July 25, 2025: Rose beats

Electronic Music has come a long long way since the first synthesizers and theremins of the early 20th Century, and today we’ll get into the wide array of sounds this style of music includes at a festival being thrown this weekend at The Shea Theater. Extension Cords II happens this Saturday bringing an eclectic mix of 6 musicians, each with their own flavor of sound to the stage. We’ll speak with headliner Daedalus, aka Alfred Darlington, who in addition to working with the likes of Saul Williams and MF Doom, is currently a professor Berklee College of Music teaching the next generation of Beatmakers, and discover how he developed his aesthetic, and how visuals and analog elements can be key parts to his compositions. We’ll also hear another artist from the lineup for Live Music Friday as we’re joined by Barbie. AI. Plus we’ll learn about the origins of the event with organizer and visual designer for the Whole shebang: Chris HinkleAnd the Wine Thunderdome takes on a tint and heads north to the Leverett Village Co-Op to sip roses with our Franklin County Wine Friend Ken Washburn, while listening to a ton of cool bird calls that would have made really great samples.