March 2026 – 7th Level Music

Omni Sound to release “When There Is No Sun” – a reimaging of the music of Sun Ra.

(Ricardo Villalobos courtesy of Omni Sound)

Omni Sound is excited to announce When There Is No Sun, a global recording project uniting visionary electronic music producers to reimagine the universe of Sun Ra, out March 27th. Commissioned by Omni Sound and curated by Ricardo Villalobos, When There Is No Sun brings together Underground Resistance, Chez Damier & Ben Vedren, Calibre, A Guy Called Gerald, SHE Spells Doom, Barış K, and Ricardo Villalobos himself to draw from Omni Sound’s recordings of Living Sky by the Sun Ra Arkestra and My Words Are Music, a spoken-word album of Sun Ra’s poetry. The producers pull fragments of sound and text into their own creative orbits, passing through the portal that Sun Ra opened into a realm where the impossible is possible.

Invocations by Saul Williams, Anthony Joseph, Mahogany L. Browne, Abiodun Oyewole, Tunde Adebimpe, and Tara Middleton turn rhyme into rhythm and resistance into revelation. Rooted in deep reverence for Sun Ra’s legacy, yet reaching forward as a living, generative force, When There Is No Sun is not a tribute but a continuum. Each contributor balances the pulse of electronic music with the spirit of experimentation, embodying Sun Ra’s conviction that sound is a vessel for transformation.

In conjunction with today’s announcement, Omni Sound present “When Angels Speak” by Underground Resistance featuring Saul Williams. As one of Detroit’s most influential and uncompromising musical movements, Underground Resistance bring their anti-extractive, futurist vision of techno rooted in independence, resistance, and Black empowerment to the title track of Sun Ra’s rare 1966 album, released on their Saturn label. Williams, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, actor, and filmmaker contributes a distinct blend of lyrical intensity and cultural insight.

Listen to “When Angels Speak” by Underground Resistance feat. Saul Williams

One of the most radical musical pioneers of the 20th century, Sun Ra used jazz, electronics, poetry, and performance to expand the possibilities of sound, identity, and imagination. A composer, bandleader, philosopher, and visionary, Ra didn’t just play music, he invented a universe. At the core of his philosophy is freedom through creation. He taught that the world’s dominant narratives—history, race, time, even gravity—are prisons of the mind, and that through music, myth, and performance, one could transcend these limits and reclaim control of destiny.

The artists featured in When There Is No Sun, in their own way, embody Sun Ra’s conviction that sound is a vessel for transformation. They are not united by genre but by purpose—artists who use rhythm, language, and imagination to rewire perception and open portals to new worlds.

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When There Is No Sun Release Events:
Tue. March 17 – Cape Town, ZA @ Pan African Space Station (streaming event only)
Fri. March 20 – Wuppertal, DE @ Open Ground (feat: Ricardo Villalobos & Chez Damier)
Fri. April 10 – New York, NY @ Nublu (feat. Sun Ra Arkestra & Chez Damier)
Fri. July 31 – Amsterdam, NL @ Dekmantel Festival (feat. Saul Williams & Underground Resistance)

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Stolen Nova releases funky new single – “Shame.”

Today, LA-based Josh Landau aka Stolen Nova proves he is the intersection of skate grit and art-school cosmic glamour with his video for new single “Shame.”

Landau says, “Shame” is a lament over the death of a relationship. It’s dwells on the struggle of a perfect love no longer sparking and feeling the change happen beyond your control. It’s got a Funkadelic-y bass groove and an Andre 3000 inspired flow to the 2nd verse.

It’s the first Stolen Nova track to feature the London live band of Hattie Steel on drums and Rose Rey on bass. We wrote and recorded the song one Sunday last year with Lava La Rue in South London. Lava also directed the music video with their fabulously unique eye. It’s been a standout at shows for the last year and it’s exciting to let it out into the world.

Stolen Nova is the latest evolution of Josh Landau, an L.A. native raised on the fumes of surf wax, amp feedback, and Dogtown mythology. In the late 2000s, while most high schoolers were discovering MySpace, Landau was immersed in the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Black Flag, and Black Sabbath, a kid orbiting the punk and skate scenes of Venice Beach and Beverly Hills’ empty swimming pools. His DNA was forged in distortion, rebellion, and sunburned West Coast idealism that refuses to die.

Before Stolen Nova, Landau spent the better part of a decade leading The Shrine, the hard-charging power trio that tore across the globe and shared stages with Iron Maiden and Slayer. The Shrine wasn’t just a band, it was a lifestyle emblem for a generation raised on Thrasher Magazine, Dogtown decks, and loud amps. They collaborated with Shepard Fairey (who designed the band’s artwork and invited them to perform at his Damaged exhibition), released a signature Converse skate shoe, and built an official Dogtown skateboard with Z-Boy legend Jim Muir.

When the feedback faded, Landau didn’t slow down, he reinvented. Stolen Nova emerged as his solo experiment in color, texture, and cosmic groove: the sound of a skater-turned-songwriter chasing new energy. After a stretch of couch-surfing in London, he returned home to record “Vortex,” a swirling introduction to his new vision. Then came “Lauren Bacall,” a cinematic single paired with a technicolor video shot in London. The track earned support from Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson, who spotlighted it on Breaking, and from KROQ-FM’s Locals Only, where it landed in the Top 10 Songs of the Year. Coverage followed from Interview Magazine, Office, i-D, Another, Marvin, and HUCK, confirming that Stolen Nova had fully arrived.

