As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it's creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to pull back the curtain on a wealth of sights and sound from luminaries such as Chris Weisman . Like the seasons, Chris Weisman returns to AA one year after our last review of his work as if playing the part of a sympathetic [...]
Do you remember 1987? If not, do you wish you did? Then you need to listen to this podcast. Joe, Greg and I play a few tunes from that year, discuss some of the movies that were big (and are still relevant today) and revisit a few other pop culture topics. Click here to listen to Social Blend now . Related posts: The Halloween Podcast: CRANIUMELODY XI - Social Blend 176 Social Blend 144 Podcast: CRANIUMELODY 1986 [...]
Given that everyone in Vermont has the same area code - the state's population is only 600,000, after all - I could have easily copped out of spotlighting a single city in Vermont; the small state's fraught with interesting, tight-knit scenes like Brattleboro's punk nucleus and Bennington's folksier inclinations (shouts Mountain Man ). But, Burlington, for its size (40,000, good enough to be the biggest city in the state), is Vermont's unnaturally dense music hub; best known for launching Phish into the world, Burlington's maintained a robust music atmosphere since well before they got big, thanks to the constantly-refreshing [...]
Looking for some under rated or obscure tunes to get you in the spirit of Halloween? Well then you have come to the right place. Listen to Greg, Joe and Terr as they spin and discuss music from bands like Misfits, White Zombie, Still Corners, Public Image Ltd, Kalmah, Godsmack, and Murderdolls. Click here to listen now! Related posts: Listen To This New Cover Songs Podcast: CRANIUMELODY X - Social Blend 174 Social Blend 144 Podcast: CRANIUMELODY 1986 [...]
C30, C60, C90, Go! Well, sort of, since Matthew Sullivan's Ekhein ( SoundCloud ) has yet to exceed 60 minutes on what is now more than a half-century of cassette releases - & has brought them in as short as 12, despite seeming to traffic mainly in billowing, meditative long-form drones & other excursions. The label releases Sullivan's own output ( Earn , Privy Seals ) & that of [...]
What do you get when you grab a Geek of Doom (Greg Davies), an electronic musician who loves gaming (Terr Ciavarra) and a music blogging folk rock musician dad (me) and record their conversation? You get a podcast filled with... Songs by underrated musicians that pretty pretty damn good Music facts that I bet you may not know but wished you had (or not, fun either way) Insight on being a dad and musician (Greg asked what my kids thought about their daddy being a musician) [...]
The news is a-buzzin' that one of Loft9652s favorites is in the studio laying some new tracks for her sophomore album. The singer who produced Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? has everyone waiting for the sophomore. We loved that record, but we are more in love with Paloma Faith 's visual image. We look forward to the new project and hope to see it by the end of the year. Filed under: Beats , Brit Brit Brit Tagged: art , Graham Coxon , [...]
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In Greek mythology, Hermes was a messenger from the Gods to humans, while also serving as a guide/protector for travelers and miscreants to the Underworld. While the teenagers that make up the new band Hermes, probably don't have a direct line to the Gods, they do serve as expressive messengers who guide us along their journey and share their music with us, the travelers and maybe some of us are the miscreants. This trio - Thomas Jacob, James Dolman and Greg Davies - has been working over the past year, defining their sound, writing [...]
In one of the funnest episodes I've ever done with the guys from Social Blend we are joined by Empress Eve Conte from GeeksOfDoom.com to take a look and listen to music from 1986. Oh! And we talk about some of the movies from that year too. I think you will be amazed, as we were, at all of the great music and movies that came out that years. Listen to Social Blend now [...]
Read Tiny Mix Tapes' "Cerberus" column #19 HERE "Cerberus" #19 just came out and it's a doozy. This time around I got to review: A 7-inch split between New Zealand's The Bats and Songs on Spring Press Radar Eyes' 7-inch on HoZac Records a great Puke Eaters 7-inch on Vauva Records the lumbering beast that [...]
Here's another episode of Craniumelody over on Social Blend. this time the guys and I tried to come up with music to share that is the soundtrack to our lives (not and easy task by the way). Also, we have some pretty interesting discussions on other things like the Rock Against Drugs campaign of the 80's and and the one and only Kiss album to never go platinum or gold. Go listen to Social Blend Cranium Melody now. [...]
The Paradise : newly renovated, wayyy more open & spacious, no more giant pillar in front of the stage, might actually think about going to more shows there Keith Fullerton Whitman , Greg Davis , & Ben Vida : Arcade Ambiance style fire swamp, Jupiter basement discotheque, trans-warp glitter noise, FTL drive mechanics, dubbed out white hole, stutter static glory, massive junk rumbling sun drone, chaos bliss supreme Tortoise : aging like Benjamin Button, getting smoother & tighter as time goes on, a band with a variety of [...]
Quick, can you think of any movies that have some under-rated music? Yeah? So did we and we decided to pick a few of those tunes and play them for you on the latest installment of the Cranium Melody episode on the Social Blend Podcast. Go listen to Cranium Melody V now and listen as Greg, Joe and myself talk music and movies. Related posts: Listen To This: Cranium Melody IV - From the Basement (Music Podcast) Music Podcast 036 - [...]
I'm, someday, going to start actually updating my Album of the Week feature EVERY WEEK, but until then I'll cook the books a little for my own sanity. This "week," the lucky winner isssss: Vincent Gallo - "Honey Bunny" 7-inch - Warp Records I couldn't find a download of just the single but I DID [...]
It is time once again for another installment of Cranium Melody. This is a podcast where I get together with Greg and Joe over at the Social Blend Podcast and do nothing but talk about and play music from pretty much any genre. In this installment we each went deep into our personal archives to dig out some tunes that are either not well know (and good) or are very old and have special meaning. Go listen to Cranium Melody IV now and check out all the links and videos in the show [...]
Greg Davis - Regarding Wave (Part 1) Another blanket of tenderness from Install , this time from the if-you-don't-know-him-already- you-better-got-on-that-shit dronester Greg Davis . Regarding Wave is his latest journey into the euphoric bliss drone waters, a place Davis reigns admiral among admirals. I understand that this sort of thing might be old hat to some of you, but what Greg Davis does with the shimmer is totally his own. Plus, he's opening for [...]
With their TU M'P3 project Soundtrack for Images subtle ambient-dronesters TU M' ( featured here recently ) assembled a strikingly rich archive of kindred-ish spirits & LMYE favourites f rom Mitchell Akiyama to [...]
As a prodigal son of Burlington, Vermont, home to Ben & Jerry's and *yaaaawn* Phish, it's a goddamned miracle that Greg Davis isn't churning out some rehashed hippie shit. On the contrary, Kranky's Greg Davis is a student of a happier, warmer school of ambient music. Sublimely optimistic and viscerally beautiful, the just-released Mutually Arising , his first full length in seven years, is the summertime evening response to Tim Hecker's and Keith Fullerton Whitman's icier dronescapes. As with most work in the modern classical/minimalist/drone genre, the album is meant to be enjoyed as a [...]
[ PHOTO CREDIT: Michael Piantigini , used with permission] The lead track from Gather, Form and Fly (Hometapes), the sophomore album to be released next Tuesday by former Bon Iver partners Megafaun (Bon Iver + Megafaun = DeYarmond Edison) is "The Fade," a perfect three-part harmony summer pop song in the CSN tradition, but a closer reading of the lyric, and of Megafaun , reveals so much more. The North Carolina-based trio's starting point is indeed a very traditional one: Southern roots and Appalachia –- banjos, [...]
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