I received a mysterious little package in my mailbox the other day, addressed from psych/electronic super dude Mr.Dylan Ettinger.I didn'...

If you are a Florida native, or in tune with their local d.i.y. punk scene in the last 5-10 years,you more than likely worship Floor ,who ...

A decidedly less danceable affair than his live set I caught last night, Birthdays ' Hawaiian Punch Wave tape is a nice little exercise...

A subtle, spacious journey through "modern living in urban society," Cascaders ' debut tape is a slow-motion grind through wha...

As with most other NP releases,this cassettes was heavy on the eye and ear candy indeed.I'd heard a bit of kind words about these cats...

Really pleasantly surprised by this one, didn’t know much at all about Ryan Martin or his North Carolina-based Hot Releases label for a long...

Gotta admit, I’m still not entriely sure what these new genre terms such as “chillwave” and “shitgaze” mean exactly, but this band really wa...

Holy shit, are you kidding me? 93 minutes??? I can’t lie, call me unfair, call me a bad reviewer, call me whatever you like, but I had to fa...

Some really killer synthesizing on this one, divided into phases, the first side almost scary in it’s 80s horror/sci-fi environments, starti...

Yet another awesome cassette tape from Iowa's NIGHT PEOPLE label.This is a great one,too.The U.K.'s PHEROMOANS are making quite a ...

If you haven't heard Happy Jawbone Family Band, you've got some work to do. This band is really damn good, I give them my "Best...

Lee Noble has been around for a few years now, with a handful of tapes on a few household tape labels.He creates deep, swirling drones th...

Sam Meringue is Matrix Metals .You might know him from other projects like Explorers,Wingdings, or 90210 (with James Ferraro ).With MM...

This was a good match up by Baked Tapes as WJU and DBH are two of the more interesting “improv” acts out there right now. The Wasteland Jazz...

Mike Pigott ( MASSTROPICAS /Green Mansions) pushed me this Lassie tape the other day after playing it for me on a boombox in his kitchen. La...

x As I mentioned in a previous CGI FRIDAY related post, this young Portland,OR tape label was birthed from the discovery of 420 used casset...

So I picked this tape up for 10 cents at Goodwill and played the hell out of it these past few weeks. I really have selfish motives for writ...

f   The CGIFRIDAY tape label is somewhat of an experiment.Apparently these dudes found a box of 420 (no joke) used cassettes in a dumpster, ...

Pine Smoke Lodge is the duo of Matt McKeever and Hillary Dickerson, who run Existential Cloth Recordings. Nathaniel Brennan's (Cruudeuce...

Olympia's Broken Water consists of former members of the short-lived Sisters and also Congratulations .Their newest,a collection of ...

Picked this up at one of DNT's big sales and I was certainly a satisfied customer. The Bent Spoon Duo of Chris Dadge and Scott Munro (th...

Alex Zhang Hungtai is the cloudy brains behind Dirty Beaches .He lists things like breakfast, Alan Vega,Martin Rev ,and Willem Dafoe ...

So apparently Phil French (Super Minerals, Magic Lantern, Stunned Records) and Jeff Astin (Xiphiidae, Tricorn & Queue, the Housecraft la...