July 28, 2015
In 2011, a time when the term “summer festival” had already come to connote the massive, multi-stage, corporate-sponsored events which have since become the norm, Rafael Anton Irisarri envisioned Substrata — a different kind of model for showcasing live music. The first edition of Substrata…
July 15, 2015
Even being from the state, if all you knew about Voice of the Valley Noise Rally was that it took place in Millstone, WV, you might wonder — how unusual is a gathering of noiseniks in the backwoods? I’ve been writing about weirdo music for a bit now, but I only came across the event a little…
July 13, 2015
This is a mix of my favorite music composed for and/or played (or improvised) on a synthesizer, any synthesizer. It is not meant to be a comprehensive list in any way, it is certainly not a complete history of synthesizer recordings and it is not meant as a best-of list in any sense. What it is is a…
July 9, 2015
Canary Records is the roving imprint of Baltimore-based Ian Nagoski, a maven producer and researcher, and at the time of the label’s foundation in 2008, a record store employee with a long list of interesting and gone-from-print international oddities accumulating. Since then, Canary has become…
July 6, 2015
Ada and Huron is a relatively sleepy corner in the middle of Chicago’s West Town, but among a set of fortified multifamily dwellings sits a once-lost piece of Chicago music history. Granted, in a city the size of Chicago, there are so many unheard stories hidden within each neighborhood, but this…
