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Miles Seaton on stage at the height of Akron/Family's career. Credit: Getty/Anna Webber Miles Seaton, a founding member of the experimental group Akron/Family, has passed away at age 41. The band’s label, Dead Oceans, broke the news via social media earlier this week. Seaton’s cause of death is yet to be disclosed. Music and memories are so intertwined for me. Being part of Dead Oceans means so many great artists have enriched me, not just through their music, but through getting to know them as people. As family. Today we found out that we lost Miles Seaton, one-third of Akron/Family. pi...

Black Country, New Road have an immediate hit with their debut album. Black Country, New Road are at the top of the latest UK Record Store Chart with ‘For the first time’. It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops. UK Record Store Chart, Top 20: 1/ (new) Black Country, New Road – For the first time 2/ Foo Fighters – Medicine At M...

Ryley Walker will release new album 'Course In Fable' this April. The ever-productive guitarist has released a string of Bandcamp projects, including a slew of short-term and full-length collaborations. New album 'Course In Fable' however is a more considered work, his first true solo full length since the release of 'Deafman Glance' three years ago. Produced by Tortoise’s John McEntire, Ryley's solar system includes a slew of close friends and regular collaborators, including Bill MacKay, Ryan Jewell, and Andrew Scott Young. New song 'Rang Dizzy' is online now, and it's a difficult one ...

Open share drawer The jam-heavy live set captured between Walker’s four-piece band and the Japanese psych-prog quintet is a heady meeting of the minds. Ryley Walker’s got jokes. By now, the songwriter might even be as known for his witty, self-skewering online presence as for his increasingly weird, increasingly excellent psych-folk. But one of his recent gags has nothing to do with the former and everything to do with the latter. In 2019, Walker launched Husky Pants Records, a “joke record label” (his words) for a series of minor releases. Was it really just for kicks? Or...