Stories About Music

Stories About Music
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A podcast about music and the people who make it. And the people that listen to it.

Episodes

  1. 06/18/2018

    Episode 9: Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?

    Five interviews with New England noise musicians, Winter-Spring 2013. Visit our website, investigatingregionalscenes.org, for more info.

    Episode 9: Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?

  2. 10/09/2016

    Episode 8: Ouroboros (Prince Rama)

    story about music #7 Ouroboros Season one concludes with a story about Taraka Larson, her band Prince Rama, and her first manifesto, The Now Age. Thank you to Kyna Doles for her help as an editor for this season.

    Episode 8: Ouroboros (Prince Rama)

  3. 05/14/2016

    Episode 7: To Dream of Another Continent (A Winged Victory for the Sullen)

    story about music #6 To Dream of Another Continent A story about love, music, Europe, and memories sparked by A Winged Victory for the Sullen concert.

    Episode 7: To Dream of Another Continent (A Winged Victory for the Sullen)

  4. 02/09/2016

    Episode 6: My Friend Tyler (Cloud)

    story about music #5 My Friend Tyler I met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: indie rock, world beat, classical, jazz, shoegaze, ambient-anything was up for grabs, really. But those things have never been the central focus of the music Tyler makes under the name Cloud. At its core, Cloud is a project about friendship, ego death, and one persons' attempts to hold onto the memories that shape him. Episode 6 begins with a call I made to Tyler in the weeks before his first vinyl release (on a real record label!) only to find out he wasn't as excited as I'd thought he would be. This is a story about my friend Tyler and me.

    Episode 6: My Friend Tyler (Cloud)

  5. 12/11/2015

    Episode 5: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part II

    story about music #4, Part II A Story About the Trouble Books Episode 5 picks up after the concert that night. Keith and Linda let us stay in their basement after a chance thunderstorm popped up and rained in the tent we’d pitched in their backyard. As my friend Ricco slept on the couch, I lay on my back on the floor and wondered if I wasn’t just a little in over my head. I wanted to be like them, but maybe more than that, I wanted to be them––to settle in some forgotten corner of the U.S. and never worry about having to “make it.” But I also didn’t want to be unknown like them. At some point in the night, one of Keith and Linda’s cats wandered past and I wondered, were they happy here? And more importantly: was this what I really needed? Keith and Linda's work can be found at http://barkandhiss.com

    Episode 5: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part II

  6. 12/02/2015

    Episode 4: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part I

    story about music #4: A Story About the Trouble Books In the summer of 2013, I was on the edge of moving back to Pennsylvania. In a last ditch effort to be a real journalist, I drove out to Akron to find the couple whose album kept me company on a lonely night in July.

    Episode 4: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part I

  7. 11/19/2015

    Episode 3: Alex & Lorena (Dirty Beaches)

    story about music #3 Alex & Lorena In the radio industry, a tape synch is an industry term for when two people are recorded separately while talking on the phone at the same time. Being a low budget production, Stories About Music has had to rely on these for the past few episodes. Being a no budget production, we've also had to rely on musicians who know how to mic themselves. But not this time. When I went looking for Alex Zhang Hungtai, the voice and mind behind the cross-continental project Dirty Beaches, I found out he had just moved to LA, not far from where my friend Lorena was living. Lorena studied sound recording in college, so I sent her to meet Alex with a microphone so I could ask him some questions about his work–only to learn that Lorena was perhaps even more closely connected to the themes behind Alex's work than I knew.

    Episode 3: Alex & Lorena (Dirty Beaches)

  8. 09/20/2015

    Episode 2: The Tragic Fate Of All Hidden Scenes (Bluetile Lounge)

    story about music #2 The Tragic Fate of All Hidden Scenes In 1995, Bluetile Lounge released Lowercase, a perfect example of the tiny subgenre known as slowcore. But for a series of coincidences, it would've disappeared forever. I trace the history of Lowercase from when I first encountered it back to a small indie rock scene in Perth, Australia that disappeared just before the internet came along to catalogue everything, forever. This is the story of how Bluetile Lounge was spared. Guests: Dan Erickson (Bluetile Lounge), Alan Sparhawk (Low), and my friend, and the catalyst for all this, Tyler. Pictured: Bluetile Lounge (clockwise from left) Dan Erickson, Alex Stevens, Howard Healy, and Gabriel Cotton

    Episode 2: The Tragic Fate Of All Hidden Scenes (Bluetile Lounge)

  9. 08/27/2015

    Episode 1: Between Two Elverums (Mount Eerie)

    story about music #1 Between Two Elverums Why can't one musician escape an album he released fifteen years ago? now available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-about-music/id1037075754?mt=2

    Episode 1: Between Two Elverums (Mount Eerie)
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About

A podcast about music and the people who make it. And the people that listen to it.

Information

  • Creator
    Stories About Music
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2018
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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