It is with the utmost excitement that I can officially share the following news:

The Features & Glossary will co-headline Eastside Bowl in Nashville, TN on January 30th & January 31st, 2026.

Edit: January 31st sold out in under 12 hours. So we added a second date.

Here’s the official press release…

Good Signal presents a fundraiser for local Nashville stations WNXP, WPLN and WXNA with co-headlining performances from Glossary and The Features, set to take place at Eastside Bowl on January 31st and January 31, 2026. Both beloved bands have not performed publicly since 2017, leaving fans to wonder if they’d ever see them live again. Wonder no more! This is a rare opportunity to see them both take the stage for one special evening with full-length sets. 

Proceeds from the event will be donated to three of Nashville’s most in-need radio stations. WNXP and WPLN are NPR stations that had their funding revoked by the federal government. Community station WXNA is entirely listener-supported. All three provide a great deal of enrichment to the Nashville community and this is a chance to give back.

Donations will be accepted at the event along with giveaways and raffles to help raise additional funds. 

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This event is part of a new endeavor between myself and Caroline Bowman-Schneider; a name that will undoubtedly be familiar to you if you are at all familiar with the Nashville music scene. Caroline co-founded Cold Lunch Recordings, was a founder of Spew Fest, books Vinyl Tap, makes the magic happen for Record Store Day, co-hosts the Devalued podcast, creates poster and album art on the regular and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We are working together as Good Signal.

YK isn’t going anywhere, this is just another layer of goodness to enjoy. Go follow us @goodsignal.online.

By my best measure, I first encountered Zook some time in 2018 with the release of “What’s It To You?” – a single from the then forthcoming debut album, Garden Variety. The Zook of 2018 is certainly not the Zook of 2025 but that evolution of sound is a big part of what makes Evaporating – the third full-length and first with YK – so enamoring.

To hear Zach Tittel tell it (that’s Zook), he was encountering some creative hurdles when starting in on the record.  “I realized my desire to organize my thoughts was often what prevented me from making things,” he says. So, he did the exact opposite and stopped trying to organize everything. He let in the scraps and fragments of ideas and gave them a home, as scattered as they might be.

He joined Writer’s at the Water, an anti-writer’s round gathering at Nashville’s infamous Springwater Supper Club put together by John Allingham of The Cherry Blossoms. The sessions encouraged a brand new way of thinking that wasn’t about showcasing a finished thought but rather about sharing an exploration. “I’d come up with something new every week and started writing down or recording the ideas that stuck around. It was low stakes in a way that made it feel like I was starting over,” Tittel recalled. These fragments were collaged and rearranged with the intent of simply following the idea, rather than forcing it into order.

Zook consulted with his musical family – a constellation of disparate talents that includes Billy Campbell, Husam Suboh, Ryan Bigelow and Thomas Luminoso. Each contributed ideas and manipulations for these pieces to take form. The recording itself emerged from sessions at Tittel’s abode, Campbell’s Second Floor Recording and Luna Kupper’s Ivy Eat Home.

The resulting LP, Evaporating, fully embodies that spirit of exploration. These songs began as murmured melodies, half-thought lines and scattered scraps that bloomed into bursts of shimmering guitars, waves of driving percussion and vocals that float in from an ethereal realm. It’s an album that breathes in melancholy introspection and releases an outpouring of optimism.

Zook’s unstructured approach to creation manifested into an album that evokes the feeling of letting go. “Making music can momentarily satisfy the urge to transform,” Tittel says, and that sense of transformation hums beneath every track. What started as an attempt to resist stagnation became a quiet rebirth: the sound of someone rediscovering their own pulse.

It’s a far cry from the works I first heard in 2018 on Garden Variety. A refreshing reinvention and a bold evolution in songwriting across the board. What remains as a throughline is Tittel’s combination of breezy vibes, psychedelic explorations and willingness to embrace melancholy through pop songs. It’s a unique combination that Evaporating expresses beautifully.

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The album is available in the YK Shop, on Bandcamp, Ampwall, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music and everywhere else you can imagine. Let yourself soak it in.

To celebrate the release, Zook will play in Nashville, TN tonight – Nov 7th, 2025 – at Soft Junk with Impediment and if i could ever realize.

