One of the great joys of re-issuing a beloved album is getting to revisit all of the promotional material of that era and, in optimal situations, getting to restore the material for modern audiences.

For instance, with The Features release of Exhibit A (Original Sweet Tea Mix). we’ve already gotten to share “God Save Rock n Roll” officially for the first time ever, along with a video of never-before-seen studio footage. We’ve seen the Exhibit A Cracker Jack box! The “Leave It All Behind” animated video sourced from the original files and restored for 2026 and a watchable version of the band performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live from way back in 2004.

Today we’re happy to add to that list by re-releasing the official video for “The Way It’s Meant to Be.” The original video was directed by Chad Denning of Gamma Blast and he was kind enough to source the original files, restore them for modern eyes and pair them with the new Original Sweet Tea Mix audio. We are extremely grateful for Chad’s work then and now. Thank you, Chad!

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Exhibit A (Original Sweet Tea Mix) 2xLP, please steer yourself over to the yk Shop and pick up a copy. The record is also available on Ampwall, Bandcamp and all your favorite streaming services.

We’re not done sharing all the gems we’ve unearthed with Exhibit A. Stay tuned for more!

Has a charismatic televangelist ever put hands on you when you were a youth visiting a television taping? If you’re Talking with Hands, the answer is a surprising Yes!

The perfect pairing for “Tell Me Your Sins,” this footage is the real deal. The track itself has an energy of wild abandon while the video footage shows these faux healers forgiving folks of their worst behaviors. I’m no advocate for this kind of thing but you can’t deny that it’s an insane thing to have broadcast on TV every day for years!

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The track is taken from the split release with Telefone entitled The Shit. Both artists just so happened to find themselves with songs containing the eponymous expletive and it was decided to combine forces! All four tracks from the release have videos (some two!) and all are available everywhere now.

Music to Talk Over, Vol. 1 was conceived in the spirit of a Baroque dance suite, six pieces that differ in feel and tone but belong unmistakably together. These tracks could be movements in a program, or songs on a side of a record.

Primary songwriter Todd Kemp’s previous work (Carter Administration, Century Club, et al) was lyrically driven as a means of dealing with worldly anxiety, this record was carved out through different territory: music as refuge. Kemp’s recording process always began with the intention to provide a personal escape from the cacophony of modern life.

Together, these seventeen minutes are an exercise in contrast where no two songs share the same approach. “The mantra was ‘don’t do anything the same way twice,’’ Kemp reflects, “and it applied to every aspect of making the music: composition, arrangement, recording process, etc.” Jay Leo Phillips created a cohesive mix for the suite, Mike Shepherd created the artwork – an ode to the idea that the party is already happening, go ahead and join in.

The title isn’t meant as a snarky self-deprecating commentary but, rather, a note that these songs are companions to your life. Live it fully with the utmost enjoyment. The suite is designed to be pleasantly ignored at a party yet genuinely rewarding when heard alone. Put it on. Talk over it. Listen closer next time. It’ll hold up.

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The EP is available everywhere today! Pick it up on Ampwall, Bandcamp or Mirlo or stream it on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music or wherever you stream. There are no individual tracks to scrub or sample, just let yourself enjoy the full seventeen minutes.

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Why all one track?
These songs really are meant to be enjoyed together. It’s a little atypical in this modern era of music distribution but give it a whirl and you’ll find it’s quite rewarding.

What’s the story with the artwork?
First and foremost, the photo exudes the energy that the album nods to – an escape from modern life. Music as refuge. A party that’s happening and it’s just up to you to join in.

Speaking with designer Mike Shepherd, he notes “here is a precedent for bands repurposing old album covers like The Residents and The Beatles, Pavement and Ambergris, or even Unwound and Tom Jones.”

Together, the energy of the photo and the fair use repurposing makes for quite a conversation piece. The perfect topic for your next party.

Back in April, we announced that Infinite Limb had joined the roster and would be releasing their brand new full-length record, Seeds for Cosmic Radio. If you’re the sort of person that gets down with Bandcamp or Ampwall, you’ve hopefully already heard it. If you’re the type that waits for streaming, your wait is over.

The seventeen-track album was inspired by a notably non-electronic activity, gardening. While tending his home garden, Kyle Numann (aka Infinite Limb himself) pondered the relationship between the seeds in the soil and their cosmically fueled energy from our sun. An ecosystem buried in the soil but dependent on the stars – one star in particular in fact.

Mining through years of multitrack recordings, Seeds for Cosmic Radio emerged. The album forages textures and rhythms of the natural universe: the bleary melody of spring thaw, the pulsing beat of cellular activity, the endless drone of interstellar space, and the radio signals of our most distant voyager. These sounds are not unknown to us, they persist through us every day… unknowingly.

Seeds for Cosmic Radio is now available everywhere. Supporting it on Bandcamp, Ampwall, Mirlo, or Subvert is recommended – particularly given that you can get the download packaged with some actual seeds from Numann’s garden. Otherwise, find it on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music and everywhere else you stream.

If you don’t mind, broadcast this one far and wide. Stream it, save it, share it.

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.