Riffs - Phase(d) Out

Recorded at home in Chapel Hill NC.

Eastar drum set

Squire Precision Bass

Korg ES-1 Sampler

Tambourine

Shakers

Handclaps

Released in 2026 on vinyl (with the Sunsetting EP) as "Fazed Out"

Riffs - Sunsetting

Eastar drum set

Squire Precision Bass
Korg ES-1 Sampler
Tambourine
Shakers
Handclaps

Recorded at home in Chapel Hill.

Released in 2026 on vinyl (with the Phase(ed) Out EP) as "Fazed Out"

Riffs - 3 EPs

New drumset!, plus riffs underneath.

-Eastar metallic green drumset

-Squire Strat electric guitar

-Bugera amplifier

-Vox wah wah pedal

-Boss CS-3 pedal

-Blue vocal mic

-Korg ElecTribe Sampler

-Tambourine

-Vocals

Digital download includes 4th EP recorded September 16, 2023 called "Crazy Town", recorded without drums and with Korg drum machine.

Recorded at Studio Magik in Chapel Hill.

Tracks 1-5 ("Sacred Band of Thebes"), recorded October 21, 2023.

Tracks 6-9 ("Scrambleverse"), recorded October 24, 2023.

Tracks 10-14 ("Screw-Up"), recorded October 28, 2023.

Various Artists - Aspirin Age Volume Three (a shoegaze compilation)

From Broken Sound Tapes: "Top notch shoegaze bands from all across the world, put together by Aspirin Age (a shoegaze and psych podcast) and Broken Sound Tapes. The cassette will be released as part of Cassette Week 2023 and limited to only 50 copies.

The cassette will be 13 tracks but all purchases give you a download to all tracks (many more tracks are being added daily)."
CD limited to first 17 tracks.

Photo: Patrick Hinkle
Mastered by Brian John Mitchell.

Available at https://brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/aspirin-age-volume-three-a-shoegaze-compilation.  Features remixes of a Gallus Mag song and a Riffs song (CD and digital only).

Tracklist:

1.Cigarettes for Breakfast - Hollywood Daydream 06:58
2.Lilys - Won't Make You Sleepy 06:43
3.Magic Shoppe - Have You Seen Bella? 02:58
4.Funeral Homes - Lucid (want to) 02:38
5.Caustic Flowers - Foxhole 02:42
6.Paper Angels - Place In Line 03:31
7.Central Pacific State Beach - Apparition of Metamorphosis 01:26
8.Black Massive Sun - Amour Fou 03:53
9.White Cascade - Timeline 04:06
10.Stoney Point - No Way 04:50
11.Gallus Mag - Newer Face 04:51:

12.Rainsong - Karoshi 03:08
13.Tommy Tipton - Lost in April 04:06
14.Riffs - Rosa Winkel 05:51:

15.Shades of Violet - A Matter Of Time 03:14
16.9-volt velvet - Blues From a Gun 03:50
17.Sunlotus - Glass-like Dreams 06:40
18.Olympus Mons - Automate 05:36
19.Nick & Jeff Discover Infinity - Utopian Meditation 03:15
20.Skot Kremen - Condone 03:48
21.Kerosene Eyes - Sol 03:07
22.Caramel Snow - Soft Hearted 04:15
23.Treyverb - The Faherty Convention 02:01
24.Goodbye Ranger - Memories and the Sky 03:43
25.Always Other - Waning Moon 04:17
26.Dark Patterns - The Screws 05:28
27.Van Goght - Absent 03:02
28.Lumari - Starlit 03:47
29.Muscle Mass - You Can't Always Know 01:54
30.Dramamine - Hypnotized 04:57
31.Tombstones In Their Eyes - We Are Gold 04:32

Various Artists - For a Ltd. Time, Vol. 2

Second compilation featuring mostly NC bands:

Angel Boy Cow (Will from Gallus Mag, late 2010s)
Riffs (Matt from Gallus Mag, 2010s- early 2020s)
Cicaeda (from Baltimore, around 1996-2005)
Clok-Lok (originally from Carrboro, late 90s/early 00s)
Kar​ō​shi (originally from Chapel Hill, late 2010s/20s)
Bringerer (originally from Chapel Hill, mid 00s)

Riffs - 2012-2023

All tracks recorded in Chapel Hill, NC, except #2, parts of which were recorded in Durham, NC.  All songs by Riffs.  Most songs reappear in a different form on a previous release from another year.  

