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YouTube video by Country Weather - Topic Fly to New York (Bonus Track) (Live)

It’s such a crime how underrated Country Weather still is today: youtu.be/GXqBxy9tCPI?...

Dig into this week’s episode in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/26/t...

Link to the audience recording from last night's show

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Allysen Callery – King Neptune/We Float Down The River The sea grows dark, a thick fog rolls in over the shore and storm winds rise as old gods stir somewhere deep below the churning surf. This is the atmosphere conjured up in Allysen Callery’s n…

@allysencallery.bsky.social’s new lathe cut single, “King Neptune/We Float Down The River,” is a bewitching and haunting record that is reflective of the witchy folk singer’s local maritime mythology and atmosphere. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/25/a...

Tune in to my show tonight @ 7pm ET for some new pastoral sounds to sooth your mind. Find Electromagnetic Radio on the Radio Cult app or meet me on EM-Radio.com.

Michael Hix Announces New Solo Venture: Wonderful Aspiration of the Source Michael Hix, founder of the renowned Nashville Ambient Ensemble, has unveiled his new solo project under the moniker Wonderful Aspiration of the Source.  While still keeping one foot within the gen…

Michael Hix, of the Nashville Ambient Ensemble, has unveiled his new solo zen-centric ambient guitar project, Wonderful Aspiration of the Source. Out on @centripetalforce.bsky.social on 9/19, this is a must-have for fans of ECM Jazz and cosmic Americana music. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/22/m...

Friends of the Road – Live The Seattle-based experimental old time string band, Friends of the Road, show off their improvisational and soundscape-building skills on their new live album on Bud Tapes. Across this 80+ minute …

Friends of the Road’s new double live album is an impressive display of how far the Seattle-based band can push the boundaries of old time string band music through improvisation on stage. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/21/f...

Poster for Fly Arpund Festival featuring Joan Shelley, Myriam Gendron, Magic Tuber Strigband, Powers / Rollin duo, Elkhorn, Black Twig Pickers and more

If you are anywhere near or even not that near from Lansing, North Carolina, you should not miss Fly Around Music & Arts Festival with some of my favourite people playing music. All raising funds to support the recovery from the historic floods from Hurricane Helene.

@rosecityband.bsky.social live is a whole other beast. If you dig their records, but haven’t seen them live yet (like me, until last night), you’re missing out. Do NOT sleep on any opportunities to see their show. You will surely have a blast.

The Powers/Rolin Duo is good for the soul. Their set last night at The Bowery Ballroom was utterly transcendent. Catch them on tour with Rose City Band, if you can!

Thank you!

Check out this week’s archived episode of my show: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/19/t...

For our next entry in our Summer Destinations series, we’re highlighting the Fly Around Music & Arts Festival, in Lansing, NC, which is raising funds for recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene while also celebrating Appalachia’s cultural heritage. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/19/s...

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This is kind of what a pair of my new tapes might look like if on lay on its back and another stood on edge so you could see their front and spine, respectively. The front of the tape is black with a black and white photo of a river sitting in a doily. It has my name, “J.M. Hart” and the album name, “Turned Around” printed on it. The spine has both names on it as well.

Who likes tapes?

If you identify as a tape person, I have a small quantity of tapes for my upcoming album available for pre-order on my Bandcamp page.

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Prymek, Fuchs, Rose – Disagreements, Vol. 1 This power trio that is Mike Fuchs (drums), Chaz Prymek (guitar) and Nic Rose (keys) took a more minimalist approach to skronky, meandering avant-garde jazz for this release, and the results are de…

Mike Fuchs, Chaz Prymek and Nic Rose slither and rumble like a loudly minimal Sun Ra jamming with Soft Machine on their free jazz maelstrom, Disagreements, Vol. 1. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/17/p... @islandhouserecs.bsky.social

Golden Brown – Whisker Fatigue Stefan Beck’s various ambient adventures always transport you to strange new worlds and deeply relaxed zones, yet on this latest offering on Eiderdown Records, he steers the Golden Brown project in…

A favorite record of mine these last several weeks is @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social’s new swampy ambient dub release on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social, Whisker Fatigue: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/16/g...

On tonight’s Record Crates United Mixtape, I am soundtracking our peak summer heat with heavy riffs, hazy psychedelia and thunderous jams. Head to EM-Radio.com or find ElectroMagnetic Radio on the Radio Cult app to hear the action live.
🔊: “Bernal Afterburn” by Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders

This week’s episode is up in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/13/t...

J.M. Hart – “Give Me Love” J.M. Hart’s upcoming record, Turned Around, finds the Virginia-based folk rocker’s pastoral country-tinged sound bloom even further into a multifaceted melange of down-home psychedelia …

“Give Me Love,” the first single from J.M. Hart’s upcoming album, Turned Around, is a warm, psych-tinged Americana track that invites you into the record’s friendly and vibrant world. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/11/j... @jmhart.bsky.social

Summer Destinations: Woodsist Festival We are firmly deep into summer now, and there are so many great gigs and festivals ahead on the calendar here on the east coast, so for the next few weeks, I’m going to highlight a few that you mig…

For the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting some festivals and other concerts to check out in a new series: RCU’s Summer Destinations. For the first entry in this series, I’m highlighting the Woodsist Festival in Accord, NY, which will be held on 9/20-9/21. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/09/s...

Tune in and mellow out. www.em-radio.com

One of my favorite guest mixes. Check it out!

Jacquelyn Roy – Museum of Time Jacquelyn Roy, a Massachusetts-dwelling singer-songwriter, crafted an utterly engrossing and deeply personal folk record that reaches out directly to your heart. Composed over the course of a few y…

I’ve been entranced these last few weeks by the ethereal rawness of Jacquelyn Roy’s latest record, the darkly stunning Museum of Time. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/08/j...

Joseph Allred – Old Time Fantasias Joseph Allred’s music contains multitudes. Either playing completely solo with just a single instrument or multiple instruments, or with a roster of supporting musicians behind them, they always ch…

Joseph Allred’s latest is a kaleidoscope of American folk music traditions psychedelically blended together into a dreamy and rustic soundscape full of locomotive steam and farm dust. Check it out: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/07/j...

My father in-law was there and has some memories of gathering on a hill to hear Melanie hooked up to an ice cream truck.

The RCU Garden Party ’25 *All photos by Christopher Bruno, except for where otherwise noted. What a time we had! Photo by Jenny Hudak Despite the forecast looking pretty grim all week, we were blessed with blue skies, shin…

I finally have my full write up for our Garden Party up on the site: recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/06/t... with photos and video by @cbruno.bsky.social.

I had the pleasure of interviewing PG Six and Julie Beth Napolin in the new issue of the Terrascopædia www.ptolemaic.org

If you need to tune out the horrors for a couple of hours, seek shelter in this week’s episode of my radio show in the archives. recordcratesunited.com/2025/07/04/t... @jmhart.bsky.social