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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Board 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 Session: Relaxer - "The Warlord"
Aaron Rogers
In addition to being the EarthQuaker Devices house band, Relaxer may very well be the world’s first (and only) “Passive Progressive” rock band. I don’t know what it means, either...
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: The Beyonderers - "Science Friction"
Aaron Rogers
Akron, Ohio gets a lot of credit for being LeBron James’ hometown. More impressive still is the fact that we’re also home to the world’s heaviest surf band, The Beyonderers. Not too shabby considering Lake Erie is our only surfable body of water. Put a championship ring on that, why don’t you?
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: Chelsea Wolfe - "Survive"
Aaron Rogers
“I think pedals in general helped me find my sound,” says Chelsea Wolfe.
When we visited Chelsea Wolfe at the Sargent House compound in Los Angeles last summer, we were awestruck by the striations of ugliness and beauty in her song “Survive.” And the volume. Lots and lots of volume. Each chord she plays and every note she sings hangs heavy and thick in the dry desert air like a cluster of tiny rainclouds gathering moisture, waiting to release thunder and lightning upon meeting a pocket of warm sky...
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