Infinite Limb’s Seeds for Cosmic Radio is available in full on Ampwall and Bandcamp but we’re slow rolling individual tracks out to streaming. Today we’ve unleashed “Propagation Patterns” to all the streamers. Hear it on Apple Music, Spotify, Youtube Music and everywhere else you’d need it. Here’s a beautiful visualizer to accompany it:

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Telefone released the lyric video for “Bullshit” last week – it’s a cheeky photo journey that’s also serving as a nod to some other technological BS we all deal with. The song was written about a difficult and chronic liar, an individual full of hot air that makes life more difficult for everyone while being obstinate and aggravating along the way. If that sounds like the description of just about every politician, that wasn’t on purpose! Turns out, a song about a bullshitting asshole can more widely apply to power hungry egomaniacs everywhere. With that in mind, we present the “Covfefe version” of the lyric video – same song, different aggravators.

The song is from The Shit – a split release between Talking with Hands and Telefone, available everywhere now.

Politics are frustrating, aggravating and often move at a snail’s pace. While we feel this frustration every day, we also know that we go further together. So, any purchase of The Shit EP during the month of July will be donated directly to Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights; a non-profit that has been advocating for immigrants since 2003.

The Telefone bookend from The Shit EP is here. A visceral takedown of a chronic deceiver delivered in a delightfully memorably tune.

The Shit split EP was conceived when Telefone and Talking with Hands found themselves both working on songs with a shared titular vulgarity. Today, Telefone’s contribution to the split arrives in the form of the lyric video for “Bullshit” – a song inspired by a chronic deceiver that needed to be called on their antics. 

What’s particularly fascinating about the track is that despite it being inspired by a specific individual – a stranger to everyone except the band – it’s a song that has universal application to bullshitter’s everywhere. Close your eyes and take in the lyrics, imagine the most egregious bag of hot air individual you know and *viola* the song is now about them. It works alarmingly well.

Turns out there’s a lot of bullshitters in the world and Telefone just happened to capture calling them out on their exhausting essence perfectly.

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The video is its own form of delightful BS. I don’t wanna lead the horse to water here but it’s both a companion lyric video and a nod to some other tiresome technology we all hear about on a daily basis.

Watch and enjoy

Talking With Hands’ contributions to the recently released split EP The Shit are full-blown rock songs, barreling out of the gate with big riffs and plenty of swagger. With “Hot Shit,” Matthew Smith’s pseudonymous project tells the autobiographical tale of coming up in Nashville’s underground scene. The video takes that personal story further with home footage capturing sweaty rock shows and youthful tour misadventures.

If you’re paying attention to the lyrics, Smith isn’t nostalgic for the rabble-rousing years so much as he’s accounting for them. The swagger is real but so is the punchline: marriage, parenthood, and knowing how the game works turned out to be the better story.

“Hot Shit” is tongue-in-cheek by design. Part takedown, part satire, but mostly a song about enjoying where you end up.

Talking with Hands autobiographical barn burner “Hot Shit” and Telefone’s sardonic takedown “Bullshit” just happened to emerge at the same time. This stroke of pure serendipity sparked an absurd and brilliant idea; join forces and release them together as The Shit – a split EP.

Both artists fleshed out additional songs for the offering and that brilliance bears fruit today. Four songs, starting and ending with the original offerings. It’s a sandwich of “shit” songs that are anything but.

Get Some Magazine premiered the release and had a whole lot of good things to say but I’m particularly pleased with “sonically heavy and spiritually sarcastic.” Or maybe “For not working on the songs directly together, Talking With Hands and Telefone are able to create some serious magic.” High praise.

If you haven’t caught the video for “ESP” yet, go ahead and tune into that now. Otherwise, steer yourself to Ampwall, Bandcamp or some streaming service to partake in The Shit.

Less than a week ago, Tower Defense dropped their latest two bangers – “Fit for Purpose” and “Artless Hands” – two catchy songs about corporate powers exploiting the land and commodifying our arts. Believe it or not, both are entertaining jams!

Speaking of entertaining, we just dropped a “Fit for Purpose” lyric video and it’s a hoot. Not only does it provide you with the actual words to sing along to, it’s a real hoot to see the workout routines from a bygone era. No shade to anyone getting fit but I don’t recall the last time I saw anyone lifting in a sweater!

A little levity to go alongside a big blasting rock song. What did those body jiggler machines even do?! Does anyone know??

Watch the video. Enjoy the songs everywhere. Let me know about that body jiggler.

On Friday, June 12th, Telefone and Talking With Hands will unveil The Shit, a split EP featuring two songs from each band that is anything but. The first peek arrives today in the form of “ESP” and its official visualizer.

Brought to you by a band that exists across two wildly different time zones (Valencia, Spain and Austin, Texas), it feels like a song about bridging distances, both physical and emotional. “Pick up your broken heart / And burn every single part” is as triumphant as it is heartbreaking.

