• Carly Ptak and Newagehillbilly Carly Ptak and Newagehillbilly raise their concept-album games, and make their escapes | 5/2/2012
• The Short List Black Lillies, Acid Mothers Temple, George Clinton, Buck Jones, and more. | 5/2/2012
• Erik Spangler MICA sound instructor and Baltimore experimental music polymath Erik Spangler stays the night with the Vigil | 4/25/2012
• The Short List Hotel Lights, La Dispute, Blank, Suzanne Vega, and more | 4/25/2012
• Due Process Drummer Devin Gray brings process to life and finds his writing voice | 4/18/2012
• The Short List Rammstein, Fang Island, DJ Cliffstarr, Argonauts, and more | 4/18/2012
• The Short List Rodney Atkins, Rocky Loves Emily, Rasputina, Wonder Years, and more | 4/11/2012

• Black to Comm: Earth A mix of electroacoustic ambient sound and warbling androgynous vocals | 3/14/2012
• The Unthanks: Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony and the Johnsons Sisters Rachel and Becky make a modest career in singing/messing with traditional folk songs | 3/7/2012
• Matthew Bourne: Montauk Variations “Senectitude,” a word rare enough that an internet search is as likely to suggest crossword puzzle forums as it is actual definitions, translates roughly to old age. But more than old age as a state of being, over | 2/15/2012
• Salamander Wool: Solar Solipsis A couple of years ago, Carson Garhart, aka Salamander Wool, advanced the outer marker of how loose and alien folk or folk-like music could be and still resonate. | 2/8/2012
• The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald) Ambient musician Leyland Kirby sources from music from recorded sounds dawn, and then cuts up/loops/splices it into ghostly fog | 2/1/2012
• Machinefabriek: Veldwerk Behold the power of a thin electronic whine and some random stuff clattering around in a particularly echo-y room. | 1/11/2012
• Pianos Become the Teeth: The Lack Long After Screaming primordial emotional frequency. | 1/4/2012

• B. Rich: The Last Great One An MC gets emotional | 2/29/2012
• Sinista: Here, My Dear: The Mixtape Former mainstream crossover self-releases a new record | 2/29/2012
• Singles Mixer: DJ Jonny Blaze, The Water, and Ghostmode Cha Cha, Halcyon, and Throwing Chairs | 2/29/2012
• Singles Mixer In which Labtekwon delivers the history of money in 10 minutes by way of a sermon on America’s current gold-standard-stripped currency, the bank-run economy, the Illuminati, Satan, the Illuminati again. . . . | 2/8/2012
• Roomrunner: Self-titled EP Denny Bowen starts a post-Double Dagger career early | 12/21/2011
• The Schwarz: Deep in the Game EP The Schwarz drops an EP late | 12/21/2011
• Singles Mixer: Scum Again, Melungeon, Kill Life Special debut 7-inch edition | 12/7/2011