Gearing Up For Moogfest 2012

Every year, the mountainous city of Asheville, North Carolina houses the electronic/post-rock powerhouse festival Moogfest. Named after Robert Moog, a pioneer of electronic instruments, the festival primarily brings across many of the leading contemporary artists of electronic music, but also branches into the realms of experimental rock, hip-hop and more. This is the third year [...]

Some October Releases to Watch

Every month brings about a mess a new releases from artists over each and every genre. Unfortunately, most of them come out quietly while others get brought up in every outlet. This is usually thanks to some sort of notoriety – just think about Billie Joe Armstrong and his freakout recently. Oops, I guess I [...]

Gearing Up For Flying Lotus’ “Until The Quiet Comes”

Steve Ellison, better known by the name of Flying Lotus, has travelled quite the way from his early start producing interlude tracks for Adult Swim. The 28 year old experimental electronic musician divulges into the more visceral, hazy subset of beats. His tracks are often densely layered, unpredictable and often serve as the perfect soundtrack [...]

Snarky Puppy Engages in 50 Day/50 Gig US/Canada Tour

It was probably only a month ago that several of my friends and colleagues started talking about this band, “Snarky Puppy“. Despite my jazz/fusion background, the group had been completely unfamiliar to me. So of course the only thing that I could do was listen to every track I could get my hands on. Not [...]

Adam Yauch’s Will: Keep My Music Out of Ads

Before the Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away from cancer in May of this year, he made one thing very clear in his will: no commercial can feature any music written by him. Along with other artists like Levon Helm of The Band and Tom Waits, Yauch was very much against the usage of music [...]

Kimbra Teaming Up With Ben Weinman For New Record

Kimbra, the New Zealand singer-songwriter whose fame exploded after being featured on Gotye’s single “Somebody That I Used To Know” is in the process of a new album. Clearly, an open mind is apparently a big part of her new project, since she is working with Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and others. [...]

Dysfunctional Love Between the Artist and Audience

The smoke is still seems to be clearing from the explosion set off on the internet by David Lowery and Emily White during the middle of June. Lowery, a professor at the University of Georgia and member of the groups Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker put up a lengthy, yet meticulously constructed article on a [...]

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