July 28, 2016
Welcome to episode four of the Decoder Podcast! For this installment, David Perron of Free Form Freakout speaks with a fellow-David, Omaha-based DIY recorder David Nance, about older releases and preparing his new LP for Ba Da Bing Records. Spool’s Out host Tristan Bath speaks with Vienna-based…
January 2, 2016
Happy New Year! Hopefully 2016 is off to a great start for you and yours. Thanks for all your support and input in 2015. We’ll be rolling out our 2015 year end coverage shortly, but in the meantime, hopefully you can also find a few interesting bits here… or on our recent highlights mix…
December 5, 2015
“I had mentioned at the end of the last episode that a feature on Pumice was in the works for the weeks ahead, and I can assure you that is indeed still the case. But, in the interest of showcasing some more new music, along with a few recent record fair scores, I thought I’d go ahead and squeeze…
January 17, 2015
#1 – 1/11/2015 – Say it ain’t so. Volcanic Tongue, the U.K.’s premiere outhouse and distributor for experimental sounds, announced plans to shut its doors. In a heartfelt note posted to the shop’s news section, founder David Keenan expressed gratitude to the shop’s…
September 13, 2014
The absurdity of everything was cast in sharp relief lately by iTunes and “the world’s biggest album launch,” needless to say. Looking back on the week, for me at least, the best artistic rejoinder to that offense was an ostensibly unrelated Juno Plus interview with Vancouver producer…
August 16, 2014
Having spent the week feeling weird about Robin Williams’ death, it seems almost equally unexpected to have spent time concluding that another celebrity comedian’s “lo-fi folk album” was comporting itself surprisingly well, but there we are. If that’s not your cup of tea,…
