Matt Ward has been getting much acclaim for his brooding songs and dark, husky voice. These songs were mostly recorded by Portland's Mike Coykendall at his Blue Room home studio (in his cool-sounding...
The Pangs is Matt Mair Lowery, the guy who brought you later editions of our Under The Radar column. Apparently he learned a lot about what pitfalls to avoid in homemade recordings by listening so...
New classical? Rock musicians playing quiet music? Whatever one wishes to call it the music of Rachel's is evocative and beautiful. A seven piece ensemble augmented in places with members of the SITI...
Have you heard this record? Have you heard how much reverb is on the vocals? It sounds awesome - a good thing someone has had the nerve to step out like this. The band and songs are good too, by the...
Anyone that thinks making records with a sampler and a computer will fade away is living in a fantasy. Jkettle is the home recorded/sampled (Squirrel Studios West Coast) project by Jeff Kettle, mostly...
Yes, the Apples still exist! And their pop tunes and bouncy rhythms are as infectious as ever. This new record was recorded by Robert Schneider, at his Pet Sounds Recording Studio in Denver, with...
Okay, I'm just making sure our readers know this is out now. If the idea of watching Alan Parsons pulling up the individual tracks of DSOTM doesn't sound appealing from even just a pure technical "How...
So I'm chatting with the guys from Radar Brothers after the Tape Op Conference and Senon Williams (their bassist) tells me he's coming back in a few weeks to Portland with his other band. We wandered...
Canada's favorite pop/rock groovy band is back for a second album. Recorded at The Factory and JC/DC Studios in Vancouver by Howard Redekopp and band member John Collins who also mixed. Some of Neko...
I'm a sucker for retrospective compilations of pre-punk rock combos, so these tracks by Canada's SS from '74 to '78 fits my taste quite well. The main album represented here, Cyborgs Revisted, was...
Everyone likes a little mystery, so maybe I won't tell you exactly what this is except that maybe it's Grandaddy making the dumbest music of their career in order to baffle the folks at V2 after the...
Eric Tischler is one of our contributors, and his rockin' Lamps combo played at Tape Op Con #1. Their previous CD, Tilting at Windmills, was a little undercooked in my opinion, so it's nice to hear...
