The Grammy, Ambient Chant Committees and voters do not know what any of those genres are as they keep ignoring the true artists in those genres. We dissect the 2025 nominees.
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New Age ETC. Grammy Awards 2025
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Gary Stroutsos Remembered
Gary Stroutsos has left the planet at 70. He was a virtuoso flute player who specialized in Native American flute and other global music flutes.
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What is an Icon-35th Edition
Do you know what an icon is? It’s tossed around a lot, often to those who aren’t iconic. John Diliberto gives us a roadmap to iconicism. Diliberto says he’s not iconic, but Wolfman Jack is.
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Cigarettes After Sex at Wells Fargo Center
Cigarettes After Sex makes a hazy, lo-fi rock more like shoegaze music than pop, but his concert at Wells Fargo Center was stacked with young tween girls you might expect at a Taylor Swift show.
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Cassette Revival-A Trove of Memories
Cassettes are having a revival and Echoes’s John Diliberto has a lot of them, but it’s not a technology he wants to revisit. But he does like the memories they bring him..
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Edgar Froese’s Electronic Aqua at 50
Edgar Froese is the founder of Tangerine Dream. In the same year they released their seminal 1974 album, Phaedra, he released his own solo album, Aqua 50 years ago.
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Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen at 100
Saxophonist Marshall Allen tturned 100 on May 25, and he is still leading the Sun Ra Arkestra and blowing wild alto solos as if his was 30. His like has never been heard before.
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Big Ears Festival 2024 Review
The Big Ears Festival 2024 maintained its reputation for eclecticism, bleeding edge music and some of the most sublime sounds this side of paradise. John Diliberto took it all in.
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Big Ears Festival 2024: A Path Through
Big Ears Festival 2024 is a mass of new music and it presents many conflicts in scheduling for those subject to FOMO. But John Diliberto says Forget FOMO in his planned Big Ears path.
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Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra at 50
Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra changed the shape of music, powering disco, New Wave, EDM and more. From Donna Summers to Stranger Things, it still sounds like the future 50 years later.