Caruso - Pnk Cloud

Side 1: Loops, sounds, and noise recorded in and around Durham NC in 2010-2011. Inspired by Duke, Julie Perini, Julie Boler, and Love Is A Stream by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

Side 2: Recorded live, immediately following the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in Washington DC on October 30th, 2010.

Recorded by Matthew DeBellis.

Acoustic guitar on 'Side'2 by Matthew Burchett.

Vinyl jackets printed by Matthew Tauch at Super G Print Lab, Durham, NC.

Both vinyl and digital releases mastered by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering in Detroit, MI, 2023.  Vinyl pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC.  All copies come with a free 11x17 poster.

Gallus Mag - Gamllagus

Recorded at Studio Magik in Chapel Hill NC

February-April 2023.

All songs and sounds recorded and mixed by The Gallus Mag.

Joel "Pink" Floyd - bass, vocals, keyboard, trumpet.

Joseph "Leon" Silvers - guitar, vocals.

Matt "Hew" DeBellis - guitar, vocals, keyboard, saxophone.

Will "Sunrise Biscuit" Kitchin - drums, vocals, percussion.

Cover art by Ron Liberti (www.ronlibertiart.com)

Mastered by Jack Hartley

Also released in 2026 as a nifty, high-bias cassette including bonus tracks never heard by anyone, ever!

Riffs - 80 Yds From Home

Recorded on January 30, 2023 with Brenton.

Riffs - Pond Songs

More geetar noise celebrating the wah wah.  Includes a little keyboard, a smidge of vox, and the spirit of Bardo Pond.

Gallus Mag - A Day In The Live

 

2 sets recorded on Saturday, September 03, 2022:

Tracks 6-10 recorded live at home in Chapel Hill at 3:30pm.

Tracks 1-5 recorded live at The Cave at 10:15pm (w/ Nu Clear Twins).

Jo El: Bass, vocals, keysboard

Jo Seph: Guitar

Mat Thew: Guitar, vocals, keysboard

Will Iam: Drums, vocals

Riffs - Full Length

Side A: Quick songs with drums, guitar, keyboard, and vocal.  Inspired partly by Donovan.

Side B: New pedal goofiness (Vox Wah-Wah), with drums and keys and vox.

Citizen Band Radio - Detergency

Recorded in Chapel Hill, NC on August 13, 2022.

Riffs - Blue

More drummage and harmonies and maybe a little less noises, but in more of the right places (?).  Plus also guitar and pedals.

Riffs - Yellow

More guitar and drums and etc!:

Fender Squire Strat Electric Guitar

TAMA Drum Set

MiMiDi Fuzz Pedal

Rocktron Short Timer Delay Pedal

Boss Reverb RV-6 Reverb Pedal

Boss Digital Delay DD-6 Pedal

Crate GX-20R Amplifier

Recorded in Chapel Hill NC on 8/7/22.

Riffs - Red

Guitar (Squire Strat) and vox and noise and drums (courtesy of Jo El).

Riffs - Riffs (2022)

A collection of new/old riffs and riff remixes and mixes of riffs mostly from FY20 and FY21. Features both Yamaha keyboards, the Korg Volca Beats drum machine, a smattering of tambo/gtr, and a whisper of Joel's drums!

Alternate artwork, below:

Riffs - Same Vein

2 more songs, curtsy of Yamaha PSR-E363 and the Korg Volca Beats and the matt vocal chords. Also features Ellie.

Riffs - Summer Things

Quick songs with keyboards and drum machine and vocals, as per usual.

Riffs - Telecomando

New riffs with drums by Eric Heit and keyboard by Alex Chass.  Recorded in Durham and Chapel Hill.  Dedicated to Damon Tutunjian.