We recently announced the addition of Zook to the YK Records roster and I’m overjoyed to add to that good news that his new full-length album will be here before you know it.

Evaporating is due out on Nov 7th and you can listen to the first track from it starting right now. “Absolute Misery” is streaming everywhere at this very moment. Don’t let that title fool you, it’s a joy to listen to.

Zook’s new record is his third full-length overall but, in many ways, is a reinvention of his approach and his sound. He’s always had a great penchant for blending styles but with Evaporating you will hear a uniquely special blend of pop, psychedelic, shoegaze, indie rock and a host of styles that fit in such a way that only Zook could create them.

November 7th is very soon! So, you won’t have to wait long to hear more from this record.

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Evaporating will be available on streaming, download and in limited edition physical formats!

• Canary Yellow Vinyl – we pressing 100 of these and they sound fantastic.
   
• Black Shell Cassette – our friends at Second Floor Recording Co made a short run of tapes that will go fast.

Get your hands on them here.

In July of 2024, Meadownoise released their album The Foam Alone. Except, what you heard online wasn’t truly the album. What was posted to Bandcamp, Ampwall and all streaming services was a collection of reactions, recreations or remarks about the album but not the songs themselves. In one case, it was some quiet time doing some laundry.

If you wanted to hear The Foam Alone, you needed to get your hands on a USB stick dangling gracefully inside of a medicine bottle. Maybe you’d get this from Matt Glassmeyer himself at a show. Maybe you’d get it from a friend of a friend. Or maybe you’d be daring enough to find it in public and put it in your computer, unprompted.

It was a grand experiment and one that worked. We distributed the album to friends and family. They redistributed to their friends and family. We heard appreciation and insights from those that were listening offline to the songs in a covert and concentrated way. Streaming numbers be damned, the album was making its way into the world.

We even managed to get a copy to the Nashville Scene and they described the experience wonderfully:

Two hallmarks of multi-instrumentalist, composer and expert improviser Matt Glassmeyer’s project Meadownoise are his tendency for ingenious and thoughtful experimentation and his appreciation for grooves of all kinds. Those are in effect in a big way on his latest record. The album is also a playful experiment in disrupting the way that streaming isolates listeners.

We’re happy to announce the end of that experiment. The songs from The Foam Alone are now available in their original form on all the various platforms. For those of you that heard the Reaction Version, this will reframe the experience entirely. For those that heard the USB versions, these will be familiar and convenient. For those that heard neither, you’re welcome to a new experience.

The versions on Ampwall and Bandcamp contain both the album versions and the reactions. It may be interesting to listen to them on shuffle.

On Oct 15, 2025 there was a fantastic record release celebration from Trash Man for his sophomore EP, Cool Until It’s Not. Fortunately for all of us, a camera was setup on the side of the stage to capture the entire performance.

Since Trash Man never played a release show for the first EP, Moment of Bleakness, this show served double duty. Clocking in around 20 minutes, Trash Man plays 10 songs covering the entirety of both EPs.

Great to hear these songs performed live and equally as rewarding to see the live band lineup of Taylor Lowrance (guitar), Deezy Youngdahl (bass), Z. Swann (keys), Peter Mercer (drums) and, of course, Alex Mojaverian (guitar and vocals).

Hopefully more Trash Man shows coming up in the future but, regardless, we’ve got an excellent document to relive this one over and over.

Finding your voice in the performance arena is often a musician’s hardest task. Fortunately for Jessica Breanne her literal voice carved a path for her to stand out immediately. Back in the early aughts, Breanne fronted a soulful rock band called The Electric Hearts, bringing infectious, rootsy, rock songs garnering comparisons to Amy Winehouse and Billie Holiday.

Seeking to explore fresh opportunities and more diverse sounds, she collaborated with producer Jake Davis (William Tyler, Emily Nenni, Skyway Man) to create a lush collection of classic country-tinged songs with 2021’s Rosebud Queen. These songs were an ode to resilience, the ability to overcome the darkness. Again Breanne’s voice soars through the deeply personal songs, inspiring the Nashville Scene to call it “a cinematic and very Southern soundscape.”

