Stories About Music

Episodes

1. 9

   Episode 9: Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?

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

   Jun 18, 2018

   42m
2. 8

   Episode 8: Ouroboros (Prince Rama)

   story about music #7 Ouroboros Season 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.

   Oct 9, 2016

   26m
3. 7

   Episode 7: To Dream of Another Continent (A Winged Victory for the Sullen)

   story about music #6 To Dream of Another Continent A story about love, music, Europe, and memories sparked by A Winged Victory for the Sullen concert.

   May 14, 2016

   35m
4. 6

   Episode 6: My Friend Tyler (Cloud)

   story about music #5 My Friend Tyler I 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…

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   Feb 9, 2016

   36m
5. 5

   Episode 5: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part II

   story about music #4, Part II A Story About the Trouble Books Episode 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...

   Dec 11, 2015

   36m
6. 4

   Episode 4: A Story About the Trouble Books, Part I

   story about music #4: A Story About the Trouble Books In 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.

   Dec 2, 2015

   31m
7. 3

   Episode 3: Alex & Lorena (Dirty Beaches)

   story about music #3 Alex & Lorena In 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...

   Nov 19, 2015

   41m
8. 2

   Episode 2: The Tragic Fate Of All Hidden Scenes (Bluetile Lounge)

   story about music #2 The Tragic Fate of All Hidden Scenes In 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…

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   Sep 20, 2015

   37m
9. 1

   Episode 1: Between Two Elverums (Mount Eerie)

   story about music #1 Between Two Elverums Why 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=2

   Aug 27, 2015

   33m