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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brian Eno’s solo debut, Here Come the Warm Jets was released 5 decades ago on February 8. This sonic assault did nothing to predict the ambient direction this artist would pioneer.
The New Age Grammy award category has cratered again in 2013, nominating recordings of little impact and dubious creativity. Calling it New Age, Ambient or Chant has not helped.