For as long as I can remember there has been a single album that acts as my annual soundtrack to the three month stretch from mid-August through mid-November. It comes […]
Author: Jason Mundok
ETF005: Two Sides of Jason Sloan
Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, and sound artist currently residing in Baltimore, MD. His work explores immateriality and its relationship to memory, systems, and the virtual world. He’s […]
ETF004: James Plotkin Does What He Wants
In the mid 1990s, guitarist and producer James Plotkin was exploring and experimenting. In this episode, my old friend and collaborator Dave Bellard chats with Plotkin about what he was […]
Everything Was in Its Right Place
I traveled back to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for the second of two arena shows in less than five days. This time it was for Radiohead’s 2018 summer […]
Shiny and Oh So Bright
The Smashing Pumpkins 2018 Shiny and Oh So Bright tour features a three-hour marathon retrospective of the first ten years of the band’s recorded output from Gish (1991) to Machina/The Machine of […]
Rook (mostly) Solo and Why It Matters
Here’s an example of what’s inherently good about the Internet. Ten years ago I heard a new album from a band that I had grown fond of in the years […]
Who Is Jason Sloan?
Jason Sloan is an incredibly accomplished electronic musician, composer, and sound artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Over the past two decades he has recorded dozens of ambient/electronic solo albums and collaborations, […]
New Gently Beautiful Songs from Mazzy Star
There’s something really remarkable about the impact of Mazzy Star’s music despite a very thin catalog with a vast majority (three full length studio albums) being released between 1991 and […]
ETF003: Gray Acres
Gray Acres, an ambient side project that includes Andrew and Michael Tasselmyer from Hotel Neon, recently released their debut self titled album on sound in silence records. My friend Adam and I visited NYC for a show by Taylor Deupree and Stephen Vitiello. And Sands Hall shares an excerpt from her new memoir.
ETF002: Evolution of Sound
Evolution of Sound is an experimental improv concert format dreamed up by musician Scott Bookman. We co-produced several concerts using this format between 2014 and 2016. A new format has emerged called The Now.