IHN016 // Rootless - Things We Can't Say About Ourselves, by Rootless 7 track album

Rootless, AKA Jeremy Hurewitz, is known for combining gentle fingerstyle guitar with cosmic electronic sounds, field recordings and even indigenous instruments to create an ethereal psychedelic folk soundscape - @recordcratesunited.bsky.social

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Setting – s/t Surrealistic electro-folk experimentations adventurously abound throughout the new self-titled album by North Carolina Piedmont-based trio, Setting. Made up of multi-instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly…

Setting, a trio made up of Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund, leans heavily into the kosmische side of the experimental Americana rock spectrum, and truly makes it their own with an assemblage of zithers, synths, banjo, tape loops and more. recordcratesunited.com/2026/04/20/s...

Check out the ritualistic meditative grooves of Monk Pond’s Echoes of an Infinite Dawn recordcratesunited.com/2026/04/11/m...

Kicking off the summer with some good music for a good cause. Stay tuned for more info

Mark your calendars! We are very excited to co-present The Early & Emily Robb with Bent Light (Michael Slyne) + an after party with Big Acid @ Paterson’s Prototype 237! Tix: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prot...
5/30 - 7pm $20
237 River Road
Paterson, NJ
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Johnny Bell – “Departure Valley” On Mountain States, Johnny Bell evolves banjo music for the modern era, allowing the cultural and environmental climates of today to seep into and alter its very DNA. With the influence of the ambi…

On his first solo banjo album, Johnny Bell utilizes the instrument and fiddles, shruti boxes and more to develop stoic and atmospheric post-ambient Americana soundscapes that evoke arid isolated mountain peaks. recordcratesunited.com/2026/04/04/j...

Check out the spring folk vibes of episode # 202 on the site 🎧
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After being preoccupied with life stuff and other projects, I have collected together all of the many different album reviews I’ve had stewing over the last several months into a single post for your convenient viewing pleasure.
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Tune in tonight to catch me live on the air with some stellar jams and choice deep cuts on The Record Crates United Mixtape on www.em-radio.com & on the Radio Cult app.

BARDO BATH: Sat, Apr 25 at Judson Memorial Church

4/25 will be my bday weekend, so why not come celebrate it by hanging with us at the next Bardo Bath at Judson Church w/ Garcia Peoples, William Parker, Kendraplex, Chris Dingman, Jesse Jarnow, Macrodose & more! withfriends.events/event/zdhLyx...

Col. Bruce Hampton Live at Barley's Tap Room & Pizzeria on 2015-03-28 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 01. Feelin' Good 02. The Grogans Have Arrived 03. There Was A Time 04. Fixn' To Die 05. Sit and Complain 06. Pharoahs Kitchen 07. Space Is The Place 08. Ain't...

Apologies for not having a new episode of my show ready for tonight’s broadcast. However, if you did choose to tune in to EM-Radio tonight, I hope you enjoyed the 3/28/15 Col. Bruce Hampton gig that I queued up for you all archive.org/details/bh20...

Antibalas is gonna tear the roof off of Prototype 237 in Paterson April 4th. Come on through! www.prototype237.com/events/antib...

BARDO BATH: Sat, Apr 25 at Judson Memorial Church

4/25 will be my bday weekend, so why not come celebrate it by hanging with us at the next Bardo Bath at Judson Church w/ Garcia Peoples, William Parker, Kendraplex, Chris Dingman, Jesse Jarnow, Macrodose & more! withfriends.events/event/zdhLyx...

Tune in to catch me live spinning some spring flavored folk music on EM-Radio.com tonight at 7-9 est.

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Merch from I Heart Noise Merch from I Heart Noise

Giving everyone a hint now about what's next for IHN the Label. IHN016 is going to be a jazz/free jazz/improv record in the vein of Marc Ribot, John Zorn and @intlanthem.bsky.social roster.

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Storytime for Deadheads: My Grateful Dead Stories - March 2, 1966 "60 Years Ago Today" blog posts here all this year, the year I first lived with the Dead. TODAY'S POST - March 2, 2026: The continuing narrative on living in L.A. with Phil, the Dead, and Owsley.

dead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-...

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I can’t believe this is already 2 years old. It still sounds so fresh to these ears. Get it online, if you haven’t already!

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Check out the latest episode of The Record Crates United Mixtape in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/03/01/t...

@wfmu.bsky.social’s Marathon starts March 2nd. Help keep their airwaves strong and independent forever. Pledge!! wfmu.org/swag/

I’m happy to find one of my pieces was featured in the new issue of LCD by @wfmu.bsky.social! Definitely get yourself a copy if you don’t have it yet. I think it’s one of their absolute best.

"If Les Rallizes Dénudés, Taj Mahal Travelers and Bardo Pond albums exist in your record collection, then this is a set that deserves to be on the same shelf."

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more Heavy Lidders coming your way soon - YOU BETCHA

Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar!

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Check out my article about the latest two live records by Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders, Live at Tubby’s and British Lidderin’ - May 2025. Fans of all things kosmische and psychedelic should not sleep on these albums! recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/26/l... @lidders.bsky.social

Tune in tonight 7-9 to catch me live on the air with some great new tracks from the eclectic underground: www.em-radio.com

Abronia – Shapes Unravel Portland’s desert kosmische legends, Abronia, has returned with a record that finds the band in perhaps their deepest surrealist Spaghetti Western mode yet, and we couldn’t be more tran…

Abronia’s new album is a slice of kosmische desert rock set to a cinematic scale. Check out my review for this truly unique record recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/24/a...

Check out my latest playlist: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/21/t...

🔊: “Taqsim for Guitar,” by Marisa Anderson