Shakespeare once referred to April as “proud-pied.” This Wolf doesn’t know what that fucking means, but it seems like spring is the time for new vinyl pies from White Mystery, the local sibling garage-rock duo of Alex and Francis White. After all, it was last March that their self-titled, self-released debut LP sprang into the world like flowers from the ground or some other Shakespearean shit. Well, it’s happening again! Following a spate of tour dates in the south and midwest this spring, the flame-haired group will drop their second album, Blood & Venom, on April 20. You can grab a slice the same day at Logan Square venue Pancho’s, which is hosting the band’s record-release show.
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Hip-hop producer Void Pedal (ne Chad Schneider) is dropping his debut instrumental album, Omni Colour, on Tuesday. Jazz Record Mart employee David Humphries is releasing it on his fledgling label, Fieldwerk, and it’ll be available as an LP/CD/DL. (What, no CS?) The album is all manner of party jams and heavy on the sampling. By the time you read this, Mr. Pedal will be gone—he’s on the road opening for indie-rap sensations Busdriver and Dark Time Sunshine. The tour hits the Abbey Pub on March 14, sans Busdriver, and in the meantime you can download Void Pedal’s latest single, “Looking Glass,” for free at bit.ly/void-pedal-single.
We just got our wooly mitts on the new “Criminal” b/w “Castle of Nothing” seven-inch by Chicago weirdo-pop maven Rollin Hunt, which local label Moniker Records will release March 29. His bewitching sense of melody and severely outre arrangements remind us of Phil Spector and/or Jandek, albeit really leaned-out on dextromethorphan. We find it righteously woozy. Blog doofs will probably refer to Mr. Hunt as chillwave, but this Wolf prefers “leanwave.” Having already dropped a couple CD-Rs, Hunt is readying his first proper full-length, The Phony, which comes out July 12.
