Five interviews with New England noise musicians, Winter-Spring 2013.Visit our website, investigatingregionalscenes.org, for more info.Autor: Stories About Music

story about music #7OuroborosSeason one concludes with a story about Taraka Larson, her band Prince Rama, and her first manifesto, The Now Age.Thank you to Kyna Doles for her help as an editor for this season.Autor: Stories About Music

story about music #6To Dream of Another ContinentA story about love, music, Europe, and memories sparked by A Winged Victory for the Sullen concert.Autor: Stories About Music

story about music #5My Friend TylerI met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: indie rock, world beat, classical, jazz, shoegaze, ambient-anything was up for grabs, really.But those things have never been the central …

story about music #4, Part IIA Story About the Trouble BooksEpisode 5 picks up after the concert that night. Keith and Linda let us stay in their basement after a chance thunderstorm popped up and rained in the tent we’d pitched in their backyard. As my friend Ricco slept on the couch, I lay on my back on the floor and wondered if I wasn’t just a l…

story about music #4: A Story About the Trouble BooksIn the summer of 2013, I was on the edge of moving back to Pennsylvania. In a last ditch effort to be a real journalist, I drove out to Akron to find the couple whose album kept me company on a lonely night in July.Autor: Stories About Music

story about music #3 Alex & LorenaIn the radio industry, a tape synch is an industry term for when two people are recorded separately while talking on the phone at the same time. Being a low budget production, Stories About Music has had to rely on these for the past few episodes. Being a no budget production, we've also had to rely on musicians wh…

story about music #2The Tragic Fate of All Hidden ScenesIn 1995, Bluetile Lounge released Lowercase, a perfect example of the tiny subgenre known as slowcore. But for a series of coincidences, it would've disappeared forever. I trace the history of Lowercase from when I first encountered it back to a small indie rock scene in Perth, Australia that …

story about music #1Between Two ElverumsWhy can't one musician escape an album he released fifteen years ago? now available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-about-music/id1037075754?mt=2Autor: Stories About Music