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MAANTA RAAY is a riff-casting, power trio from Nashville, Tennessee. Their self-titled debut will be out summer 2025 on No Sabes, and comes from the heavier side of psychedelia. While the influences are apparent — Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer), Jaki Liebezeit (CAN), Daphne Oram, Randy Rhoads, James Jamerson, Ron Asheton — the record’s interstellar overdrive vs droned-out tempos, musi-quinox arrangements, sometimes garage rawness (members include ex-Quadrajets, Immortal Lee County Killers, and Modern Convenience) and unleashed layers of sonica, all testify that the band’s mission is to make it new. Full length self titled 12" vinyl out July 2025 with a run of dates in the UK and Germany for support of the new release.
“ Heavy space rock at its finest. This album does not disappoint. “
— Isaiah Mitchell, Earthless
“Heavy atmospheric riffery and space sonics entwining melancholy and a lust for life!” — Johanna Sadonis, Lucifer
"Riffs straight from Mt. Vesuvius! MAANTA RAAY is hot pink and out of control!" — Steve Turner, Mudhoney
“MAANTA RAAY makes me want to drive a ‘69 Camaro to the ends of the earth and go night swimming in shark infested water.”
— Dean Fertita, Queens of the Stone Age, Tropical Goth Club
“ Heavy space rock at its finest. This album does not disappoint. “
— Isaiah Mitchell, Earthless
“Heavy atmospheric riffery and space sonics entwining melancholy and a lust for life!” — Johanna Sadonis, Lucifer
"Riffs straight from Mt. Vesuvius! MAANTA RAAY is hot pink and out of control!" — Steve Turner, Mudhoney
“MAANTA RAAY makes me want to drive a ‘69 Camaro to the ends of the earth and go night swimming in shark infested water.”
— Dean Fertita, Queens of the Stone Age, Tropical Goth Club
Ruido Selecto - Cumbia Soundsystem
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"I'm not going to pretend like I know much about the world from which this record comes, all I know is that if I see a record with "cumbia soundsystem" on the label, I will grab it every time. Cha-cha dub style with reverb-soaked samples, organ accents and synth-fueled melodies, I'd venture to guess you don't have any records like this on your shelf. It's ok, I won't tell anybody, just grab this one and your secret is safe with me. I'm only the slightest bit fearful that this leads me down an entirely new rabbit hole, previously unexplored, that eventually leads to my financial downfall. If (when?) that happens, at the very least I'll be sure to keep you here apprised of the standouts." -Ben Blackwell
Bursting EP | Post-Trash Review
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The album "OVER" features eight tracks of the most beautifully wretched sounds and heaviest riffs spread across a 38-minutes. Alternating between dismal, down-tuned drudge and caucophonous blasts of chaos, Over promises to be one of the most imaginative heavy albums of the year. Over is the first release from My Wall since returning from their Japanese tour. It’s followup to the band’s debut album Mine (2020) and the 12” EP “The Event/Abuse (2021.) With two singles released in the run up to the LP – “Guts” and "Evolve" – the LP will be out on November 22 on 12" black vinyl and streaming platforms.
"The album is a fucking killer – punishingly heavy, but also a really unique and authentic style. I thoroughly enjoyed becoming familiar with it"
- James Plotkin (Plotkinworks, O.L.D., Khanate)
"The album is a fucking killer – punishingly heavy, but also a really unique and authentic style. I thoroughly enjoyed becoming familiar with it"
- James Plotkin (Plotkinworks, O.L.D., Khanate)
My Wall "EVOLVE"
This is a song of accentuation, riff, and hell hammers. Then a stanza break: A single guitar begins the grooviest, heaviest open road riff any fan of Pentagram would love to ride forever, until the song morphs again from cruising in an ’87 Buick Grand National to new hell hammers. The notes follow the philosophy of the words: “You give your life to kill prey/ I give my life to see you act that way … Evolve- you resolve – to absolve -who?” The song ends in a sudden question mark of reverb. Evolution continues beyond the frame of any good painting, poem, song, or soul. My Wall creates a new beast spliced from the DNA sequences of legendary origin, a new Prometheus unbound with the coif of King Buzzo and the flared jeans of Bobby Liebling.
-Chet Weise
This is a song of accentuation, riff, and hell hammers. Then a stanza break: A single guitar begins the grooviest, heaviest open road riff any fan of Pentagram would love to ride forever, until the song morphs again from cruising in an ’87 Buick Grand National to new hell hammers. The notes follow the philosophy of the words: “You give your life to kill prey/ I give my life to see you act that way … Evolve- you resolve – to absolve -who?” The song ends in a sudden question mark of reverb. Evolution continues beyond the frame of any good painting, poem, song, or soul. My Wall creates a new beast spliced from the DNA sequences of legendary origin, a new Prometheus unbound with the coif of King Buzzo and the flared jeans of Bobby Liebling.
-Chet Weise
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My Wall "GUTS"
“Guts” is a 4:20 long fog that My Wall — like Charon navigating the dead across the river Styx — somehow navigates clearly from beginning to end. That much feedback, distortion, and a beat that is more dirge than time, should not make a song. The song's lyric says, “without hope, still you fight,” likewise My Wall never surrenders, instead they construct a song of purposeful feedback, a beat that is implicitly head swaying, and vocals and distortion that live hand in hand. Fans of both the mega-zillion selling Soundgarden and ultra-underground Burning Witch can rock together here in peace.
