When it comes to production, DC artist Roger Poulin, aka Binding Spell, is a proponent of making do with what you have. Though his new album English Basement makes him sound like an interstellar voyager moving at time-dilating speeds, voice echoing off space capsule walls, it gets its name from the underground apartment he’s been confined to since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic–a modest setup, but with everything he needed to construct a pocket post-punk universe. READ MORE…
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Texas singer/songwriter Marcus William Striplin named his cosmic folk rock project Margaret Chavez in honor of his mother, who nurtured his interest in music from an early age–in spite of his abusive father and the hardships of her own life. Striplin tells one harrowing chapter of her story in “Honeysuckles,” a track from the upcoming album Into An Atmosphere that shows her continued influence on his artistic spirit. But on his latest single, “H O R A,” he takes a broader look at time and space in the project’s most progressive outing to date.
To unpack the ear-boggling new single from Tucson, Arizona experimental pop band Emby Alexander, it helps to go back to the beginning, before the layers of distorted vocals, synths, and shuffling samples. Lead singer and primary songwriter Michael Alexander first sat down at the piano to write “Morality of Accuracy in Photojournalism” on September 12, 2019–one day after the death of legendary artist Daniel Johnston.