This was one of the hardest lists ever to compile. It’s different from 25 Essential Echoes CDs of 2013, which is our picks of the best music played on Echoes. And it’s also different from The Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll results. These are my picks from all the music I heard in what…
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Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for December 2013
Here’s the last Top 25 list for 2013. And like our 25 Essential Echoes CDs and The Best of Echoes Listener Poll, it reveals just what a great year 2013 was. There are seven Echoes CD of the Month picks on it including December’s selection, David Helpling & Jon Jenkins’ Found. That’s unusual, but that’s…
Living Room Concerts
Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age Live on Echoes
Hear Olivier Libaux Bring his Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age to Echoes live tonight Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by…
CD of the Month
12 Echoes CDs of the Month Tonight
WE LOOK BACK AT ECHOES CD OF THE MONTH PICKS FROM 2013 Every month on Echoes we pick out the CD of the Month. It’s the album we think best represents the sound of Echoes and simply, the best album in that sound. This year has been a great one for CD of the Month …
Best Of
Greatest Songs of the 21st Century… So Far: An Idiosyncratic List.
The thirteenth year of the 21st century doesn’t seem to be the right time to look back on the best of the millennium. Those lists usually come on the decade and quarter century marks. But I was asked to compile another Top Ten list for Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia. This time, the impossible assignment…
Interview Podcast
Olivier Libaux Transforms QOTSA in Echoes Podcast
Hear an interview with Olivier Libaux tonight on the Echoes Podcast Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band.…
Best Of
Echoes Top 25 for July 2013.
Queens of the Stone Age, reinvented, Leads Echoes Top 25 … Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age made Number One on the Billboard Top 200, but Olivier Libaux‘s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age was Number One on Echoes. Libaux’s UNQOTSA , in which he creates intimate, melancholic versions of tunes from this…
Program Highlights
Interview: Olivier Libaux
Hear an interview with Olivier Libaux tonight on Echoes Olivier Libaux is a co-founder of Nouvelle Vague, a French project that records lounge versions of Punk and New Wave songs. Libaux steps out on his own with the CD titled Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age, reinventing songs by that hard rock band. He turns…
Program Highlights
Queens of the Stone Age Reinvented
NOUVELLE VAGUE CO-FOUNDER RE-IMAGINES QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE On UNCOVERED QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Hear Olivier Libaux’s Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age tonight on Echoes. I initially heard Olivier Libaux’s CD Uncovered Queens of the Stone Age without knowing the source material. In fact, I didn’t know there was source material. I…