EarthQuaker Session Ep. 26: Jaye Jayle “Cemetery Rain / Soline”s
Uri Garcia
Louisville’s own Jaye Jayle stopped by EarthQuaker Studios while they were playing Musica in a pre-pandemic utopian Akron a few months ago.
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EarthQuaker Session: Mourning [A] BLKstar - "Black Water" / "At the Wall"
Uri Garcia
Mourning [A] BLKstar is a group that WILL make you stop and think. This musical composite defies genre, yet allows their influences to shine through loud and clear.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Frayle - "Dead Inside" / "1692"
Uri Garcia
Cleveland's very own Frayle stopped by EarthQuaker Studios for a private session of two massive witched out doom creations.
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 21 - Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, Cobra Verde)
Uri Garcia
Ohio native rocker Doug Gillard visited the EQD studios for our latest episode of Board to Death! Doug has played in many bands including Guided by Voices, Nada Surf, and Cobra Verde.
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 MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 9 - Mario Caldato (Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson)
Aaron Rogers
It’s not every day we get invited to kick it with producers immortalized in Beastie Boys lyrics. We met up with Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty engineer / producer Mario Caldato at his Hollywood home studio to dig through his endless collection of gear, in search of the perfect party rockin’ piece. And we found something...
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Kaitlin Wolfberg - "Lazy Bones"
Aaron Rogers
Kaitlin Wolfberg’s violin transcends time and space. The prominent Los Angeles-based musican (whose recording credits include spots on albums by Dweezil Zappa and The dB’s) was kind enough to dazzle us with this performance of her tune “Lazy Bones,” recorded live at Juan Alderete’s 5 Starr Sound Labs...
Read MoreNick Reinhart Guitar Clinic - EarthQuaker Day 2017
Aaron Rogers
There’s no doubt about it: Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos, Big Walnuts Yonder) is one of the most innovative guitarists working today, able to pull a dazzling array of never-before-heard sounds and dizzying glitch-inspired textures from his instrument, tap dancing away at a pedalboard while playing finger-twisting punk/prog riffs in odd time signatures like a mutant hybrid of Adrian Belew, Tom Morello, and Aphex Twin’s Richard D. James...
Read More"We've literally slept in dog beds!" - Julia Kugel on the Evolution of Atlanta Punks the Coathangers
Anna Blumenthal
Since 2007’s self-titled debut album, Atlanta punks The Coathangers have come a long way. The band started as four friends playing music together with no serious aspirations and a mortal fear of playing live...
Read MoreTech Talk with Joe Golden: The Diatonic Major Scale
Joe Golden
Most Western music is comprised of 12 tones or notes. I always think of them of as ingredients in a recipe. Each tone responsible for lending its flavor to the dish. To be less hippy-dippy about it, each note has a relationship with the other notes in the scale, and some are tasty when paired...
Read MoreBoard to Death Ep. 3 - Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos, Big Walnuts Yonder)
Aaron Rogers
We met up with Tera Melos / Big Walnuts Yonder guitar wrangler Nick Reinhart at Juan Alderete’s 5 Starr Sound Labs to dig into a few of his favorite settings on the Bit Commander, Transmisser, and Avalanche Run. As if having killer guitar chops weren’t enough, Reinhart has made a name for himself as a tone-tweaker conjuring expressive and bizarre sounds from any pedal he touches. Today is no different...
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: The Kandinsky Effect - "Loops"
Aaron Rogers
The brainchild of saxophonist Warren Walker, the Kandinsky Effect creates dark, groove-oriented, downtempo Jazz soundscapes anchored by the steady pulse of bassist Gael Petrina and drummer Caleb Dolister. The trio blends modern Jazz improvisation with electronic textures and beat-driven composition driven in part by Walker’s pioneering use of effects pedals with the saxophone...
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Nick Semrad & TaRon Lockett (Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles)
Aaron Rogers
Nick Semrad is a sonic titan blazing new trails for keyboardists. Whether he’s onstage with Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles or ticklin’ the ivories with Ms. Lauryn Hill, Semrad is an audio explorer, a mad scientist conducting ultra-funky experiments in a laboratory of keyboards and a few well-chosen effects pedals, synthesizing new compounds scientifically proven to enhance your groove...
Read MoreTrails and Trials: A Conversation with Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate
Aaron Rogers
Every cloud has a silver lining. Cliché? Sure, but it seems to ring true for Los Angeles (by way of Louisiana, Austin, and Brooklyn) based guitarist and composer Sarah Lipstate.
Better known as Noveller, Lipstate has a habit of spinning the straw of her personal tragedies into the golden threads with which she weaves her musical tapestries...
Read MoreAaron's Bass Hole - Transmissers From the Satellite Heart
Aaron Rogers
When we pulled this thing out of the Upside Down back in October, it was hotter than a stack of Eggo waffles, nailing those creepy Stranger Things vibes with its extra resonant, highly modulated filter swept ambience...
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