amusingmusings is a new feature from Counterzine’s newest contributor, Secat, that riffs and digresses on recent, exciting releases in music, games, television, movies, and more. Today’s amusingmusings covers the album 'Imni' by Yakui. *** Imni is interesting. Imni is one of the most interesting projects i’ve heard in a long while. i’m not sure if [...]
Earlier this year, Counterzine favorites Tennis Club released their album Pink, a breezy mini-album full of short, sugary, perfect lo-fi indie pop gems, and today we're thrilled to share with you the new music video for standout track "Ghost Cops" off of that same record. In our Album Auto-nalysis feature for Pink earlier in the year, Wilson Hernandez (frontman of Tennis Club) [...]
amusingmusings is a brand new feature from Counterzine's newest contributor, Secat, that riffs and digresses on recent, exciting releases in music, games, television, movies, and more. Today's amusingmusings covers the latest album from (Sandy) Alex G, 'House of Sugar.' *** [alec is typing . . . ] alec: i just think you do this every [...]
Catherine: Full Body Studio Zero (Atlus) Back in 2011, developer Atlus released Catherine, the unique and innovative brainchild of dream team Katsura Hashino (direction and scenario), Yuichiro Tanaka (scenario), Shigenori Soejima (art) and Shoji Meguro (music). Known primarily for their work on the Persona series, Catherine stands as the outlier, or the black sheep, among their games [...]
WIVES are a New York-based post-punk band who have been covered by the likes of KEXP, NPR, and The 405. We asked frontman Jay Beach about their upcoming album ‘So Removed’ on City Slang, how WIVES came to be, influences, getting "blitzed" on absinthe in Paris, and more. COUNTERZINE: How are you today? Jay Beach: Very [...]
Today, we're excited to share the brand new single "Lavender" by LA artist James V, the third in a string of singles to be featured on a Marriage Records (Dirty Projectors and tUnE-yArDs) LP in 2020. The music of James V could be accurately described as "psychedelic synth funk" and "Lavender" holds true [...]
Chattanooga, Tennessee's prolific purveyors of pure power pop Mythical Motors have a new project on the way in the form of This Is What the Twilight Zone Was Preparing Us For. Today, we're thrilled to share the latest single from the album, "1000 Crossing Hearts". "1000 Crossing Hearts" is a mostly unassuming slice [...]
Today, legendary art pop artist Haco, in collaboration with labels Fish Prints (US) and ReR Megacorp (UK), has announced a reissue and remaster of After Dinner's cult classic 1988 live album Souvenir Cassette, a recording birthed as a result of a 1987 summer tour of Europe (Nijmegen, Amsterdam, London, Zurich, and St. Rémy). We call [...]
Holland, Michigan psychedelic rock outfit Brother Adams is looking to make waves with their upcoming album Chatter out on the 30th of this month, and what better way to do so than to quite literally make "Waves". Today, we're happy to share the second single from the album, "Waves". Brother Adams describes "Waves" as an [...]
Hey! I’m Ryne, and I run/operate my own music session program & website ryneshyne.club in Lowell, MI. I work closely with lowellradio.org (WRWW) and LowellArts to book shows and events in addition to opening my own spaces Kargl Studios and Upstairs, Man Studios for filming. This is our third music session series which we filmed in my room for a [...]
