#phantogram

#phantogram

Concrete Waves is the first in a new series by Werkdiscs capturing improvised musical conversations between two avant-garde icons, Actress and Suzanne Ciani.

Fire-Toolz's music is a blend of glitchy and hard-to-pigeonhole sounds, making it a fitting addition to Warp Records, known for its innovative artists like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

GO SCREAM AT THEE PARKSIDE, SLATED TO CLOSE IN MARCH Frank's Place was the business located at 1600 17th St in San Francisco before Thee Parkside took over sometime in 2002. The previous occupant was a modest lunch counter that served sandwiches to local shipyard workers. Who would have guessed that the punk rock venue that followed would serve a similar blue-collar function, providing a third space for local bands and entertainers?

Inner Magic is the duo of former Chromatics guitarist Adam Miller and former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder. They met in 2024 and bonded over their love of '80s UK indie legends Felt, krautrock and the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and then decided they should make music together.

Green-House will release new album Hinterlands on March 20. The Los Angeles duo of Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan has left their longtime home of Leaving to sign with Ghostly for the follow-up to A Host for All Kinds of Life. Listen to a new song from the record, "Farewell, Little Island," below, and scroll down for the album art.

This is by far the biggest release week of the year so far. Amanda and I highlight 12 new releases below, and Bill tackles another five in Indie Basement, including Cardinals, Luke Temple & The Cascading Moms, The Paranoid Style, the Wall of Voodoo 1983 demos collection, and the expanded reissue of Velocity Girl's ¡Simpatico!. And in addition to these reviews, Dave and I talked a lot about all this new music on today's episode of BV Weekly.

When he's not making proggy folk as a solo artist, Richard Dawson gets his skronk on as part of proggy new-wave art-rock group Hen Ogledd. Despite my attempts to do so in the previous sentence, the band are hard to succinctly describe: they can pivot from warm synthpop to mossy faerie folk to baggy Manchester shuffle beats to dense prog and even flashes of hip hop. Hen Ogledd are weird, but also welcoming.

Jane Remover has released a new song as Venturing. It's called "In The Dark," and it arrives just ahead of the first anniversary of her debut album under the alias, Ghostholding. Check out the song, and its cover art, below. The artist shared her most recent Jane Remover LP, Revengeseekerz, in April 2025, following it up with a surprise EP, ♡, in December.