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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-IGN2010.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS10 Years of International Guitar Nights You can hear an audio podcast of this interview with music There are a few all acoustic guitar ensembles out there, but the revolving members of International Guitar Night lives up to it’s name with a global cast of players. Celebrating its…
Nearfest Tix go in 30 minutes so start your Engines Tickets for Nearfest, the North East Art Rock Festival, go on-sale this Saturday 3/20/2010. Taking place June 18-20 in Bethlehem, PA, Nearfest this year includes Steve Hackett, Eddie Jobson, Three Friends (Gentle Giant off-shoot), Riverside and a host of prog rockers past, present and future. …
In the Court of the Tonight Show Those of you old enough to remember the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson will recall his trumpet-playing and fashion-challenged band-leader and court jester, Doc Severinsen. Doc became kind of a joke on the show, but, he came from serious jazz background and played with the Clarke/Boland Big Band…
We pick ten favorite albums from over a hundred by legendary German electronic band, Tangerine Dream.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-JackRose.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThere’s a good article called Remembering an Acoustic Artist by Joel Rose (no relation) about Jack Rose, the iconoclastic acoustic guitarist who passed away December 5, 2009. The article is online at the Philadelphia Inquirer It also points to a set of memorial concerts with some really great…
The Residents Play Philadelphia and More The Residents are coming on what is reputedly only their 7th world tour in 40 years. This anarchic, satirical, experimental ensemble has been creating mind-snapping albums since the early 70s, often making twisted parodies of rock iconography. Their first album was Meet The Residents, a take-off on Meet the…
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20100203.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJon Hopkins’ Quaint Electronica You can hear an audio version of this interview with Jon Hopkins’ music. You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or Death and All His…
Before there was Tangerine Dream, there was a group called The Ones with Dream founder Edgar Froese. I’d never heard them, but courtesy of synthesist Paul Ellis, I found this track up on YouTube. This is from the only single that they released and it’s pure “Green Tambourine” and “Incense & Peppermints”-style psychedelic pop. In…
I hadn’t thought of doing one of those retrospectives looking back at artists who left us in 2009. There have been times in the past couple of years when I’ve felt the Echoes Blog was becoming the Death Blog. But a list on Planet Origo got me to thinking that before 2009 is completely in…
Loreena McKennitt is one of 30 Icons of Echoes. Here’s five essential albums from her illustrious and influential career that began in Celtic realms and moved toward world fusion.