Last night was the opening of an exhibition celebrating the work of Studio Helmo for Strasbourg’s Jazzdor festival. A crowd gathered inside to see the posters, postcards, booklets, brochures and other ephemera covering the galleries four walls…
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The Shadow Knows will return in 2026. New articles will be published online soon. A print edition will follow.
While we previously published the print zine first, and then put everything online. This time we’ll do the opposite. Everything will appear online first and then be collected into a print edition.
While we’re still on hiatus working on other projects, the discovery of several obscure reissues from Transition Records’ jazz, classical, and mood albums prompted us to do a writeup.
Read it here: Transition Records: The obscure and (un)reissued.
We’re currently on hiatus and will be back later…
Following our feature on Fellaheen Records, we’ve highlighted five of their Australian bands who made the label so interesting. From indie rock, experimental, and noise, there was a bit of everything on Fellaheen. Read the article here.
This weekend saw the surprise release of Gordon “Gordy” McQuilten’s album Double Stack iMac. Recorded between 2000 and 2008, it features some tracks originally intended for The Avalanches while Gordon was part of the group. Read more here.
The release of The Beatles final song Now & Then has brought attention back to the power of using AI in music production. We take a look at how anyone can do this from their own home with free tools, and chat to Vince from the YouTube channel Rock Band Stems for his tips. Read the full article here.
This past month we’ve posted about seeing UNKLE perform live in NYC, reviewed Time Has Come, the new book from Lester Chambers on his time with The Chambers Brothers, and shared four recommendations of new Australian music on Bandcamp.
Read those articles and more on Medium where we share all of our writing each month.
Fellaheen Records was an independent Australian label that unfortunately closed after only five years. They released the first music by locals Gerling and Ben Lee, as well as albums from international acts like Pavement and the Beastie Boys often with bonus tracks exclusive to Australia.
Currently, all of our articles are hosted on Medium. This has allowed us to earn some money when Medium members read our articles, and non-members could also read a few each month before they saw a paywall.
Unfortunately, Medium changed their rules so non-members couldn’t read our articles. To counter this, we have removed our ability to earn any money from our writing for The Shadow Knows on Medium.
This should mean you don’t see a paywall on any of our articles and you can continue to read everything for free.