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 [...]
qualchan. goodbye to all that (Houdini Mansions) Today, we're excited to premiere Cascadian producer qualchan.'s newest beat tape, goodbye to all that. Described by Houdini Mansions' label owner Gray Lee as "[sitting] at the nexus of hauntology, hip hop, and minimal techno", goodbye to all that is a largely laid back set of 41 short soundtrack snippets that [...]
Pamela Fernandez aka Pamcy is a Filipina house artist who has been covered by the likes of Scout and Bandwagon. We asked her about her new album 'BINIBINI' on Healthy Tapes, Filipino food, her relationship with Kurvine Chua and the Genjitsu Stargazing Society, lifting up female and non-binary artists, and more. COUNTERZINE: How are [...]
Dishital Weekly is Counterzine’s weekly roundup of 5 digital only releases we think are worthy of your attention. The only rules are that we like it and there’s no readily available physical version at the timing of writing. When it was released, genre, platform: none of these matter. If it’s new to us and it’s [...]
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 [...]
Album Auto-nalysis is a regular Counterzine feature where we ask some of our favorite artists to breakdown their albums track-by-track, to provide further insight into the thoughts, feelings, and artistic processes that went into making them. For this edition, we asked Shiraz Dhume, Joseph Freeman, and Matt Kranis of indie/power pop band River Gods to [...]