The song is a soaring slice of indie pop-rock that carries all the eclectic influences Telefone expertly blends. It brings the feels but it’s leaving you with a earworm you can’t deny.

“ESP” is the first listen from the forthcoming split release, The Shit, shared with Talking with Hands. The two bands both found themselves with “shit” songs and combining powers was clearly the right move. Look for that on June 12th, 2026. In the meantime, get “ESP” in your ears.

Nashville’s most bombastic double bass quartet – Tower Defense – returns with a pair of new songs, “Fit for Purpose” and “Artless Hands”.

Together, these tracks tackle the frustration of our spaces being controlled and manipulated by the urge to increase the bottom line. “Fit for Purpose” targets Nashville’s sprawling, sun-baked parking lots multiplying across the city. These urban heat islands squeeze out shade, waste valuable space and simply lie in wait for the next sucker to pay.

“Artless Hands” takes aim at the streaming economy. Inspired by a 2021 Nashville Scene column by Chris Crofton, the reflection on “the executive class’s bloody, artless hands, unloading all the world’s music off the metaphorical back of a truck” became the song’s anchor. The track weaves in lyrical threads from Converge and Christina Aguilera, originally placeholders that ended up too right to remove.

Together, the songs form a companion piece: two meditations on commodification, one about land, one about sound, both about profiteers disinterested in the common good.

Oh, and both tracks are total bangers. Hear it on Ampwall, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify and everywhere else.

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Tower Defense plays The 5 Spot here in Nashville, TN on June 6, 2026 at 6pm to celebrate the new release. See you there.

After long last, the debut full-length album from Bleary has arrived. The songs of Little Brain began forming pre-pandemic with each composition and arrangement being refined in front of live audiences.

When that was no longer an option, the band shifted to building at home studios. Peter Mercer, Callan Dwan and Taro Yamazaki traded demos and chased textures; ideas they never would have considered with in-person performances.

The band found a way to record the earliest tracks with Joshua Ditty during peak pandemic, confirming their pursuit was bearing fruit. As the world returned, they found themselves at County Q with Mike Purcell, completing the process of capturing the album and layering their ideas. Always molding, shaping, and sculpting into the right form. The final recordings that emerged were the result of years of refinement, exploration and relentless experimentation.

The songs are dense and immersive, some with dozens of guitar tracks. Lyrically, the album chases themes of loss, insufficiency and a deep yearning for acceptance. The title track perfectly captures that feeling of finding your place, emphatically inquiring “If I’m gonna be someone, can I be that to you? //
I swear on my life I’ll be someone we both like.”

Dwan and Mercer’s vocal harmonies cut through the wall of sound, carrying you through the fray. Sometimes they blur into one another as one voice, sometimes they play off of one another – but they always capture the vulnerability with an eloquent melancholy.

It’s been a long road to get Little Brain out into the world but the album is a beautiful testament to that persistent, patience and vision.

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You can pick up Little Brain on limited edition red marbled vinyl, digitally on Ampwall and Bandcamp or streaming on Apple Music, Spotify and everywhere else.

The band will celebrate the release of Little Brain on Thursday, May 28th at The Blue Room with Oscar Lindsey and Swimming Sisters. Tickets are on sale now.

The last release from General Trust was January of 2025 with “Apologia.” Now, 457 days later, we’re excited to share a brand new batch of songs with the PLANS 2 EP.

If you’ll allow me the courtesy of a metaphor: After land has been cultivated, it must be left fallow. Intentionally unseeded to promote fertility, encourage nutrients, and regrowth. This period will increase biodiversity within the soil and surrounding ecosystem. The more rest and regeneration the land is permitted, the richer the harvest.

PLANS 2 contains two brand new neo-noir duskwave tracks and two remixes; one of the title track and one from the GT catalog. Altogether, a rich harvest unto itself.

Available on Bandcamp, Ampwall and streaming.

If you recall your 7th grade science glass, “mitosis” is the name for the process by which cells divide and produce an identical pair. It is how plants and animals grow, creating roots, sprouts, leaves and limbs. This process happens with all life on the planet and, interestingly enough, there’s even a version of it that is shaped like a star. Elements of the universe reflected back in micro-biological versions.

Infinite Limb’s new album Seeds for Cosmic Radio touches on these ideas conceptually. The microcellular and the interstellar are connected; in proverbial form and in literal atomic formations.

The new video for “Mitosis Bloom” explores this visually with handmade textures; evoking the unseen world of plants and cells, as well as the intergalactic swirl that contains us all.

The single is streaming everywhere; serving as a beacon to draw you to the full album. You can hear the entire journey on Ampwall and Bandcamp. You can even pick up a packet of flower seeds – tended from Infinite Limb’s own garden – to harvest your own mitosis.