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Read more: Insecure Men: Good Cheese, Bad TimesThere are bands that begin with a manifesto, bands assembled by management and bands that form because somebody has a collection of songs that simply don’t belong anywhere else. Insecure Men belong firmly in the third category. The project emerged…
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Read more: Overmono & The Streets: Turning The Page AgainThe Brothers In The Machine Overmono have always sounded like two people trying to smuggle feeling back into machinery. Tom and Ed Russell, brothers, producers, rave excavators, Welsh pressure-system technicians, make electronic music that understands the body before it explains…
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Read more: Ankhoï & Luch: The Future Isn’t What It Used To BeAnkhoï and Luch made a house record about moving forward. The interesting part is that it doesn’t sound entirely convinced that forward is where we’re going. There’s a peculiar melancholy buried inside the idea of the future. For most of…
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Read more: Open Format Transmission 2026.07Episode 2026.07 is available for all-ears.
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Read more: Pigeon and Falle Nioke: Outtanational Frequencies From the Margate EdgeThe Bird That Refused the Bin There is something beautifully wrong about calling a band Pigeon. In Britain, the pigeon gets treated like a flying receipt. A grey civic nuisance. A chip-shop satellite. A living scrap of pavement punctuation. It…
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Read more: Oran “Juice” Jones, The Rain, and the Mixtape That Arrived From SydneySome songs arrive with a marketing plan. Some arrive wearing a leather coat in a video clip, carrying a rose, ready to accuse somebody of betrayal in the most immaculately unreasonable way possible. And some arrive on a cassette from…
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Read more: Killer Mike: The Preacher, The Brawler, The Scholar With His Boots OnKiller Mike, rooted in Atlanta, embodies complexity as a political rapper, blending humor, activism, and personal struggle. His evolution reflects cultural resistance, making impactful music that connects historical and contemporary issues through collaboration.
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Read more: 2XT Turn Special Feelings Into Club DamageThe album “SPECIAL FEELINGS” by 2XT, featuring K.Flay, merges emotion with electronic music, emphasizing immediate, hybrid feelings. It defies conventional genres, treating altered perception as an integral texture rather than a mere backdrop.
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Read more: PaperJam 06 – Outternational FrequenciesPaperJam 06 is a visual exploration accompanying Yeah Bagel’s Open Format Transmission 2026.06, weaving through diverse cultural influences and memories in music. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of tracks, presenting a nonlinear narrative that celebrates emotional geography, hybrid sounds, and the…
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Read more: Open Format Transmission 2026.06Latest transmission received includes tracks from 2XT, Fcukers, Pigeon, Alphabethead. Slash Need and more.
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Read more: Roger Perry, 1966–2026: Auckland’s Dancefloor RemembersRoger Perry, DJ, producer, broadcaster, record man, scene-builder and one of the foundational figures in Aotearoa house music, passed away on 5 June 2026. He was just short of turning 60.
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Read more: Al-Qasar: The Palace With the Amplifiers Blown OutAl-Qasar merges diverse musical influences, creating a vibrant soundscape that defies genre boundaries. Their work showcases cultural hybridity while challenging societal norms, inviting listeners to experience music as a dynamic, living entity.
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Read more: PaperJam 05 – Bootleg InternationalPaperJam05 is the fanzine companion artefact to Yeah Bagel’s Open Format Transmission 2026.05. Nothing to declare except illegal rhythm.
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Read more: WU LYF Are Back, And They Still Don’t Want to Belong to AnyoneWU LYF were not supposed to become a comeback story. That was never how the myth worked. They were meant to remain sealed in amber, or maybe something less polite than amber: smoke, sweat, church dust, a bootprint on a…
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Read more: Open Format Transmission 2026.05Locked in for 2 hours straight Yeah Bagel with MC Nightbus take you on a musical journey featuring tracks from Al-Qasar, Snapped Ankles, Massive Attack, Moneyshot, Wu Lyf, Boards of Canada and more…
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Read more: Warmduscher and Janet Planet Stay Pure at the Heart“Pure At The Heart” by Warmduscher blends genres with insincerity and depth, featuring Janet Planet’s voice to reveal emotional truths within nightlife chaos, embracing imperfections while highlighting shared vulnerability.
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Read more: Mandy, Indiana Know the Dancefloor Is Also a Crime SceneMandy, Indiana crafts music that embodies structural panic, reflecting societal pressures and personal turmoil. With haunting French vocals and industrial rhythms, they challenge traditional genres and expectations. Their recent album “URGH” intensifies this exploration, blending anger, urgency, and movement, capturing…
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Read more: Anna Calvi & Iggy Pop: God’s Lonely Man Walks Into the Light“God’s Lonely Man” does not arrive so much as appear in the doorway: black leather, bad weather, half a cigarette of cinema doom still burning between its fingers. Anna Calvi and Iggy Pop have made a song that feels like…
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Read more: PaperJam 04 – Bite, Ghosts, and AfterglowYeah Bagel Open Format Transmission dropped into airways on 13th May. PaperJam Issue 4 followed in it’s slip-stream with Mandy, Indiana on the cover.
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Read more: Chalk, Crystalpunk, and the Sound of Belfast Refusing to BehaveChalk sound like a city having a panic attack in a nightclub toilet and coming out ten feet taller. Not polished. Not polite. Not one of those careful post-punk bands who arrive with matching haircuts, a tasteful bass tone, and…
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Read more: Open Format Transmission 2026.04In full effect with MC Nightbus on the microphone. Featuring tracks from Mandy, Idiana, Chalk, Murphi, Angine de Poitrine, Warmduscher and more
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Read more: MODEL/ACTRIZ: THE BODY ELECTRIC, THE BODY ILLEGALModel/Actriz, a Brooklyn-based quartet, blends theatricality and intensity in their music, exploring queer desire and identity. Their albums, “Dogsbody” and “Pirouette,” redefine heavy music, merging genres with vibrancy and precision.
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Read more: Butthole Surfers’ “Pepper”: The Hit Single That Smiled Like a Crime SceneThere are songs that become hits because they want to be loved. Then there is “Pepper” by Butthole Surfers, which became a hit while looking directly at the listener with the dead calm of someone who has just walked away…
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Read more: Miki Berenyi Trio: No Nostalgia, No Soft Focus, No Exit WoundMiki Berenyi Trio’s debut album, Tripla, revives past influences while embracing the present, avoiding nostalgia, and tackling contemporary themes.
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