Michael Louis Serafin-Wells

Michael and the band will release their 13th album, another double-album - Last Lights - on the day of the Summer Solstice (June 21st). More info soon…

Michael was hugely honored to be back on the air with the legendary Max Reinhardt ( the founder of BBC 3's “Late Junction” and a huge champion of Bipolar Explorer, having Michael on for multiple interviews on his Soho Radio…

Tremosphere's saturated solace has been named to three Best Albums of 2025 lists! WFMU's great Irene was the first, playing a track on her year-in-review show on WFMU. And tributes have also come in from Berlin's Florgoth and California's Hunter…

Michael and the band were honored and delighted to have been featured on Seattle's KHUH this Saturday during the annual special 24 hour broadcast observing “Art's Birthday” (a celebration in memory of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou who declared, on 17…

Today we observe the 46th birthday of Michael's late-girlfriend and co-founder of Bipolar Explorer, Summer Serafin. 

In honor of her, the band released a new video this morning - for “Hold My Soul” from their 12th album, Memories of the…

A listening party for Michael's play Real Real Gone will be live tomorrow, Sunday November 2nd, on the Slugg Records Bandcamp page, 3pm NYC time. Info and RSVP here. 

Slugg Records will release an audiobook/radio play recording of Michael's celebrated one-act play, Real Real Gone on November 2nd (All Soul's Day). Read by the author himself, find it on the Slugg Records Bandcamp page and at the link above. 

Michael and the band are enormously grateful to the UK's great This is Darkness and Editor Rich Dodgin for their naming Memories of the Sky among their Top Albums for the month of June. Excerpt of review below and full…

It's only just come to our attention that Bipolar Explorer's 12th album, Memories of the Sky, was 15th in the WFMU charts of Most Heavily Played Records in March. Huge thanks to everyone at the station - especially the…

Commensurate with the release of Tremosphere's 4th album, saturated solace,  the UK's “Suspended in Air” program has featured the record on their show - which includes tracks from both Tremosphere and Bipolar Explorer, as well as an extensive interview…