A veteran of the L.A. psychedelic scene, Michael Collins turned the trippiness down to a slow boil for his Drugdealer project. Built around his smooth keyboard playing and plangent soft rock melodies, the band sought to re-create the laid-back sound and vibe of Laurel Canyon of the ’70s, while also sounding as technically pure as a studio full of session players. Two albums recorded in the late 2010s (The End of Comedy and Raw Honey) combined Collins’ songwriting and producing skills with his knack for rounding up interesting collaborators like Weyes Blood and Ariel Pink . Tim Presley and Kate Bollinger were among the guests on the project’s third LP, 2022’s Hiding in Plain Sight.

Collins first became known while playing under the name Run DMT, a lo-fi psychedelic project started in 2009 that released a couple of albums before being sued by an EDM band of the same name. After changing the project’s name to Salvia Plath , Collins took a folkier, more layered approach on the 2013 album The Bardo Story. With Drugdealer, he changed directions again, looking to the singer/songwriters of the early ’70s and soft rock pioneers like Harry Nilsson and Steely Dan for inspiration. The band’s 2016 album, The End of Comedy, was pieced together from sessions that spanned a nearly-four-year period and released by Weird World in September. On it, Collins invited many guests to contribute including Ariel Pink , Natalie Mering (aka Weyes Blood ), Danny James, members of Mild High Club , and Jackson MacIntosh of Sheer Agony . Collins assembled a live band to play shows over the next few years as he painstakingly wrote and recorded another album. Working with a core group of musicians (guitarist Benjamin Schwab, vocalist Sasha Winn, drummer Josh Da Costa, and bassist/co-producer Shags Chamberlain) in a variety of studio settings, Raw Honey came together slowly but surely as Collins doubled down on the soft rock sound and feel of the debut. Guest vocalists this time were Mering again, country crooner Dougie Poole , and fellow L.A. pop revivalist Harley Hill-Richmond (of Harley and the Hummingbirds), while MacIntosh and brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario of the Lemon Twigs also helped out. The record was released by Mexican Summer in April of 2019. The same label issued Drugdealer’s equally collaborative third long-player, October 2022’s Hiding in Plain Sight. Recorded at no less than nine locations, its many contributors included featured singers Tim Presley , Kate Bollinger , and Sean Nicholas Savage , while players like MacIntosh , CMON ‘s Josh Da Costa, and Video Age also joined in on select tracks. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi

Immaterial Possession was conceived by Atlanta natives, Cooper Holmes and Madeline Polites, who met while living together at an Atlanta artist commune that was integrated into the DIY music, theatre, and arts scene. In an attempt to escape the ballooning growth of the city, the duo moved to the neighbouring musical town of Athens, GA. They were soon joined by seasoned drummer, John Spiegel, and eventually fulfilled with multi-instrumentalist Kiran Fernandes (keyboards, clarinets, flutes) – descendant of Elephant 6 Collective’s John Fernandes (Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control).

All members bring forth a spectral hue unique to the ear – with Holmes’ dark and driving punk-rooted bass, interwoven with Spiegel’s vast repertoire of drumming artistry. Polites, inspired by the musical scales of the Greeks and Spanish, weaves her haunting bedroom classical guitar that transposes to grittier electric. Fernandes, on keys, offers a window into far away eastern lands as a light in the looming darkness.

There’s an all-encompassing mystique that inhabits music of Immaterial Possession; a beguiling rawness with operatic impulses shared vocally by both Holmes and Polites.

Now signed to Fire Records, Immaterial Possession take you on a visual and auditory journey into their surrealist theatrical world on their self-titled debut set for release in 2022.

Foyer Red is an NYC band that just had their first record out on Carpark Records May 19th. Foyer Red released their debut EP in late 2021 and shared a few singles throughout 2022. The band immediately saw consistent pick up and love from Pitchfork, Stereogum, & Paste! The band has built solid touring history and has been playing great shows in the north east. They sold out their most recent NY headline which was their record release show at Union Pool in May.

The band has shared the stage with bands such as Momma, Mamalarky, Cola, Ducks Ltd, Peel Dream Magazine, and toured with Why Bonnie around SXSW as well as Deeper for a week in June. They are playing Hopscotch Music Festival, and Boston’s Fuzzstival in September as well as touring with Speedy Ortiz early this fall.