EVENT CALENDAR
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Fort Lowell Records is a Teenager now!
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
WL//WH Weekly Shoegaze / Dreampop / Psychedelic / Indie Tips
Second preview from next year’s debut LP for North Carolina‘s 5-piece weaves nostalgic introspective dreamy haze pitched with billowy jangly 6-string chimes, through a skittery scrum of obsessively winding and shimmering guitar melodies laced with wistful glistening strains, underpinned by sinuous limber basslines and shaky drums, to shudder with mercurial radiance over bittersweet romantic vocals, longing in loving memories amid sparkling angsty auras of starlit muses.
Friday, December 16, 2022
OUT NOW: 'This Water is Life, Vol. II' ft. Haji P. + Color Temperature
This Water is Life is a self-sustained and ongoing series of split EPs with two express purposes: to highlight new hip-hop / indie rock music from Southeastern North Carolina, as well as to provide a platform for Cape Fear River Watch and Coastal Plain Conservation Group to deliver up-to-date authoritative reports on the health of the Cape Fear River Basin for both human beings and wildlife.
Volume II features Haji P. and Color Temperature.
Haji P. (short for Pajamas) is a North Carolina based multi-talented artist, who is heavily influenced by 80s / 90s pop culture. As the illustrator 'HP Fangs', he is known for drawing big teeth on things. Haji is also a Middle / High School Art Teacher at the Glow Academy, has always been in youth advocacy and development, and uses the word “dope” – a lot. Haji P.'s last musical release was his album, 'Neighborhood Kid', and he is sometimes found rapping with the San Francisco based collective, Rec League.
Color Temperature is the moniker for multi-talented multi-instrumentalist Ross Langdon Page; known for his musical contributions to AZZA, Lauds, Seeking Madras, and Tumbleweed, as well as his work as a professional photographer. "The River" was written from the perspective of a leaf traveling through the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, beginning at the mouth and passing through the polluted waters of the Chemours chemical plant—the company responsible for dumping Gen X into the drinking water of residents—before passing through Wilmington, NC and floating out into the vast ocean.
NOTE: The vinyl release of This Water is Life, Vol. II sold out during pre-orders. You can enjoy This Water is Life, Vol. II, along with Volume I, on Fort Lowell Records' Bandcamp page, as well as all Digital Music Platforms.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
REVIEW: Lauds 'Imitation Life'
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2022 Year in Review
Monday, December 12, 2022
Music Year-End List || Dennis’ Favorite Albums of 2022
[Indie Rock, US || Fort Lowell Records] The Phoenix, Arizona-based quartet’s debut album is diverse, bewitching and addictive, colors outside the lines of genres and expectations, with intense guitar duels, poetic lyrics and convincing vocals. It surprises and amazes me every time.
Friday, December 9, 2022
OUT NOW: Lauds "Somehow" [Digital Single]
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
HCTF premiere - Color Temperature: The River
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
LISTEN: Lauds Share New Single “Somehow"
Lauds (Image: Mary Hannah Riley) |
Monday, December 5, 2022
'This Water is Life, Vol. II' Listening Party
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Brand New Music by Lauds + Color Temperature
- World Premiere (Press): Rock & Roll Globe
- World Premiere (Radio): Big Takeover
- Release Date [Digital Single]: Friday, December 9th
- Pre-Order Vinyl Record here
- World Premiere: Here Comes the Flood
- Release Date [12inch EP]: Friday, December 16th
- Pre-Order Vinyl Record here
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
JPW, now on Yellow Vinyl!
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Premiere: inifinitikiss’ “in the same vibration that pothos green grows” (and Fort Lowell Records interview!)
James Tritten of Fort Lowell Records |
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
'The Devil's Stomping Ground' movie features Fort Lowell Records artists
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Highly Recommended w/ JPW
As a lifelong Star Trek fan, I was chuffed when psychedelic instrumentalist Frank Maston included a Trek song, “Beyond Antares,” in his recent Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Session.
Written by Wilbur Hatch and featuring lyrics written by Trek’s “other Gene,” showrunner Gene Coon—whose progressive beliefs majorly influenced the franchise—Maston takes the “23rd century love song” in a library music direction, evoking the synthed out sound of vintage Italian films. Here’s hoping he does a whole album of Trek tunes, I’d be way into it.
Gone way before its time after only two fantastic seasons, Lodge 49 was a great show about the persistence of magic and meaning set against a backdrop of Southern California mundanity.
Part hermetic/alchemical rabbit hole, part The Big Lebowski, part Office Space, it’s ultimately a show about the power of community and the sacred nature of connectedness. It’s deeply funny but also touching, grounded in blue collar realites but given over to magical realism, and the cast is fantastic. Its golden hour vibe and surf and psych-pop soundtrack was a major influence on Something Happening/Always Happening.
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin. This collection of short stories is tough and terse, which makes the sporadic bursts of tenderness that much more moving. Berlin’s sentences are usually short. She leaves plenty unsaid, which allows more space to wander into these semi-autobiographical tales from the deserts of Mexico, the southwestern US, and Chile.
She’s got one story included in here, “My Jockey,” about tending to a wounded jockey in an emergency room, that only takes one and a half pages to paint the most vivid, human scene.
I probably laugh at something @DRIL posts on Twitter once a day. I guess you can find out who @DRIL actually is if you look, but I’ve never had any interest in knowing the IRL person behind the account. I prefer to only engage with the disembodied prophetic and puerile digital cypher who appears in my feed.
Rather than screenshot a favorite, here’s a picture of my copy of Dril Official “Mr. Ten Years” Anniversary Collection, which is both 1) the only physical book collection of tweets that has ever needed to exist and 2) going to come in handy if the servers really do melt away someday.
I’ve been playing around with that weird state right before I wake up in the morning, when I start stirring and coming out of deep sleep. I’ll focus on feelings of universal wholeness or “imagine” the sensation of a enveloping cosmic love. These moments feel gentle and comforting in general, just kind of nice zones to float through and exist in, but a few have taken on an ecstatic quality. It makes for a nice way to begin a day.
Of course, there are lots of mornings where I hit snooze two or three times too, which can be very nice too.