You won’t find 75 Dollar Bill anywhere on the Billboard charts, but the New York act’s latest studio album nabbed the No. 1 spot on experimental bible Wire magazine’s best albums of 2019 list.
Centered around guitarist Che Chen and percussionist Rick Brown—who keeps time by banging on a wooden crate—the collective specializes in droning improvisations that are gritty, hypnotic, transcendent.
On May 1, they put out a digital-only album, Live at Tubby’s, exclusively on Bandcamp. Documenting the group’s last show before the coronavirus hit, the pay-what-you-want release generated $4,200 from nearly 700 buyers in just two days.