Hear About Beach Boys, Ukuleles and Space Music with Tonight Sky in the Echoes Podcast. Jason Holstrom has been on the Seattle music since the turn of the millennium playing in groups like Wonderful and United States of Electronica. But none of that music would prepare you for the serenely feel good vibrations of his…
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Surf’s Up with Tonight Sky
Jason Holstrom has been on the Seattle music since the turn of the millennium playing in groups like Wonderful and United States of Electronica. But none of that music would prepare you for the serenely feel good vibrations of his project,Tonight Sky. He’s taken Beach Boys harmonies and sent them into electronica space. In Seattle,…
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Pure Bathing Culture in Echoes Podcast
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop in the Echoes Podcast. Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop. But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture. They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman…
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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…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2013
Some years are better than others and 2013 was much better than most. Right now, you can Vote in the Best of Echoes 2013 Listener Poll. But, this list is different. This is compiled by the brain trust of Echoes. These are the CDs we played on the show in 2013 that we thought represented…
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Moby Talks About Innocents Tonight on Echoes
Hear Moby Interviewed Tonight on Echoes. I don’t know if Moby intended it this way, but Innocents sounds like the conclusion of a trilogy, joining Wait for Me and Destroyed, his two previous albums. As on those recordings, Moby plays the ambient song-smith, crafting odes of haunting and poignant beauty, making a music that sounds…
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Euphoria in Echoes Podcast.
Hear Euphoria Interviewed on Echoes Podcast Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera, “As The World Turns.” But in the mid-1990s he had the idea of putting his guitar in a different musical environment. He took country-blues slide guitar, and…
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Darkside of the Beach Boys on Echoes Tonight
From Tonight Sky to Darkside on Echoes T0night Darkside is a duo from where else? Brooklyn. Electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington spin out psychedelic electronica landscapes with moods that reference German avant-rockers, Can. Catch them live if you can. They did an amazing set at this year’s Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit.…
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Euphoria, the Band, on Echoes
Hear Euphoria Interviewed Tonight on Echoes. Ken Ramm played in rock bands as a kid and spent a lot of time composing the soundtrack for the soap opera, “As The World Turns.” But in the mid-1990s he had the idea of putting his guitar in a different musical environment. He took country-blues slide guitar, and…
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Pure Bathing Culture Interview on Echoes.
Portland’s Pure Bathing Culture Talks Art-Rock, Jazz and Dream-pop on Echoes Tonight. Whatever you call them, don’t call them Dream Pop. But if you do, you’ll hear a sound to which most dream pop bands could aspire with Pure Bathing Culture. They are a duo of singer and keyboardist Sarah Versprille and guitarist Daniel Hindman who…