Phantom Handshakes is a lo-fi, dream pop collaboration between Federica Tassano and Matt Sklar, based in Brooklyn, NY. Their firs output was a mini album in 2020, Be Estranged, recorded at home during April and May of 2020 (mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering in Chicago). The debut full-length, No More Summer Songs, was out in 2021on Z Tapes and the sophomore A Passport to Remain, was out in 2022. Good Intentions, their most recent song, represents the first single from their upcoming LP, Sirens At Golden Hour, which will be out on August 21st. Today we have the opportunity and honour to share with you an exclusive premiere of the second single, Dusk Enchanted, which will be out everywhere on July 16th.

With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. His sophomore LP, The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel, is set for release on August 23 on Slumberland Records. Recorded by Pastalaniec himself, in his home studio on the foggy southern edge of San Francisco, Paisley Hotel sets a moodier tone; slowed and patiently unfolding in moments that highlight an evolution in songcraft, production and arrangement–while still bouncing along with the jangling drive Chime School fans have come to adore.
As its title implies, 30-plus years of UK indie pop’s deeper cuts are voraciously mined and refined on the 11-song release that fans of East Village, later Teenage Fanclub, and maybe even Northern Picture Library’s Alaska will devour. “The Girl Who Runs The Beat Hotel was certainly a main influence for the album title, along with The Boy With the Paisley Shirt (TVPs), The Boy With the Arab Strap (B&S), the Boy With Perpetual Nervousness (Feelies), Paisley Underground generally, and my friends in Bay Area DIY, Paisley Shirt records. So many things; a real mish-mash. Kind of like Chime School in general, it seemed fitting“.

Katherine Perkins writes songs and paints in Maine. Her music and artwork explore light and color, the ocean and the human heart.
As the leader of the Brooklyn based band Rose Hips & Ships, she released The Seafarer, in 2013, and The Colors Now, in 2020. Her paintings have been shown at the Cynthia Winings Gallery, in Blue Hill, Maine and Swallowfield, in Northeast Harbor.
Through time spent in her earlier projects -apart from Rose Hips and Ships, the debaucherous basement rock band Harvey Eyeballs- Perkins discovered aspects of the self she wanted to be in her songs, gradually revealing what would become her new solo project of poetic personal reflections. Being Younger, her debut solo album, is a collection of  vivid, evocative songs about love in all its forms, in which Perkins assembles the perfect cast of seasoned and sensitive players to create the lush instrumentation and grounded, danceable grooves that make the ideal companion for her breezy vocals.
Her new record, Being Younger, is due out on Twelve | Eight Records on June 21st, 2024.