July is also Michael Hurley’s favorite month

the smith whose forge burns with otherworldly fire

it feels as a suiting visual representation for the mu- sic on this compilation

and Susanne Kuhnke completed the line-up

Real Estate

CONOR KILEY - OK Hotel LP Poster July is also Michael Hurley’sA long time ago, during the messy death rattle of guitar music in the early 21st c., the NME once declared a young Conor Kiley the future of rock and roll. The hyperbole of this statement has proven unsurprisingly ironic; not because Kiley remains an obscure artist, but that now, nearly two decades on, it's obvious that rock never had the future the journalists and industry bigwigs of the late aughts had deluded themselves into thinking it did. So,