Sam Ray is an American treasure. Taking heavy cues from early video game music, this new record is the perfect display of Ray’s knack for conveying the complexities and contradictions of life.

If you read FADER much you know we love Ricky Eat Acid, the evolving production alias of Sam Ray. He’ll sneak archival stuff online because he’s a music-releasing freak (this week’s Julia Brown ...

Though I recently commissioned Ricky Eat Acid for a FADER mix and interview, I have been avoiding writing about the album that gave rise to the occasion, Three Love Songs, out last week as the first ...

The Brown Acid compilations have been collecting hard-to-find and obscure hard-rock tracks for more than two years now. The series' sixth volume, Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip, will be released on April ...

Ricky Eat Acid’s album Talk To You Soon is out in just over a week. We’ve already heard “hey” and “Nice To See You,” and today we get another taste with “Fucking To Songs On Radios.” Personally I ...

Sam Ray has been, as always, as busy as ever with releasing stuff. Earlier this year, he put out a really good album with his band American Pleasure Club, A Whole Fucking Lifetime Of This, and ...