Now, in 2026, Landau’s world is spinning faster than ever. Between playing guitar for 070 Shake on her worldwide tour, opening for TV on the Radio across Australia, and collaborating with Marshall, he’s also set to release “Shame,” his next single co-written and produced by Lava La Rue. He will co-headline Pappy & Harriet’s on March 28 with Mark Mothersbaugh, and his debut full-length as Stolen Nova arrives September 4, 2026.

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A Place to Bury Strangers drop “Acid Rain” on all of us.

New-York based band A Place To Bury Strangers release “Acid Rain,” the second single from their new rarities album, Rare And Deadly, out April 3rd via Dedstrange. Following lead single, “Everyone’s The Same,” “Acid Rain” was born out of the first Trump presidency and pulses with unruly energy.

Reflecting on the track and era, Oliver Ackerman says; “Cruelty felt not just normalized, but weaponized. Watching people in power openly coerce others into silence, compliance, and violence was horrifying, and still is. What shook me most was how casual it all felt, how easily people turned their heads while others were being crushed.” In the song’s opening lines, Ackerman sings: “Cover your eyes // Cover your face // Walk in line // Don’t embrace.”

He continues: “The chanting at the beginning was recorded during the George Floyd protests in Manhattan and Brooklyn, real voices, real streets, real fear mixed with hope. For a moment, it felt like maybe people would finally wake up and refuse this racist machinery. But here we are, still watching detention centers, modern slavery, and countless other atrocities continue under different names. ‘Acid Rain’ is rage, grief, and disbelief all colliding at once, the sound of watching history repeat itself while knowing exactly how wrong it is.”

The accompanying video was shot on January 16th, 2026, for one song, one stop and a bridge. A Place to Bury Strangers took over the New York City subway and turned it into a moving stage for a raucous rendition of “Acid Rain.” The track detonates in real time as the train makes its way through the Williamsburg Bridge into the Lower East Side, no choreography, no script. All this industrial pulse and feedback over screeching train tracks was shot guerrilla-style, this video is not a reenactment. It’s a live wire running through a frozen subway car of lucky witnesses who showed up anyway. Bold, relentless and built to last. New York at its finest.

Watch the “Acid Rain” Video

Rare and Deadly cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. Spanning 2015–2025, this collection of demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments reveals the band at their most unfiltered—caught between breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes. Pulled from Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions, here the interference is closer, the electricity more dangerous, the edges left jagged on purpose.

What makes Rare and Deadly truly unprecedented is that every format tells a different story. The CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions each feature their own unique tracklisting, a fractured release strategy that is almost unheard of. No single version contains the “complete” album. Instead, each format becomes its own window into the archive, revealing alternate paths, missing links, and parallel versions of the band’s inner life. It’s a deliberately unstable document: the album shifts depending on how you choose to hear it, mirroring the chaos of its creation.

Across these recordings, you can hear the evolution of Ackermann’s restless mind. Some pieces feel like prototypes for future chaos, seeds that later bloomed on studio albums. Others are dead ends—ideas too volatile, too strange, or too personal to ever fit the frame of a proper release. But together they form a secret history of the band, a parallel world of possibilities that existed just outside the spotlight. The tracks contain riffs mutated by malfunctioning pedals, songs born from gear pushed past its limits, or delicate melodies overwhelmed by walls of feedback until only their ghosts remain.

Rare and Deadly is less a compilation and more a documentary—an aural snapshot of how sound takes shape before it hardens into something finished. You hear the room, the accidents, the restless experimentation, the immediacy of a moment being captured before it disappears. It’s a reminder that A Place To Bury Strangers has always thrived in this in-between space: the tension between control and collapse, melody and noise, beauty and distortion.

Pre-order Rare And Deadly

Watch:
“Acid Rain” video
“Everyone’s The Same” video

Rare And Deadly Tracklists Per Format

A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates:
Tue. April 7 – Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz
Wed. April 8 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
Thu. April 9 – Praha, CZ @ Futurum Music Bar
Fri. April 10 – Brno-město, CZ @ Kabinet múz
Sat. April 11 – Bratislava, SK @ PINK WHALE BAR
Sun. April 12 – Budapest, HU @ A38
Mon. April 13 – Belgrade, RS @ Karmakoma
Tue. April 14 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5
Wed. April 15 – București, RO @ Control Club
Fri. April 17 – Thessaloniki, GR @ Eightball Club
Sat. April 18 – Athina, GR @ Gazarte
Mon. April 20 – Rome, IT @ Monk Club
Tue. April 21 – Florence, IT @ Ex Fila
Wed. April 22 – Bologna, IT @ Social Center TPO
Thu. April 23 – Milan, IT @ Santeria
Fri. April 24 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
Sun. April 26 – Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4
Mon. April 27 – Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9
Wed. April 29 – Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
Thu. April 30 – Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis
Fri. May 1 – Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival 2026

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