Brian Wilson, creator of The Beach Boys’ sound died on June 11 at 82. We take a moment to reflect on this giant whose influences was pervasive across music styles.
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R.I.P Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys 1942-2025
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A Journey Through Big Ears Festival 2025
No one can embrace all of the Big Ears Festival but we have a rundown of the 2025 edition which drew much of its music from the Echoesphere. John Diliberto takes us into a music utopia.
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Big Ears Festival 2025 – A Musical Journey
Big Ears Festival 2025 is upon us and decisions must be made. Echoes host John Diliberto plots his path through the most Echoes-centric Big Ears ever with Steve Roach centering it all.
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Progressive Rock Talk with ChatGPT
ChatGPT has an uncanny ability to mine the net for information and interpolate it convincingly. John Diliberto talks to one about Progressive Rock, King Crimson, Soft Machine and East of Eden.
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All-Time New Age Grammy Winners Ranked
The Best New Age (Ambient, Chant) Album category of the Grammys has always been fraught with problems. We go through all 39 winners and rank them.
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New Age ETC. Grammy Awards 2025
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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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..