Riffs - Bright

6 songs in spring, again courtesy of the Yamaha PSR-E363 keyboard and the Korg Volca Beats Analog Drum Machine.

Riffs - SweetHvn

3 tracks with an insensitive amount of vocals. Keysynths courtesy of the Yamaha PSR-E363 keyboard and the Korg Volca Beats Analogue Rhythm Machine.

Various Artists - I Can't Believe It

More adventures in immediacy! More adventures in immediacy! An ever-evolving compilation of recordings from Illinois, New York, and/or North Carolina, 1995-2022 and before and beyond.

All songs by the artists, except:

"Streets of Philadelphia" is originally by Bruce Springsteen.
"Dum Dum", "Son Of A Gun", and "You Think You're A Man" are originally by The Vaselines.
"The Third Eye" is originally by The Dovers.
"I'm Only Dreaming" is originally by The Action.
"Sex" is originally by Urinals.

Riffs - DreamHvn

Keyboard and drum machine and vocals and maybe a tambourine.  Recorded at home.

Riffs - About Face

Keyboard and vocal noise and samples of Joel and Will, plus 2 guitar songs w drumachine 🥁 🤖.  General inspiration from The Creatures and Gallus Mag.  Recorded at home in Chapel Hill.

Riffs - Ida

 Fall riffs means electric guitar (plus keyboard, clapping, drum machine, and too much voca).  Photo by Catherine Rickes, 1928.

Artificial Colors - 3 Songs

New band! 3 songs. Dave Rodriguez, Alex Chassanoff, and Matt DeBellis play guitars, keys, and make noise at home in Chapel Hill during the fall time.  Drums by Skip Ads.  

Cover star: Bobby DeBellis.

Gallus Mag - Live At The Cave

Recorded LIVE! at The Cave in Chapel Hill on 10/02/2021, with Sweet Homé.  

Cover inspired by Gene Chandler.

Matt DeBellis: Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals
Joel Floyd: Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals
Will Kitchin: Drums, Vocals
Bobby Frith: Bass on 3,4 and 7

Riffs - Aña

Some old songs re-done, and new ones re-did. At least three were co-birthed by Dave Rodriguez and Alex Chassanoff.  Recorded in Chapel Hill in August, featuring drum machine, keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, and the Fender Strat electric guitar, as opposed to the green Squire.  See if you can tell the difference! Photograph by Catherine Rickes, 1928.

The Evolutionists - Hi Tests Evolution

All of the noise from July 4th, 2010 @ Myrtle Beach SC. Recorded on 4-track cassette and mp3 recorder. Remixed by Matt and new photo/design by Beth, June 2021.  Samples "Cellophane" by Jessamine.

Gallus Mag - High Noon

Two songs recorded in quarantine in Chapel Hill and Carrboro NC.

Here's The 'Mag performing live at the Duke Coffeehouse with The Veldt and our favorite band ever, Sweet Homé on 2/4/2021:

Harbors - Harbors

Michael Itzkin: Guitar / Vocal

Gabriel Aufort: Drums

Matt DeBellis: Bass / Vocals

Dan Kelo: Guitar / Vocals

Recorded at Nightsound Studios by Chris Wimberley in Carrboro, NC in fall of 2020.

Artwork by Jen Itzkin.

Various Artists - For A Ltd. Time, Vol. 1

A compilation of bands from Durham NC 2010-2014. 

Almost all tracks are previously released, so click the links below to get more sonic juiciness.  The Gyraffes songs were recorded on 7/14/2012, but not released.  Deal$, Stems, and Fruit are all new mixes.

56 Boyfriends

(Released 11/01/2010)

Brainbows

(Released 09/01/2011)

Citizen Band Radio

(Released 12/31/2013)

Deal$

(Released 07/21/2012)

Fruit

(Released 06/21/2013)

Gyraffes

(Recorded 07/14/2012)

Hospital Corners

(Released 11/01/2014)

Riffs

("Cletus" released 02/2014 & "Hypnic Jerk" released 05/2014)

Silent Lunch

(Released 08/07/2014)

Stems

(Released 11/06/2012)