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Dead Pedal Office

Malcolm X Abram

The Disaster Transport SR was originally introduced in 2013 following its smaller relatives the original Disaster Transport and the Disaster Transport JR which all hold a special place in the history of EarthQuaker Devices.

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Ghost Echoes Pt. 1 : No-No Boy x Japanese Breakfast

Julian Saporiti

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and to honor that, EarthQuaker Devices artist, blogger and scholar Julian Saporiti is writing a four-part series called Ghost Echoes that revolves around the rich and deep subject of ethnomusicology.

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ASK EQD : Karl Vorndran

Malcolm X Abram

This month, we offer you a few precious questions and answers with our beloved Sales Manager, Master of Halloween Costumes, keeper of hairless cats and flatulent synthesizer sound connoisseur, Karl Vondran.

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How singer-songwriter-violinist-producer Sudan Archives uses EQD effects pedals to expand the sound of her songs and music.

Malcolm X Abram

Along with her love of the violin, Archives confesses to being a collector of instruments and a growing effects pedal board that includes several EarthQuaker Devices.

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EQD on Record: May 2020

Uri Garcia

Attention tone hounds: here are a few releases for this month. Please check out these albums in your desired format and support the artists that use our pedals!

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Ahmed Gallab and the Legend of Sinkane

Anna Blumenthal

We chat about his incredible journey - both geographical and musical, from playing in high school hardcore bands to the process of developing his solo project, Sinkane, all the while getting scooped up by bands like Caribou, Of Montreal and Yeasayer.

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Board To Death: Ep 26 - Josh Merry (Sweet Spirit)

Uri Garcia

Sweet Spirit is a thought provoking rock band from Austin Texas that has about one billion members. Josh Merry is one of them, and plays guitar. He agreed to give us a tour of his JAM PACKED pedal board in this episode of Board To Death!

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Board to Death Ep. 24 - Broken Social Scene

Uri Garcia

Brendan Canning and Andrew Whiteman give us a look at a portion of their effects arsenal while on-stage with Broken Social Scene in this tag-team episode of Board to Death.

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Roadie's Corner: Torche

Uri Garcia

Kicking off this thang, is an interview with Jonathan Nuñez of TORCHE. They have a new album out NOW called “Admission”, on Relapse Records. It’s a great spin, features EQD pedals big time, and you should check it out -as if you haven’t already!

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EarthQuaker Session: Celebration - "Armies and Leggies"

Aaron Rogers

Celebration takes the name to heart. They rarely perform live, but each show is, well, a celebration. There’s usually a theme, and the band enlists their friends to transform DIY venues into hand-built spectacles rivaling any stadium show…

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Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 16 - MATMOS

Aaron Rogers

Since 1997, MATMOS have pushed the boundaries of what would soon be called “intelligent dance music” beyond the natural limits of self-contained software and circuitry by using found objects…

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EarthQuaker Session: Stems - "Good Times"

Aaron Rogers

Akron’s goodtime indie-rockers Stems (featuring EQD wire wizard Justin Seeker on vocals and guitar) stopped by the studio to tear through this earworm of a track titled, appropriately enough, “Good Times…”

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Board to Death Ep. 15: Elle Puckett (Eisley, Maggie Rogers)

Aaron Rogers

“It’s a lot of fun. Growly. Nice. Like it. Love it. Awesome.”

Elle Puckett of Eisley and Maggie Rogers’ touring band calls upon a carefully selected collection of boutique stompboxes including the Avalanche Run, Spatial Delivery, and the occasional Altiods tin to craft the ambient tones for which she is known.

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Board to Death Ep. 13: SQÜRL's Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan

Aaron Rogers

In SQÜRL’s music, the twisted scraping of industrial wreckage (to my ears the byproduct of musician/filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s northeast Ohio upbringing) gives way to uneasy drones seemingly stuck in time like crestfallen Lake Erie tides fighting a losing battle against subzero temperatures before resolving at last into saturated but sparkling reverberated arpeggios. It’s what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly might have sounded like if Ennio Morricone booked studio time with Steve Albini and hired Sunn O))) as session musicians...

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Board to Death Ep. 11: Pallbearer's Brett Campbell & Devin Holt

Aaron Rogers

“For live stuff, I stick with pedals that are going to be the most useful,” says Pallbearer’s Brett Campbell. As the frontman for the Arkansas sludgelords, Campbell’s ideal tone is much like his powerful vocal delivery, “heavy…warm, and clear.” To achieve his signature sound, Campbell needs gear that can keep up with his low A-E-A-D-F#-B tuning. “[The Hoof] is very controllable for a fuzz,” he says...

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