This late 2011 edition features a selection of the best of the best of the strangest. A sampler of new and old featuring recent releases by Mike Shiflet and Pete Swanson, as well as some amazing pieces by Zeena Parkins, Oval, and No-Neck Blues Band.
The air conditioner's blasting. The lights start flicking, And worst of all, your record player dips from 33rpm to 25rpm. That's right, you've got the Brown Out Blues. Fortunately this week's Sound the Alarm has assembled some Brown Out Blues.
Musician, sound artist, curator, visual artist, and doom-metal guitar master Stephen O'Malley--from such groups as Sunn0))), KTL and Khanate--speaks via phone from his home in Paris to discuss life in Paris, touring, and future plans.
Music that can help one cope with the hot, humid, and generally uncomfortable summer weather. There'll be no "It's Too Darn Hot" by Cole Porter. There will be some woozy, half-melted songs that are perfect for your triple-digit temperature ennui.
The guitar, the git-box, the Axe! Host Elliot Stapleton tips his hat to all the six-stringed samurais out there who continually reinvent this amazing instrument with tracks by Bill Orcutt, Derek Bailey, Loren Conners, David Grubbs, and more.
Host Elliot Stapleton comes to the conclusion that machines are too cold and calculating to produce amazing music...but why then do they end up producing so much amazing music? Emeralds, Oneohtrix, Point Never, Aki Onda, Stephan Mathieu, and more...
Kawabata Makoto, leader of Acid Mothers Temple from Japan, spoke with host Elliot Stapleton before his show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY on April 12, 2011. Among the revelations: in his eyes he is simply playing "old school rock n' roll."
In this hour long mix of music, host Elliot Stapleton plays tracks by Hype Williams, Sonic Youth, Grouper, Zs and much more. Tune in for some heavy atmospheres.
Clint Simonson's De Stijl records has been releasing some of the most strange and amazing records that you've never heard. The label is "Dedicated to Unearthing Primo Basement Arcana," releasing both new groups from around the globe and as well as re
One of the most interesting young trumpet players performing today, Nate Wooley sits down with host Elliot Stapleton and plays a selection of recent recordings and discusses his evolving approach to playing his...Read More
Musician and multi-media artist C Spencer Yeh visits AIR's Clocktower studios in late 2010 to speak with host Elliot Stapleton about his recent projects and plays for us a sample of unreleased recordings. Spencer is a...Read More
Brisbane, Austrialia's Lawrence English stopped by the Clocktower studio while on a brief tour throughout America. Lawrence is a composer, producer, curator, label-head of Room40 records, and a well-known...Read More
Taylor Deupree has been making arrestingly beautiful electronic music for over fifteen years. With his beginnings in dance-oriented techno, Deupree now produces a brand of ambient, electro-acoustic composition with a focus on minimalism and micro-sou
Gary Young, of the group Music from the Film, shares with host Elliot
Stapleton how his latest 7" can, and should, be played in
a variety of ways: 45 rpm or 33 rpm, forwards or backwards, and he
even...Read More
Before the noise group Sissy Spacek stopped to perform at Issue
Project Room in Brooklyn during their spring 2010 tour, John Wiese was kind enough to speak with host Elliot
Stapleton about his musical...Read More
A lot is going on in the courtyard of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and it's not just Public Farm One (P.F.1). It's the 10th Anniversary of one of New York's most cherished summer lineups, featuring the hottest DJs in town and all over.
Emerging and established innovators share their work. These programs are usually a combination of an interview with a far-reaching perspective on the artist's career, some recordings illustrating this history, and something new. Open territory.
