The Big Ears Festival 2023 took place this past weekend 3/30-4/2 and it lived up to its reputation with nearly 200 performances that stretched music concepts.
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Big Ears Festival 2023 Review
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PAKT at Solar Myth 02/19/2023
PAKT, the quartet of Percy Jones, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski and Tim Motzer Brought the spirit of King Crimson to a night of free electric improvisation at Solar Myth,
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Grammys 2023 In Memoriam Snubs Electronic Giants
The Grammy’s have never been kind to progressive or electronic artists but this year saw them snubbing some giants including Klaus Schulze.
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Echoes In Memoriam: Musicians We Lost in 2022
We lost many artists from the Echoes galaxy in 2002, among them were giants of electronic music, creators of dream pop and explorers of the soul and sound. Here is the list.
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65th Grammy Awards – New Age Remake
The New Age category of the Grammys has changed to Best New Age, Ambient and Chant Album, but the nominees remain pretty much the same as it ever was for the 2023 Grammys.
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New Moby Video: Rescue Me from the Film “Slay.”
Moby is a longtime vegan and animal rights activist. His latest assault on the animal industrial complex takes footage from the movie “Slay” for a new song, “Rescue Me.”
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Bjork’s Spaced Out Atopos Video
Bjork has released her latest video to blow your mind. If you want to live in a land of magic, mushrooms, alien beings and mystical revelations, then plug yourself in to “Atopos”
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Mark Shreeve Obit
Pioneering British electronic artist Mark Shreeve passes. A legend in underground synthesizer circles he recorded dozens of albums under his own name and with ARC and Redshift.
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The Church: The Hypnogogue Video.
The Church has always taken on heady and trippy themes. In their new video for The Hypnagogue they tackle dreams, drugs, ambition and love. It’s set to sci-fi imagery and hypnotic music.
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Kramer Heads for the Stars with New Video
Sonic experimenter Kramer flips from quirky rock into ambient chamber music modes on forthcoming album, Music for Films Edited by Moths. Echoes premieres the “Stars Will Die Tonight” video.