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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The Obsessions Of Ilan Rubin, From Woodstock To Nine Inch Nails To The New Regime
Benjamin H. Smith
When most people were still collecting comic books and dreading middle school, Ilan Rubin was playing the Warped Tour and Woodstock with San Diego pop-punk band F.o.N.
Read MoreEQD on Record: February 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! (Yes, the Dispatch Master is one of the most widely used pedals across all genres!)
Read MoreInterview with Full of Hell and Eye Flys Guitarist Spencer Hazard: Stolen Gear And Walls of Noise
Benjamin H. Smith
Since forming in 2009, Full of Hell have been at the cutting edge nexus of noisy hardcore, noisy metal and just good old fashioned ear bleeding noise. We spoke to guitarist Spencer Hazard about life, music and we talked about a bunch of guitar nerd shit too.
Read MoreBoard 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.
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 19 – Lauren Larson of Ume
Aaron Rogers
“Step one in my sound,” says Larson, “is the Speaker Cranker. I have [it] on one-hundred percent of the time…It makes a not-so-great amp sound better.”
Read MoreEarthQuaker 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…”
Read MoreEarthQuaker Devices Meets Tame Impala's Cameron Avery
Anna Blumenthal
"I want to make a love song that's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger has to kill himself at the end of Terminator." - Cameron Avery
Read MoreBoard 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...
Read MoreBoard To Death Ep. 6 - Warpaint's Theresa Wayman
Aaron Rogers
We met up with the LA-based heavy psych rockers before their show at Cleveland’s Beachland Ballroom to learn more about the gear behind their lysergic, acid-drenched guitar sound...
Read MoreOn the Fly: Behind the Scenes with Earthless' Isaiah Mitchell
Bradley Thorla
Just as we get Isaiah plugged in and ripping (and man, the sound that afternoon was simply majestic - loud, spacious, wide open), a pair of park rangers pull up behind our vehicles and start heading our way...
Read MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 3 - Taka Tozawa (Deltron 3030)
Aaron Rogers
We caught up with Deltron 3030 guitarist Taka Tozawa at his rehearsal studio in a former naval base in San Francisco’s Bay View area to drool over his gargantuan collection of vintage Marshall amps and cabinets, including no fewer than three 8x10 cabs, and one “holy-grail” JTM-45... There’s not always room in the van (or trailer, or bus) for multiple Marshall full-stacks, so Taka counts on his Speaker Cranker overdrive to nail those cranked vintage amp tones on rented backline equipment.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session - Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless
Aaron Rogers
“This is probably my favorite EarthQuaker pedal” says Isaiah Mitchell, pointing to his Dispatch Master.
“I think Daniel Lanois would like it. And I like Daniel Lanois...”
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