- Chet Weise
“Guts” is a 4:20 long fog that My Wall — like Charon navigating the dead across the river Styx — somehow navigates clearly from beginning to end. That much feedback, distortion, and a beat that is more dirge than time, should not make a song. The song's lyric says, “without hope, still you fight,” likewise My Wall never surrenders, instead they construct a song of purposeful feedback, a beat that is implicitly head swaying, and vocals and distortion that live hand in hand. Fans of both the mega-zillion selling Soundgarden and ultra-underground Burning Witch can rock together here in peace.
- Chet Weise
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“Nostalgia De Mar” El Nuevo Sonido De Animaleja Animaleja releases her debut album, "Nostalgia De Mar". This album is an invitation to immerse yourself in a universe with an aesthetic defined by the beach and the sea as symbolic elements around an urban-tropical relationship, where the beach and the city intertwine, and create a fresh musical experience for the listeners. “Nostalgia del mar" is an introspective journey that explores Animaleja's sonic identity through a wide range of musical genres. From soukous, cumbia and champeta to trip hop and bass music. The album offers a sonic palette rich and varied, where percussions and bass play a fundamental role. Animaleja's voice accompanied by the melodies of the synths and guitars, creates atmospheres and soundscapes that evoke a psychedelic and surreal sunset on the beach in the middle of a terrace in a Medellín neighborhood. Release date September 20, 2024. 
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Animaleja 𓆙
Animaleja is the musical project of Alejandra Cárdenas, composer and producer from the city of Medellín, Colombia. Animaleja has been exploring different fusions between music from the tropical Caribbean diaspora, and alternative urban music. The quality of the musicality and live show invites the free movement of bodies without censorship to experience diversity in all its forms.
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"Tú Me Traes Calma" is a song about a quiet day on the beach. The voice narrates the author's internal thoughts and also makes word games with elements of the landscape of an afternoon on Barra beach in the Colombian Pacific. The guitar plays with riffs that evoke genres such as African soukous and champeta, the groove of the song with its tropical percussion and bright synths invites us to dance and “patch ourselves.” Listen to this song while watching the sunset and drinking something cool.
“Esta canción se baila y se goza al ritmo de la música del caribe alternativo.” |
"Medallo lemonade" is a cocktail that evokes Medellín. First you serve a little white rum that describes the party energy in the city, a little soda to refresh yourself, and cheers for the bikers, cyclists and skaters in the middle of the sun on any avenue of Medallo. On the fields the sand heats up and people demand energy. Playing and looking for fights, every day the search continues in the peripheries.The north heats up, then comes the lemon that is the cherry on the cake for The “lemonade”. The neighborhood is apparently for sale. Medallo Lemonade is a bittersweet and fun musical cocktail that tells what the city of Medellín is about, I recommend you try it, whoever can have it! The song features Lucas Guingue. DJ and producer under the name Dj Fauno and vocalist of the group Bajo Tierra, a decisive band in the development of rock in Colombia.
"Un divertido cóctel musical que narra a Medellín, te recomiendo probarlo, que se tenga quien pueda!"
My Wall Japan Tour 2024
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PART TIME FILTH
Leaving the putrid confines of Pigfuck, TN's dankest basements, full time rock and roll heroes emerge. Prepare for battery acid guitar solos, Johnny Paycheck death screams, blackened humor, and a little old fashioned fuckin’ in the USA--all clocked in for a full 9-5. You don’t christen yourself FILTH lightly—forget the classics, forget poetry, forget respect. Don’t come here looking for an honest job. Take your punk and shove it and let the scene heads fracture. Welcome to Full Time Filth.
-Jay Salton
Release date December 22, 2023.
-Jay Salton
Release date December 22, 2023.
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BOOGIE MASON
Japanese producer Boogie Mason pays homage to the LA Beat Scene with slooped samples, swung grooves, and MPC cuts that will make head-nodders out of rhythm skeptics. These 10 instrumental tracks weave a tale of reverence for the no rules, unquantized ethos that took Los Angeles beatmakers by storm in the early 2010s. Geared toward the inquisitive listener, Bonsai is the perfect companion to a smoked-out sunrise or a solo walk through Tokyo’s back alleyways.
-Max Kepley
Release date December 15th 2023.
-Max Kepley
Release date December 15th 2023.
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RAY GUN
Ray Gun rides again with two entropic burst of pandemic era fury. Hailing from a two hour madcap session, immortalized on seven inch, this is mean music for nice people. The final recordings... for now. See you on the astral plane.
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FARNAK
Farnak - Country 1 7" vinyl record now available.
BOOGIE MASONBoogie Mason is a beat maker from Shizuoka Japan. Meditation 1986 mixtape now available.
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The new twelve-inch EP from My Wall features two devastating new songs from the Nashville doom trio. "The Event" is an expression of stress and hopelessness amidst a widespread disaster wherein poor masses suffer as rich elites escape. "Abuse" is a long, repetitive, and twisted meditation on personal trauma, inspired by early industrial music as well as drone doom. 
OMNIPOWER BEAT LABLIL WORDBased in Bridgeport, CT Lil Word mixes a drum n' bass atmosphere, hip hop foundation, and witty hooks on his debut album The Gallery Available now on cassette tape.
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