February 28, 2014
In the summer of 2009, having recently graduated from college, I moved into a large three-story house in Waverly, a neighborhood in North Baltimore with four other musicians I had recently met while becoming involved in the area’s growing music community. There was an astounding amount of talent…
February 27, 2014
As deliberate and ruthless as they are exposed and bleeding, Mannequin Pussy’s music represents everything chaotic, alluring, confusing, and romantic about this world in one fell swoop. They combine a well-honed sense for melody and a razor sharp bite to express a flood of emotions and a pure, unbridled…
February 24, 2014
Contemporary labels are often criticized for their short attention spans and servility in relation to ongoing musical trends. Luckily, others have the courage to swim against the tide. Veronica Vasicka, founder of Minimal Wave, belongs to this crowd. Her ongoing efforts to excavate musical gems from…
February 20, 2014
Adam Forkner has been behind some of the most spaced-out West-coast jams since venturing out with Yume Bitsu, a Portland-based quartet with ties to Ba-Da-Bing! and K Records. Yume’s sound was a sprawling mix of psychedelia and lulled shoegaze that coincided with the post-rock movement while keeping…
February 17, 2014
There are countless groups and solo projects operating within the cassette underground that are highly prolific. For many, given the low costs involved and the diaristic nature of the releases, being prolific is damn near synonymous with being a part of the culture itself. This, as most would agree,…
February 11, 2014
Luigi’s Russolo’s seminal futurist manifesto The Art of Noises touches on the concept of using machines to replicate the sounds of everyday life, those noises we take for granted but are all around, from the electric hum of the city to the sounds of a stream in the middle of a forest. Likewise, Students…
February 7, 2014
I’ve written about Josh Cheon’s incredible Dark Entries label numerous times in the past, here on Decoder as well as on Foxy Digitalis and my own site. The San Francisco-based label has been wildly prolific as of late, with over 50 releases since 2009, almost two dozen of them in the past…
February 6, 2014
On a Wednesday in the first half of December, the Montreal new-classical, punk-drone-post rock band Esmerine stopped at Berlin’s Urban Spree gallery. The “street art”-minded, post-industrial space hosted the creative ensemble amidst a European tour in support of their recent record, Dalmak. The…
February 4, 2014
“Who the heck is this guy?” As you’ll find out from the documentary above, produced by Spencer Gilley to coincide with the opening of preorders for Jerry Paper’s new album Jerry Paper Feels Emotions, Jerry is a music-making organism that inhabits Brooklyn-based Lucas Nathan…
