustin once again crafting animal noises, water sounds, miscellaneous found audio, and his own playing into a harmonic language that straddles the line between his love of pop songcraft and his equally strong attraction to the abstract. Rather than employ gurgling fish tank bubbles and dolphin calls for their ambient properties alone, for example, Gustin bends them beyond recognition so that they mimic synths or serve the role of instrumental parts in an arrangement that falls together like a classic &#8220;song&#8221; — whether Gustin includes vocals or not.
Mere Husk expands dramatically on the vision introduced with Common Bliss. Though twirling from playful to solemn and back again, Gustin&#8217;s music is as easy to take in as watching the myriad shades of colorful marine life swimming through an aquarium.
(Photo Credit: Jesse Harris)

The Ah

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Introducing: The Ah’s “Pepper Pupil”

Julia Bardo was born and raised in Brescia, a small city in northern Italy, where she sang and wrote lyrics for a local band between shifts working at her father’s bar. She felt uninspired by the music she was contributing to and the life she was leading, so she packed her bags for Manchester three years ago, despite knowing no one in the city, and hasn&#8217;t looked back.
Her debut EP Phase is out March 6 via Wichita Recordings.
(Photo Credit: Ashton Hugh)

Julia Bardo

Introducing: Julia Bardo’s “Please Don’t Tell Me”

Singer/songwriter KaiL Baxley‘s experiences are as diverse as the day is long–the Los Angeles-based South Carolina native and son of a couple of outlaws, who learned to dance from James Brown, has been an amateur boxer, a gunshot survivor, a football star, and a traveling troubadour. Those narratives naturally inform his art, producing songs that cut deep and entice the listener to pay close attention.
On March 6, 2020 he will release his third and most accomplished album Beneath the Bones, via AntiFragile Music. The self-produced album recorded at the late Elliott Smith’s New Monkey Studio, HAS Studios in Charleston, SC and United Studios in Los Angeles, CA is both prophetic and profound.
(Photo Credit: Monica Lightstone)

KaiL Baxley

Introducing: KaiL Baxley’s “In Lieu Of”

EDGESLAYER is a multi disciplinary visual and music artist based in New Orleans.

Edge Slayer

Edge Slayer and Jasmine Infiniti Talk Voices, Vockah Redu, and New Orleans

Field Music, brothers Peter and David Brewis, hail from Sunderland in the Northeast of England. The band’s music draws on influences as wide-ranging as Stravinsky, Stax R&amp;B, Fleetwood Mac, Serge Gainsbourg, Thelonious Monk and Kate Bush. Field Music’s sound is like all of the pop music you’ve ever heard but with a distinctly British — and Northeastern, tinge. They’ve become known for a deconstructionist approach to songwriting, playfully twisting compositions into new and odd shapes, with a refreshing disregard for convention and cliche.

Field Music

Introducing: Field Music’s “Money Is A Memory”

It’s hard to survive in the music business, but Peter Bjorn and John have done that and then some. The Swedish indie-pop trio have been triumphing via their pitch-perfect alchemy of varying sounds and styles for two decades now, and their ninth album Endless Dream is proof of the unique creative chemistry that Peter Morén, Bjorn Yttling, and John Eriksson have successfully worked with for so long. Every PB&amp;J album sounds liked falling in love with music for the first time, and the deceptively light confections contained on Endless Dream continue with the trio’s latest romance, the Endless Play EP.
(Photo Credit: Johan Bergmark)

Peter Bjorn and John

Introducing: Peter Bjorn and John’s “Drama King”

Alice Boman is a singer-songwriter from Malmo, Sweden.
(Photo Credit: Märta Thisner)

Alice Boman

Introducing: Alice Boman’s “Don’t Forget About Me”

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<div>Roger Harvey is a songwriter born and raised in rural Pennsylvania. His music calls to mind an earlier era of song-centered singers like Willie Nelson, John Prine, and Neil Young. Roger has spent much of his life traveling and playing music but has recently laid roots in Philadelphia.</div>
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Roger Harvey

Introducing: Roger Harvey’s “Raining In LA”

<div>Legal Vertigo is a Montreal artist who is preparing to release his debut LP, Tragic Future Film Star. Though this is his first release under the name he has become well known in the Montreal scene for his work as a producer, most prominently on Operators&#8216; well-received 2019 album Radiant Dawn, and has shared the stage with artists like Alvvays, Wolf Parade, U.S. Girls, Basia Bulat, Bob Odenkirk, and Operators. Tragic Future Film Star will be released on Dine Alone on November 15.</div>

Legal Vertigo

Introducing: Legal Vertigo’s “Napster Vertigo”

One of Los Angeles’ best-kept musical secrets, indie folk songwriter Jamie Drake is emerging on the national scene with her stunning debut album, Everything’s Fine.
Within the last few years, Jamie Drake has collaborated with the likes of Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco), and Moby. She’s also toured with accomplished performers such as Sara &amp; Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, J.S. Ondara, Shawn Colvin and The Lone Bellow.
From her nomadic childhood with gypsy parents where she was constantly the new kid in town, to overcoming heartbreak and divorce and being the ultimate late bloomer, Everything’s Fine gives Jamie permission to take the spotlight at age 39 and be her weird and wild-eyed self on center stage.
Her first two singles released from the album, “Everything’s Fine” and “Wonder,” have received a combined five millions streams on Spotify. Everything’s Fine will be released on September 20, 2019 via AntiFragile Music on vinyl and all digital platforms.

Jamie Drake

Introducing: Jamie Drake’s “Redwood Tree”

Sui Zhen is an experimental pop and performance artist. Her new album Losing, Linda is out September 27 via Cascine.

Sui Zhen

Introducing: Sui Zhen’s “Another Life”

Ani Cordero is a Puerto Rican singer/composer and activist living in NYC. She has toured as the drummer for the legendary Os Mutantes, and was a founding member of the celebrated Mexican rock band Pistolera. In the early 2000s, Ani led her own bilingual art rock band, Cordero who released such Feminist anthems such as “Vamos Nenas,” and “Matadora,” on Chicago’s beloved Bloodshot Records and Amy Ray’s (Indigo Girls&gt;) label, Daemon Records.
n 2014, Ani released an album entitled Recordar (Remember), which re-imagined songs by influential Latin American songwriters of the turbulent &#8220;Nueva Cancion&#8221; era, including Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Chavela Vargas, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. Her critically-acclaimed album received accolades from NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered, Alt-Latino, and Soundcheck, as well as, Billboard, USA Today, PRI The World, Brooklyn Vegan, BUST, Remezcla, and more.
Following the success of Recordar, Ani released an album of her own political protest and love songs called Querido Mundo (Dear World). The album is Ani&#8217;s love letter to a complicated world and addresses several themes including immigration, Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and government corruption. The songs feature heavy percussion, sing-along choruses and strong lyrics that aim to inspire political resistance and support for social justice.
In September 2019, Ani will release her third solo album El Machete inspired in large part by the new reality facing Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria.
Ani is also co-founder of Puerto Rico Independent Musicians and Artists <a href="https://www.primafund.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(PRIMA)</a> which supports the music community in Puerto Rico.
(Photo Credit: Bek Andersen)

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