Today Louis Prince (aka Jake McMullen) shares the audiovisual zine “Friends”, a collection of 120 sounds and 100 images from 80 different contributors. Driven by McMullen’s desire to connect with friends during social distancing, the zine serves as a collective digital time capsule of life during the COVID era. The goal, explains McMullen in further detail below, was “to illustrate how sound ties us all together.” Louis Prince’s debut album Thirteen, which saw its release on Friday, March 13th just as the world began to shutter itself, is out now on Last Gang Records. Among other praise, Exclaim! lauded the album for “a...

Austin musician/multimedia artist Mobley is excited to share Foster the People’s rework of “Nobody’s Favourite,” the first single off Mobley’s forthcoming EP.  His friends in the LA-based band were more than happy to offer their interpretation of a song described by Mobley as “the internal monologue of a powerful scumbag.” Premiering at Flood, who said “Foster the People have endowed him with a pumped-up reworking of the single, veering a bit further from the underlying rock influence of the original.” Save / stream the rework here. Isom Innis of Foster The People described the genesis of the new version: “I’ve been really...

Today Alice Ivy releases her highly-anticipated second studio album, Don’t Sleep via Last Gang Records. The record includes singles “In My Mind feat. Ecca Vandal,” “Sunrise feat. Cadence Weapon” and more recently the album’s title track “Don’t Sleep featuring Imbi and BOI,” and “Better Man feat. Benjamin Joseph (SAFIA).” Save/stream the full album HERE. Written predominantly on the road where pool houses and kitchen tables were made into impromptu studios, in making Don’t Sleep Ivy strove to write music that could soundtrack both feelings of pure elation and move listeners emotionally. Challenging herself to experiment with new songwriting methods, explore the rawness of sound and collaborate with a...

Vancouver’s electro dream-pop artist Noble Oak today releases his new album Horizon and shares the video for the record’s closing track “Hypersleep”. Horizon marks Noble Oak’s debut for Last Gang Records and is an enchanting collection of post-chillwave pop, a sumptuous suite of sativa songs for hazy, lazy days prompting comparisons to the likes of The War on Drugs, Bob Moses, and Tame Impala. “My intent from day one was literally to make the most beautiful songs that I possibly can,” says Fiore. “And to hope that the world can understand that and see it.” ***Click to hear Horizon on your preferred streaming service This...

LISTEN TO NEW MEDICINE HERE. Mondo Cozmo – the chart-topping brainchild of alternative singer-songwriter Josh Ostrander – shares his upcoming album, NEW MEDICINE, today via Last Gang Records. NEW MEDICINE features album highlights  “Come On,” “Black Cadillac,” “Generator,” which was recently featured on ABC’s hit drama, The Good Doctor and his latest single “Upside Down,” which is on current rotation on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation. Each video is  joined by cinematic companion videos streaming now via his official YouTube channel HERE. Along with the album release, a live performance of “Upside Down” has been shared by the band, watch HERE. “When ‘Shine’ took off at radio, the next year was spent on...