Deerhoof offer free download of live album
So Deerhoof, that anti-est of pop bands from California are not stopping in your city during their tour? They are offering a free download...
IndieEthos podcast on Jolt, Episode 6 + preview for Episode 7...
In exactly a week I return to Jolt Radio with a new episode of The Independent Ethos Radio Hour. We are now being sponsored...
Ambient music artist Dirk Serries offers insight into his craft: An...
Before he coined the term "ambient music," Brian Eno released an album called Discreet Music. Inside the 1975 album's liner notes he described listening...
Boxwood, a one-man wall of sound, releases “Sun Garden City” EP...
Jose Ferrer, aka Boxwood, is a bit of a deconstructionist. He showed up at Sweat Records in Miami a couple weeks ago to talk...
From the Archives: Mike Garson goes from jazz to Bowie (Part...
As already established in my earlier posts culled from several interviews with Mike Garson for an unpublished piece regarding his contribution to the music of...
From the Archives: Album review: Oval – ‘Dok’ and free streams...
The other day, thanks to a friend, I took a trip down memory lane listening to some early music that would later come to...
Deerhuter release iTunes session; Pitchfork streaming awesome “Desire Lines”
The other day 4AD Records sent out an up-date regarding its stable of artists. Most interesting was news of Deerhunter recording an intimate live...
From the Archives: Mike Garson on playing the piano (Part 4...
This post continues my conversation with Mike Garson, which took place May 4, 2004. I sat down with him backstage at the James L....
Bowie spins records that prove insightful to his music in 1979...
I must thank my friend Pablo for pointing out this two-hour radio show on the BBC hosted by David Bowie in 1979. He pointed...
Early Grandaddy vinyl reissues coming soon … sourced from the master...
I received an email yesterday from Jim Fairchild, guitarist for Grandaddy announcing the up-coming arrival of the long out of print first three albums...