January 30, 2016
“Greetings and Happy New Year from a very frigid upper Midwest. As I was stumbling into the studio in the dim early morning hours to record this show, the wind chill was hovering in the sub-zero range and slated to drop even further into the negative double digits in the days ahead. So, as we…
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…
July 4, 2015
“Settling into summer mode a bit here, so we’ve been just a little bit off the usual podcast schedule of late. But, we’ve got some guests and other feature shows lined up in the weeks and months ahead and plenty of new music to highlight on upcoming shows, so we’ve got good reason to get…
May 23, 2015
I can hardly imagine a better way to open this week’s review than with Sean Stellfox and Tabs Out’s inspiring 17-minute Cassette Culture in Central Java documentary, produced by the former during and after a teaching fellowship in Yogyakarta. The video highlights a slew of imprints in a…
April 11, 2015
Though we just missed including it in last week’s review by a few hours, I thought we could start this installment by pointing out that Adam Harper recently turned his pen toward East Asian influenced music in his latest column for the FADER; “soothing sounds to save even internet-accelerated…
February 21, 2015
The new FFFoxy Podcast will be delayed until later today since the stalwart David Perron had to postpone recording until this morning — we’ll point you to the new installment ASAP. In the meantime, I thought I’d clear out an older tidbit that caught my eye this week: a wonderful feature…
February 14, 2015
Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope you’ve been hugged. Whether you have or haven’t, I thought I’d open this week’s review by pointing toward a warm and entertaining live performance from John Fernandes of Cloud Recordings on clarinet and compadre Alec Livaditis on cello at The…
December 13, 2014
We’re starting to break into list season and although Decoder’s 2014 features will run early next year, we kicked things off a bit early this week with Experimedia founder Jeremy Bible’s favorites from the preceding year; check that out here. We also debuted a new column focused on…
August 30, 2014
#1 – 8/22/2014 – Berlin based new music blog No Fear of Pop announced it would partner with the CTM Festival to sponsor the second season of their Berlin Current project, alongside other related media folks: “Berghain, Boiler Room Berlin, BLN.FM, and ICAS.” The wonder friends…
June 7, 2014
One of the best reads this week came in the form of a Systems Focus report from electronic columnist Adam Harper for The FADER, exploring digital tape culture through a few exemplary labels; 1080p, Illuminated Paths, Zoom Lens, Ailanthus, and others. Harper shares a dose of the good vibes permeating…
