The People’s List Top 200 Albums from the First 15 Years of Pitchfork Pitchfork has put their imprimatur on the best albums of the last 15 years. So many curious things about this list. Only about 10 of the artists are musicians we’ve played on Echoes, which on one hand, doesn’t mean much but on the other,…
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It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
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10 Greatest Rock Songs
Every year Echoes affiliate WXPN, 88.5FM has listeners vote on their list of the Best885 whatever, albums, road songs, artists, etc. And every year they ask hosts to submit their top ten choices. This year, they’ve made the impossible task of listing the 885 Greatest Rock Songs. I mean, come on! This list could go…
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New Albion Records Heads Out to Sea
People talk a lot about Indie labels and music these days, but back in the 1980s when Indie required a real commitment, New Albion Records sailed against the winds. Like its namesake, the ambiguous spot on the Pacific Coast where Sir Francis Drake landed in 1579, they found new musical lands, releasing avant-garde contemporary music…
CD of the Month
The Heart of Ambient Chamber Music: Sebastian Plano.
Sebastian Plano’s “The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts” Echoes CD of the Month for August Hear Sebastian Plano’s The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts Monday, August 6, on Echoes. There are classical artists who still live in a musical world that existed 80 or 200 hundred years ago. Then there are classical musicians who embrace the modern…
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Echoes Top 25 for July: Marconi Calling.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR JULY MARCONI UNION TRANSMITS TO THE TOP Marconi Union – Different Colours (Just Music) Icebreaker – Apollo (Cantaloupe) Todd Boston – Touched by the Sun (Gita Records) Abalye Cissoko and Volker Goetze – Amanke Dionti (Motema) Raygun Ballet – World That Wasn’t (Raygun Ballet) Wall Matthews – The Dreaming Light (Wall Matthews)…
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Sherman Hemsley-George Jefferson-Prog Rock Fan.
In Progressive Rock circles, it’s been known for years that Sherman Hemsley was a Prog Rock fan. But with the recent death of the actorbest loved for his role as the peripatetic George Jefferson in The Jeffersons and All In The Family, here’s a few glimpses into the George Jefferson no one might have expected,…
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Echoes Goes Mobile!
There are big changes to Echoes On-Line so pay attention. THE GREAT NEWS FIRST: It was a long time coming but its part way here. You can now listen to Echoes On-line with your iPhone, iPad, and Droid. And you can do it the same way you listen to Echoes now, except you don’t need…
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Echoes Top 25 for June
June & July CDs of the Month Top Echoes Top 25 for June It’s a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for June. These are based on spins and it’s notable that the number one and two selections were our June and July CDs of the Month, Todd Boston’s impressive Touched by the…
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Still Tangerine Dreaming
There is a nice review of Tangerine Dream’s show in NYC by Jon Pareles in the New York Times. Nice to see a balanced POV in the mainstream media. Apparently, while they had a bigger venue in New York than Philadelphia, they did not have a bigger audience. Only a few hundred according to reports.…