When a musician dies, they leave behind an aural legacy - songs that serve as eternal reminders of what this person did when the microphone was on. This legacy isn't always difficult to pick out. Sometimes it's present in virtuosic mastery of an instrument. Sometimes it's complex composition. Sometimes it's just a voice - capable of bypassing your nervous system and flexing your muscles on its own. Before his sudden passing , nothing Bill Doss did was nearly that obvious. He could clearly play a guitar quite well, but he hardly ever let it rip, be it [...]

Frank Yang It's almost a couple weeks on since the untimely passing of Olivia Tremor Control and Sunshine Fix frontman Bill Doss, and there are still few to no public answers as to what happened to end his life at 43. It's a small bit of comfort that both suicide and foul play have been ruled out , as either of those scenarios would have been an extra level of cruel on top of everything, but that just leaves randomness and that really doesn't offer much comfort either. What [...]

Bill Doss – song writer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, sonic artist – was an imaginative and creative force, founding the highly influential psychedelic pop bands Sunshine Fix and Olivia Tremor Control (OTC) , contributing to works by Chocolate U.S.A. , Apples in Stereo , Neutral Milk Hotel , and Call and Response , and leaving his mark upon countless other musical acts to surface in the past two decades (including , Elf Power, Of Montreal, Animal Collective , and many others). Inspired by the Beatles, Bill and fellow Ruston, LA kids, Will Cullen Hart [...]

Frank Yang Terrible news yesterday out of Athens, Georgia as it was announced that Bill Doss, co-founder of The Olivia Tremor Control and The Sunshine Fix and one of the original members of the Elephant 6 movement, had passed away at the too-young age of 43. Details on the cause of death have not been revealed, but it must have come as a shock considering that Doss had been playing with The Olivia Tremor Control as recently as last week at a hometown show in Athens. [...]

That's right stuff and lossless quality is available . Both Demos and Live Material have been discovered and I'm enjoying sorting through it all, though I'll stick to mainly Neutral Milk Hotel. Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and The Sunshine Fix are all great bands. Links below and some info on what I found interesting. (Press Read More To Expand the Article) TORRENT WITH LOSSLESS BOOTLEGS HERE!!! These links are for MP3s (V0, the exception is Language of Stationary [...]

Image From Here As time goes by, there are things that I just can't see anymore. And I'm not talking about actual vision (sight) but about seeing things as they really are. Maybe it's the meds, the depression, the anxiety or just age - I don't know. But, what I do know is at times I can't see the reality of a situation. I can't determine if it is real or not. I can't see into the situation to determine what it really means. It's like a fog has shrouded over me and blurs my [...]

From Bubble Gum To Sky Genre: Indie / Pop / Soul From: Brooklyn and Oakland, New York, United States Mario Hernandez is the irresistible force behind the wierdly monickored From Bubblegum To Sky and a one man summer pop sensation to boot. On his third album [...]

The Sunshine Fix , though the name of a track by Olivia Tremor Control , actually pre-dates the band slightly, a moniker for Bill Doss' solo recordings from the early days of Elephant 6. Under this name he released a cassette ( A Spiraling World of Pop ), before concentrating his focus on the Olivias for a few years. Just as that band was about to go "on hiatus," the name resurfaced again, this time on a vinyl single sold at merch desks during OTC 's 1999 "farewell tour." Both sides had a [...]