Hi, I.M.A. Pelican here. This is my debut Cassette Gods review. One Kind Favor sent a bunch of interesting tapes my way and I'm going ...

The real fun of writing about tapes and LPs isn't about snarky reviewer tendencies or the "collector" habits of music obsess...

The new Container full length is out now on Spectrum Spools.  This record as well as recent live sets have gotten me pumped again for the ...

“Cannon Street Road’s Feedback Rituals” is a collection of songs by Year of the Lips (Gab Marras) put to tape. The tap...

It's Sunday night in America as I sit down with laptop and record player. I have football on TV muted. I have the lights out. The col...

This is a great new tape by this recently formed group.   Bang! Bros.  is the duo of Foam from the long running performance band Peace,...

The Shadow Ring were a strange bird. A 1990s band from the UK that featured unsettling monologues set to strange hermetic music. There w...

  Amazing new collection of weirdo folk/pop tunes, from Brattleboro's (see also: Blanch Blanche Blanche, Bruce Hart, Chris Wiesman, ...

Mothers News is a great monthly paper that is run out of Providence, Rhode Island. Published by Jacob Berendes, who used to have a cool l...

Hidden Temple Tapes is a great new(ish) label that's really stepped up their game this year.  My favorite thing so far on the labe...

For a while now I've admired Old Frontiers graphic design and quality experimental releases. The label struck me first as almost an ar...

Frank Hurricane has become such a ubiquitous presence on the underground touring scene that I would find it surprising, dear reader, if y...

Pretty All Right Records is stepping out of their Midwest/Chicago base with a release by Arizona's Christian Filardo. Fan, writer, ...

cool band

Brave Mysteries is one of the first cassette labels I remember reading about when I caught the tape label/music thang awhile back. This la...

Herbcraft is a psychedelic ensemble from Portland, Maine that have been making brain waves over the last few years with their releases o...

I feel like I said this last time, but the new Night-People batch really is the best one yet, not least of all because of this fantasti...

Matthew Dotson brings to mind my enthusiasm for the eclectic works of Jim O'Rourke. Not the melodic guitar/pop, but the found sound,...

Flamingo Creatures represent the kind of high-minded "experimental" sound of composition I've always loved and found di...

The four way split from  Blsphm/Gezoleen/Hadals/ Knoll put out by Tapes of a Neon God is n-o-i-s-e. Pure and simple - short and sweet...th...

Junior Pande's (otherwise known as Justin Peroff, drummer for Broken Social Scene)   Tape Two   is futurehead music. Vaguely hip-ho...

One's mind can become lost tracing the sounds of the latest ambient music cassette. There is a certain electronic mayhem that cover...

    Brattleboro, VT's Spooky Town Records has been putting out some great releases as of late(i.e. Guerilla Toss)and they'v...