Seems like Coldplay is really spacing out on this new song called “Midnight.” They haven’t released any info about it except the video director, Mary Wigmore. But this is definitely as ambient as pop music can get. And singer Chris Martin seems ready to join the falsetto forces of Bon Iver, et al. John Diliberto…
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Go to Edgeland with Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Tonight. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…
Interview Podcast
Underworld’s Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Karl Hyde & Leo Abrahams talk about Edgeland in Echoes Podcast. In the 1980s, Rick Smith and Karl Hyde got together in a band called Freur and then formed the influential electronic dance group Underworld. They’ve been musically inseparable until recently. Rick Smith scored the soundtrack for Trance and Karl Hyde released his solo…
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The Art of the Cover Tune – Echoes Undercover – Weds, May 29th
On the next Echoes we go Undercover. It’s an entire show of cover tunes from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin, King Crimson to New Order and more. Songs you know by artists who aren’t known for playing them. The best cover tunes reinvent a song and my standard for that will always be Jimi…
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Two Epic Birthdays: Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno.
Mike Oldfield & Brian Eno both share birthdays today. Oldfield turns 60 and Eno turns 65. Each artist has shaped the music we hear today. Brian Eno has been the more prolific and expansive, working across genres and attaining massive popular success in each of the last 5 decades through his work with other artists…
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Brian Eno Goes Towards the Light
No, Brian Eno didn’t die. His new album is called Lux which is a measurement of light. Due out in November, it’s some deep ambient music closer in style to Music for Airports than anything recent. No music out yet, but….. The music is actually based on and installation he has at the Great…
Reviews & Commentary
Sshhhhhhh. John Cage at 100.
John Cage would’ve been 100 today. He died in 1992, but his influence continues to echo through music. Many of the musicians on Echoes still cite Cage as an inspiration. As recently as yesterday on Echoes, Franco Falsini of Sensations Fix recalled hearing Cage in the early 1970s. John Cage had this concept, “I wanted to…
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Neil Armstrong, Brian Eno, Icebreaker, Apollo.
Tonight on Echoes we’ll be airing an interview with Icebreaker and BJ Cole talking about their beautiful cover of Brian’s Eno’s 1983 collaboration with Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois, Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Our show was recorded last Friday, making it to early too comment on the passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set…
Reviews & Commentary
It’s An Eno World: Roxy Retro and Documentary
Some interesting news in the Eno World. They’ve just released a eluxe box set of all the Roxy Music studio CDS, The Complete Studio Recordings 1972 – 1982, which gives us a chance anew to hear how groundbreaking this group was, especially on the first two albums and Avalon. But cooler than that is the Brian…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for June
June & July CDs of the Month Top Echoes Top 25 for June It’s a little late, but here’s the Echoes Top 25 for June. These are based on spins and it’s notable that the number one and two selections were our June and July CDs of the Month, Todd Boston’s impressive Touched by the…