EarthQuaker Session Ep. 25: TOKIE, Hirohisa Horie & Shigekazu Aida from LOSALIOS
Uri Garcia
The first EQD Session made in Japan is from TOKIE, Hirohisa Horie, and Shigekazu Aida from LOSALIOS!
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Vaughn Stokes of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats: Lighting Small Fires
Benjamin H. Smith
In a crowded field of bands, stoner, doom, psych, what have you, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have always stood out with their superior songcraft and production, at once heavy and melodic, classic and new.
Read MoreOlivia Jean: Detroit Queen, Nashville Scene
Anna Blumenthal
A multi-instrumentalist who joined Third Man Records as a session player before launching her solo career, she seems to have it all. Not only does she play guitar, bass, drums and keys, she sings, writes each part of every song, and also self-produces.
Read MoreEarthQuaker Session: Covet - "Howl"
Uri Garcia
Covet came to EarthQuaker Studios and laid down a session of their tune "Howl". Enjoy a melodic window into the minds of these progressive wizards.
Read MoreEarthQuaker 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…
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 MoreShow Us Your Junk! Ep. 17 - Kurt Ballou (Converge, God City Studio)
Aaron Rogers
“I’m interested in how a new tool can inspire a new artistic creation. When I get a new pedal, I’m like, ‘Oh wow! I can figure out what this thing does,’ and I spend all this time tweaking knobs [and] learning the pedal, but maybe in that process you come up with a new riff, and that riff becomes a new song, and then that song takes on a life of its own.”
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...
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