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Track Premiere: Cor de Lux’s ‘Nail Biter’

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Post date February 9, 2024
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Cor De Lux (Photo: John Blivens)

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Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2023

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Post date December 18, 2023
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Tags 12XU, 4000 Records, Activity, Agriculture, All Structures Align, All The Heavens Were A Bell, Amish Records, ATO Records, Bad History Month, Baxter Dury, Búho Ermitaño, Ben Chasny, Billy Woods, Birdman Records, Black Duck, Bonnacons of Doom, Buh Records, ChiaraOscuro, Chris Abrahams, Civic, Crime & The City Solution, Cruel Nature Records, Danny Paul Grody, Daron Beck, Drag City, Droneroom, Echodelick Records, Elizabeth Still, Emil Amos, Exploding In Sound, FACS, Fat Possum, Fawn Limbs, Fire Records, Ghostwoods, Gizeh Records, Godflesh, gRAILS, Great Falls, Heavenly Recordings, Home Assembly Music, Human Worth, Hypostatic Union, Idealogic Organ, Infinite River, Ipecac Recordings, Jayve Montgomery, Kenny Segal, Kranky, Les Conches Valasques, Luggage, Marginal Glitch Records, Marthe, Michael Plater, Monastral, Mute, Nadja, Nefarious Industries, Neurot Recordings, Niecy Blues, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy, Oren Ambarchi, Oxbow, Partisan Records, pj harvey, Pound Land, Prewn, Prison, Purge, Rabbit Hash, Ramble Records, Repitidor, Rick Tomlinson, Robbie Avenaim, Rocket Recordings, Roman Numeral Records, RVG, Sacred Bones, Sludge Lord Records, Solid Brass Records, Southern Lord Recordings, SQÜRL, Stephen O’Malley, Temporary Residence, The Declining Winter, The Flenser, The Necks, The Pines of Rome, The Serfs, Three Lobed Recordings, Thrill Jockey, Tim Wyskida, TORPOR, Trio Not Trio, Trouble In Mind, Vox Records, Water Damage, Western Vinyl, Winterwood, Wolves and Vibrancy, Wrong Speed Records, Young Fathers

Activity: Spirit in the Room

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Post date August 4, 2023
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Activity (photo: Ebru Yildiz)

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Tags Activity, Bri DiGioia), Clinic, Jess Rees, Jonathan Lethem, Steven Levine, Travis Johnson, Western Vinyl, Zoe Browne

13 Questions with Cor de Lux

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Post date February 10, 2023
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Cor de Lux (photo credit: John Blivens)

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Salisman & His Hermetic Order: Clairvoyance

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Post date February 3, 2022
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Salisman & His Celestial Bodies

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Tags Activity, Autolux, BBC 6 Music, Chris Tate, Cruel Nature Records, d_rradio, One Key Magic, Paul Foreman, Radiohead, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Score, Thom Yorke, Travis Salisbury

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Mysterious Motion: In Conversation with Activity’s Travis Johnson

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Post date October 12, 2021
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Tags Activity, Alexalone, FACS, Field Mouse, Grooms, Jeff Berner, protomartyr, Psychic TV, Russian Baths, Sonic Youth, Steve Levine, Travis Johnson, Zoe Browne

Singles

Activity: Text the Dead – “exploring the outer limits”

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Post date September 22, 2021
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Activity (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Nation of Language: A Word & A Wave – “another solid offering”

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Post date September 10, 2021
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Nation Of Language (photo credit: Robin Laananen)

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Tags Activity, Ian Devaney, Nation of Language, P.E., Public Practice

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Activity: White Phosphorus – “a skewer that pierces the heart”

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Post date February 15, 2021
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Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

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Post date December 11, 2020
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Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Activity, Albums of the year, Albums of the year 2020, Algiers, Andrea, ATO Records, Bad Amputee, Bambara, Baxter Dury, Bella Union, Bruxa Maria, Cohn Corporation, CS + Kreme, Daniel Avery, Dead Oceans, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dis Fig, Dogleg, Domino Recordings, Drag City, Drive-By Truckers, Einstürzende Neubauten, Emil Amos, Emma Ruth Rundle, Epic Records, Epitaph Records, Ex-Easter Island Head, FACS, Family Jukebox, Fiona Apple, Flying Nun Records, Fotocrime, Heavenly Recordings, Holy Sons, Hominid Sounds, Hyperdub, Illian Tape, Illian Tapes, Jehnny Beth, Julianna Barwick, Keeley Forsyth, Kevin Martin, Kranky, Land Trance, Matador Records, Merge Records, Miashma Recordings, MJ Guider, Moses Boyd, Muzz, Ninja Tune, Northern Spy Records, Nuclear Blast, P.E., Pallbearer, Phantasy Sound, Phil Elverum, PIAS, Potomak, Profound Lore, protomartyr, Sacred Bones, Serengeti, Shabazz Palaces, Six Organs of Admittance, Sony Records, The Bats, The Bug, The Flaming Lips, The Innocence Mission, The Leaf Label, The Microphones, The Necks, The Trilogy Tapes, Thou, Thrill Jockey, Torres, Touché Amoré, Triple Crown Records, Trouble In Mind, Uniform, Walter Martin, Warp, Western Vinyl, Wharf Cat Records, Wreikmeister Harmonies, Wrekmeister Harmonies, yves tumor, Zelienople