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S*GLASSThe electro-acoustic sound collages by S*Glass combine cut-ups, electronic processing, voice, found sound, and chance operations. Non-musical objects are sometimes incorporated (anything from dental floss and aluminum foil to wind-up toys and metal lunch box, sometimes cabbage). Self-shot video is screened during sets, which is mostly textures made with multiple layers that slowly wobble out of sync, jump cuts, and a smattering of primitive animation. The overall effect is one of surreal disorientation.S*Glass is a founder of Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble (a large non-musical music group begun in the early 1980s), and Glands of External Secretion (a duo with rock musician Barbara Manning since the early ’90s). From the late ’80s until 2004, he was the main driver behind Bananafish. Since 2017, he’s  performed as a solo artist and completed U.S. tours of the West Coast, New England, part of the South and Midwest, England and Scotland, a handful of places in Canada. This past October he toured Australia and New Zealand for three weeks; coming up in April is 10 days in the Southwest.He’s released music and sound on his label Butte County Free Music Society, and has also collaborated with an international array of others such as Dylan Nyoukis (Scotland) Anla Courtis of Reynols (Argentina), Noel Meek (New Zealand), Bryan Day (US), Andrew Zukerman (Canada), Cody Brant (US), and Orchid Spangiafora (US). Other labels include Chocolate Monk (UK), Siltbreeze (Philadelphia), Spleencoffin (Baltimore), Blue Spectrum (UK), l’Esprit de l’Escalier (US), Krim Kram (Ireland), Independent Woman (New Zealand), Beartown (UK), Ikuisuus (Finland), Tanzprocesz (France), I Dischi Del Barone (Sweden), Coherent States (Greece), Feeding Tube (Massachusetts), VHF (Virginia), Opax (Italy), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Dinzu Artefacts (Los Angeles), and Starlight Furniture Co. (San Francisco). Here are some samples of his work:<iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="true" autoplay="false" disablekbcontrols="false" enableiframeapi="false" endtime="0" ivloadpolicy="0" loop="false" modestbranding="false" origin="" playlist="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H8sDrdithxs￼Performing live at Burdock Brewery in Toronto, Canada" start="0"></iframe><iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="true" autoplay="false" disablekbcontrols="false" enableiframeapi="false" endtime="0" ivloadpolicy="0" loop="false" modestbranding="false" origin="" playlist="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qxGmEw4Nt9I￼Performing live at Canessa Gallery in San Francisco, California" start="0"></iframe><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sglass.bandcamp.com/album/cesspool-of-the-angels">https://sglass.bandcamp.com/album/cesspool-of-the-angels</a>Streaming and downloadable LP released by Minimum Table Stacks (NYC) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/fae-ma-bit-tae-ur-bit-82-18th-january-2024/">https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/fae-ma-bit-tae-ur-bit-82-18th-january-2024/</a>Dylan Nyoukis's  program "Fae Ma Bit To Ur Bit" on Resonace Extra on London England featured a 50-min sound collage made of field recordings collected during a three-week live tour of Australia and New Zealand in October 2023. This is an archived recording of the entire show, originally broadcast on Jan 18 2024SAILOR BEWARELara Allen’s solo work under the name Sailor Beware combines sound collage, spoken word, and vaudeville in a kaleidoscopic portrayal of her experiences in Cincinnati public schools, a troubled teen industry cult, and children’s mental hospital.She was in Caroliner for a while, way back when, and also fronted Heavenly Ten Stems, who specialized in covers of Asian pop and rock tunes (the sort later popularized by labels such as Sublime Frequencies, et al.), has appeared on an album by Secret Chiefs 3, and was the off-the-hook screeching front-person of legendary Ohio psycho-rock juggernaut Manwich. Her artwork was on the cover of Bananafish #12 and she was interviewed in #17. More recently, she was a guest on Will York's Who Cares Anyway podcast.Listen to it here:<iframe width="640" height="480" allowfullscreen="true" autoplay="false" disablekbcontrols="false" enableiframeapi="false" endtime="0" ivloadpolicy="0" loop="false" modestbranding="false" origin="" playlist="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_tEywAnmxE?si=XskYwC12FqrO-SV4" start="0"></iframe>Numerous samples of her work on her website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.laraallen.com">http://www.laraallen.com</a>She currently teaches at Pratt in BrooklynEMILY ROBBEmily Robb is a Philadelphia-based musician known for her free-form electric guitar. Her playing has the ability to combine feverish smacks of rock riffs with focused lyricism and loose repetition. Her live show is a ride - a sermon in the House of Guitar - with brief evocations of The Velvet Underground, Henry Flynt, and Tetuzi Akiyama’s Don’t Forget To Boogie. Whilst Emily often utilizes learned scales, popularly heard-before chords and ideas from her heroes, (you might even hear someone's infamous riff in the middle of her set), her music comes out sounding like a novel, glowing, ranting, loving rock 'n' roll poem. The Washington Post explained her set opening for Mdou Moctar as "raucous solo instrumentals [that] ranged through 20th-century guitar history from raga-rock string-bending to a Chuck Berry-style vamp that expanded into a wall of sound.”Fall of 2023 saw Emily's second solo release, If I Am Misery Then Give Me Company, on the Petty Bunco label, as well as a split LP with Bill Nace on Open Mouth Records. Emily maintains a steady touring schedule, often with her partner Richie Charles accompanying her on electric organ and sometimes performing in collaborative duos (Bill Nace, Bill Orcutt, Anne Ishii). Stay tuned for her upcoming recordings and events...<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://emilyrobb.bandcamp.com/">emilyrobb.bandcamp.com</a>ig: ahumancertainly<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://pettybunco.bandcamp.com/">pettybunco.bandcamp.com</a> Sinking Body  Sinking Body is the electronic based solo project of Neil Burke, a founding member of the much loved and highly praised band Men's Recovery Project, as well as occasional member of Landed and other outfits. Active since the early 90s, but goes into long periods of dormancy, sometimes only surfacing a few times a decade. Most Sinking Body full length releases came out in the 90s, followed by a smattering of songs released on various compilations. The music has been described as "sounds, including occasional rhythmic moments and other". Synthesizers and electricity are what keeps things moving along. You can stand up or sit down and still get your fill. Don't forget how to get home after the gig. Burke is also a visual artist, whose work has appeared on numerous album covers, posters and shirts.