Continuing to diversify her palette, Breanne has now released Electric Heart, her second solo album and a reclamation of the namesake she started with. The album breaks from the mold of one specific genre and blends together the psychedelic, the soulful, rootsy and, above all else, infectiously memorable sounds that inspire her. Zillions Magazine remarked her work is “a delicious reminder that music at its best is not only about sound, but also about memory, emotion, and the bravery to remember where we have been.”

The path through self-discovery is a lifelong journey. Breanne has continuously explored new ideas, evolved her sound and embraced her unique and uncontainable voice. Electric Heart is the most realized version of her depth of songwriting and diversity of style yet.

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Sixteen years ago, Shaboi released their one and only album Curse Walk. It’s 19 minutes, 10 songs and more genres than any album should reasonably be able to handle. It is, without a doubt or the slightest amount of hyperbole, The Greatest Halloween Album Ever Made.

I can safely say that over the last sixteen years, I have listened to this album hundreds of times. I can also confidently confirm that I will listen to it hundreds more as the years go on. The brief runtime mixed with the eclectic variety of styles ensures its place in Heavy Rotation; particularly during October.

Clearly there is bias here! Curse Walk was the fourth release from YK Records and that alone gives it a special place in the pantheon of releases. Fortunately, the music – not the nostalgia – is what makes this one stand the test of time.

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Curse Walk is free to download on Ampwall and Bandcamp. It’s available on the all the streaming platforms as well. Enjoy it, save it, share it!

We also made t-shirts in case you really want to telegraph to the world that you’re a fan of the World’s Greatest Halloween Album.

The day has arrived! The newest EP from Trash Man is here! Cool Until It’s Not is a big riff blast of rock seeped in existential pondering. With a runtime under 10 minutes, you’d think it would be hard to fit in a lot of big questions but Alex Mojaverian tackles some big topics without losing sight of keeping it catchy.

You can find it on Bandcamp, Ampwall, Spotify, Apple Music, et al. It’s also available on blue cassette! We did not make a ton of these, so if you want one – snag one soon!

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Trash Man is also playing a release show here in Nashville on Oct 15th at Vinyl Tap. It’s gonna be good and it’s totally free!

Tower Defense has a long history of writing songs that, aurally, function as big blasts of rock. They embrace harmonies from all four members, massive drum sounds, walls of guitar and, of course, the delightfully unique double bass. Lyrically, they don’t shy away from insightful critiques of the world around them; generally Nashville specifically but often applicable to a wider systemic problem.

With “Fit for Purpose,” the band gives us the first peek at a lot of new songs that they’ve been working on in the last year. It’s a song that you should crank to the loudest volumes and let wash over you. It’s also a song inspired by Urban Heat Islands, a phenomena in urban areas where large swaths of blacktop and concrete will absorb and radiate heat. As Nashville grows, it is grappling with an epidemic of parking lots. These cash grabs are aimed at monetized tourists but often impact locals. More frequently than not, they result in no one using them at all. Big empty squares doing nothing but sending out heat.

Tower Defense is remarking on Nashville but these issues apply to any area experiencing growth at any cost. Maybe it’s happening in your town too?

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Tower Defense plays The Basement on Saturday, October 11th! The Robe is playing the same show. It’s gonna be a great time.

“Fit for Purpose” is exclusive to YouTube (and live shows) for now. Go listen.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both

Wrong! You can take them both! Here are two very different treats for you that you should partake in at your earliest convenience. No choosing, just indulge!

Jessica Breanne has released the animated video for the third (and final) preview single for her sophomore album Electric Heart. “Hungry” is a dark and psychedelic journey that finds Breanne’s vocals completely unfurled. It’s a different side of her songwriting and performance abilities that you’re not going to want to miss.

The animation is from Skybone Studios; a duo that took the psychedelic vibe much further with their accompaniment. Play it fullscreen. Play it loud.

Ever have a conversation with a friend about the state of the world and they say something like “I dunno, man, things aren’t so bad for me. I think it’s all gonna work out.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, with “Cool Until It’s Not“, Trash Man poses the question – what if things aren’t going to work out!? It’s a distinct possibility.

The new EP, Cool Until It’s Not, is available on limited edition blue cassette! You can order it now and we’ll ship it ASAP. Get it in the YK Shop, Bandcamp or Ampwall.