The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Award-Winning radio program Echoes a $20,000 grant to continue it’s work in bringing new and innovative music to public radio and beyond.
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Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese born singer and musician who takes her Arabic culture and infuses it with the influences of everyone from the Cocteau Twins to Prince, Arabic pop to new electronic music.
The band Wilsen, fronted by namesake Tamsin Wilson has created an album of deep psychological depths and equally deep ambient spaces. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month.
It was 50 years ago that The Beatles released their psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Echoes John Diliberto looks back on the impact of this album.
Things were certainly strange 35 years ago in southern California, the cultural milieu that populates the new video by Washed Out. It’s called “Get Lost” and you’ll get lost in it’s animated imagery.
The Zone Music Awards honor electronic, ambient, new age and contemporary instrumental music. They just held their annual awards show in New Orleans. John Diliberto zones in on the winners.
The 2017 Moog Innovation Award will be presented to Suzanne Ciani at Moogfest 2017, the annual music, art and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina. She’s profiled Monday, May 22 on Echoes
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From Indian Lakes is the name of a dream-pop band from Indian Lakes via Brooklyn. Headed by Joey Vannucchi, he takes us on his music odyssey in a wide-ranging interview.
The Decemberists & Olivia Chaney are both steeped in folk traditions. They take it in a trippy rock direction on a new album “The Queen of Hearts.” They’ve just released a video for title track
Country Joe and the Fish’s debut, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, remains a defining artifacts of the psychedelic era. It turns 50 on May 11, still tripping after all these years.