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2024-09-09

  Midwestern Indie-Chamber Rock Band Cloud Cult, In-Studio

The Midwest band Cloud Cult is more than a band – it’s a creative collective who continually celebrates life and love, and catharsis through music and multimedia performances (CloudCult.com.) They’re also known for their ecofriendly ways of making and ...
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2024-09-05

  Musical Polymath Conner Youngblood's Dreamy Bedroom-Pop

Nashville-based artist Conner Youngblood is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer; his new record, called Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly, is full of richly textured songs – in multiple languages (Spanish, Japanese, and Danish, in addition to h...
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2024-09-02

  Meredith Monk's 'Cellular Songs', In-Studio (Archives)

Vocalist and composer Meredith Monk is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose work involves music, dance, film, theatre, and now: biology meets anthropology. In her recent large-scale work, Cellular Songs, musical forms evoke biological processes as layeri...
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2024-08-29

  New York-Based Crumb Delivers Moody Psych-Pop, In-Studio

The New York band Crumb creates playful and brooding swirls of sounds, somewhere at a crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock. Their latest album AMAMA (Grandmother) [self-released via their own label Crumb Records], experiments with textures an...
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2024-08-26

  Pianist Christopher O'Riley on the Life-Changing Music of J.S. Bach

American classical pianist and educator Christopher O’Riley has spent his career gleefully ignoring musical boundaries and playing whatever turned him on. In addition to playing Beethoven, Busoni, Ravel, Scriabin, and Liszt, he’s also arranged music by...
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2024-08-22

  Mehrnam Rastegari Traditional Persian Band, In-Studio

Mehrnam Rastegari is a New York-based master of the traditional Persian spike fiddle, the kamancheh.  She is also a composer, writing film scores and ensemble works that draw on both Eastern and Western musical traditions.  She moved here from Iran in ...
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2024-08-19

  Guitarist and Educator Benjamin Verdery Plays Solo, In-Studio

Guitarist, composer, and teacher Benjamin Verdery seems to know everybody who’s ever picked up the instrument. Ben is a classical guitarist himself, but his musical friends include Andy Summers of the Police, the fingerpicking virtuoso Leo Kottke, flam...
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2024-08-15

  Christopher Rountree Designs a Musical Framework for Electro-Chamber Players

Christopher Rountree is probably best known as the conductor of the LA-based new music ensemble known as Wild Up. Over the last 14 years he and that band have played with Bjork, done live film scores to movie screenings, and embarked on a multiyear rec...
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2024-08-12

  Bette Smith Marries Gospel Fervor With Soul Moxie, In-Studio

Brooklyn native Bette Smith reconnects with her Memphis and Mississippi roots on her latest, "Goodthing", full of songs that show off her voice -rich and raspy- and her band’s vintage soul and blues-rock sound. But the album also speaks to Smith’s spir...
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2024-08-08

  LA LOM Reflects the Diverse Musical Diaspora of Angelenos

The band called LA LOM is a trio of LA natives who play an instrumental blend of twangy guitar melodies over Latin rhythms like the cumbia and bolero, drawing on the sounds of their city. The band got their start as a hotel band playing soul covers, an...
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