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Author: Nate Wagner
Nate Wagner is a musician, university student, and cassette lover from North Carolina. Hit him up on Facebook to talk music, find a show, or complain about Arsene Wenger.
NYC’s OSR-Tapes have quietly been pushing the most alluring, ecstatic, quirky pop tapes you could ever dream of since 2007.…
The year’s end calls for lists, listsicles, and ordered, best-of type articles. I see no reason to shy away from…
Oxtail Records, a private press focusing on experimental music and modular synthesis, has been a favorite of mine since I…
Reference points in the sparsely populated realm of experimental composition are even more urgently required than in popular music, as…
In the fallow years following the cassette tape’s heyday, there existed still a murmur, a whisper from the underground. Resilient,…
Name changes can mean a lot of things for a band. Reshuffled lineups, abrupt stylistic shifts, religious conversions, cease and…
Much like the cassette tape itself, shoegaze music has the distinction of surviving its own obsolescence. Though it’s recent re-emergence…
Black and white aside from a pink lead, Rhucle’s latest offering, “Colourless,” certainly reflects its title in its design. Yet to describe…
With Spectre, Florida producers Iacon and nano神社 (✪㉨✪) step outside the tropes of vaporwave and its spin-offs to create a brooding,…
In the endless depths of (electronic) music, there’s no anchor like a discerning, committed record label. Chris Adams seems to…
Ohioan Derek Winkle belongs to the subset of mysterious musical denizens who have turned to the cassette tape in the…
As is the case with many music scenes, the sheer vastness and diversity of the ambient music movement can act…
Camp Howard are one of the East Coast best-kept secrets, previously known only to fortunate concert-goers. With the imminent release…
Welcome to the world of ERR-REC, a recently-founded Parisian record label with sharp design aesthetics and a love for the…
Things are ramping up over at Seagreen Records! After their massive Valentine’s Day compilation, the Watertown, CT label is trotting…
With a snowstorm keeping me inside this past weekend, Jon Varley’s charming lo-fi epic, “The Missing Kink,” did well to…
On the heels of their debut compilation release, Fresh Juice are proud to present tape #2, from South London’s House…
Seeking sanctuary from the oppressive landscape of contemporary electronica, with its raves, festivals, and unpredictable hairstyles? Tristan Whitehill’s MIDI-twee project…