April 27, 2015
On April 18th, Decoder (as represented by Liz and I) and several dozen others folks from in and around New York hiked up, down, and alongside Mt. Taurus in Cold Spring, a beautiful and relatively well-to-do seeming little town on the Hudson River. While many of the attendants arrived via the Hudson…
April 22, 2015
The San Fran weirdo quartet CCR Headcleaner have been making their mark in the sonic mire of the Bay Area since 2008 via various projects — they run Pollen Season (a label/collective), and have played in Long Legged Woman, Waste Rig, and The Hospitals, among others. They’ve also had releases…
April 16, 2015
Though they pursue their recordings in much different environments, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe from his current home in Brooklyn and Ariel Kalma at his Main Arm studio outside of Mullimbimby, Australia, both were in fact born to city life. Lowe was born in Kansas City before first moving to Chicago, while…
April 14, 2015
In autumn of 2014, guitarist Daniel Wyche took the stage at The Burlington, a noise-friendly Logan Square dive in Chicago, with drummer Ryan Packard, which opened a series of collaborations between the experimental musicians. The duo worked together on a blistering debut performance of his composition,…
April 9, 2015
Canadian ex-pat Tim Olive manages to wrangle a seemingly endless variety of sounds from a single steel guitar string accompanied by the simplest of electronics. Lightning storms, enormous resonant bodies, damaged machines, oceanic roars, and primal animal calls all emanate from his spartan set-up. It…
April 2, 2015
When I first streamed Dutch producer Kai Hugo’s latest album, Palmbomen II, I was transfixed. In my notebook, I scrawled cryptic notes to myself as I pored over the new LP, the accompanying promo films, episodes of The X-Files, and Hugo’s 2013 album Night Flight Europa (a product of the Hugo’s…
