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Check out the latest two episodes of my show: recordcratesunited.com/2026/03/14/t...

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. iheartnoise.bandcamp.com

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-...

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!

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

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

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." oh HELL YEAH more Heavy Lidders coming your way soon - YOU BETCHA

Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar! shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

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’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

Drew Gardner is in absolutely top, vibey form on his latest solo LP, Wave Field, playing in a tight supergroup with Garcia Peoples’ Tom Malach and Andy Cush and drummer Ryan Jewell. Check it out: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/20/d...

Tune in and hang with me live on the air 7-9 tonight only on www.em-radio.com

Steve Palmer always delivers the goods. Give his new album a listen.

Check out this week’s episode of The Record Crates United Mixtape in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/15/t...

For a gleaming mix of kosmische electronics and rustic Americana sounds, you can’t miss the upcoming LP by Tacoma Park, due out on Centripetal Force on 4/24. Check it out recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/13/t...

Get it: seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...

Minneapolis-based psych guitar wizard, Steve Palmer, dazzles with his unique blend of avant-boogies and acid post punk guitar workouts. recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/13/s...

Tune in tonight for two hours of choice cuts and insatiable jams from all across the eclectic underground on www.em-radio.com (or find Electromagnetic Radio on the Radio Cult App).

Check out the last two episodes of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/07/t...

Influential Ghanaian highlife musician Ebo Taylor dies at 90

Centripetal Force and Seawind of Battery have worked together to create a 3-volume benefit album in support of Immigrant Justice, with the first installment being released today. All proceeds will be donated directly to the National Immigrant Justice Center. recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/06/c...

Tune in to www.em-radio.con tonight for some fresh eclectic morsels from the esoteric underground. Come hang and enjoy the tunes.

Benefit Concert to help the great Jennifer Kelly in her fight against pancreatic cancer. With Lee Renaldo & Michael Vallera, Myriam Gendron, Sunburned Hand of the Man & Gift Horse. March 21st @ Union Pool, Brooklyn.

Tune in to The Record Crates United Mixtape on www.em-radio.com tonight for a new episode full of fresh and exciting sounds from the underground, like “Tentacles,” the new single by Plankton Wat, of which you are hearing right now.

On their latest LP, experimental rockers The Early create drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city. Read more about this and several other recent Island House releases. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/28/t...

With lyrical fingerpicking and softly stoic vocals, on his new LP, James Waudby warns of a bleak, dead future if England continues unchecked bioengineering and spirals further down an authoritative populist path. Everyone should listen closely. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/27/j...

I managed to catch a rehearsal for this show last night, and it was beyond magical. Come to Prototype 237 in Paterson tonight to experience something truly special. Tix & more info here: www.prototype237.com/events/bexbu... 🎟️

Check out this week’s episode of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/22/t... 🔊: “Song for JW,” by The Holy Mountain Orchestra

Tune in tonight 7-9 to catch me live on EM-Radio.com spinning my favorite cuts from some recent releases plus a choice slice of vintage Dead to salute our man Bobby.

British artist Bex Burch will be performing a semi-freeform minimalist ensemble piece, “as yet untitled,” with a unique lineup of collaborators at Prototype 237 in Paterson, NJ this Friday. Check out my interview with her about the piece and the upcoming show recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/19/b...

All Jersey heads & local jazz fans cannot miss Bex Burch’s final tour stop at Prototype 237 in Paterson on 1/23. She’ll be playing a semi-improvised modular long-form piece with a unique ensemble + an opening set of poetry by John Francis Quiñonez. For tix & more info: www.prototype237.com/events.

I finally have my recap post about our first Psych Ambient Daydream festival up on the site, featuring many incredible shots taken by @cbruno.bsky.social. Check it out! recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/12/p...

Rest easy, Bobby youtu.be/ya6gEGpCieI?...

I am absolutely crazy for this new super jam by Free Times and June Grass (under the fitting name of “Free Grass”). Spacey psych rock riffage with cosmic synths and iridescent guitar leads? Dude…yes 🙌 freetimes.bandcamp.com/album/full-u...

I’m replaying this playlist on my show right now, since we were plagued with so many tech difficulties last week. Tune in for a sampling of 2025’s best and brightest: www.em-radio.com

I collected a list of some of my favorite releases from last year fashionably late, but if you’re curious about what I dug in 2025, check it out recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/07/f...

Experimental rock supergroup, Winged Wheel, shows off their song craft on the daringly original and abstract Desert So Green, which comes out on @12xurecs.bsky.social this Friday. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/05/w...

If you need a good soundtrack for your New Year’s Eve, tune in to www.EM-Radio.com from 7-9 for a selection of some of my favorite songs released in 2025.

Recently out on @centripetalforce.bsky.social, Agnes Martian’s Elsewhere album is a true godsend for all fans of 70s kosmische synth records, Library music LPs and all forms of space rock. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/30/a...

I’m continuing to highlight some of my favorite records of the year that I didn’t get to write about before, and today I have written a post about Wednesday Knudsen’s gorgeous organic ambient soundscape double LP, Atrium. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/29/w...

Just in time for the holidays, the final release in Jacken Elswyth’s elemental folk tape series, Betwixt & Between, is a chilly split-release of Yuletide carols and ambiance by Elspeth Anne and Côr Meibion Gwalia. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/24/e...

Thank you so much and warm tidings to you and yours 🎄 ❄️ ☀️

Dig into this year’s winter solstice and holiday mix on the site: recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/19/t...

The good folks at Slipstream Records and Torn & Frayed have collected a wealth of demo recordings by Hal Paris of Country Funk from the early 70s that proves that he’s one of the most unfairly overlooked fathers of the Cosmic American Music world. recordcratesunited.com/2025/12/17/h...

Tune in to www.EM-Radio.com tonight from 7-9 to celebrate the holidays and the shortest day and the longest night with us on The Record Crates United Mixtape. 🔊: “The Longest Night” by Dave Heumann

Thanks @recordcratesunited.bsky.social for including some hot live Heavy Lidders explorations (and a Sun Ra cover !) on yr latest radio show... cooool man