Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 72 minutes of Live Performances from Echoes. Dream Logic-The Echoes Living Room Concerts v.16 is here and it’s another journey into the magical sound world that is Echoes. Echoes has spent the last 21 years creating links and matrixes between genres, weaving nightly journeys from ambient to acoustic…
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The Best of Echoes 2010 & Diliberto’s Best
The Best of Echoes 2010 Poll is LIVE! We’ve plugged in the Best of Echoes 2010 Poll. It’s been an interesting year for music and we’d like to know what put a buzz in your ears from the Echoes soundscape. You can pick your five fave Echoes albums and you ‘ll be entered a drawing…
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The Dandy Warhols and The Black Angels Trip Out in Philly.
Two retro-Psychedelic Bands Rewire an Era. It was a psychedelic weekend in Philadelphia with two bands who are steeped in the sound and imagery of the late 60s,The Dandy Warhols and The Black Angels. The Dandy Warhols, formed in 1993, are the veterans and at the Electric Factory on November 8, they took a stage…
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Acoustic guitar dreams tops Echoes Top 25 for October.
African singers, Resonator guitarists, laptop jockeys and Japanese icons hit the Echoes October Top 25. Todd Boston’s CD of the Month, Alive, topped our Top 25 for October. You can read a review of the beautiful album and hear tracks from it here. While last month saw a rise of electronic music, this month sees…
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MoogFest Final Take
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/MoogFest2010EchoesFeature.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThree Days of Plugged in Sound (except Mountain Man): An Echoes Perspective MoogFest 2010 wasn’t the first MoogFest, but it was the first of a new era of MoogFests that follows the programming pattern of alternative rock music festivals like Coachella, Bonaroo and the Pitchfork Music Festival. There…
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Electronica Bliss with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design.
It’s cross country electronic journey with Mark Preston’s Nature & Design-The Echoes November CD of the Month A lot of artists get lost in the land of glitch, exulting in the sonic mutations and stuttering effects that create a kinetic groove, but tend to sound less musical with every new strategy. Mark Preston isn’t one…
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MoogFest Final Day:DJ Spooky, Hot Chip.
Echoes Lost in a World of Dance Electronics at MoogFest Expectations were low for the last day at MoogFest with a list of artists that tended more toward the Rap and DJ end of the spectrum. The first act up actually had nothing to do with the festival, even though they played more Moog instruments…
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#MoogFest Day 2: A Massive Night with Massive Attack
An Echoes Take on MoogFest 2010 Day 2: Massive Attack assaults, Thievery Corporation raps, Jon Hopkins up-dates Techno. It was Halloween Eve at MoogFest and there were many treats, no tricks, and some disappointments. Unfortunately, an interview commitment prevented me from seeing several acts including Jonsi, Caribou and Mountain Man. But I have reports on…
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MoogFest Day 1: No Devo, MGMTdoes Karaoke
Devo Cancels. MGMT does Karaoke. King Britt travels the Spaceways. Mutemath does Back-Flips The first day of MoogFest consisted of tough choices made easy by disappointment. The disappointment was the late-news that Devo would not be performing. They canceled their entire US tour after guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh sliced his thumb to the bone. But disappointment…
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MoogFest-Too Many Choices
Getting ready for MoogFest tonight and already faced by insurmountable choices with overlapping bands in venues separated by anywhere from 5 to 20 minute hauls. The pleasant pop of Kuroma and The Octopus Project each overlap by half an hour, so I’ll start out with TOP but Kuroma will have to depend on how good…