Category: Program Highlights

Why Do People Hate Prog Rock? Yes Is the Answer, Maybe.

Hear the Podcast of Echoes with Yes Is The Answer Editors Marc Weingarten & Tyson Cornell. Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell are Progressive Rock fans and they’ve edited a collection of personal essays about the genre called Yes is the Answer and Other Prog Rock Tales. Contributors such as novelist Rick Moody and music critic…

New Music: Austra & Dead Beat Project

Tonight on Echoes, Austra & Dead Beat Project. New music from Austra, the Canadian band fronted by the powerful voice of Katie Stelmanis, from their new album Olympia, I love her voice.  So many singers we love on Echoes barely project beyond the microphone, but I always feel like you could hear Katie Stelmanis shouting…

Living Room Concert: Don Ross

Canadian finger-style guitarist Don Ross comes into Echoes to play his complex compositions for guitar which includes two-handed tapping. Here’s Don Ross in somebody else’s Living Room playing “Cup of Pop” from his latest album, Upright & Locked Position. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for Echoes CD of the Month Club.   CD of the…

Interview: Seti the First

Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh are Irish musicians but their music isn’t traditional. Inspired by The Penguin Café Orchestra they make their own quirky ambient chamber music, including instruments from the Markophone Colony. Highlights Thomas Haugh: Marxophones, Ukelins, these things were made as kind of gizmos, sold door to door and in toy shops, billed…

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole: Clustered Commotions.

Hear the Echoes Interview with Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Lloyd Cole in the Echoes Podcast. In alternative rock circles, German bands from the 1980s are considered pioneers of sound.  Kraftwerk, Can, Neu, Harmonia and Cluster are consistently name-checked by everyone from David Bowie and Brian Eno to Stereolab and Radiohead. Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a founding member…

American Landscapes: An Echoes July 4th Soundscape

It’s a different kind of Americana with American Landscapes as we celebrate the 4th of July with songs inspired by the vistas of the United States, from Maine to Hawaii. We’ll create fireworks for your ears as well as your eyes with Ambient Americana from Steve Roach and Sumner McKane, environmental sounds from Paul Winter…

New Music Richard Bone & Bill Frisell

It’s music from Richard Bone. The electronic musician has a new CD called Images from a Parallel World.  And guitarist Bill Frisell goes to Big Sur for his new album Big Sur. Below, watch Bill Frisell’s live performance of “”The Days of Wine and Roses” from his 2005 album East/West. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up…

Living Room Concert: Radio Massacre International

It’s a trip into deep space when the English electronic trio Radio Massacre International comes into the Echoes living room and elevates us into the cosmos with a live performance. Below, watch the electronic music video of Radio Massacre International’s “Small Frozen North” from their 1995 album Frozen North. John Diliberto (((echoes))) Sign up for…

Queens of the Stone Age Reinvented

NOUVELLE VAGUE CO-FOUNDER RE-IMAGINES QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE On UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Hear Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age tonight on Echoes. I initially heard Olivier Libaux’s CD Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age without knowing the source material.  In fact, I didn’t know there was source material.  I…