From PDX by way of Vietnam, established author, poet, spoken word artist, and sonorous/spooky spell-caster, Dao Strom, has made it her missi...

Dabbling within ditch and gloom, glitch and doom, Yaara Valey leads a seance of one with lute, breath, and a mastery of mixing chanted loops...

  In what can only be described as a “waking dream” (my words), Dao Strom’s Traveler’s Ode connects roads and rivers and thought patterns a...

  Once Indira, now Yaara Valey has clearly spent too much time bingeing Game of Thrones during the pandemic, siding for some reason with the...

Singer, poet, experimental musician, and actual living spirit Indira Valey uncorks the bottle and lets the genie out of it on Yemas , a...

Label retrospectives can be pretty bittersweet. For example, did you know that Rosie Steffy* was in a band called Upside Drown...

With calculated stagger and lean might, PDX’s Indira Valey is a true Drunken Master* in vocal acrobatics, her playfully unassu...

Olympian songstress, Guidon Bear, springs forth from the cap of Mount Rainier a fully formed, psych-pop-punkish, 90s indie-div...

Finally, a band that truly speaks to me! The Washboard Abs, clearly inspired by my indelible six-pack, make music for the athletically i...


Not content to merely have their work fit in with other visionary seminal works by Grimes, Sylvan Esso, & Múm, Reighnbeau’s “Slight...

Tucker Theodore gives zero fucks about your expectations; unless, of course, you only expect that he’ll turn ordinary pop/country/folk tr...

It’s no new recipe to mix chillll indie-folk with electronica. It’s been done before, and well, by well and many an artist, but usually b...

On “No Me Tengas Miedo”, Indira Valey’s canonical slow-motion séances-of-one blur the line between wood, fire, & smoke; strings, voca...

It’s hard as hell to listen to Exile In Guyville when your bedtime is fast approaching and you know damn well the nostalgia will just ril...

Soft guitars, windchimes, a bit of a lilting male voice. A pulsing, driving bass line.  Still that voice, which works very well here.  Fu...

"Lady Hope" rounds out a trilogy of bleak, handcrafted releases by Seattle artist Tucker Theodore, the first of which was 2013...

Buffalo Voice is an indy project by vocalist and musician Tucker Theodore, described as “Psych-sludge garage-punk from another universe” ...

How can you not be one of a kind with monotone muted vocals and mostly guitar only accompaniment while still maintaining a rock/pop/indie...

With this release, PDX’s Antiquated Future label continues to promote heady, demanding artists who aren’t complacent in relying on the ag...

Intimacy & mastery are here distilled, as one Eleanor Murray’s voice and lone classical guitar folk/jazzily place emotional/philosop...